mo-c blog » Andy Warhol http://blog.mo-c.com Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:33:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 2011, EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP http://blog.mo-c.com/2011/01/2011-with-banksy/ http://blog.mo-c.com/2011/01/2011-with-banksy/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:48:47 +0000 mo-c http://blog.mo-c.com/?p=766 來不及好好回顧2010，2011就已經開始了。這一年，我選擇了 Banksy 的 EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP 作為我的開年電影。

我或者應該稱之為紀錄片。但這真的是紀錄片嗎？或是一個 mockumentary？Thierry Guetta aka. Mr. Brainwash aka. MBW 的一生，有幾多是真的發生過的事實？有幾多是 Banksy 與 Shepard Fairey 的創作？

其實，「事實」與否並不重要。Mr. Brainwash 在 Art scene 的現像本身，就已經是一件 art piece。「Mr. Brainwash」這個名字已經說明了一切：在高度資本主義的社會當中，傳媒的渲染就是人氣，人氣就是「事實」，人氣造就「好」與「壞」，人氣造就「善」與「惡」。傳媒渲染出來的人氣，就是當下的精神領䄂。

就像 George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four 中 IngSoc 所朔造的 Big Brother 一樣。

由 Andy Warhol 開始，Pop Art 就不是關於那些「畫」本身，而是關於傳媒與人氣。Banksy 這次打造了 Mr. Brainwash 這個人物，Pop Art 走出了畫框，也穿越了 Street Art 的牆壁，來到一個活生生的人身上，一邊在諷刺高度資本主義社會的荒謬，一邊令人反思這個社會現象。

2011年，YAMANYAMO會很樂意與大眾玩玩Pop Art意味的遊戲。

(很嚮往 Andy Warhol, The Factory, the Velvet Underground 的時代呢。)

]]> http://blog.mo-c.com/2011/01/2011-with-banksy/feed/ 0 Franz Kafka and Truman Capote http://blog.mo-c.com/2010/05/franz-kafka-and-truman-capote/ http://blog.mo-c.com/2010/05/franz-kafka-and-truman-capote/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 18:42:43 +0000 mo-c http://blog.mo-c.com/?p=513 Suddenly a scene from the film A SINGLE MAN came to my mind.

George Falconer (Colin Firth) was sitting in the same same couch with his lover Jim (Matthew Goode). George was reading Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, while Jim was reading Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Personally I love both of these stories. I love the way Kafka portrayed the hopelessness of social-phobic man, and I love the way Capote showing how a socialite girl can hurt herself and people around her. But what really tickled me was the atmosphere that the 2 intimate friends reading the books they loved together. It might be common in the 60′s, but not today in 2010. Maybe we can read eBooks on the iPads on the same couch, but sure you know it is not the same.

I love Mad Men, and I like A SINGLE MAN. I love Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick. I love The Velvet Underground and Nico. I love Truman Capote.

I know I miss the 60′s, although I haven’t been there.

]]> http://blog.mo-c.com/2010/05/franz-kafka-and-truman-capote/feed/ 0 1st ever authorized release of Warhol’s films on DVD http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/07/1st-ever-authorized-release-of-warhols-films-on-dvd/ http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/07/1st-ever-authorized-release-of-warhols-films-on-dvd/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:22:02 +0000 mo-c http://blog.mo-c.com/?p=303 so this is what Andy Warhol famous for: putting people (or his superstars) in front of his film camera in the Factory and let them be themselves for as long as he wanted.

This time we have 13 of those screen tests shot in the middle of the chaotic glamourous ’60s, featuring the legendary superstar Edie Sedgwick, the cool Nico, Lou Reed from the Velvet Underground, the very talented but die young dancer Freddy Herko and more.

But Where is the Bob Dylan’s one?

13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests Limited Edition DVD

thru ASVOF by Diane Pernet

]]> http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/07/1st-ever-authorized-release-of-warhols-films-on-dvd/feed/ 0 Two people kissing http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/07/two-people-kissing/ http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/07/two-people-kissing/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:06:54 +0000 mo-c http://blog.mo-c.com/?p=294 “Two people kissing,” I said, “always look like they’re fish. Two people kissing, what does it mean, anyway?”

Damien said, “it means you trust the other person enough to let them touch you.”

“No it doesn’t. People kiss people they don’t trust all the time. Especially in Europe and at parties. Think of all the people we know who’ll kiss anybody. Does that mean they’re ‘trusting’?”

“I think it does, yes.” B said. This B is was stubborn. “They trust a lot of people, is all.”

B kissed Damian. Two people kissing always loook like fish.

- Andy Warhol “From A to B and Back Again”

]]> http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/07/two-people-kissing/feed/ 0 After. Or before. But never during. http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/07/after-or-before-but-never-during/ http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/07/after-or-before-but-never-during/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:59:56 +0000 mo-c http://blog.mo-c.com/?p=291 If something’s going to happen for you, it will, you can’t make it happen. And it never does happen until you’re past the point where you care whether it happens or not. An actress friend told me that after she didn’t want money any more and after she didn’t want jewels any more, that’s when she got money and jewels. I guess it’s for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won’t make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.

- Andy Warhol “From A to B and Back Again”

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- Andy Warhol “From A to B and Back Again”

]]> http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/07/284/feed/ 0 Never http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/06/never/ http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/06/never/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:23:38 +0000 mo-c http://blog.mo-c.com/?p=281 Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

- Andy Warhol “From A to B and Back Again”

]]> http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/06/never/feed/ 0 Romance http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/06/romance/ http://blog.mo-c.com/2009/06/romance/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:30:13 +0000 mo-c http://blog.mo-c.com/?p=279 People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there. But then you wouldn’t have romance, because romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it. A friend of mine always says, “Women love me for the man I’m not.”

- Andy Warhol “From A to B and Back Again”

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