September 2011
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At first I was serious but then I LOLed
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a...”
– Elizabeth Warren
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Brad Pitt Stars As Brad Pitt →
Writing about Brad Pitt is too easy. He’s the quintessential movie star. He’s the type of star that fits so neatly into Richard Dyer’s conception of stars as images both extraordinary and ordinary that embody and reconcile ideologies. That’s a complex way of saying that Brad Pitt plays the societal function that classic stars did: his image is of a particular type of masculinity, and that...
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“Art buyers are very interested in seeing personal work and learning as much...”
– Photographers on Photography
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A Second Act for Tech Luminaries Silicon Valley... →
The founders of some big successes in digital media have returned to the world of scrappy startups—but not in the traditional way. Instead, they’re launching companies intended to embody the maxim that venture capitalists fund people, not ideas.
Perhaps the clearest example of this strategy is Churn Labs, a company created by AdMob founder Omar Hamoui. As its name suggests, Churn plans to build...
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SCOTT SCHUMAN: “MAGAZINES ARE DRIVEN BY FEAR” →
Mr. Schuman, nowadays teenage bloggers like Tavi Gavinson are getting flown around the world to sit on the front rows of fashion shows in order to write about them. Isn’t that getting a little absurd? Well I don’t think her audience is that big. I think her success is a little bit of a conspiracy by established print media that wanted to show that this blog thing is not that important, that it’s...
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Help Wanted: Busybodies With Cameras →
By CHOE SANG-HUN NY Times: September 28, 2011
SEOUL — With his debts mounting and his wages barely enough to cover the interest, Im Hyun-seok decided he needed a new job. The mild-mannered former English tutor joined South Korea’s growing ranks of camera-toting bounty hunters.
Known here sarcastically as paparazzi, people like Mr. Im stalk their prey and capture them on film. But it is not...
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White Guy Shooting = Crazy; Brown Guy Shooting =... →
Jared Lee Loughner allegedly tried to assassinate Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday. In the wake of the attack, the 22-year-old Loughner has been called everything from “crazed” to “unhinged.” What he’s not been called, however, at least by the media, is a terrorist.
According to the United States Law Code, terrorism is...
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