Andy Warhol & The Factory

[fairyx]

oh I love those pics of Andy & Nico as superheroes!

 

[Whitelinen]

Thanks for all the pictures posted

 

[SusanSuperstar]

Love All The New Pictures!!!!!!!!

 

[sanrio]

im just reading a book about andy and the factory writen by ultra violet... its good so far...

and i can't wait..she is actually coming to prague and opening some gallery with andy's work or something...

 

[Whitelinen]

Post a review after you've read it, please

What's the title of the book?

 

[fairyx]

Some articles I scanned for you from Dazed & Confused no 42 October 2006 and The Observer Magazine 9 April 2006

http://hem.passagen.se/fairyx/Articles/

 

[La bordélique]

Post a review after you've read it, please

What's the title of the book?

It should be Famous For 15 Minutes...
it's the only book written by Ultra Violet that I've heard of.

Haven't read it, so I'd love to see your opinion on the book, sanrio!

Thanks for the scans fairyx!

 

[SusanSuperstar]

I read her Book too! It´s fabulous!!!!!!! I was so shocked about all the stuff she wrote about Andy´s sex life!

 

[Whitelinen]

I thought Andy's sex life was non-existant...I've read that he wasn't very fond of sex.

 

[lemeray]

^ Yes its strongly believed that he was asexual and prefered watching other people having sex.

 

[Whitelinen]

^ Yes its strongly believed that he was asexual and prefered watching other people having sex.

That's what I've heard too. I think it was mentioned in the biography by Victor Bockris?

 

[Lonewalker]

What are the best books related to The Factory?

 

[fairyx]

What are the best books related to The Factory?

that´s easy...
Factory Made: Warhol & the sixties, by Steven Watson

http://www.amazon.com/Factory-Made-Sixties-Steven-Watson/dp/0679423729/sr=1-1/qid=1163279905/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-5819994-1391868?ie=UTF8&s=books

 

[factory girl]

^ Yes its strongly believed that he was asexual and prefered watching other people having sex.

that explains a lot, i always thought he was slightly in love with edie and maybe wanted to be her

 

[IcePrincess]

Has anyone watched Pie In The Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story? I think it would be interesting.

Brigid in 2001

http://www.warholstars.org/stars/brigid.html

 

[Whitelinen]

No, I haven't, is it a documentary? Berlin is my favourite Factory character besides Candy Darling and Andy himself.

 

[fairyx]

yes I have Pie in the sky on dvd bought it on ebay.
very very good documentary, I really recommend it to anyone interested in Andy & the Factory.

 

[IcePrincess]

Brigid Berlin: "Mother was a New York society girl... She smoked. She didn't read books... She went to every fashion show because Daddy ran the show at Hearst... He got the company out of debt; he sold off newspapers to buy television stations. When Patty Hearst was kidnapped, he held the purse strings, and he was reluctant to give up the ransom money to get her back... At our apartment, at 834 Fifth Avenue, my mother had needle-point thrones, not toilets - very French. My mother slept with her makeup on. When I was 10 years old I found her Tampax, and she told me they were for removing makeup. So every night I cleansed my face with cold cream and Tampax. She had plastic vibrators, and she told us they were for her neck. I cannot picture her having sex. She wore heels at home - in the house, for Christ's sake!...


I'm can picture her cleaning her face with a tampon
Hard to imagine that she came from such a inhibited women.


http://www.warholstars.org/stars/brigid.html

 

[60swildchild]

Andy never even really liked to be touched. I think the relationship between him and Edie was of a sister and brother incest type of thing. She was always very upset because she felt Andy never allowed her to get close to him and he never really provided her with much emotionally.

 

[IcePrincess]

I just finished reading Mary Woronov's "Swimming Underground". I thought it was a great book She is interesting, a bit intimidating. It was odd the way she named her emotions she had a dog named Violet and she stood for violence, a rat which wanted drugs. Some of those stories she told about the 'mole' people in that crappy apartment, doing massive amount of speed sounded scary.

Everytime I hear Venus in Furs I think of her...​

Here is a small excerpt from her book found on her website​

first met Celinas at the Factory. She had come with Brandy Alexander. And if she was shy, Brandy was her opposite, the obvious overdone showgirl-type of queenstripper t*ts, bimbo hair, Louise Nevelson eyelashes, and a mouth brought to you by Chevrolet, a red chrome grill motorized on continuous yap. Desperate was too exotic a description for her, let's just say she was bugging everybody that day, waving her airbrushed 8x10s dangerously close to Warhol's nose. The polite light went out, and Brandy became free bait; the tinfoil walls of the Factory flickered like silver water; the smaller surface fishvisitors and squares, scattered and knotted in excitement; and from out of the aluminum depths glided the larger fishpredators, attracted by the commotion. Billy Name, one of the Great Whites, appeared and disappeared. Often his presence signaled the difference between light play and heavy hard-core sh*t. Gerard was the first to attack. Something about where did she put it? Come on, show us. I listened to Brandy's little squeals, first the giddy surge of finally getting the attention she had been bleating for, then the sickening realization that it was too much, it was going to hurt. Gerard was relentless, goading, taunting, and jabbing his prey. "Come on, Brandy, we know you tuck. Tuck it up. We wanna see. Where does your dick go, huh, Brandy, huh?" Shouts. Cries. Drag queens are unpredictable to wrestle, sometimes a good right hook can be sleeping under all that make-up. Most of us were only watching, hopeful that Gerard might get slugged in the face, but I was watching Celinas. She stood like Anne Frank in a Gestapo lineup. Good choice. I liked it. I didn't know what she wanted, or why she had come with Brandy, but I did know the last thing she ever expected to get was me. I slid in close to her, mesmerized by the panicked rabbit jumping up and down in her jugular. Maybe you should sit down, here on this silver couch which, by the way, is just as dirty as the gutter. When she sat, she crossed her hands and ankles perfectly. Yes, yes, everything was in the classroom. We chatted, bonded, as Brandy flopped around on the silver concrete floor with the silver hook still in her bloody mouth. Both of us were excited, and Celinas tried to climb into her purse, which was filled with dirty broken make-up, the true sign of a queen. I was thrilled she had let me look, even slip my hand into it for a moment. I let her huddle near me, but when she tried to clutch my hand I had to recoil. I hated being touched by anything in the human skin package.

everything was found here http://www.maryworonov.com/