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‘The Eric Andre Show’: The Only Two Things They Can’t Do on TV’s Most Anarchic Talk Show

Eric Andre has become an established player in the comedy scene in recent years, bringing his uniquely weird energy to shows like “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23” and “Man Seeking Woman.” But to really understand who he is, you need to watch “ The Eric Andre Show .” READ MORE: ‘Firefly’ Fan…

Sep 8, 2017

Eric Andre Is Insanely Honest Because Who Else Is Going To Be?

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For years, Eric Andre , now 33, struggled as just another twentysomething stand-up in New York and L.A. He describes his life at the time as “full of depression and anxiety,” and says that things took a turn after he discovered Transcendental Meditation, which he practices twice daily, and filmed…

Sep 8, 2017

Chicago just banned Donald Trump from the city

independent.co.uk

Chicago's Mayor has declared the city a "Trump-free zone", after the US president ended protection for the children of undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers". Introduced by former president Barack Obama, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy prevented nearly…

Sep 8, 2017

Abandoned States: Places In Idyllic 1960s Postcards Have Transformed Into Scenes Of Abandonment

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I found the old matchbook lying on a desk. It was buried under some papers, beside a thick, water-logged book frozen solid in the January chill. I ran my fingers down its spine and read the title: "How to Run A Successful Golf Course." The owner of the Penn Hills Resort in the Poconos probably…

Sep 8, 2017

Polaroid is Teasing a Very Big Return to Analog Instant Film Photography

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Polaroid for many years now has been created a poor excuse for Instant Film in the form of Zink paper and prints with options borders, but a recent update from the company is teasing the return to their roots as an analog instant film based company. The Impossible Project has been working for years…

Sep 8, 2017

Zola Jesus: Okovi Album Review | Pitchfork

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On the cover of her fifth studio album, Zola Jesus is drenched in a similar viscous substance that obscured her face on the sleeve to her 2010 Stridulum EP. Okovi , named with a word that means “shackles” in most Slavic languages, also marks a return to Sacred Bones, the Brooklyn label that nurtured…

Sep 6, 2017

Major Labels to Shut Down Youtube-MP3 Stream-Ripping Site | Pitchfork

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Last year, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) filed a lawsuit against Youtube-mp3.org, a stream-ripping site that allows users to enter a YouTube URL and download its…

Sep 6, 2017

Startup Juicero Shutters Operations and Seeks a Buyer

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Sep 6, 2017

My night out in Cleveland with the worst men on the internet

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Milo Yiannopoulos arrives at a rally in Cleveland.Photograph: Timothy Fadek/Redux/Eyevine T his is a story about how trolls took the wheel of the clown car of modern politics. It’s a story about the insider traders of the attention economy. It’s a story about fear and loathing and Donald Trump and…

Sep 6, 2017

Toolkit of a Product Designer – uxdesign.cc

uxdesign.cc

Picking the right tools for a better design workflow The purpose of this article is to bring to light the lesser known (well, at least some are less known) gems that exist that makes the design process easier. We all know the design process is messy and very convoluted, but there are tools that can…

Sep 6, 2017

Let’s talk about anti-design. – prototypr

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A collage I made showing off anti-design and text repetition. So, Taylor Swift’s artwork for her new album Reputation is out. What is the most striking about the artwork is how it strives to replicate the newspaper aesthetic and how it’s seemingly a comment on Taylor Swift’s treatment in the media.…

Sep 6, 2017

Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay

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Senior White House aides met Sunday afternoon to discuss how to roll out the controversial move affecting hundreds of thousands of Dreamers. Serafina Ha (right) of Chicago embraces Becky Belcore of the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium during a demonstration in favor of…

Sep 6, 2017

Harry Nilsson: Popeye: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album Review | Pitchfork

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In the 1970s, Robert Evans seemed invincible. The studio impresario had ushered Chinatown , The Godfather , and Rosemary’s Baby into existence, changing what counted as a major studio film and shifting the culture of Hollywood in the process. He had conquered art; he had conquered commerce. But then…

Sep 6, 2017

Kelly, Mattis, McMaster: Please Save Us from President Strangelove

thedailybeast.com

Once again, Trump has made a fool of himself—but this time it could get a lot worse than that. The generals can stop him, and they have to. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast There was a palpable sigh of relief when General John Kelly was selected as White House chief of staff and when National…

Sep 6, 2017

How We Disrupted and Destroyed our “About Us” Page.

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Advertising is dead and we killed it. We are the Four Horsemen of the Adpocalypse® and that thunderous noise you hear is the sound of our stallions trampling on the status quo. In the time that it takes you to read this sentence, we’ve come up with the next big thing, and guess what? It just got…

Sep 6, 2017

Opinion | You’ll Never Be Famous — And That’s O.K.

