A man wearing a red flannel shirt and brown suspenders walks into a clearing. His beard is well kempt, the same off-white as the snowmelt behind him. “Good afternoon,” he says to the camera. “It’s Friday, Oct. 12.” Slowly, he extends his arms. Two birds swoop down from the trees, alighting on his…

Design + Money That, and other hard-earned business lessons from HAWRAF’s Carly Ayres Words by Perrin Drumm Published on March 14th, 2019 01 HAWRAF’S homepage 01 A lot of design businesses claim to be open and transparent, but ask them a pointed question (even off-the-record), and they will either…

I've always believed that advertising could learn a lot from pro wrestling. To test my theory, I attended WrestleMania for four consecutive nights. What's that like? Think "the Big Game" on juice, with a slick pair of boots and neon tights. For 35 years, WrestleMania been the pinnacle event of the…

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Few could have predicted that President Donald Trump would be this good at surrendering the political advantage of a strong economy. Not only is he now underwater in the three states that pushed him to victory in 2016—he’s now unexpectedly vulnerable in places such as Texas,…

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber shut down a party at a satellite California office and at least one employee resigned after some celebrations marking its initial public offering last week got out of hand, according to current and former employees, a setback for the company’s efforts to change its corporate…

At 5:53PM New York time yesterday, an eager student created a project on Glitch to start learning how to code. It also happened to be the 1 millionth app on Glitch! Anil Dash Jun 28, 2018 We’re excited to reach the one million app milestone as it shows how we’ve created the easiest way for coders to…

Playdate, the upcoming indie handheld gaming console from venerable software publisher Panic, is really important. But if you don't know the history of where the little company behind this little device comes from, it might be hard to understand why this isn't just another random gadget like you…

I had some advantages, last night, in preparing to watch the finale of “Game of Thrones.” Although I’d written two columns about the HBO series, I wasn’t passionate about it, one way or the other. I liked parts of the show and thought other parts were silly. The battle sequences were dazzling; the…

Photo by Madison McVeigh/CityLab If someone asked me five years ago whether or not I thought the open floor plan would still be popular, I would have said no. Domestic architecture seemed to be taking a turn toward the rustic. Today, “Farmhouse” and “Craftsman” modern designs, harkening back to the…

We’re an enigma, those of us born at the tail end of the '70s and the start of the '80s. Some of the “generational” experts lazily glob us on to Generation X, and others just shove us over to the Millennials they love to hate — no one really gets us or knows where we belong. We’ve been called…

Bret Easton Ellis rages against the decline of American culture “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway through White , and the reader desperately wishes this were true. Ellis is best known for American Psycho , the controversial 1991 cult novel about an…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration On Wednesday, the White House tweeted a link to a new survey asking participants if they felt they’d been discriminated against for their views online. “Social media platforms should advance freedom of speech. Yet too many Americans have seen their accounts…

Running a supermarket in America has never been harder. Profits are razor thin. Online shopping and home delivery are changing the way people buy their food. Dollar stores and drugstores are selling more groceries . Pressures are so intense that regional chains like Southeastern Grocers, the owner…

In Maracaibo, men searching for refuse that can be salvaged or recycled. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times Butchers have stopped selling meat cuts in favor of offal, fat shavings and cow hooves, the only animal protein many of their customers can afford. In Maracaibo, men searching for…

Liquid Death’s aluminum cans are more environmentally friendly than plastic bottles, and the brand claims to donate five cents from each one purchased to ocean recovery. Liquid Death All water is created equal; as long as it’s clean, the body is happy with it. The brain, though, is harder to…

‘Americans must be able to address US-China tech competition without reprising past “scares” that damage our own society.’Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images F or years, American leaders claimed that the internet would bring free markets and liberal democracy to China. Today, they are more likely to…

Tech Published an hour ago Updated 11 min ago Todd Haselton @robotodd Megan Graham @megancgraham Key Points Google saves years of information on purchases you've made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail. It's complicated to delete this private information, and options to turn…

O n December 11, 2014, in the basement of Channel 4’s headquarters in Westminster, London, the atmosphere was prematurely festive. Christmas was still two weeks away, but champagne, mince pies and black Christmas crackers were already on offer as the room filled with journalists ready to watch the…

Livia Gershon | Longreads | April 2019 | 9 minutes (2,270 words) When I was a kid, in the pre-internet days of the 1980s, my screen time was all about Nickelodeon. My favorite show was “You Can’t Do That on Television.” It was a kind of sketch show; the most common punchline was a bucket of green…

Photo by: Alexis Madrigal It all started with an Instagram ad for a coat, the West Louis (TM) Business-Man Windproof Long Coat to be specific. It looked like a decent camel coat, not fancy but fine. And I’d been looking for one just that color, so when the ad touting the coat popped up and the price…

