From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Quotes: Manohla Dargis On The Gender Glass Ceiling In Hollywood

January 30, 2010

On why women in Hollywood aren’t faring any better:

“This business is really about clubby relationships. If you buy Variety or go online and look at the deals, you see one guy after another smiling in a baseball cap. It’s all guys making deals with other guys. I had a female studio chief a couple of [...]

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On Nicki Minaj, Sexuality & Media Literacy

January 29, 2010

Nicki Minaj is not the first female artist to use her sexuality as a platform for success and she certainly won’t be the last. This post isn’t intended to blast her, I’m actually a fan. I think her lyricism is clever and playful with a subversive streak. She’s hot. She’s smart. She knows exactly what [...]

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Q&A With RAT TABLE Creator Jeeves Basu

January 13, 2010

Ben. Willard’s Socrates. Splinter. The Bubonic Plague. The Secret of NIMH. The word ‘rat’ might conjour the aformentioned pop culture zeitgeists, but these misunderstood rodents have never been poised to change the face of design — until now.
Enter RAT TABLE: a miraculous object that will be created entirely by rats.

(Visit RATTABLE.COM for project updates, video [...]

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Published On NYTimes.com — Thanks To My Mobile Phone

January 3, 2010

Today I discovered that one of my photos was included in the New York Times feature, “Documenting The Decade.”

I took this pic of a small wheatepasted poster with my Blackberry Storm. I was walking through Williamsburg in 2008, having a conversation with a friend about the recession and gentrification. I laughed when I saw the [...]

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