by Share: Roger Deakins has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography 13 times without a single win. This ties him with George J. Folsey, shooter of such classics as MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, and ADAM’S RIB, as the D.o.P. with the most nods but no gold…

This is part two of a three-part series. Read parts one and three . What do Kate Upton, Brett Wilson and a unicycle-riding musician playing fire-breathing bagpipes behind a Darth Vader mask have in common? They've all been enlisted by Uber in its ongoing fight to win hearts and minds in cities…

This is part three of a three-part series on Uber. Read parts one and two . Outraged taxi drivers the world over telling anyone who will listen that Uber is the devil in corporate form makes it tough, even for those so inclined, to blithely accept at face value the company's argument that it's just…

Jim Cramer, who coined the “FANG” acronym as a descriptor for the high-flying F acebook, A mazon, N etflix, and G oogle group of tech stocks that have dramatically outperformed the market, made clear yesterday that his endorsement wasn’t necessarily connected to the underlying companies: A note on…

In 1998, Donald Trump told People Magazine “If I were to run, I’d run as a Republican. They’re the dumbest group of voters in the country.” That’s the meme, accompanied by the graphic at right. Rosemary Olsen posted it on Facebook and said “I fact checked this. It’s true.” 14,901 people shared it.…

Download Listen to “In Conversation: Miranda July & Jennifer Brandel” What Miranda July Can Teach (& Remind) Us About Making Media for the Public Admittedly, I over prepared for this interview. Beyond spending many evenings researching and thinking, I also hijacked every one of my hangouts with…

Marie Staver couldn't sleep. Always plagued by insomnia and other sleep disorders, in college she was struggling to get enough rest to keep up with her heavy workload. So in 1998 she made a drastic decision: she would stop trying. Instead of lying in bed all night, she would get her rest in catnaps…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. In early 2012, on a visit to San Francisco, Shannon Liss-Riordan went to a restaurant with some friends. Over dinner, one of her companions began to describe a new car-hailing app that had taken Silicon Valley by storm. “Have you…

Illustration by Tom Bachtell “You don’t consider yourself a capitalist?” Anderson Cooper, of CNN, asked Senator Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, in October, at the first Democratic Presidential debate. Sanders gave a look suggesting that Cooper had just asked him to put on a black-silk top hat and play…

We might soon find ourselves so overworked that sleep itself becomes the most sought-after drug on the market. As part of You'll Sleep When You're Dead , the inimitable Warren Ellis brings us tomorrow's world of killer sleep machines and distant lucid dreams. -the Eds "I have lived long enough for…

IN OCTOBER 2013 the Seaman Guard Ohio , a Sierra Leone-flagged ship, was intercepted just under 11 nautical miles off the coast of India by the local coastguard. The grey-hulled vessel looked like a naval ship—bristling with antennae and radar—but was chartered by AdvanFort, a private security firm…

So it's Friday morning and I have an interview scheduled for 10 a.m. with Scott Thompson. He's an icon of Canadian comedy especially for someone my age who grew up as the comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall was skyrocketing in popularity. My interview was to be about his upcoming stand up show in…

So yesterday, as I was leaving the gym to do my show at SiriusXM (The Spectrum! Channel 28! Let me give you the Mumford and Hozier you deserve!), I noticed a voicemail from an unfamiliar Maryland phone number… Anyway, the whole thing is below. And here's an exclusive postscript: [SPOILER ALERT] I…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you drive out to visit Disney’s Epcot center in Orlando, Florida, you will arrive at one of the biggest parking lots in America. With room for 12,000 cars, it sprawls out over 7 million square feet—about the size of 122 football…

You’re telling your own story: You graduated college and you’re a grown-ass woman now. Tina Fey is your hero; Beyoncé, your preacher. You know how to take care of you. You’ve learned self-defense. If any man ever hit you, you’d rip his eyes out. You’ve seen Mad Men , and if anyone ever sexually…

Amanda Hess Apr 22, 2009 3 PM Earl plays Photo Hunt at Recessions Earl plays Photo Hunt at Recessions Caught in the headlights: Earl is master of the Hunt. Show Earl a photo of a topless woman, and he’ll respond like most heterosexual men—sure, he’ll take a look at the boobs. Show Earl two photos of…

By Emily Guendelsberger Published: 06/26/2013 | You may be familiar with the game on those touch-screen bar-game consoles that’s colloquially known as Nudie Photo Hunt — in it, players race the clock to spot five differences between two side-by-side, near-identical softcore porn images. The game has…

Erotic Photo Hunt is a gift to drinkers everywhere. Played on a touch-screen console generally mounted to the stickier sort of bar, it's a naughty spin on the sort of "spot the difference" game you may have once played in a Highlights magazine at the pediatrician's office. Two near-identical sexy…

