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Stop Waiting to Make it Happen

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Pretty

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Faces by Nick Lepard

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Nick Lepard

"The way in which we change"- oil on canvas
2008 - 71 x 64"

"Understand Still" - oil and acrylic on canvas
2008 - 66 x 54"

Today, modernity requires that each of us navigate a blizzard of information. How this maelstrom of data is interpreted and synthesized constructs an individual’s paradigm. However, the qualities of the data are subject to a Catch-22: while the data works to describe an individual’s paradigm, an individual’s paradigm likewise works to describe the data.

 

With so much accessible information, yet so little certainty, are our interpretations of the world more complex or confused, more varied or more refined? Is the course of progress more accessible, or more elusive?

- Nick Lepard 2008

  

Andy Warhol Interviews Alfred Hitchcock

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Warhol Interviews

Hitchcock

 

This conversation that appeared in Interview Magazine in September 1974 doesn’t offer any great insights into filmmaking, but for what it lacks in informativeness it makes up for in novelty.


The meeting of these two icons of the 20th century is particularly significant, as each bridged high art and popular culture in unique intriguing ways. While on the surface it may seem like a odd pairing, they both share many things in common. Warhol and Hitchcock both started out as illustrators. Warhol had started his career working as a commercial illustrator, Hitchcock had started out creating illustrations for title cards in silent movies. Of course Andy and Alfred were also both film directors.

Andy Warhol: Since you know all these cases, did you ever figure out why people really murder? It’s always bothered me. Why.

 

Alfred Hitchcock: Well I’ll tell you. Years ago, it was economic, really. Especially in England. First of all, divorce was very hard to get, and it cost a lot of money.

 

Andy Warhol: But what kind of person really murders? I mean, why.

 

Alfred Hitchcock: In desperation. They do it in desperation.

 

Andy Warhol: Really?….

 

 

 

Alfred Hitchcock: Absolute desperation. They have nowhere to go, there were no motels in those days, and they’d have to go behind the bushes in the park. And in desperation they would murder.

 

 Andy Warhol: What about a mass murderer.

 

 

 Alfred Hitchcock: Well, they are psychotics, you see. They’re absolutely psychotic. They’re very often impotent. As I showed in “Frenzy.” The man was completely impotent until he murdered and that’s how he got his kicks. But today of course, with the Age of the Revolver, as one might call it, I think there is more use of guns in the home than there is in the streets. You know? And men lose their heads?

 

Andy Warhol: Well I was shot by a gun, and it just seems like a movie. I can’t see it as being anything real. The whole thing is still like a movie to me. It happened to me, but it’s like watching TV. If you’re watching TV, it’s the same thing as having it done to yourself.

 

Alfred Hitchcock: Yes. Yes.

 

 

 

Warhol’s portrait of Alfred Hitchcock represents an incisive homage to the artist’s favorite director.

Love Don't Pay The Bills

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Love Don't Pay The Bills Y'all

Creepy Charlie Sheen Mask Wins Mask Fest

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Creepy Lifelike Charlie Sheen

While not exactly known for his wisdom, Charlie Sheen did provide us with a unique spin on the concept of “winning” that would have been useful on June 10th. Looking through Landon Meier’s twitpics as I wrote the previous Giant Baby Heads post, I found these photos of his newest mask. Meier’s incredibly realistic representation of Charlie Sheen won the 2011 Mask Fest, and I can see why. There’s a tendency to dismiss masks as horror movie props and not “real art”. People who say such things obviously lack the tiger blood. I see this as sculpture and also performance art. #winning

Mask

This mask is so bizzare and crazy looking it makes you just want to laugh. Pretty amazing job. Check out the video.

Black Cats as Clothing

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Black Cat

This top is very superstitious.

Don't Follow The Stream.

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The Truth Right There...

Fake Bitches Wear Masks

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All fake bitches cut it out and wear it if you can't keep it real.

Cell Flicks Rock

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Thank

Goodness

for Cell Flicks!

Hell Yeah...

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Jersey Fist Pump

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Punk Rock Patriotism - Happy 4th of July

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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

Here's some Punk Rock patriotism by Warzone. Everyone have a blast. Don't drink and drive...and eat a lot of BBQ and swim with your family and friends. Get a sun burn too!

THE SOUND OF REVOLUTION

We are all born Originals

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We are all born originals,why is it so many of us die copies? - Edward Young

Bad B-Movies: The Video Dead Review

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Bad B-Movies!

