ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH

Was Andy Warhol a complete tool and another pawn of the illuminati?

 Some people certainly think he was, but I used to like some of his wonky looking art, so was blinded to all this… This review on the other hand is no holds bared scathing about him:

“He was such a super asshole. It’s all about attitude – I guess if you just look at the art and don’t know anything about him then the art, in and of itself, could be considered beautiful – but then you find out about him, and it’s hard to still like his art – because then I can see the taunting fuck you message he is sending off – if he had had an attitude of care about the images instead of being a total vampire – he basically sucked the life out of things and then spat them back out as a Polaroid.

He funded a lot of very sick people getting hooked on dope for 15 min of fame in the factory – he fed on weak people’s weaknesses – he did not uplift them – but instead he added more sickness to sickness – and surely he didn’t know any better – but Andy Warhol is like the iconic human version of what Facebook is now – YUCK. He had no aspirations to uplift or grow or be better, instead he reveled in sickness and made more of it…

Yes, the art has a certain beauty but the multiple nature of it is what makes me cringe… I was taught in art school to see beauty in everything including common artifacts of society- like a toaster or a watering can or a fork knife spoon – even a Campbell’s soup can- but he took it that one step further and debased the image- and the did the same with humans-

What did he contribute to society? It’s like Madonna - who took the last vestiges of goodness and sexed it up - laying the groundwork for all that we have now… they both took the dregs and made them into fake diamonds… I just detest Andy Warhol so much that it’s impossible for me to really enjoy his work…”

I both agree and disagree with that at the same time which is sometimes optimal

Basically I think most popular culture is manipulated to some extent by agencies like the Tavistock institute or programs like MK Ultra.

But having said that, most of my favourite music, movies, and art, are part of that social programming. So I can’t dismiss it all because the intentions behind it may have been bad, because it’s my inspiration. I think the internet was set up by the deep state for evil intent but I still use it every day..

Andy Warhol seems to me to have been a very original thinker with some fairly severe personality disorders.

I think he was an “Asset” (a creator manipulated and used by agencies) rather than another talent-less puppet put in place by the agencies and lifted to popularity (like all modern pop stars) or a shill (like Alex Jones)

So I see his art as being original and it resonates with me – sometimes I do a picture and only afterwards realise his influence on my own pictures – like this one:

 

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“ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH”

Andy Warhol (Aug 6, 1928 – Feb 22, 1987)

Campbell’s Soup Cans (32 Canvases)
Andy Warhol / 1962 / Synthetic polymer paint on canvas/
/ 20″ x 16″
Museum of Modern Art

“Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.”
Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1975

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

“If you want to know about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.” –Andy Warhol
Andy, My true Story 3, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press (17 March 1967)

 

Yoko, Andy, and John

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

 

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

“Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”
Warhol & Brillo Boxes At Stable Gallery

“I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.”

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”

“I’m confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name’s in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it’s your news and they’re taking it and selling it as their product. But then they always say that they’re helping you, and that’s true too, but still, if people didn’t give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn’t have any news. So I guess you should pay each other. But I haven’t figured it out fully yet.”
Quote from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975

“I thought that young people had more problems than old people, and I hoped I could last until I was older so I wouldn’t have all those problems. Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems. The “old” problems to me looked easier to take than the “young” problems. So I decided to go gray so nobody would know now old I was and I would look younger to them than how old they thought I was. I would gain a lot by going gray: (1) I would have old problems, which were easier to take than young problems, (2) everyone would be impressed by how young I looked, and (3) I would be relieved of the responsibility of acting young—I could occasionally lapse into eccentricity or senility and no one would think anything of it because of my gray hair. When you’ve got gray hair, every move you make seems “young” and “spry,” instead of just being normally active. It’s like you’re getting a new talent. So I dyed my hair gray when I was about twenty-three or twenty-four.”
Quote from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”

“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”

“I’m not afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground with Nico

Andy Warhol photographing Muhammed Ali

Warhol and Basquiat

Andy Warhol (Aug 6, 1928 – Feb 22, 1987)

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Hair or Art? How Andy Warhol used Wigs to Craft his Enigmatic Image

Mention the name Andy Warhol and most people would instantly think of his painting of a Campbell’s Tomato Soup can, his portrait of Marilyn Monroe, or his prediction that everyone would enjoy 15 minutes of fame.

