Andrea Rosen.

Julian Casablancas - 4 Chords of the Apocalypse

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:14:48 -0500

Julian Casablancas - 4 Chords of the Apocalypse

Cookie Monster is confronted with the phenomenon of “om...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:15:36 -0500

Cookie Monster is confronted with the phenomenon of “om nom nom.” [Rocketboom]

Luisa! Fill this out!

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:38:10 -0500

Luisa! Fill this out!

The Caracas menu reads like pornography on a lazy Sunday.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:02:00 -0500

The Caracas menu reads like pornography on a lazy Sunday.

Enough Tumblfighting, Brown. I’m trying to watch Burt...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0500

Enough Tumblfighting, Brown. I’m trying to watch ~~Burt Reynolds’ chest~~ Deliverance.

ryanbrown: Sure, it’s definitely incentive enough - but its not the impetus for the phenomenon on a...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:49:00 -0500

ryanbrown:

Sure, it’s definitely incentive enough - but its not the impetus for the phenomenon on a whole, not by a long shot. There’s an undeniable instinct to prove one’s very existence in the act of commiting something to permanence: “If I had an opinion, and no one was around to hear it, did I really have an opinion?” etc etc. I’m sure, in the realm of breaking news and “celebrity journalism”, that mainstream acknowledgment (compensation even!) plays a more significant role, but its not a singular cause… and, in the grand scheme of the vox populi represented via our fun new technologies, it’s an outlier at best.

This isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s always been a feasible notion that by being the person closest to the proverbial car wreck, you should get attention too. People have been selling each other out to the press since forever. It’s just now easier with Twitter and the constant readiness of a camera—and easier for the press to identify you as a witness by making that sharing publicly available in real-time search. Who needs to call Page Six anymore? They’ll come to you. Read this bit from the TechCrunch post on Tearah Moore:

“Unsurprisingly, Moore’s coverage was quickly picked up by bloggers and mainstream media outlets alike, something that she actively encouraged by tweeting to friends that they should pass her phone number to the press so she could tell them the truth, rather than the speculative bullshit that was hitting the wires.”

Moore was aware that the Fort Hood incident was a breaking story getting a lot of press attention. She broke hospital rules and eschewed any common decency because she knew how easy it would be to have her speculations validated by the media. Sharing with her friends was a means to have them spread her information even further.

ryanbrown: Regarding this assertion: People don’t turn to...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:23:00 -0500

ryanbrown:

Regarding this assertion:

People don’t turn to their cameraphone because they’re share-happy egotists, they do it because the actual press has an appetite for what they’re releasing, and, sometimes, will even pay for it.

I’m pretty sure no one is going to pay for this “sighting”, also pretty sure the simple delight in ‘publishing’ something warrants enough justification for the “share-happy” thesis.

First!

Any press validation is incentive enough, even in the case of celebrity sightings. A girl was flipped off by Michelle Trachtenberg a few weeks ago and called Page Six herself to report the incident. Trachtenberg denied it and there were no witnesses, but here’s a citizen “report” that the Post deemed suitable to run.

NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:57:00 -0500

NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth :

mikehudack:

Read this.

“There surely can’t be a human being left in the civilised world who doesn’t know that cellphones must be switched off in hospitals, and yet not only did [Tearah] Moore leave hers on but she actually used it to photograph patients, and broadcast the images to the world. Just think about that for a second. Rather than offering to help the wounded, or getting the hell out of the way of those trying to do their jobs, Moore actually pointed a cell-phone at a wounded soldier, uploaded it to twitpic and added a caption saying that the victim ‘got shot in the balls’.”

Real journalists may decry this unsolicited citizen journalism, but too many are enablers—using amateurs’ mangled, irresponsible reports and buying their exclusive footage and images for real publications. People don’t turn to their cameraphone because they’re share-happy egotists, they do it because the actual press has an appetite for what they’re releasing, and, sometimes, will even pay for it.

Anyone else cut their Saturday night plans short to go home and...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:41:00 -0500

Anyone else cut their Saturday night plans short to go home and watch Taylor Swift on SNL? Because even though the show is hardly appointment television these days, Taylor is really talented and charming and her hair is so pretty and you guys could totally be best friends in real life if she ever got to know you? Just me?

Annals of cleaning.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:07:00 -0500

If I’m sweeping my floors and coins wind up in the dirt pile that aren’t quarters, I’ll sweep them into the dustpan and throw them out. Conversely, I found a plastic headband today that has been under my bed for at least a year, rinsed it off and put it in my hair.

What is it about flowers that make my apartment look like an...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:15:43 -0500

What is it about flowers that make my apartment look like an adult lives here?

I jokingly solicited snacks in my Gchat status and actually got...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:38:23 -0500

I jokingly solicited snacks in my Gchat status and actually got some: a boy had four absurdly decadent cupcakes from Snacky’s delivered via SeamlessWeb to my office. I audibly swooned (coworkers can verify this).

The remains of my cupcake pictured above.

Highlights of the Northampton police log

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:28:07 -0500

Via my mother, who claims to have “transcribed this from the local paper word-for-word, comma-by-comma.”

A Florence Road resident reported Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. that someone had broken into his home overnight, while he was out drinking with his dog in his sister’s parking lot, and stole his snow blower, police said.

The Internet Pinball Machine Database

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:27:00 -0500

The Internet Pinball Machine Database:

I’m thinking about investing in a pinball machine myself. When visiting the epic pinball floor at Funspot in Laconia, NH as a kid, a favorite was an Addams Family machine, but this Barb Wire one looks pretty dope.

kenyatta: Andrea Rosen vs the pinball machine. At Kettle of...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:11:29 -0500

kenyatta:

Andrea Rosen vs the pinball machine.

At Kettle of Fish, getting a quick game in before everyone else arrives.

Playing Family Guy pinball at the bar last night. There is actually a smaller Family Guy pinball machine inside this Family Guy pinball machine. The Yo Dawgs are endless.

Good hang tonight with online video folks. I’m still...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:13:00 -0500

Good hang tonight with online video folks. I’m still learning the ins and outs of this space, so thanks to Marc at The Onion & Vanessa at Next New Networks for organizing and thanks to everyone in attendance for not making fun of me when I asked dumb questions or changed the subject to the print industry. (Note: The Onion did not bring their own pint glasses, those were the actual glasses at an actual bar.)

paulscheer: A compilation of characters saying the titles of...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:49:00 -0500

paulscheer:

A compilation of characters saying the titles of the movies they are in.

Via the always fantastic videogum

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:54:05 -0500

(via youngmanhattanite)

Lindsey “Laser Portrait” Weber sets the record for...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:23:31 -0500

Lindsey “Laser Portrait” Weber sets the record for Most Times Saying “I’ll Have What She’s Having” in 30 Seconds at the Save the Deli party last month, while I giggle/officiate.

Related: my greatest regret about dropping out of college is not...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:29:35 -0500

Related: my greatest regret about dropping out of college is not getting ten copies of this on graduation day.