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Today’s college students desperately want to change the world, but too many think that living a meaningful life requires doing something extraordinary and attention-grabbing like becoming an Instagram celebrity, starting a wildly successful company or ending a humanitarian crisis. Having idealistic…

Sep 6, 2017

In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore — Everybody ‘Pivots’

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Illustration by Derek Brahney Last month, the right-wing media personality Mike Cernovich announced that he was conducting a ‘‘big pivot’’ away from the fringes of the news ecosystem. The move was unexpected, as Cernovich had carved out a comfortable niche for himself — railing against coastal…

Sep 4, 2017

The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals

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Why is it that some people seem to be hugely successful and do so much, while the vast majority of us struggle to tread water? The answer is complicated and likely multifaceted. One aspect is mindset—specifically, the difference between amateurs and professionals. Most of us are just amateurs.…

Sep 4, 2017

This Artist Is On A Mission To Become A Living, Breathing Amazon Alexa

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Eleven million Amazon Echoes sit on kitchen counters today. Most people who own one–or any other smart home speaker–probably don’t spend a lot of time questioning the fact that this always-listening device records data about them and then ferrets it away in a server, where it is used in ways they…

Sep 4, 2017

Pit bulls used to be America’s favorite dog – Timeline

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Now they’re the breed we fear most Pete the Pup reached stardom at a time when the pitbul breed was widely beloved. (General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) In 1921, director and film producer Hal Roach was staring absent-mindedly out of his office window, when he noticed a group of children…

Sep 3, 2017

Video game developers confess their hidden tricks at last

polygon.com

Jennifer Scheurle opened up a can of game-design whoopass on Thursday. Scheurle, a designer with Opaque Space (whose current project is the virtual reality game Earthlight ) tossed out an open question on Twitter that will make you question what really is underneath the hood of your favorite game.…

Sep 3, 2017

Joe Biden: 'We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation'

theatlantic.com

In January of 2009, I stood waiting in Wilmington, Delaware, for a train carrying the first African American elected president of the United States. I was there to join him as vice president on the way to a historic Inauguration. It was a moment of extraordinary hope for our nation—but I couldn’t…

Sep 3, 2017

Trump Pardons Joe Arpaio, Who Became Face of Crackdown on Illegal Immigration

nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday pardoned Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff whose aggressive efforts to hunt down and detain undocumented immigrants made him a national symbol of the divisive politics of immigration and earned him a criminal contempt conviction . In a two-paragraph…

Sep 3, 2017

The President of Blank Sucking Nullity | David Roth

thebaffler.com

My father is convinced that his dog is embarrassed. He doesn’t mean the rudimentary way that dogs ever show embarrassment, which from my observation amounts to taking several willful strides away from a mess they’ve made and then looking back disdainfully, as if wondering what sort of ingrate would…

Sep 3, 2017

Let’s Talk About Sex (And American Music) | Pitchfork

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Sex is rarely straightforward; usually, it’s a mindfuck of power dynamics and unspoken desires. So it follows that any book worth reading about it would be just as complicated. Good Booty , the latest release from veteran music critic Ann Powers (currently of NPR Music), is a densely researched tome…

Sep 2, 2017

Juicero, maker of the doomed $400 internet-connected juicer, is shutting down

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Juicero Juicero, the company that made its name by creating a proprietary juice-squeezing machine, is shutting down. The announcement comes from Juicero's website . In its post, the company writes that it is suspending the sale of both its juice packets and its Juicero Press device. The last juice…

Sep 2, 2017

The Most Overlooked Movies of 2017 So Far

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Magnolia Pictures/Sundance Institute The best thing about reviewing movies is: There are so many movies. More to see means more to recommend, at least in theory. The worst part about reviewing movies is: There are so many movies . We think of this as an era of peak TV— and it is . But it’s also…

Sep 2, 2017

Four Days In The Squall Of A Superfight

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LAS VEGAS, Nev.— “Man, I’m usually in a suit, but it’s too fucking hot today,” a scalper told me a few hours before the big fight. It truly was too fucking hot. A police dog had to wear booties to protect his feet. This particular scalper was forced halfway inside, working the buffer area between…

Sep 1, 2017

Jenji Kohan’s Hot Provocations

newyorker.com

Kohan’s “Orange Is the New Black” courts empathy and discomfort, titillation and sobs, often in the same scene. Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker Devon Shepard met Jenji Kohan, the creator of “Orange Is the New Black” and “Weeds,” twenty-four years ago, when they were writers for the NBC…

Aug 31, 2017

The Cop Who Became a Robber - Los Angeles Magazine

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R andy Adair was a familiar face in Rancho Santa Margarita. With a shock of white hair and a bushy white mustache, the 70-year-old grandpa was popular among the deep-sea fishermen at the harbor, where he’d pose for photographs holding 30-pound yellowtails. He had coached football players at Dana…

Aug 30, 2017

To The People I've Lost Over This Election

johnpavlovitz.com

Dear Friend, There’s a good chance you won’t see this, as at some point over the past year you either unfriended, unfollowed, or physically disconnected from me—or I from you. There may have been a decisive severing or a slow drifting apart, but the resulting space between us is the same. Still, I’m…

Aug 30, 2017

Why you should kill your notifications – A Field Guide to Unicorns

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Our smartphone is doing literally everything — it’s our primary camera, the way we keep in touch with friends and how we consume news, videos and music. It’s also why we’re not getting any work done. The device you love so much also happens to be meticulously optimized for maximum engagement.…

Aug 30, 2017

Wiki: No Mountains in Manhattan Album Review | Pitchfork

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”I’m straight New York, what a lot of ya’ll pretending to be!” Thus spat a curly-haired, baby-faced, North Face-clad teen by the name of Wiki back in 2012, his nasally voice sharp and acidic. Two years after “ Wikispeaks ” appeared on Ratking’s first EP , the trio—featuring poetic philosopher Hak,…

Aug 30, 2017

Harvey is already the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, and it’s still raining

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Reuters / Richard Carson Harvey By on Aug 28, 2017 Share This story has been updated. The pictures are heartbreaking, the statistics are mind-boggling. And, incredibly, it’s still getting worse. Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas late Friday night, more than 40 inches of rain have fallen…

Aug 30, 2017