There are three sex workers and six dudes congregating at Andy Warhol's grave for the opening of Figment, EarthCam's live webcam tribute to Warhol's 85th birthday, for which a camera has been erected to film his grave 24/7. Watching this midnight stream it appears the aforementioned dudes and sex workers are conducting a hula-hoop-driven séance. Actually, considering the skill with which this lady is spinning hoops the 'sex worker' label should be revised – it's much more likely she's a stripper.
Twelve hours later and more strippers have arrived. Either Pittsburgh is a stripper mecca or Warhol has become a stripper icon. Or perhaps this is a tribute to factory girls, but if memory serves correctly Edie Sedgwick did not wear arse-baring dresses and Perspex heels. She did, however, shovel Class-A narcotics up her nose, a re-enactment which should definitely take place.
There's voyeuristic fun to be had in perving on a gravestone. Most of your time will be spent thinking, “Wait for it, wait for it”, with absolutely nothing happening. But occasionally you'll think, “Wait for it, wait for it… OVERWEIGHT FEMALE ELVIS IMPERSONATOR!”
You could get clever here: a tribute to both Andy's 15 minutes of fame and movies in which pretty much nothing happens. That's not to mention the ridiculousness of watching a grave; dead people don't do much. But seriously, who needs more justification than strippers and Elvis impersonators?
