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(Publicity Still from “The Future”)Turnstyle Interview: Miranda July Takes Us Into “The Future”
sunset rooftop yoga #2.
Best yoga class ever last night. Sunset, ocean, friends, perfection. Aaah. So lucky to live in Venice.
George Clooney, Tina Fey, Jason Segel and more on the Oscars red carpet
EW decided to give awards like “least skin shown in a Hawaii movie” and “best feminist not in Bridesmaids” to some of our favorite stars. Here we are on the red carpet last night!
Forbes 30 under 30 in tech -- only 2 women?!
Forbes 30 under 30 in Tech list only has two women on it — and they are both listed alongside their male co-founders. The “expert panel” Forbes assembled to decide has no women on it. Unbelievable - they just needed to look an eensy bit outside their comfort zone to find some amazing female innovators to feature. Pathetic!
Major grammar nerd alert!
The Strunk & White Rap
My name is Stunk
And they call me White
Here to teach you how to put the pen down right.
I see that your writing is a little bit wild
These. Are. The Elements of Style.
This is how they roll at the Columbia J-School.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
yup.
“My advice would be you’ve gotta make things. You’ve gotta build things. You can’t say, I’ve got a clip from my college newspaper. There’s gotta be a travelogue that you did with your pals from Bonnaroo. There’s gotta be an audio file that you made. I used to hire people all the time when I worked at weeklies, young people, and if they were coming now I would just say, well, show me what you’ve made with your own two dirty little hands. I don’t really care what you say, I want to see what you’ve done. It’s a time when you can make stuff so much more easily. Now, getting that stuff to rise above the clutter, and getting it seen is a battle, getting paid for it on top of it, yeah, that’s another battle.”
Yes yes yes.
How Were You Born? by Natalie Hayter
Do you like to rip off tiny sheets of paper off street flyers? Were you born to? If so, you might want to travel to Sydney, Australia and tear off the one that applies you. Assuming you’re any of the following:
Lady Gaga – “Born This Way” (2011)
Patrick Hernandez – “Born to Be Alive” (1979)
Bruce Springsteen – “Born to Run” (1975)
Steppenwolf lead singer John Kay – “Born to Be Wild” (1968)
Hank Williams Jr – “Born to Boogie” (1987)
The Woman Who Is Obsessed with Her Career and Is No Fun at All
I regularly work sixteen hours a day. Yet, like most people I know who are similarly busy, I’m a pleasant, pretty normal person. But that’s not how working women are depicted in movies. I’m not always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and yelling, “I have no time for this!” Often, a script calls for this uptight career woman to “relearn” how to seduce a man, and she has to do all sorts of crazy degrading crap, like eat a hot dog in a sexy way or something. And since when does holding a job necessitate that a woman pull her hair back in a severe, tight bun? Do screenwriters think that loose hair makes it hard to concentrate.
- Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor of “The Office”) on one of the many specimens of women who exist in romantic comedies, but do not exist in real life.
Click here for the rest of Mindy’s guide to women in the movies.
Paulo Coelho Discusses ‘Aleph,’ His New Novel - NYT
I’m skeptical of one person having as many “epiphanies” as Paulo Coehlo, but his social media strategy is one to watch.
Warco: an FPS where you hold a camera instead of a gun
I always thought I’d actually be Christiane Amanpour, but now I can at least play her in a video game.
