October 2009
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Shakira Interview on The Guardian →
This is way cooler than I’d ever expect. [via batteryinyourleg]
“It was such a long tour, I needed a break from me. The universe is so broad, I cannot be at the centre of it. So I decided to go to the university and study history… I used to wear a cap and a big backpack, I looked like a boy. I didn’t get recognised… a few people asked me, but I told them my name was...
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WatchNo idea how these guys are doing this — my guess is painting some sort of reflective substance that somehow reflects the projector, which maybe is at a really low light not visible against the matte surface without whatever it is, or at a certain angle or something? Either way, really cool.
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Fail, epic: Rodarte for Target. WAAAH. Sigh. Tragic.
Win, epic: Why Your Idea to Save Journalism Won’t Work (A Checklist), as posted at BoingBoing. Click through to the original — it has even more entries, including the hilarious “( ) You think print is bad? Imagine Fox News, as a blog. That’s what your idea will turn into.”
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Newsweek | sendak, jonze, and eggers on 'wild... →
Yes, I’m contributing to Wild Things hype! Whether or not the movie sucks or is overmarketed or whatever you want to argue about it, some great stuff in this Newsweek interview with Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, and Maurice Sendak, largely getting at what I like about the concept of the movie to begin with (a film about childhood rather than a film for children), and what I like about the book...
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a lot of questions.
For reasons I can’t quite understand, a slew of recent ‘politically charged’ or ‘meaningful social commentary’ editorials (see: French Vogue’s seriously questionable Lara-Stone-as-post-racial-morphing-woman editorial, by which I mean “do you think her tits will be generally acceptable if we make her black?”; W’s “politically and...
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yes means yes | "Shroedinger’s Rapist" & The... →
Anxious f-word soapbox alert!
I think this - and the original article it links to, here - mainly appealed to me so hardcore because today was one of those Bushwick mornings of uh oh why did I buy this miniskirt which I am wearing with thick tights, flats, and a very frumpy shirt/coat/scarf and why did I make the mistake of wearing it while walking to the train at 8AM, I should have known better...
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FTC to bloggers: disclose freebies or face $11k... →
I’m curious to understand exactly how the FTC plans to enforce this and what exactly is the motivation behind it — while I generally like to think that I am into more ethical, authentic concepts of marketing, I’m a bit baffled by this.
For the sake of full disclosure here, revealing my own potential defensive bias, my ‘day job’ is online marketing + PR, mostly in...
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contexts | socimages | marketing asian women to... →
I’m not even adding commentary on this one — the point here was the impressive comments thread on a very brief post about links between “mail order brides” and “anti-feminism,” and I really think comments like “I realize feminists never buy the stuff because (1) they mistakingly think they are so (gag) “hot” they don’t need it or (2) they realize it...
