James Franco and his LIPS !!!

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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!"

gotcha

of course, it's possible he's just learning about all this stuff in the last few years from his 17-year-old girlfriends.

If I had the means... I have a whole list of projects that are still dangling from those years.

Teehee....

Now I am wondering when will he discover Kenneth Anger?

i think he has already... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2352488/

ha, franco's imdb page reveals that he will. not. be. stopped. -- he's filming yet another faulkner adaptation, "the sound and the fury." because if there's one man who is capable of adapting the unadaptable, it's james franco.

oh, and he's making a bukowski biopic, too.

https://twitter.com/fart/status/458305516309983232

I like the Modest Mouse song "Bukowski."

Franco just turned 36, it just seems like he's been plaguing us forever.

it's possible he's just learning about all this stuff in the last few years from his 17-year-old girlfriends.

hi5

The Cindy Sherman sub-Shia bullshit Franco's doing now is similar to his movie on Hart Crane. Both times he completely missed the point of his source material. Crane was a lot of things Franco depicted him as -- obscure, self-important, depressed -- but his poetry has a mysterious urgency that makes it compelling even at its most unclear. He really did want to do something important in his work, and poetry was more important to him than being a poet was, if that makes sense. This isn't apparent in Franco's lifeless film at all; 1/2 the time Crane just seems like a bored sophisticate. It's not surprising to me he totally failed to grasp the feminist dimensions of Sherman's work.

is that an ironic hi5 or a sincere one?

oh you

He reminds me too much of an "actor" I dated once. He totally misconstrued Meisner and we had a huge, heated argument over Meg Ryan vs Gena Rowlands, not my comparison and blah blah blehk!

Okay, I perused this thread today for the first time for all of three minutes.

I've known of Franco and have seen him in stuff for a really, really long time. But one day I woke up and everybody loved him; meaning, every arty and pseudo-intellectual/dilettante I knew or had met loved him. (I thought he was good in Freaks and Geeks. I've never liked soaps, so I never saw him in General Hospital.)

I am honestly curious as to why this is.

No, I don't hate him. No, I don't love him. I am just completely clueless. I've watched stuff he's in, and some of it is kind of cool. But what are some things that have made him so great? Are they his movies? Because if they are, I am missing something, because, yes, I don't get it. Is it because he acts more knowledgeable or cultured than his other Hollywood counterparts? Do I have a misconstrued image of him or what he represents?

My friends and I are into hiking and the outdoors, but the ones who saw 127 Hours didn't sound like he was so amazing; they just thought it was a good story. But because of the vibe I got, I never really bothered to watch it.

it was this one weird trick he pulled in spiderman

youtube bro

he's best loved around these parts for letting people know when to step back and gain perspective on the things they're ranting about. he's a responsible ilxor first, an actor second, and a bunch of other things too.

a responsible ilxor? #oxymoron

i never said he wasn't a moron.

sweet

to really answer your question though, have you seen spring breakers?

nope. is it on netflix?

i'm not sure but you should see spring breakers asap. it's an incredible film.

PS No it isn't

Dodie Kazanjian, a contributing editor at Vogue and Mr. Tomkins’s wife, mentioned Mr. Franco’s send-up of Kanye West’s “Bound 2” music video, in which Mr. Franco plays Yeezy to Seth Rogen’s sultry Kim Kardashian.

“That was hysterical,” said Ms. Sherman of the spoof.

“Maybe,” said Ms. Kazanjian, “he was working his way up.”

ew

maybe people have really shitty senses of humor, including franco

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/arts/design/james-franco-new-film-stills-arrives-at-pace-gallery.html?_r=0

Maybe Franco's just so goodlooking its influence just destroyed any talent he had

http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/jerry-saltz-on-james-francos-new-film-stills.html?mid=facebook_vulture

sick takedown

I think the Times is much more brutal but I need to look at the NY Mag one again

When asked by Gallerist what she made of Franco's act she simply said, “I can only be flattered. I don’t know that I can say it’s art, but I think it’s weirder that Pace would show them than that he would make them.”