<![CDATA[Gawker: urban anthropolgy]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: urban anthropolgy]]> http://gawker.com/tag/urbananthropolgy http://gawker.com/tag/urbananthropolgy <![CDATA[Jakob Lodwick's Attempt to Reverse Crack-Up As Obnoxious Crack-Up Itself]]> No more disturbing stoner moments for Jakob Lodwick! The hipster internet nabob has quit weed and cut back on booze, even caffeine. Unfortunately, detox just means more nakedness.

Four months ago, Lodwick writes, he quit pot after realizing "it made me absolutely fucking retarded every time" (emphasis his). But that apparently doesn't mean the Vimeo founder is going to stop taking disturbing, semi-nude photos of himself, or making wacked-out, often half-naked videos. See the pic above, uploaded to Lodwick's Tumblr earlier today, or this new video of him channeling Eminem.

What Lodwick is going to do is make, and post to the internet, lists like these, illuminating just how much time he devotes to various forms of fameballing (a lot), and what he does with the rest of his time ("child's pose," "intellectual devotional," "Egosurfing"):









Lodwick has made quite a bundle from IAC, the company to which he sold Vimeo; the media conglomerate may even still be paying him $100,000 per year salary not to come to work. Perhaps we should all be grateful he's plowed that money into fizzled ventures like music-sharing site Muxtape (basically shut down by the RIAA) and record company Normative (three CDs for sale!), and that he's now obsessively making lists. As Lodwick himself has demonstrated, his sort of money can fuel a much more disturbing sort of late-20s identity crisis than this one.

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<![CDATA[The Ballad Of Derrell And Gwendolyn: "Okay, I'll just say it: Will you have sex with me?"]]> Picture 19-8An email tipster claims to have received the following soap-opera-like chain of email messages in response to a "help wanted" ad on Craigslist. "The applicant attached her resume (which was a MESS) to this personal email chain — I can't imagine why!" she writes. "I have no idea how I got so lucky to have this gem dropped into my lap." Neither can we! Perhaps because it is an elaborate prank? Or maybe it's real, and originated from someone who doesn't realize that not everything on email has to be a reply or a forward — one CAN start new messages. In any case, what starts as comically awkward but otherwise unremarkable e-courtship takes an interesting, if sad, turn around message nine. Whether its origin, the thread does a good enough job simulating the experience of snooping into someone else's email inbox. Read it because you can't stop yourself, after the jump.

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<![CDATA[The Naked Cowgirl!]]> A mostly-naked lady of a certain age took to the streets in Times Square, playing a guitar as "the naked cowgirl." What no one seems to realize is that we're preeeetty sure that it's actually Sandy Kane! She's a career stripper, stripper-comedian, late-night cable star, and overall cult figure/holdover from the grimy old days of Times Square. Rock on, Sandy! [via Intelligencer; photo Bennett Marcus]

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<![CDATA["Just because I have a badge doesn't mean I know anything about a crane"]]> Seriously, what's up with cranes collapsing in NYC? Are corners being cut left and right? Does capitalism and speed trump safety? Of course! A construction workers explains it all, noting that just because city inspectors have badges, doesn't mean they know anything about cranes.

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