Some might mention his unruly hair—without realizing it was a wig. And yet, the website hairisforpulling.blogspot.com suggests that the silver-grey wig made the renowned pop artist what he was. In effect, it gave him his brand.

Pop artist Andy Warhol eating cereal and looking at his mother Julia, prob. at her home. (Photo by Ken Heyman/Woodfin Camp/Woodfin Camp/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

The wig (or, more accurately wigs—it seems he built up quite a collection of them) was not so much about style as image. Warhol believed that the wig gave him a personality of “otherness.”

Warhol (1929-87) began wearing wigs in the 1950s when he started going bald. According to hairisforpulling.blogspot.com, he started with a mouse-brown creation, moved through several shades of blond, and eventually settled on silver grey. His theory was simple: if you looked old all the time, no one would know how old you were.

Portrait of the American artist Andy Warhol at his exhibition dedicated to Black transvestites in the US. Ferrara, November 1975

The wigs may have been about more than vanity. It has been proposed that there was more to Warhol’s wig-wearing than hiding a bald patch or defining an image.

The site suggests Warhol had deep insecurities arising from his religious upbringing and his homosexuality. He also wanted to find a balance between appearing less gay to achieve commercial success, while at the same time appearing attractive to other men.

Andy Warhol

There is a suggestion that the artist was anxious to hide other issues as well. Visitors to his apartment said that he often greeted them wearing masks to hide skin problems. So it does appear there was more to wearing the wig than met the eye.

Despite all this, Warhol didn’t wear the wigs with any great care. They were generally placed randomly and with his remaining dark hair sticking out underneath.

(Photo by Francois LOCHON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Most of the wigs seem to have been made in New York, and had the label “HAIRPIECE, Original by Paul.” It appears they were made with hair imported from Italy.

Although he wore wigs for many years, it was only in 1985 that Warhol’s worst nightmare came true when his wig was snatched clean off his head. UPI.com recounts that a woman made her bid for 15 minutes of fame by grabbing the hairpiece at a New York book-signing.

The Andy Warhol Museum

In his own words, quoted on Warholstars.org : “I don’t know what held me back from pushing her over the balcony. She was so pretty and well-dressed.

I guess I called her a bitch or something and asked how she could do it. But it’s okay, I don’t care—if a picture gets published, it does. There were so many people with cameras.

Warhol (left) and Tennessee Williams (right) talking on the SS France, 1967.

Maybe it’ll be on the cover of Details, I don’t know… It was so shocking. It hurt. Physically… And I had just gotten another magic crystal which is supposed to protect me and keep things like this from happening…”

Despite that, Warhol was apparently relatively unfazed by the incident and continued signing copies of his book America! after pulling up his parka hood. There is no report of the culprit being apprehended, so it appears she made good her escape.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/04/warhols-wigs/

ENDING MY OBSESSION

I've decided that the end of 2025 will also mark the end of my two years daily www.sift.co.nz blogging. Posting something every day has been an entertaining experiment, but now I want to reduce my posting to a more random occurrence.

Some days I really feel like posting something, but some days I don't, and that is OK too. Being a completionist I'm going to keep doing a post each day until the end of this year, but from January 1st 2026 I'll just be posting whatever and whenever.

The truth is, I'm a bit burned out, and even with the blog hits now up well over 1000 on good days, that's still nothing to write home about. Back in the good old days (around 2017) I was getting more than 5000 hits a day, which was more impressive.

But it's not primarily about the hit count, it's more about watching what I essentially think is a giant fake global circus show, and having nothing very productive to say about any of it. I suspect that watching this endless flow of utter bullshit is just making me increasingly negative and cynical.

