Late Nite Randoms

I really dont have much to say...

with a bit of sleep and an actual aim i can do alot more with the image; but for now..... ZZzzzz

Up your ass?

Early in 1967 Solanas approached Andy Warhol at his studio, the Factory, about producing " Up Your Ass", as a play and gave him her copy of the script. At the time Warhol told the journalist Grechen Berg: " I thought the title was so wonderful and I'm so friendly that I invited her to come up with it, but it was so dirty that I think she must have been a lady cop.... We haven't seen her since and I'm not surprised. I guess she thought that was the perfect thing for Andy Warhol."

The incident

On June 3, 1968 at 9 a.m. Solanas went to the Chelsea Hotel where Maurice Girodias lived: she asked at the desk for him and was told that he was gone for the weekend. Still, she remained there for three hours. Around noon she went to the new relocated Factory and waited outside for Warhol. Paul Morrissey met her in front and asked her what she was doing there. "I'm waiting for Andy to get money," she replied. To get rid of her, Morrissey told her that Warhol wasn't coming in that day. "Well that's alright. I'll wait," she said.

About 2:00 she came up to the studio in the elevator. Once again Morrissey told her that Warhol wasn't coming and that she couldn't hang around so she left. She came up the elevator another seven times before she finally came up with Warhol at 4:15. She was dressed in a black turtleneck sweater and a raincoat, with her hair styled and wearing lipstick and make-up; she carried a brown paper bag. Warhol even commented "Look doesn't Varlerie look good!" Morrissey told her to get out". . . We got business, and if you don't go I'm gonna beat the hell out of you and trow you out, and I don't want . . . " Then the phone rang; Morrissey answered--- it was Viva, for Warhol. Morrissey then excused himself to go to the bathroom. As Warhol spoke on the phone, Solanas shot him three times. Between the first and second shot, both of which missed, Warhol screamed, "No! No! Valarie, don't do it." Her third shot sent a bullet through Warhol's left lung, spleen, stomach, liver, esophagus and right lung.

As Warhol lay bleeding, Solanas then fired twice upon Mario Amaya, an art critic and curator who had been waiting to meet Warhol. She hit him above the right hip with her fifth shot; he ran from the room to the back studio and leaned against the door. Solanas then turned to Fred Hughes, Warhol's manager, put her gun to his head and fired; the gun jammed. At that point the elevator door opened; there was no one on it. Hughes said to Solanas, " Oh, there's the elevator. Why don't you get on, Valerie?" She replied: " That's a good idea" and left.

Valerie Solanas - past

• 1936 April 9 born in Ventor, New Jersey
• Father Louis, Mother Dorothy Bondo Solonas
• Sexually molested by father
• 1940’s sometime parents divorced
• Moved to Washington DC with mother
• 1949 mother married Red Moran
• Refused to stay in catholic school, in response whipped by grandfather
• 1951 (aged 15) lived on own
• 1954 graduated form high school Good student at University of Maryland, supporting herself by working in the psychology departments animal laboratory
• After a college worked as a prostitute to support herself
• 1966 ended up in Greenwich village
• 1966 wrote ‘Up your ass’

Valerie Solanas - pre shooting

• 1967 February approaches Warhol about producing UYA and gives him script
• 1967 wrote and published SCUM manifesto
• 1967 May demands play back from Warhol. He tells her he’s lost it
• 1967 July Warhol pays Solanas $25 for performing in “I, a Man”
• 1967 Fall Warhol spots Solanas at Max’s Kansas City Café, she tells his company of her fathers assaults
• 1967-68 winter interviewed by Robert Mamorstein of the Village Voice
• 1968 Spring approached underground newspaper publisher (The Realist) Paul Krassner for money, saying “ I want to shoot Maurice Girodias. He gave her $50 enough for a .32 automatic pistol.

Valerie Solanas - the shooting

• 1968, June 3rd 9am goes to the Chelsea hotel to look for Girodias, but he has gone away for weekend
• 1968 , June 3rd 12pm goes to new Factory location and waits for Andy Warhol
• 1968, June 3rd 2pm takes the elevator up to the studio, she is told to leave and goes up and down in the lift another 7 times
• 1968, June 3rd 4.15pm goes up in the lift with Warhol
• The shooting
• 1968, June 3rd 8pm hands herself into a rookie traffic officer in time Square

Valerie Solanas - post shooting

• 1968 June 13th appeared in court
• 1968 June 28th indicted on charges of attempted murder, assault and illegal possession of a gun
• 1968 August Olympia Press publish the SCUM manifesto
• 1968 December 23rd she rings Warhol and demanded $20,000 for her manuscripts. She wanted him to drop his charges, put her in more of his movies and get her on the Johnny Carson Show
• 1969 June After pleading guilty she was sentenced to three years in prison
• 1988, April 26 she dies broke and alone of emphysema and pneumonia in a welfare state hotel at 52.

First Idea...

ok so i did a quick photoshop jobby as a start.





this is the style that warhol used but im thinking of doing another poster which is just valeries face but ill redraw it in popart style...

AdamXx

A beginning

We have a start.

It's us, being us.
We are standing.
We are looking at you
and wondering
what your face would look like
in black and white
in sepia
in negative
on a canvas
on film
we could make you

Well done

Well done folks - keep it coming

some interesting notes!!

Friday 16 february:
In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

WERE NOT SURE WHAT TO DO WITH THIS BUT ITS INTERESTING!!

Also first manned shutle orbits the moon successfully in this year!!
Sunday 23 June:
74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
Number 1 at time of shooting was mrs robinson, simon and garfunkel.
Number 1 box office hit of year 1968, Funny Girl
IN 1968, warhols painting 'onion' was released and he also made the film 'women in revolt' The film satirizes the Women's Liberation Movement, and alludes to Valerie Solanas and the SCUM Manifesto.

Lucy Emily and Emma

research for 1968

Here was something i found quite interesting....

June 3rd 1968 Britains first heart transplant took place - requiring 18 doctors and nurses at the national heart hospital in Marylebon, London.

thought this was quite interesting as it was something to do with the heart which could be incorporated within the movement of the pumping of the heart.

group idea ass ass ins!

hello Rosie, we have met today and rehearsed the two sequences having a whale of a time :) woop! we'v come up with the idea of using a polaroid camera throughout the performance to take pics of scenes and hang them up on a clothes line with pegs to give the essence of the factory atmosphere as a working habitat omg we'r so clever! also putting up copies of Warhols artwork throughout the piece, so that by the end of the piece we'v created what looks like a factory, omg we'r so clever! let us know what you think of these ideas ta luv xxxxxx

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