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Cassette From My Ex
Writers and other creative types share mixtapes from past relationships. Each entry has a story about the tape and the ex, as well as streaming audio of the tape. [Cassette From My Ex]
Writers and other creative types share mixtapes from past relationships. Each entry has a story about the tape and the ex, as well as streaming audio of the tape. [Cassette From My Ex]
That Explains It
James Frey on his writing style: "I also never really read my own writing, so I try to make it perfect the first time through." [WP]
James Frey on his writing style: "I also never really read my own writing, so I try to make it perfect the first time through." [WP]
Crossovers
All The Girls Standing In Line for the Bathroom, Captured on Film
Everyone's ankling the New York Times establishment today: our roving photographer, the alarmingly tall Nikola Tamindzic, is profiled in the paper's City Room blog. What makes his photos special? "I don't judge my subjects... I like that hour between three and four in the morning when desperation sets in, when you see all the anticipation of going out starting to fade. The masks drop and everybody realizes the night is not going to be everything they were hoping for." [NYT] [Photo: Nikola for Home of the Vain]
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Clever Ads Can't Fool YouTube Literalists
The advertising industry's annual self-congratulation festival, the Clio Awards, just wrapped up in Miami. The superbrilliant "Grand Clio" award for integrated campaigns went to a series of ads for Shreddies, a cereal in Canada. The grand idea? They turned the square Shreddies 45 degrees, called them "Diamond Shreddies," then filmed focus groups of people ranking the "new" product. Heh. I can dig it! If you're going to try to sell the same old cereal, at least acknowledge that the entire affair is a big farce. Below, two clips from the campaign. And a rant from one clever YouTube user (of many) who picked up on a scandal: Diamond Shreddies are the same as regular Shreddies!!! More »
Internet
Top 50 Web Video Censors
Viacom is—as one might expect—the fiercest US defender of its video content on Youtube. The media conglomerate, broadcaster of shows such as Jon Stewart's Daily Show and The Colbert Report, is suing the web video service's owner, Google, for massive copyright infringement; Viacom has had 352 videos taken down for copyright violations, according to MIT's Youtomb project. The Church of Scientology has used Youtube's takedown provisions to stop critics disseminating and mocking its promotional videos, but Tom Cruise's sect is a relatively modest censor—only 48th on our list.
Things We Like
Jim "Prez" True-Frost, from the greatest show ever on television ever, The Wire, will be taking over the part of Little Charles in the greatest show on Broadway right now, August: Osage County. Good casting.
Jim "Prez" True-Frost, from the greatest show ever on television ever, The Wire, will be taking over the part of Little Charles in the greatest show on Broadway right now, August: Osage County. Good casting.
Most Popular Stories
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Andy Roddick
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Jennifer Connelly
6th Ave & 50th St
Jennifer Connelly looked like she was enjoying a girls' night out with a few friends. The all-American beauty was in line at Radio City Music Hall to see the Oscar award winners from Once, Glenn Hansard and Marketa Irglova, in concert.
And the Brand Played On
Rod Townsend's annual account of eavesdropping on Fire Island's boys of summer is back for 2008. [Manhattan Offender]
Rod Townsend's annual account of eavesdropping on Fire Island's boys of summer is back for 2008. [Manhattan Offender]
Hiding In Hip Hop
"Hip Hop is more gay than it is dead."
In the wake of former entertainment industry exec Terrance Dean's gay-blind-item-filled book Hiding In Hip Hop, the hip hop community was split. Some reacted by saying, essentially, "Ew. That is so gay." But others basically yawned, and pointed out that of course there have always been gays in hip hop. Have you looked at some of these album covers lately? More »
Urbanography
Cities From Orbit
For a shot of the Eastern Seaboard at night, looking like a glowing necklace, forward to 1:35 into the clip.
Shut Up, Brooklyn
Real World: Brooklyn Could Be in Boring Old Downtown
Last week we posited that the new Real World: Brooklyn would be filmed in Williamsburg, but suggested that the infamous hipster paradise that is the McKibbin "dorms" in Bushwick would be a better environment. Well, it looks like MTV is, in fact, not listening to us. The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that the show is going to be filmed in downtown Brooklyn. Well, allegedly. The producers admitted to looking at a large apartment building called the BellTell Lofts (ooo, lofts! hip!) in the decidedly ho hum Brooklyn business and fancy courtroom district. More »
Fake Ads
Prankster Names Dov Charney Dildo Of The Year
Energetic American Apparel CEO Dov Charney was named "Retailer of the Year" last week, and the anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer jumped right on it. Copyranter found this new poster of Dov holding up what should have been his award: a dildo. Way to stay tied in to the news cycle, spoofer. Larger picture after the jump. More »
Comedy
'Red Eye': Just the Gay Jokes
This is what we meant the other day when we said we just didn't find Greg Gutfeld funny. Gawker video superfriends Richard Blakeley and Morgan Miller combed through a week's worth of episodes of Gutfeld's 3 a.m. laff riot Red Eye and edited it down to only the gay jokes. There are many. Many, many jokes about how funny it would be if Greg, who enjoys sleeping with women, were a homosexual. See? You are laughing already. Boys talking about kissing boys! Comedy gold! Sigh.
