James Franco and his LIPS !!!

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You sound so dodgy / Bye
Send a picture / *immediate picture sending*

hey, if it's good enough for you...

Doing a play 8 performances a week can make anyone slip.

James Franco and his SLIPS!!!

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Why don't you have a seat...

when i first starting reading this i got terrified that it was this chick who used to message the fake franco fb page i used to operate

that would be something

"my Scottish friends" stuck out to me as an odd turn of phrase

DON: It's a new ballgame out there for celebrities today. Things like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter bring us closer than to more of our fans than ever with all the disadvantages that implies. Mr. Franco is learning a painful lesson in this right now.

GLENN: There has to be standards! I think that the public should hold back passing judgement on James until we find out if the girl in question o.d'd at his mansion and received medical care only after he ordered another chick from Instagram to bone down in her place.

DON: Well, yeah.

Definitely shifts the conversation away from "Is he gay?".

shifts it to "is he bi"

guilty lol

this is so O_O

age of consent in NY is 17

oh its cool then, nm

morbs he stole your bit!

bye

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 21, 2013 4:14 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no. bye.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:47 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe we can get you to bring back ... naaaaah

bye

― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 2, 2013 7:41 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so we're just listing every debut perf ever now

bye

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:15 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit, lol

I can also picture Franco hearing the NY age of consent and thinking "I should have said.. wait no, it was a bad... but then again... hmmm"

btw he was holding a bong while thinking that

http://news.artnet.com/art-world/is-james-francos-art-career-a-joke-a-critical-appraisal-11107?utm_campaign=artnetnews&utm_source=042214daily&utm_medium=email

sounds about right

If you think it's bad, then you don't get it.

If you think it's not funny, then you don't get it.

If you think it's funny, then you really don't get it.

If you take it seriously, then the joke's on you.

If you like it, then the joke's on you, too.

i'm sympathetic to that write-up, but the phrase 'middlebrow sort of satisfaction' set off my BS detector. what is 'middlebrow' about having a bit of fun trying to pair up the franco photos with the sherman originals? is 'middlebrow' just being used here as 'beneath me' or possibly 'against my better judgement'?

it's not high art or low art, it's just a dumb concept played for cheapness

I mean, the wiki definition includes "a forced and ineffective attempt at cultural and intellectual achievement" which is kind of this to a t?

but he's not referring to the whole exercise (the whole project) as being middlebrow, he's referring specifically to the task of matching up franco's photos to sherman's.

i think you could say that the matching game is middlebrow in that, like franco's photos, it references a "high art" source without engaging w/ its content or meaning

don't you see, it's a direct rumination on sherman's work. no matter how she appeared, it was cindy sherman. he's surfaced this by being obviously james franco

this doesn't actually make u think

i think you could say that the matching game is middlebrow in that, like franco's photos, it references a "high art" source without engaging w/ its content or meaning

― 1staethyr, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 1:24 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but even if franco's work added fascinating new subtexts to sherman's work blah blah blah, there would still be the basic task of matching photo to photo.

I WILL NOT BACK DOWN

I get it but it smarts a bit because I was one of those teens and twentysomethings that just held Cindy Sherman in extremely high esteem, sacred. Now that I am older in a world of selfies and self-timers are no big deal (all I wanted was a camera with a self-timer when I was a kid)...I don't know to some extent it is almost cute in that his "homage seems to also point to a discovery of Cindy Sherman and it's always cool to see what an artist inspires in those who just discover their work. But I agree, it isn't exactly edifying. Something about it all points more towards a Vanity Fair spread than art. Had it been a Vanity Fair photo shoot I would have thought the photographer was being slightly witty.

Who are we, as viewers, to separate a fascinating subtext from a trivial one? And if your answer is the relativist one -- no one, it's subjective -- then where does that leave "judgment"? Nowhere, of course, but then what is art if not crude cultural positioning? What is high culture if not a brand? Only shitty art can answer these quesfions.

you forgot shitty posting

this is elitist, for sure, but: for a guy in his late thirties, franco seems to be running through inspirations/influences that most smartypants folks encounter in their teens and early twenties. that doesn't mean they are invalid, just that i wonder what franco has been up to for the past 20 years. has he never encountered anything but the literary/art-world/cinematic equivalent of megastars?

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i really, really wish that was actually james franco

hi james franco

actually never mind. james franco, you stay away.

Pretend you're 16.

lol yeah james franco is making the kind of work that would've gotten a lukewarm reception in an undergrad crit and it gets shown at pace gallery

http://www.middlebrow-network.com

Who are we, as viewers, to separate a fascinating subtext from a trivial one?

hi, I'm mh, I post on ilx

That's what makes it meta. He is a grown man commenting on the work of younger artists who imitate/pay homage to their inspirations via less than inspiring works. It's like a mirror reflecting a mirror reflecting a mirror reflecting James Franco, and if you say his name three times in the dark, he'll appear (in drag) and give you a big smooch.

It is, by the way, a two-way mirror, and he will be filming the encounter for a future installation, titled "Who's the Fairest of Them All?" In it he will appear in blackface.

I nominate JiC as the next franco

I mean, when treeship finally gets tired of his shtick

In the future, everyone will be Franco for 15 minutes.

you can have my 15, too

I didn't want to imply invalid but genuinely interesting to see what artist inspire in others.

I'm no smartypants, just older than James Franco. Small town teens in the very late '80s who wanted to "know" were drinking in everything NYC artist put out through means such as Interview magazine and NYT articles and zines....Cindy Sherman wasn't so esoteric.

it's not like she fell out of the popular eye. my friend who was in art school circa ~2000 did a cindy sherman homage photography project

I'm no smartypants, just older than James Franco. Small town teens in the very late '80s who wanted to "know" were drinking in everything NYC artist put out through means such as Interview magazine and NYT articles and zines....Cindy Sherman wasn't so esoteric.

― *tera, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 3:49 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my point was precisely that she is the kind of thing folks would find out about pretty quickly. at this point she might be one of the two or three best known american "art" photographers.

franco seems to be unusually fixated on the stuff he first encountered in/around high school and college. and in a really obvious way, too. "i'm going to make a movie of 'as i lay dying'! i'm going to remake cindy sherman photos, but with _me_ in them!"