I really cannot deal with this poster. I saw it and initially thought it was for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and became furious at Jonathan Safran Foer for being a tragedy groupie. But then I realized it was Mad Men and I just found it irresponsible. I know that the falling man is one of that series’ “things,” but SERIOUSLY. There’s one by my house where you look down and see this, and look up and see 1 World Trade. NOT COOL.
Thank you for putting into words what has bothered me since I first saw this.
"In our world, we’d much rather have Community than Two and a Half Men, and I don’t mean that as a criticism of Two and a Half Men. It’s great for advertisers that want to use that show as a proxy to get to this big audience. But for us, we’re much more excited about Community because while it’s a smaller audience, it’s an audience that self-organizes online. They’ll not only tell their friends to go watch it, they’ll spend time convincing someone on a bus to watch it."
~ How Hulu’s Andy Forssell Will Spend $500 Million; Why ‘Community’ Trumps ‘Two and a Half Men’ (Q&A) And this is why I have a Hulu Plus subscription.
Art Square is back in 2012 with a masterplan to replace Times Square ads with art.
Now that’s an ROI discussion I’m willing to have.
starting to think that “if you dish it out, be prepared to take it” is a crucial corollary to my “keeping it posi” edict
taking this as a guiding principle, and boy i know that doing so is super-difficult, is important because it makes you really think about what you’re criticizing, and puzzle out the reasons that you’re taking certain things to task. and eventually you realize ”because it was lol!!!” is not an acceptable excuse—especially since you probably wouldn’t accept it when questioning your own antagonists, even on topics that are seemingly unrelated.
the cheap shot quotient in the world might go down, sure, but that’ll only make your arrows sharper in the long run.
There are days Maura really is my idol.
(Source: youtube.com)
I’m at a point in my life where if you don’t like this band, or won’t try to like them, I don’t even want to know ya.
Background:
From Frank: When deciding what kind of video would work the best with the song we immediately thought of a “video collage” …something that would show the progression of the band over the past 10 years leading up to one of our most memorable moments, closing the Reading and Leeds festivals this past summer. We began collecting footage and literally stumbled upon an incredible video done by a talented young lady named Emily Eisemann. She had made a fan video, put it up on YouTube and it summed up what we had been trying so very hard to make, perfectly. So we gave her a call, put our videos together, and the rest, as they say, is history.
From Emily: The artistic fulfillment alone would be enough to fill me with happiness and joy, but as it turns out, I have another reason to be happy as well. They decided to pay me. Which means that I can finish college. I officially owe my favorite band… my education? My diploma? My future?
(Source: youtube.com)
"Only two American industries have ever had the clout in Washington to force Congress to ban Wall Street from trading futures on their products. The first is onions—futures trading in no one’s favorite root vegetable was banned in the 1950s after farmers protested that Chicago speculators were manipulating prices. The other ban is more recent: In 2010, at the urging of the Motion Picture Association of America, one of Capitol Hill’s most powerful lobbies, Congress banned movie futures as part of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill.
The big studios took on Wall Street—which isn’t known for losing lobbying fights—and won. So this month, when all the big entertainment companies joined forces with Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and the US Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s foremost big business lobby, to fight for sweeping anti-piracy legislation, it was almost a foregone conclusion that they would get what they wanted.
Instead, Big Hollywood lost. Here’s how it happened.
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~ Big Hollywood’s Big Copyright Defeat (via nickbaumann) “No one’s favorite root vegetable”???? Onion-bashing aside, this is your morning must-read: How Reddit, Wikipedia, and Boing Boing—and you—brought the entertainment lobby to its knees. (via motherjones) I would love a follow-up article on the fallout after onion futures trading was banned. Or maybe one already exists? It’s been 60 years. (via motherjones)
Presenting:
The Parade’s End read-along!
This will be a fandom-friendly* read-along of the Ford Madox Ford tetralogy, spanning several months, in anticipation of the (as-yet-undated) airing of Parade’s End, written by Tom Stoppard, directed by Susanna White, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall.
When: The read-along will begin on February 1, 2012. At that time, we’ll publish a schedule guide for each section of the first book.