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Donny Deutsch
Donny Deutsch: chairman of the huge ad agency Deutsch Inc., host of the rarely-viewed show The Big Idea on CNBC, permanently hyper talker. The press has always had a love/ hate relationship with the man. He's a dynamic, quotable guy, which is why he gets an inordinate amount of coverage in the first place. But then again, he's a confirmed insufferable egomaniac. Some people love his style; but we've found that people driven by a burning need to hear others talking about them are almost invariably well qualified for the Douchebag Award. As is Deutsch. Five good reasons why: More »
Wtf
Gersh Kuntzman Can Be Our Special Friend
Gersh Kuntzman, the cast-auctioning, editorially cute editor of the Brooklyn Paper, is a bit of a publicity hound, to be sure. We shouldn't encourage this type of behavior—videotaping yourself going to a Montessori School to be a kid's mentor-ish "special friend"—but Gersh seems so worried about his performance that we can't look away. He asks each kid whether or not he's a good special friend, adding, "What do you like about me?" Well, we've always had a weakness for older Jewish men. Nothing personal. But seriously—this video is a cry for help. [Brooklyn Paper]
Crossovers
"I’m going to try to never write about you,” I whispered to the boy whose shoulder my head was on two nights ago. Oops. Emily Gould has made a writing career of her personal life and built a personal life around her writing career, exposing her relationships on a personal site and on Gawker when she was a writer on this site. Now, in a cover story for this coming weekend's New York Times Magazine, she does an accounting. "What I gained—and lost—by revealing my intimate life on the web," goes the cover line—over a sultry photograph of the author sprawled across a bed, a laptop power cord suggestively looping towards her tattooed arm.
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Emily Gould Introduces Oversharing To New York Times Magazine
"I’m going to try to never write about you,” I whispered to the boy whose shoulder my head was on two nights ago. Oops. Emily Gould has made a writing career of her personal life and built a personal life around her writing career, exposing her relationships on a personal site and on Gawker when she was a writer on this site. Now, in a cover story for this coming weekend's New York Times Magazine, she does an accounting. "What I gained—and lost—by revealing my intimate life on the web," goes the cover line—over a sultry photograph of the author sprawled across a bed, a laptop power cord suggestively looping towards her tattooed arm.
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Gentrification
They're Just Going To Put It Back Up The Next Night...
An ad for some new condos advertises "Rooftop Cabanas," Lofts," "Open Space," and "KILL YUPPIES." Whoops, that last one was just some graffiti, and it's popping up everywhere on obnoxious ads for the luxury condohotels that will soon price the residents forced to look at them right out of their neighborhood. City Council Member Peter Vallone wants the construction site owners to be responsible for removing the graffiti from their sites, or pay a fine. [via Curbed, who has more fun photos like this one.]
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Seven Guest Stars for the Next Season of Gossip Girl
Now that heriess/socialite (so many of them these days) Lydia Hearst has had her debut role on Gossip Girl, tumblrers are wondering which Manhattan media celebs could possibly turn up on the show next. Oh that's kind of fun! Let's see, you'd have to have dating columnist Julia Allison, of course. Socialite Leven Rambin, for sure. (Plus, she's already an "actress"). Men's Vogue writer and man-about-town Hud Morgan could turn up somewhere, along with a few other notable friends/foes of this here blog. Read our seven casting ideas, after the jump. More »
Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy Has a Brain Tumor
Massachusetts Senator-for-life Ted Kennedy, recently hospitalized after a stroke, has a malignant brain tumor. Kennedy, who's been in the Senate since 1962, when
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London Police Protect Scientology From Teen's Sign
The Brits are rather less enthusiastic about the whole "free speech" concept than the US is. A 15-year-old kid was holding a sign that said "Cult" at one of the Anonymous protests against Scientology in London. The precocious young scalawag had even memorized a 1984 UK court ruling in which a judge called the science fiction-based religion a "cult." But the police gave him a summons and confiscated his dangerous slogan-bearing poster, and now he has to go to court to defend himself. More »
It's A Circus
There's no Gawker correspondent at this week's Mediabistro conference—unless a tipster volunteers for the role. (Photograph: Julia Allison and sidekicks greeted attendees with top hats.)
Internet
People often ask what's different about Tumblr, Twitter and the other "web 2.0" tools that are supposed to represent the future of internet publishing. Here's the answer: the eradication of joined-up writing. (via Catbird's Tumblr)
Progress
People often ask what's different about Tumblr, Twitter and the other "web 2.0" tools that are supposed to represent the future of internet publishing. Here's the answer: the eradication of joined-up writing. (via Catbird's Tumblr)
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