Bad Lieutenant by Abel Ferrara

I am currently enrolled in the Blog Boss workshop by Holly Becker. One of the lessons I have learned in this workshop is that I should be writing about things I am truly passionate about and I should do things I love and have fun doing.

So here I am. I’d love to tell you about some days ago when I met my great friend Tom Zeitlberger, who designs the best wallpapers I can think of and who I will be trying to meet to shoot a video portrait about for this blog soon. We ate lunch together and then went to the park chatting about our recent projects and where we are heading in the future. While we were talking I told Tom to contact one or two agencies or representatives because I truly think he should be designing for Versace and for Hermes (anyone have a contact for him in one of those companies, please let me know in the comments below).

The next day I opened one of the three versions of LeBook I was featured in (LeBook NY 2010, LeBook Berlin 2010 and Le Book LA 2010) and took photos of all the representatives listed there to send them to Tom. At this occasion I had all these adresses open on my iPhone and decided that I would also be contacting new reps again. For my style (which is rather edgy if not to say pornographic) it is much harder to find a rep than for Tom, but I never gave up hope. I already found the best gallerist in the world: Rudolf Budja to take care of my art. I am now looking for an agency or representative to take care of my design and illustration work. Preferably this someone shoud be in NYC.

Guess what! After sending all my emails to some of the agencies out there I received one reply from Liz Leavitt of LLreps – Levine and Leavitt. Liz said that she was busy after having been to London and that she would review my work and get back to me. I guess this was an email she sent to all the two hundred people out there waiting for replies from her. But still….
…I was so thrilled. Especially after having looked more closely at the great artists that LLreps represent. I had a closer look at the Behance profile of Adam Larson. And then at his website. And I found – GUESS WHAT – that he had worked for my big idol MADONNA!!!!

Going back to the website of LLreps I saw that several of their artists had worked for Madonna. Above you see two works by Mogollon (also represented by Leavitt and Levine Reps) for Madonna. So I figured that I had just received an email from a representative who is working for Madonna!!!!!!!

I am not sure yet. I wrote back to Liz Leavitt to ask her if she was the agent who had procured the client Madonna to those artists. But the thought is one of those moments in life….. ahhhhh!

There was another moment that happened to me about 2 years ago when I was reading on of the many biographies about Madonna. I had just seen the video about the “Making Of” of one of my favourite movies “” by Abel Ferrara (see video above) online and was investigating deeper into Abel Ferrara and Harvey Keitel when one of the biographies about Madonna arrived by post. And when I opened it, I just opened the page ABOUT MADONNA AND ABEL FERRARA (page 192 in the biography written by Andrea Morton titled Madonna, published by St. Martin’s Press).

Because Madonna loved the film Bad Lieutenant too (one of the of Bad Lieutenant was completely improvised by Harvey Keitel on the spot – it surely appealed to her). She contacted Abel Ferrara and asked him to direct a film with her and Harvey Keitel. The film was first titled Snake Eyes, but was then called “Dangerous Game”, and really had been a dangerous game played by Madonna. Abel and Harvey accepted to work on this project but the result was not exactly what she had had in mind. The film explored aspects of her identity that Madonna would have liked to leave uncommented. Madonna said later that the best parts had been cut away and what had remained were pieces that “ridiculed” her – or so she obviously felt.

I’ll be talking about this movie and other crazy things that happened to me in reference to my idols in other posts. These episodes in my life when “coincidences” like these occur give sense to my life and make me extremely happy and make me feel I am on the right track.

Video Credits: Helsinki Productions, Helsinki Productions is an independent film production & post-production company helmed by Michael Frost and Charles Wright.

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