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Monday 26 May 2008
Andy Warhol Had it Wrong
Fifteen minutes of fame was a good guess, but had Mr. Warhol known about blogging, I think that measurement would have been far greater.
Filed under: humor, blogging, pop culture, flashback, community, just fun, cults of personality
Posted by: Molly | 10:32 pm |
May 26th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Momus said that in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 people. That’s how I feel right about now. http://imomus.com/index499.html
May 27th, 2008 at 12:24 am
I guess it depends on your definition of fame:-)
15 minutes making a presentation to the WI might make some people feel they have reached their pinnacle of fame, playing to an audience of 50 thousand might be anothers, whilst the world stage might be something that the most egotistical would strive for.
You could say that everyone will be famous somewhere for someone for at least 15 minutes.
p.s. why do some blogs attract like moths and a flame… I can’t seem to stay away from this one!
May 27th, 2008 at 1:51 am
15 posts of fame?
May 27th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Warhol’s later update actually seems quite prescient:
‘It’s the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, “In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.”‘
— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol’s Exposures (1979) “Studio 54″
May 27th, 2008 at 7:20 am
I prefer the more internet appropriate 15kb of fame
May 27th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Well it all depends how you look at it. By and large bloggers are not famous. Yes a few are, but ask a random person if they know Jeffery Zeldman and chances are they stare back at you with a blank expression on their face. In the world web standards he’s famous, outside it I wouldn’t put any money on him being well recognised.
But this is the thing about Warhol claim. Pop culture is by it’s nature a fragmented culture, hence why he must have thought that everybody will be able to have go. With blogging these fragments of culture have more depth but not much more width. When I consider YouTube I get the feeling that the gist of Warhol’s 15 minute fame claim is pretty accurate.
May 27th, 2008 at 8:54 am
You could say we have 15 minutes of fame and then possibly live a long life being famous. Some become rich and famous and loose track of the true realities of life. There are many poor and starving people living in squaller, the adults go out and work all day just to feed their family or families. Billions of them live in Africa, Asia and South America.
Then there are the heroes of civilization like Leonardo Di Vinci and Martin Luther King or heroines like Joan of Arc.
Now everyone can have their own 15 minutes of fame via youtube, that’s if they can afford to have access to a computer. The world needs some equality.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Maybe it’s an equation something like total number of people/length of time.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Thank you
May 29th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
In our ‘instant-on’ and ‘give-it-to-me-now’ culture, our concept of fame and time has been skewed. BTW, what with the following “albums download Anna Maria Jopek online tracks Anthony Evans buy music Apollo Four Fourty Anna Nalick A Beautiful Machine Absolum albums buy Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger …” in your feed?
June 20th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
thank you
June 21st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
In the future, we’ll all have 15 minutes of anonymity.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:57 am
thanks
July 31st, 2008 at 12:57 am
thnaks
August 5th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
@Eric: you were a very active member of the WG a few years ago, right ?-)
August 5th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Thanks, were very informative.
September 7th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Funny.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:49 am
We need a standard set of best practices.
You´re a poet