Soraya Roberts | Longreads | May 2019 | 9 minutes (2,309 words) It’s a strange feeling being a cultural critic at this point in history. It’s like standing on the deck of the Titanic, feeling it sink into the sea, hearing the orchestra play as they go down — then reviewing the show. Yes, it feels…

This tweet made me think a lot: First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long time, and it’s going to keep happening. I think it’s a great illustration of what really happens in “ access ” or “as-a-service” economies: as friction…

The great generation that barely was. This Gen X Mess The tech, music, style, books, trends, rules, films and pills that made Gen X … so so-so. Like many things considered “cool,” Gen X is pretty exclusive. You had to be born between 1965 and 1980 to get in to this gloomy, goofy club of forgotten…

Try getting there the hard way, without apps and digital directions.Photograph: Alamy T here’s much to notice in the city – perhaps too much. We complain about the distracting intrusions of the devices we tote around these days, but the technologies of attention theft have defined city life for more…

Here, before you're quite ready for him, is Keanu Reeves: At the top of the driveway of the Chateau Marmont, smoking a cigarette on a low couch, like he's on his front porch. He's been coming here since the early '90s. The Chateau was run-down and empty then—a seedier, pre-André Balazs version of…

Most people assume social media is making us more narcissistic, more compulsive, and lonelier. But is that really true? A new book titled Bored Lonely Angry Stupid tries to answer this question by looking at the past. The authors examined diaries, letters, and memoirs of a broad cross-section of…

Thom Yorke : Daydream nation © Clementine Schneidermann Coat, sweater, trousers: Undercover Boots: Feit x Too Good Words by: At the Barbican gallery and estate, one of London’s most iconic slabs of concrete, Thom Yorke is in a reflective mood. “ Scott Walker invited us to play once for his…

Photo by Getty Images Many of us worry about what our lives will be like in our final years. But after spending a year following six people ages 85 and older, The New York Times reporter John Leland came to some surprising conclusions about old age and contentment later in life. His work inspired…

Work / Graphic Design Space Type Generator is not only anyone’s gateway into the mind-boggling world of motion type design, it is also an extremely fun tool to play around with. For anyone that is a complete novice to motion graphics (myself included) simply opening this tool in your web browser…

Soraya Roberts | Longreads | May 2019 | 7 minutes (1, 868 words) The shorthand iconography of the star has been the iconography of excess — furs, gold, pearls, diamonds, stacks of cash, lots of lights, lots of people. It’s luxury personified, the human being at its apex, the kind of intermediary…

Tom Maxwell | Longreads | April 2019 | 14 minutes (2,898 words) In 1990, rapper Stanley “MC Hammer” Burrell stood at the pinnacle of popular culture. His stage show featured 32 musicians and dancers, all of whom attended a rigorous boot camp. According to an Ebony magazine article from that year,…

Nancy Jainchill | Longreads | April 2019 | 22 minutes (5,383 words) “Peter, I can’t do this.” I grabbed my boyfriend by the arm. The crew with whom we were making a porn movie had just arrived, their footsteps like drum beats as they made their way upstairs to our second floor flat. I stared at the…

By John Mecklin , May 3, 2019 A boy is born to peasant parents near the village of Privolnoye, in the north Caucasus, and has a truly rural upbringing; sometimes, he sleeps next to a calf in the stable to stay warm at night. The boy’s mother never learned to read; his father went off to fight the…

Why You Should Start Binge-Reading Right Now Ditch Netflix for a novel. And not just because a novelist is telling you to. Mr. Dolnick is a novelist. Credit Gabriel Alcala One night a couple of summers ago, the power went out and, unable to watch Netflix or engage in my customary internet fugue, I…

Photo by Nate Kitch “Good is the enemy of great” is one of the most popular self-improvement expressions there is. It’s the first sentence of an international bestselling business book, the title of another self-help book , and a mantra that NFL superstar J.J. Watt has used in press conferences. It…

Photo by: Siu Chiu / Reuters There are three things, once one’s basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being good at whatever it is one spends one’s days doing, and having the freedom to make life…

Culture It’s one of the modding community’s odder recent crazes. But how did an ’80s kids classic become an underground obsession? Words: Edwin Evans-Thirlwell From Disney’s Something Wicked This Way Comes to Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VI , trains have a rich association with horror in media of all…

Passengers stand in line waiting to board a flight at John F. Kennedy Airport. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On a recent Delta flight, I discovered I had been demoted. Until this January, Delta boarding included a “Sky Priority” phase that put frequent flyers in the two middle tiers…

I used to play a game where I would tell people that Keanu Reeves has been in more good movies than any other actor, and then pause significantly while they waited for me to qualify the statement. “Then any actor who what?” they would ask, at which point I would reply, “Nothing, just more good…

San Francisco Is Right: Facial Recognition Must Be Put On Hold The technology is unregulated and rife with error. We shouldn’t deploy it without strong privacy rules. Opinion Columnist Credit Simone Noronha What are we going to do about all the cameras? The question keeps me up at night, in…