I used to think exposing psyops was helping to work against them, so that meant I was doing good work. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit now that after more than 20 years "conspiracy" research it's only in the past few years I've started to grasp that the puppet masters are not trying to hide their psyops any more.

On the contrary, they are doing their best to make them blatantly obvious. Back when they did the first fake moon landing in 1969, they were actually doing their best to make it look real. It looked utterly ridiculous, but that wasn't deliberate, they were just really bad at special effects back then. 

Last year when they pretended to shoot Trump's ear off, they knew full well it was obviously fake, but that was the desired intention.

It created division, between people who believe in official narratives, and people who can see obvious fakes. And that division is a key objective.

All the narratives both official and unofficial, are fake, but I've analysed them to death for decades and I really need to move on. I've already pretty much stopped looking at all media, and all social media too, apart from a quick daily look at Facebook.

But even looking at my Facebook feed of over 1500 "conspiracy theorists" posts in chronological order, pretty much everything on my feed is utter bollocks, and it seems to get more lame and retarded by the day. It's quite depressing to see how little ability even my own FB friends seem to have to differentiate shit from chewed dates. I'm on the brink of just giving up looking at even these last remnants of all the programming inputs. I probably will half heartedly keep a lazy eye on what today's stories are, but I've long since lost interest in most of it, even including posts from the "freedom" and "truther" movements, who seem to have no idea how completely they are being played. I'm hanging out to make a mental shift. I don't even want to wait until the new year, I just want to start right now. As part of that shift I don't even want to tell everyone about what I'm no longer doing, in some big explanatory blog post. I will just aim to quietly change and see how things work out.

THIS MUSIC VIDEO HAS BEEN A BIG INFLUENCE

 This music video has probably been influencing my own art for the past 32 years

 Back in the 90’s there was still lots of awesome music. I miss all that amazing music, because let's face it, almost all the music for the bast two decades has been utter bollocks..

Screamadelica

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ixEzKA4k0

There’s no overestimating the importance of Screamadelica, the record that brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream — an impact that rivaled that of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the other 1991 release that changed rock. Prior to Screamadelica, Primal Scream were Stonesy classic rock revivalists with a penchant for Detroit rock. They retained those fascinations on Screamadelica — one listen to the Jimmy Miller-produced, Stephen Stills-rip “Movin’ on Up” proves that — but they burst everything wide open here, turning rock inside out by marrying it to a gleeful rainbow of modern dance textures. This is such a brilliant, gutsy innovative record, so unlike anything the Scream did before, that it’s little wonder that there’s been much debate behind who is actually responsible for its grooves, especially since Andrew Weatherall is credited with production with eight of the tracks, and it’s clearly in line with his work.

Even if Primal Scream took credit for Weatherall’s endeavors, that doesn’t erase the fact that they shepherded this album, providing the ideas and impetus for this dubtastic, elastic, psychedelic exercise in deep house and neo-psychedelic. Like any dance music, this is tied to its era to a certain extent, but it transcends it due to its fierce imagination and how it doubles back on rock history, making the past present and vice versa. It was such a monumental step forward that Primal Scream stumbled before regaining their footing, but by that point, the innovations of Screamadelica had been absorbed by everyone from the underground to mainstream. There’s little chance that this record will be as revolutionary to first-time listeners, but after its initial spin, the genius in its construction will become apparent — and it’s that attention to detail that makes Screamadelica an album that transcends its time and influence.
 

ASOCIAL MEDIA

 

If anyone on Facebook would like to see more of my content, most of it is on my www.sift.co.nz blog. The ever increasing use of AI online, has really trashed the entire internet this year, with the past few months crossing my line in the sand for being bombarded with lame AI crap.

So from December 2025 on I want to do my best to stay focused on using the internet as a productive tool. Social media is an addictive distraction that I want to keep to a minimum.

I’m decidedly not a big fan of most social media anyway, and have already essentially stopped using all platforms apart from Facebook, along with watching some videos on Toutube.

