A Total Monet

"A function soon to be implemented will load the previous week’s edition when readers reach the..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:16:18 -0400

“A function soon to be implemented will load the previous week’s edition when readers reach the bottom of the current one, a function Mr. Shetty said will recall a stack of Newsweeks sitting on a coffee table.”

- Newsweek.com Redesign Aims to Be ‘Snow Fall’ on a Weekly Basis

edgmont: Okay, this is super meta — but also cool for...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:48:36 -0400

edgmont:

Okay, this is super meta — but also cool for photojournalism geeks like myself.

In the seconds after the tragic Boston Marathon bombing this morning, Globe photographer John Tlumacki snapped this harrowing and widely-circulated image of 78-year-old runner Bill Iffrig on the ground, three policeman springing into action around him.

But check out the AP image above, taken from the bridge above the finish line just seconds before the Globe photo. If you look carefully, you can actually see Tlumaki in a yellow vest, camera poised, about to take the now-famous photo.

Also, be sure to read this interview with Tlumaki about his experience on the ground today.

The New Yorker: Shouts & Murmurs: The Collected Messages of David Karp

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:08:09 -0400

The New Yorker: Shouts & Murmurs: The Collected Messages of David Karp:

Five years ago, I met the most beautiful woman in the world. She wasn’t just the love of my life, she was my very best friend and closest confidant, and the past few years have been the happiest I’ve ever experienced.

That relationship has run its course, and so my girlfriend will be…

When you want to finish but know that’s totally the moment...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:17:11 -0500

When you want to finish but know that’s totally the moment you screw it up…

How could I not find this on the Internet already?

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:53:52 -0500

How could I not find this on the Internet already?

Laser Tag

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:53:32 -0400

Study: everyone loves lasers. cc @alexjamesfitz RT @producermatthew @jaredbkeller Pew pew pew.
— Jared Keller (@jaredbkeller) September 2, 2012

All my weekend crafts projects are GIFs.

Hummingbird stalking (Taken with Instagram)

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:15:12 -0400

Hummingbird stalking (Taken with Instagram)

#nofilter #vegasbaby (Taken with Instagram)

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:10:21 -0400

#nofilter #vegasbaby (Taken with Instagram)

Zoom. ENHANCE.

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:04:18 -0400

Zoom. ENHANCE.

"This isn’t an essay or simply a woe-is-we narrative about how hard it is to be a black boy in..."

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:54:27 -0400

“This isn’t an essay or simply a woe-is-we narrative about how hard it is to be a black boy in America. This is a lame attempt at remembering the contours of slow death and life in America for one black American teenager under Central Mississippi skies. I wish I could get my Yoda on right now and surmise all this shit into a clean sociopolitical pull-quote that shows supreme knowledge and absolute emotional transformation, but I don’t want to lie.”

- Stop what you’re doing and read this essay by Kiese Laymon over on Gawker right now.

Things I Learned: Dating Options in New York

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:03:00 -0400

Context: A man walked through the C train Sunday night taping these signs up.

Cigarette Meeting Date
Dutch Dating
Soda date
Coffee date
Cake & Ice Cream Date
A Walk Date
The Aquarium
Or The Zoo
The Bookstore
Or The Library [I’m sensing some commitment issues here]
McDonalds
Wendy’s
Popeyes
Subway

Meaning be romance, y’all.

"The animators like to go through what they call “The Ugly Phase,” where they will all start growing..."

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:19:00 -0400

“The animators like to go through what they call “The Ugly Phase,” where they will all start growing beards or mustaches (or both) as they get close to the end of the project.”

- Mark Andrews, director of Brave, in Why Pixar Employees Wear Kilts on Fridays on Businessweek.com

Congrats on your first female protagonist, Pixar. How about more female animators, too? (Apologies to any ladies that do, in fact, participate in the beard- and/or mustache-growing.)

Finest Photos Of A Baby Tapir ZooBorns Ever Saw!

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:24:41 -0400

Finest Photos Of A Baby Tapir ZooBorns Ever Saw!

"There are few things in the world more terrifying to teenaged boys than the power of teenaged girls...."

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:06:05 -0400

“There are few things in the world more terrifying to teenaged boys than the power of teenaged girls. On the Straight Outta Compton Ice Cube spotlight track “I Ain’t Tha 1,” the rapper attempts to negate that terrifying power by fundamentally denying the humanity and agency of women, reducing the complicated, messy, and crazy-making dance of sex and romance to a simple formula: Men want sex, women want money. And it’s every real man’s solemn duty to get the sex he craves without sacrificing any of his hard-earned scratch.”

- Nathan Rabin, A reflection on 1988, the year of N.W.A. and The Fresh Prince | The A.V. Club

Oh Bloomberg, at the very least you’ve inspired some great...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:25:05 -0400

Oh Bloomberg, at the very least you’ve inspired some great drink deals and party themes (Taken with instagram)

Ok for women. Higher nail costs RT @Dianez15 30 yr old girl too scared to reach bare-handed, can I...

Sat, 26 May 2012 20:22:00 -0400

Ok for women. Higher nail costs RT @Dianez15 30 yr old girl too scared to reach bare-handed, can I bring glove?
— J.A. Adande (@jadande) May 27, 2012

Me:

One of these things is not like the others

Thu, 10 May 2012 21:49:14 -0400

Yeah, I don’t know where they get “Carolina Panthers” from, either.

"Where do you live? I’m coming to your house to see what you do that’s so fucking great."

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:39:04 -0400

““Where do you live? I’m coming to your house to see what you do that’s so fucking great.””

- —Geno Auriemma, UConn women’s basketball coach, after receiving an e-mail from a man telling him how terrible women’s basketball is, as told by Ann Killion at SI.com.

Put down the thesaurus and back away slowly

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:37:11 -0400

The English language is in serious pain right now, dude.

(Yes, my dating profile handle is the same as my Tumblr/Twitter handle, and all stem from the Clueless reference. No, I didn’t really think the implications through. Shut up.)

Weirdly, I was having dinner with Bret Easton Ellis who I...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:20:07 -0400

Weirdly, I was having dinner with Bret Easton Ellis who I hadn’t seen in a decade. We were seated at the Chef’s table when we saw James Spader touring the kitchen. I think it was surreal for everyone involved, like a wormhole from the eighties opened up.

—Molly Ringwald, “I am Molly Ringwald. Ask Me Anything.” reddit.com.