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September 2008
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Miestorm: Self-Portrait: July 2008 NYC
Ex-Studio 54 busboy Miestorm, now a photographer represented by Billy Name's agent Kevin Kushel (Ovoworks Inc.), has joined forces with Ian Couch to form a film production company, Trippin on the Moon Productions Inc. in New York. In addition to his film and photographic work, Miestorm also appeared in Warhol star Ivy Nicholson's film, The Dead Life and is currently working on a biography which will include his time as a club kid called "Lenny 54."
U.K. site users might remember him from the 1998 television documentary The Rise and Fall of Studio 54 directed by Bruce Goodison. A You Tube clip from the documentary can be watched by clicking on the screen below:
Miestorm: "I was not part of the Factory or the Silver Factory, but I did know Andy Warhol at Studio 54 and whenever we met, he would speak to me as though we were children on a playground. I never thought of him as an adult."
A selection of photographs by Miestorm can be found on the Ovoworks site here.
Front cover of the 1990 album Songs for Drella
with Lou Reed (L) and John Cale (R)
John Cale will be returning to the Southbank Centre to perform a tribute to Nico ("Life along the Borderline: A Tribute to Nico") on October 11, 2008 at the Royal Festival Hall. In addition to being one of the original members of the Velvet Underground, Cale also played with La Monte Young during the 60s and was one of the pianists who performed at John Cage's production of Eric Satie's Vexations in 1963 at the Pocket Theater in New York.
Special guests, yet to be announced, will also be appearing with Cale at the Nico tribute. The website for the Southbank is at: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk.
MAX'S NEW LOOK
The Max's Kansas City site has had a re-fit, including a section devoted to Andy Warhol. The Warhol section is at: http://www.maxskansascity.com/warhol/.
VIVA VIVA
In case you missed it there are a series of three slice-of-life film clips of Warhol star Viva currently on You Tube. Click on the image above for the first one.
Warhol Live by Matt Wrbican, Stephane Aquin and Emma Lavigne, is due to be published by Prestel on September 30, 2008.
The book is the exhibition catalogue for the "Warhol Live" show which is taking place at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from September 25, 2008 - January 18, 2009 before traveling to the de Young Museum in San Francisco and The Warhol museum in Pittsburgh.
Exhibition details at: http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/musee/communique_107.html.