- Billy Name
Billy Linich, known as Billy Name and Billy Goat, (born 22 February 1940 in Poughkeepsie, New York), is a noted American photographer, artist, filmmaker, lighting designer, and the main archivist of the Warhol era from 1964-70. His brief romance and subsequent close friendship with Andy Warhol fostered substantial collaboration on Warhol's most influential work, including his films, paintings and sculpture.
- Chuck Wein
Chuck Wein graduated from Harvard University in the early 1960s. He met Edie Sedgwick in Cambridge in 1963 and moved with her to New York in 1964, acting as her promoter. He introduced Edie to Andy Warhol in January 1965, and began taking her regularly to The Factory. He left Warhol to travel the world, manage bizarre nightclub acts and focus on the occult. Wein is portrayed by Jimmy Fallon in the 2007 film Factory Girl.
- Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore (born 1947 in New York City) is an American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. Stephen Shore was interested in photography from an early age. Self-taught, he received a photographic darkroom kit at age six. He began to use a 35mm camera three years later and made his first color photographs. At ten he received a copy of Walker Evans's book, …
- Paul America
Paul Johnson (born September 7 1945 - ???) and better known as Paul America, was a member of Andy Warhol's Factory group who starred in one Warhol-directed film, "My Hustler". He also appeared in Edie Sedgwick's film "Ciao! Manhattan" and in the documentary "Superartist".
- Pietro Psaier
Pietro Psaier was born in Italy. Psaier was better known for his Pop art and can be closely linked to Andy Warhol where he worked at his studio "The Factory", in New York often collaborating on pieces with Warhol. The paintings, drawings and assorted works by Psaier cannot be truly assembled into any chronological sequence, but into groups that for most part can be described as sets of formal problems. Psaier was in the right place at the right time, …
- Ronald Tavel
Ronald Tavel (b. May 1941) is an American writer, director and actor, best known for his work with Andy Warhol and The Factory.
- Jade Jagger
Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger and is the only child resulting from the marriage of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Bianca Jagger. Jade is of English-Nicaraguan ancestry, and spent her early years living with her parents on London’s fashionable Cheyne Walk. After her parents’ divorce in 1980, Jagger spent most of her time living in Manhattan with her jet-set mother and was often dropped off at the Factory to be babysat by Bianca’s friend, pop artist Andy Warhol.
- Ronnie Cutrone
Ronnie Cutrone (1948 -) is a Pop artist, best known for his large-scale paintings of America's favorite cartoon characters, such as Felix the Cat, Pink Panther and Woody Woodpecker. On the surface, Cutrone's paintings are the essence of pop: colorful, lively, and highly accessible. Many of them seem to be offered with the kind of wide-eyed, non-judgmental attitude one might expect from Cutrone, who was Andy Warhol's immediate assistant at the factory from 1972 until 1980, …
- Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg (born January 25, 1944 in Rome, Italy) is a model, actress and fashion designer. She was the common-law wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards from 1967 to 1980. The daughter of an Italian artist and a German secretary, Anita became fluent in four languages at an early age. Before settling in London, she lived in Germany and New York City, where she was involved with the Living Theater (starring in the play "Paradise Now", …
- Tad Williams
Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957) is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including "Tailchaser's Song", the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and "The War of the Flowers". Williams is currently writing the Shadowmarch series, the first volume of which was published in November of 2004. The second volume, "Shadowplay", was published in March 2007.
- Susan Bottomly
Susan Bottomly (born 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts; stage name International Velvet) was seventeen when she came to the Factory, via Gerard Malanga, in late spring 1966. The daughter of a prominent lawyer who had prosecuted the Boston Strangler case, she had already appeared on the cover of Mademoiselle. She was renamed International Velvet and soon appeared in The Chelsea Girls.
- Al Hansen
Al Hansen was an American artist considered as one of the most important Fluxus figures. He was a Norwegian American. Born in New York City, he was a member of the Fluxus art movement and friend to Yoko Ono and John Cage. While serving in Germany in World War II Hansen pushed a piano off the roof of a five story building. This act became the foundation of one of his most recognized performance pieces, the "Yoko Ono Piano Drop" and inspired artists like Nam June Paik.
- Lance Loud
Lance Loud (June 26, 1951-December 22, 2001) was an openly gay columnist. He is probably best known for his role in "An American Family", which is widely considered television's first reality show. Lance was born in La Jolla, California, while his father was in the Navy during the Korean War. He spent his early childhood with his parents and four siblings in Eugene, Oregon, and his later childhood and teen years in Santa Barbara, California.
- Gaby Hoffmann
Gabrielle Mary Hoffmann is an American actress. Hoffmann’s mother, Viva Hoffmann (aka Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann), is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s. Hoffmann also has a half-sister, Alexandra Auder, who is 11 years older than she and also once worked as an actress before becoming a yoga teacher and author.
- Rotten Rita
Rotten Rita (real name Kenneth Rapp), sometimes referred to as "The Mayor", was an influential denizen of Andy Warhol's Factory. As an opera aficionado and an amphetamine dealer (and user), he touched the lives of many members of Warhol's artist collective. Rapp's death inspired Lou Reed (another famous Factory denizen) to compose his 1992 album "Magic and Loss".