Why: Because of ~reasons~ obviously. For instance, we love early twentieth-century literature; we’re excited for the upcoming BBC/HBO television adaptation; we love Downton Abbey and want more things like it in our lives.
Where: All over the internet! This read-along will primarily be hosted through nonmodernist and on Twitter (using #ParadesEnd), but we love all the corners of the internet and we want them all to join us! Look for discussion posts on Dreamwidth and Livejournal, and links to content all over the place. Feel free to blog your responses at your own site or the service of your choice — as long as you send them to us, we’ll put the links in our round-ups.
How: Read the books! Post about them! Join our discussions and submit your posts to our linkspams! Livetweet your reading sessions! There’s no right or wrong way to participate.
Get started: First, spread the word! This only works if you all get involved (and corral your friends, enemies, neighbors, and family members to do the same). Follow nonmodernist for more updates as we approach the start date. Then acquire a copy of the book and get ready to start reading!
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* “fandom-friendly”: we mean that this read-along will be a safe space for fandom-style participation. We recognize and defend your right to create fanworks or any and all kinds, flail over anything and everything, and use as much fandom slang as you desire. While some discussions may get a little academic, others will be shallow and all about the pretty.
WE ARE TOTALLY DOING THIS THING. RUN AND TELL THAT.
How could one say no to this?
"The increasing number of critics working on the nonmodernist literature of the early twentieth century are hampered by the lack of appropriate terminology to describe their specialism. The period is referred to by literary critics as the “modernist,” while cultural critics concentrate on material such as music hall, Hollywood film, and mass-market magazines and novels. What, then, becomes of writing which cannot be easily accommodated to the paradigms of either high modernism or popular culture?"
~ Faye Hammill, Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars (U of Texas P, 2007, p7) Wondering which new movement had more naming kerfluffles, modernism or transmedia. (Source: nonmodernist)
Battling Entitlement, the Innovation-Killer
Entitlement is frequently seen inside organizations as: “That’s not my Job.” or “That’s not what we do.” or even worse, “We tried that before and it doesn’t work here.” Sadly, people don’t lose this attitude until their jobs on the line. And sometimes even not then.
“As Aldous Huxley wrote, ‘Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.’”
(Source: newcommbiz)
"Finally, ask more questions than you answer: With the high velocity of change in the world, it is impossible to have answers to all the important questions. Much more important is a deep curiosity about the world and the ability to frame the right questions in profound ways. The world’s toughest problems cannot be solved by you or any one organization. Your role will be to bring the right people together to address the challenging issues you raise"
~ Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders - John Coleman and Bill George - Harvard Business Review (via mediafuturist)
(via intellichick)
"I’m gay!” an exasperated King shouted, flinging himself around in his chair on stage. “I’m putting in gay stereotypes very week! . . . I don’t find it offensive — any of this. I find it comic to take everybody down!” Another critic jumped on the pile, asking King whether being a member of one traditionally disenfranchised minority makes it okay for him to make fun of members of other disenfranchised minorities."
Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante?
A+Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper should print lies or the truth, we here at V.F. looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.
One example: the word “maintenance” seems like it should only have one “a” in it. It should be “maintenence,” right? But it’s not. So is it our job as reporters and editors to spell it correctly?
?!??
Aaaand I just subscribed to Vanity Fair.
"Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity; gilt in Gorilla Glass and cadmium. An in them we find entertainment in lieu of happiness, and exchanges in lieu of actual connections."
~ Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter Mat is getting existential at CES. It’s amazing. And sponsored by Radio Shack?
"Women don’t get raises — even when they ask. Forever research has told women they don’t get raises because they’re not assertive enough, not because men are sexist or anything silly like that. Turns out it does have something to do with discrimination. Even pushy women don’t get raises. Looking at thousands of MBA grads, research from Catalyst, a a non-profit research organization that focuses on businesses, found no significant difference in the proportion of men and women who asked for raises or promotions. Yet, the women received slower compensation growth than the women who said nothing at all, whereas for the men it paid off."
~ pushy women don’t get raises either: the atlantic a longer article at the washington post the original study (free access) (Source: ourcatastrophe, via turnabout)
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