Tuesday, February 25, 2025

analogs digital

I was watching 'Andy Warhol's Diary' on netflix, and they were talking about how, as part of a promotion, Commodore got Andy Warhol to make some art on one of their computers. I think he used an early version of MS paint or something. 

That kind of art production was right up Warhol's alley, and he even wrote in his diary, something about how, if he had discovered this kind of art making earlier, he might just specialize in it and not even paint at all. That's interesting and I wish that had been the case or that, maybe if he had lived longer, he would have pursued digital art. 

In any case, he wrote about the art he made as part of the commodore promotion, and he said that it was really bad - it was just rubbish. But of course it was...he had literally never used a computer before. Still, if it was saved or printed (which I don't think it was) it would no doubt sell for millions now. 

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