The Wonders of Email

We arranged for brunch @ Rider's Cafe and Andy Warhol's exhibition, all through email! 6 people, 6 different preferrences. I try not to only read the email headers, opps, the choice of place for brunch to the exhibition to patronize, were all cordinated through virtual correspondeces. I must say it was pretty successful!! By this 2nd arragement, we all knew who were in front of their computers most of the time, replying non work related emails and who were really working! Of course it had to be those who hardly replied right?Hehe!

A reminder of Andy Warhol's "100 Soup Cans," "100 Coke Bottles" and "100 Dollar Bills."


Born in 1928, Andrew Warhola, known as Andy Wardhol, was an American Artist and a central figure of pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, an avant-garde flimmaker, a record producer, an author, and a public figure, known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemien reet people, distinguished interllectuals, individual celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of famous American products such as "Campbell's Soup Cans", as well as paintings of celebrities like like Marilyn Monroe, Troy donahue and Elizabeth Taylor. He founded "The Factory", his studio during these years and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He switched to silkscreen prints which he produced serially, seeking not only to make art of mass produced items but to mass produce the art itself. By minimizing the role of his own hand in the production of his work and declaring that he wanted to be "a machine", Warhol sparked a revolution in art. His work quickly became very controversial and popular.


The first thing you see when you walk in are the 20 Campbell soups, from 1968 and 1969, greeting you. There were 120 Warhols on display, covering 20 years of his work, everything from a silk-screened Mao series to psychadelic-coloured James Dean canvases, all at Collectors Contemporary (nearIkea). They say you never know when you might need a hot dog, sofa and some Warhol in your life. There may be a point. There was so much to show, i heard some unsigned Marilyn Monroes didn’t even make it to the walls.


Everything about this day is beautiful. Even Sobraine smokes were brought especially along to suit our arty day. Puff huff!

More pictures of brunch and the day.