Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe and "The Dying Dandy"

I like this little clip because it contains snippets of Smith's and Mapplethorpe's collaborative movie "Still Moving" and the movie based on Mapplethorpe's nipple-piercing, a film that immediately recalls one of the most famous works of Swedish 20th century art, "The Dying Dandy" ("Den Doende Dandyn"), which I will post as soon as I find it and manage to post it to the blog.

Here's John Woods' cartoon version of it (from our ongoing collaboration):