Bye-bye. In the past few months, both my colleague and friend Abraham Riesman and I quit Twitter, washing our hands of that micro-blogging service, which served as a perfect second screen for big-event television, a megaphone for self-promotion, and a platform for the oppressed and the oppressors.…

Audrey Elaine Elrod was in rough financial shape as the 2012 holiday season drew near. She’d been out of work for a year, ever since quitting her longtime clerical job at the county public health department in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 45-year-old divorcée and junior-college dropout now lived…

M ark Bowden was watching a ballgame — the Phillies versus the Mets — on the night of May 1, 2011, when the network cut away to President Obama in the East Room of the White House. “Tonight,” the president said, ‘‘I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has…

SOUTHERN TURKEY — Dua had only been working for two months with the Khansaa Brigade, the all-female morality police of the Islamic State, when her friends were brought to the station to be whipped. The police had hauled in two women she had known since childhood, a mother and her teenage daughter,…

ONE dodgy referendum lost Ukraine Crimea. Another threatens to lose it the European Union. On April 6th the Dutch public will vote on the “association agreement” the EU signed with Ukraine in 2014. The deal cements trade and political links with one of the EU’s most important neighbours; the…

In the first half of this essay I examined the aesthetic strategies of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days as expressing a documentarian style and commenting on our relation to images . I also analyzed the Shanghai setting and linked it to an exteriorization of the characters’ troubled psyches. I continue my…

[dropcap text_color=”” background_color=”#ff3d1f”]R[/dropcap]eplaying Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days , I find myself often reminded of the rich discourse in film culture following the rise of inexpensive digital video aesthetics in the early 2000s. While low-grade and crude at the time, digital video…

The Leave side faces stiffer challenges than the Remain side—but it could yet prevail THE starting gun for the referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union has yet to be fired. But David Cameron has made clear that he expects to finish renegotiating his set of EU reforms in Brussels…

# WHY YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY BUY YOUR MUSIC ON WAX, WHY REUNIONS AND REISSUES ARE IMPORTANT, AND WHY MAKING FUN OF URBAN OUTFITTERS’ VINYL SECTION MAKES YOU SOUND LIKE AN ASSHOLE Last night, I made the horrifying mistake of confessing - to a half-drunk, belligerent, self-acclaimed ‘old school hip-hop…

Yesterday I obtained an Avenger Reflex controller skin for my PlayStation 4. I bought it because these things fascinate me, and I want to do some research on them from a phenomenological perspective on how bodies integrate with videogames (I wrote briefly about this here ). When I tweeted about my…

Subscribers to Spotify and Apple Music will continue to grow, but by only so much B ased on recent numbers, it seems streaming services are on the march to domination. Apple Music recently announced that it had 10 million paid subscribers worldwide; Spotify reported 20 million worldwide in June and…

My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following. Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 American breakthrough film, Drive , had a cultural…

There are many good Vines, but few perfect ones. Cats, dogs, pranks, visual trickery, six-second operas — there’s no shortage of great work on the video platform that created the Loop, a new type of video format. Vine was founded in January 2013, and its first year, like any growing platform, came…

Screen-grab from “LDS Mormon Kids Watch Two Girls One Cup (Reaction Video).” A man stretching his anus horrifyingly wide with both hands. Two young women defecating into a cup and then messily eating their own waste. Lovingly rendered artwork of Japanese anime babes being filleted into grisly…

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of developers, and the talks I’ve given have led directly to the creation of several startups. I’ve talked about Bitcoin on Sky TV…

‘It is hard to have a male and white body and to conceive of its weakness.’Illustration: Antony Hare The border You feel your whiteness properly at the American border. Most of the time being white is an absence of problems. The police don’t bother you so you don’t notice the police not bothering…

Courtney Love Illustration by Tom Bachtell In 2006, Mr. and Mrs. KLondike moved downtown from the Upper East Side apartment where Mrs. KLondike had grown up. (The KLondikes are so named here to reflect the way that, in movies and on TV, fictional phone numbers always begin with 555, or, in the old…

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"We didn’t want for there to be any inkling of, ‘Oh, this is about buying people and I own you.’ That’s horrifying and disgusting and not what we want to be associated with." No, actually. People generally understand the game. The idea of the product is, you’re collecting and trading your favourite…

1. You ascribe intent. Another driver cut you off. Your friend never texted you back. Your co-worker went to lunch without you. Everyone can find a reason to be offended on a steady basis. So what caused you to be offended? You assigned bad intent to these otherwise innocuous actions. You took it as…