I don’t post or comment on Youtube, but do post on Facebook, and up until early 2025 my Facebook accounts were constantly being suspended, which is why I ran multiple accounts, and swapped between them.

Surprisingly, from March 2025 onwards Facebook pretty much seemed to quit giving a toss about censoring most posts. In fact I even did a month long experiment in August to see just what I could get away with, and then compiled those posts into a blog page called FACEBOOK UNCENSORED

I’ve never looked at any platform controlled by algorithms, or seen any ads, but I get the impression that is how most people view all social media, including Facebook and YouTube. Screw that for a joke! If that was the only option I would have quit them long ago.

A major reason I still look at those last two platforms is because they are the only windows I have into what narratives the normies are being programmed with. I don’t watch TV or look at “news”, or even use a smart phone.

Lately, even with carefully selected feeds, I feel like I’m being exposed to a never ending feed of “end is nigh” fudporn. Yes a lot of it may well be true, but there is a theory that whatever we focus on attracts more of the same. The law of attraction.

It’s a really hard call to decide how best to deal with a society that appears to be collapsing under the massive weight of corruption, deception, conspiracies and lies.

My approach has always been to expose it as much as possible. But we are being spoon fed deep-state propaganda by alt-media gatekeeper shills, as well as the mainstream media.

For example, telling people that the economy is collapsing in dozens of ways every day, even when it is, creates more expectation of collapse, and leads to the crash being even bigger.

On the other hand, “vaccines” are toxic injections designed specifically to make normies sick or kill them, so possibly exposing that may have save some lives.

I don’t think being constantly told that everything is totally screwed is helping me, so I’m going to reduce the amount of that stuff that I look at.

Thanks to all the real people online posting original content, keep up the good work!

STYLING STREET ART

American artist Tom Bob used street “furniture” to create art that interacted with it’s surroundings. From turning a sewer into a frying pan, to transforming gas meters into lobsters, he made New York city a more interesting place.

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https://www.boredpanda.com/street-art-tom-bob-new-york/?utm_source=duckduckgo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic%22

THE MARTIAN ANAL DIVISION

In times gone by, we used to read fiction to explore imaginary realities. Now we live in a reality so bizarre even Philip K Dick probably would have needed to up his drug intake to deal with it...

I once read a short story by Philip K Dick. It was called “The Martian Anal Division”, and it was about a parallel version of our world in which everything was run by and for the benefit of small but cunning Martian invaders.

“They live in tiny spaceships which they insert into their subjects anal passages. From deep within human anuses they emit their instructions, which their followers hear as a voice in their anus telling them what to do. These people are known as the Martian Anal Division (MAD).

One of the key symptoms of people who are controlled by Martians up their arses is that they not only want to do what the Martians tell them to, but that they also want to force everyone else to do it as well. They often revert to the phrase “for the greater good”, and want to bring in “laws” in the hope that they can force other people to “conform” to the wishes of the voices in their arses.

In an attempt to get a better handle on controlling the non-MAD population, they introduce social engineering such as water fluoridation (make the population sick and obedient), vaccinations (make them sick and infertile), fear of “terrorism” (submit to more laws and surveillance), fear of viruses, fear of various “global apocalypses” (submit to more restrictions and taxes), and wars (the ultimate control system)

They also direct everyone with an anal implant to watch more TV, where they can obsess over misinformation called “news”, listen to angry black men making guttural rhyming noises about hoes, yos, and bros, become jealous over the size of the breast implants of women who sing the things that the voices in their arses are saying, and enjoy watching stocky men in tight shorts battling each other over leather balls.

Luckily, for all their cunning, the Martians have some serious flaws in their evil plan. When they insert their micro spacecraft into their victim’s anal passages, it tends to block their elimination of waste matter. So their victims slowly fill up with shit.

Already pressurized to bursting point, when they are confronted by people who refuse to conform, they start to turn purple and run around in circles making squawking noises like a chicken having an epileptic fit. Sometimes the backed up gasses start to escape from their arse like a loud rumbling fart, while sometimes they just blow up like an American false flag terrorists bomb”

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