When the other B-Masters decided that this roundtable would be based off of a sort of "Secret Santa" idea I had some reservations. Not least was that the phrase "Tyrannical and Sadistic Santa" would have been more accurate. You see, the truth of the matter is that we all jumped at the opportunity to inflict something God awful on each other. Ken Begg was threatened with "The Trial of Billy Jack" and Dr. Freex had the poor luck of being given "Jonathan Livingston Seagull." So, when the latter gentleman informed me that my particular torment would be "The Video Dead," I was more than a little relieved.

The film begins when Mr. Jordan is roused by two deliverymen (who need new brakes for their van). They insist on him signing for a large crate, though the sender and contents are unknown. Okay, I'm paranoid anyway; plus watching movies like this for years doesn't help, but I would politely refuse the consignment. "No, I will not sign my death certificate. Now leave, before both myself and Mr. Twelve Gauge Mossberg get angry." Unfortunately for Mr. Jordan, he accepts the crate and unpacks the B&W television inside. The set has a worrisome peculiarity; there is only one movie on: "Zombie Blood Nightmare." After the writer goes to sleep the TV turns itself on and the main characters crawl out. When the deliverymen come back, because they delivered death to the wrong address, they make a gruesome discovery.

Three months pass before the Blairs purchase the home. Mom and dad are out of the country, so Zoe and Jeff take on the responsibility of moving in. I have no idea if the parents even visited the house before making a down payment. The important facts are that the TV is in the attic and the zombies are still loose in the nearby woods. Oh, Jeff also meets April and they seem to hit it off.

Jeff finds the television when he investigates a sound in the attic. The young man brings the infernal thing downstairs to his room and plugs it in. Immediately "Zombie Blood Nightmare" comes on (sort of odd, since the zombies are already out), but then the picture fuzzes over. What replaces the low budget horror film is a seductress who tantalizes Jeff's libido. Something about her features set off warning bells in my head; they are reminiscent of a woman who used to be a man! Telling Jeff wouldn't have done much good. At that age, most young males just look for the major landmarks of womanhood (boobs) and he was entranced, even moreso when she suddenly materialized in his room. A briefly embarrassing necking scene ensued, but then the woman reappeared inside the TV. 

THE VIDEO

DEAD

Review

Spy vs. Spy 50th Anniversary

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2011 marks the 50th Anniversary of Spy vs. Spy. To celebrate this historic milestone, every day TheIdiotical will be devoting a post to Antonio Prohias’ classic strip. Today, it’s the very first Spy strip, from MAD #60 (January, 1961).

VS.

50th

Anniversary

The World with No Liars

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Imagine that folks.

Kiki Valdes - Some Cartoon Expressionism or something.

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Q-Tip Beef Over Documentary with Rapaport.

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Tags: MTV Shows

The stormy relationship between actor/director Michael Rapaport and rapper Q-Tip continued to develop Wednesday, when Rapaport told New York Daily News that he was "completely done" reasoning with the rapper and that they have no relationship. The pair's dispute arose from the portrayal of hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, which Q-Tip co-founded, in Rapaport's upcoming documentary "Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest."

 

The group's other three members have expressed support for the film, but Rapaport claims Q-Tip demanded more and more control of Tribe's sometimes unflattering portrayal. "The movie version Q-Tip thinks should be coming out would be going straight to DVD," Rapaport told New York Daily News.

 

In March, however, Q-Tip said that his major disagreement with Rapaport was that producers were plotting to deny the band members production credits. In an interview with MTV News, he claimed that one of the film's producers accidentally sent him an email discussing this plan:

 

  

   

 

            

 

 

 

  

Rapaport ,Q-Tip Feud Over Documentary

"Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest" is off to a shakey start. Q-Tip has discovered an e-mail that wants to rip them off. Also pumping heads with Rapaport, the director. 

Mama Say Knock You Out!

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Momma say Knock You Out!

Hugo Chavez has Cancer. Might Step Down?

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CHAVEZ HAS CANCER

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez confirmed late Thursday what many in his country suspected: He has cancer.

Chavez, whose government denied repeatedly he was gravely ill, made the admission during a live speech to his country from Cuba, where he has undergone medical treatment for much of the past month under a veil of secrecy.

 

"Studies confirmed the existence of a tumor with cancerous cells," he said.

 

Chavez said he was initially operated on for a pelvic abscess on June 11, but that follow-up tests indicated there were other growths that turned out to be cancerous. He said he had a follow-up surgery days after that.

 

The former army officer, who has ruled Venezuela for 12 years, did not elaborate on his prognosis. But he said he was determined to overcome the illness.

Read more at The Wall Street Journal

The Last Space Shuttle

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After 30 years, NASA is retiring the Space Shuttle program.

American exploration in low-Earth orbit is over

After 30 years, NASA is retiring the Space Shuttle program.

American exploration in low-Earth orbit is over

Image via FYS via NASA