- Fernanda Eberstadt
Fernanda Eberstadt (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer. She is the daughter of two patrons of New York City's avant-garde, Frederick Eberstadt, a photographer and psychotherapist, and Isabel Eberstadt, a writer. Her paternal grandfather was Ferdinand Eberstadt, a Wall Street financier and adviser to presidents; her maternal grandfather was the poet Ogden Nash.
- Oskar Braaten
Oskar Braaten was a Norwegian novelist and playwright, born in Oslo (then "Kristiania"). Braaten is best-known for his popular plays and novels depicting the life of factory workers and other low class women alongside Akerselva in Oslo, published 1906-1937. Though born and raised in Oslo, Braaten joined the mostly rural landsmål-movement, and served as an advisor and theatre manager at their Det norske teateret in Oslo from its start in 1915 until his death.
- Paul Middendorf
Artist and curator Paul Middendorf was born on June 13th, 1978 in Neuenbürg, Germany to parents Mary and Robert Middendorf. Paul spent his earlier years growing up in Lake of the Ozarks Missouri and continued to live there until 1996. In 1996 he moved to Chicago, Illinois to study at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2000 Paul received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and launched his career as a painter.
- Rashad Morgan
Rashad Morgan, also known as Ray-Ray, or simply Rashad is a R&B singer from Detroit, Michigan. He started his career performing at high school parties at a club called "The Factory". Rashads one major release to date is 2006's "Tell Them What They Want to Hear" which received extensive airplay on Michigan radio. In 2005 he was signed to T.I.'s Grand Hustle Records label. His debut album titled "Detroit Love Affair" will release sometime in 2007.
- Roger Midgeley
- THE CREAM FACTORY
- Andrew Warhola
My name is Andy Warhol, although I was born "Andrew Warhola". Growing up, my family was Catholic. In third grade I contracted a disease known as St. Vitus's disease. The disease changed the way I looked, which essentially altered my life. I studied Commercial art in 1949 and moved to New York to start a career in magazine art and advertisement. My Friends suggested that I should paint the things I love.
- Aimee Adonis
I always have to pee.
- Justin
I most likely dont love you but i will say i will if it will get you to open up your purse and hand my your valuables.
- Michael Lawson
Well i am 18 years old i was born on christmas. I am enrolled at IU. i live in wright. i am the smartest person in the world, and if anyone tells you different, just slap them because they are dumb. i enjoy large amounts of alcohol [before 6pm], blacking out, pool hopping, spooning with cait, running, and the dream team. i loathe shopping and waiting in lines. if you have drama to share, please keep your distance.
- Liz
stuff i like... *south america *thunderstorms *pineapples *traveling *dogs *erotic photo hunt *snowsports *wakeboarding *i pods *racing *winning *brushing my teeth *sunrises *duck hunt *beaches *live music *UNO *fishing *camping *biking *my family *the hawks *crashing parties *giggling gwizzley's *giving hair cuts *not going to the doctor ALSO, I HAVE A FEVER....AND THE ONLY PERSCRIPTION IS MORE COWBELL!!
- Charlotte
I'm 20 years old and I attend GC&SU.
- Matt Hartwell
"From our family to yours, a magical journey of lighthearted whimsy and fanciful dances of extraterrestrial mischief await!".
- Alycia
Some of the things I love*First and most of all I love Jesus.* My family.They're my best friends.* My friends.* I love music.* And I enjoy playing it at extremely outrageous decibels.* Food.* The color blue* I've become rather fond of Hand Sanitizer for some reason. Ya it's a weird one,but I can't help it.*Gilmore Girls.
- Jill
No more house. We moved. I love it!
- Hayes
Welcome to the Hayesimus Duplantimus SHOW! My name is Hayes Paul du Plantis IV. I'm outgoing unless I don't know you and then I might be a little shy at first. I'm a pretty down to earth kinda guy. I value my friendships. So don't think I won't stick up for them. But don't say something bad about them just to get me bothered. I might go off on you and then I'll be even more mad to find out you were only kiddin. I hate it when people do that lol.
- Arturo Acosta
I'd like to know about me too!
- Alida
**Come out and help me celebrate My 23rd!!!**.
- Glenn Jordan
To those who send me blind friend requests, try sending me a message first so I might get to know who you are. If you send me a blind request and I don't know you, forget it. This is not a popularity contest, this is how I keep up with friends *I know*. So, like I said, send me a message first and let me know what's up.
- Jacob Dillman
It's Hard to Explain...
- Cody Jones
insomniac. i seem to have a universal sense of humor. i post things over at xanga.com/hevquip. i'm typically quiet and thinking, or quiet and distracted. i guess i'm just a niiiiiiiiice guy. (i'm actually honery, bitter, pessimistic AND boring)
- Chad
I drink salad dressing regularly, my car is primed for a demolition derby, and I have eleven toes.
- Drew
I recently moved out to Cali for a new job & a change of scenery as well. So far, I'm loving it, although work takes up a lot of my time. I love the outdoors, esp the ocean. Looking to meet some cool people. That's what I have to say about that... more to come.
- Chris
- Amanda Tuttle
Layout Stealer.