this girl TAVI, this 13-year-old-or-so style blogging girl who is so funny!
Set to star in new Nicole Holofcener movie.
She's doing a book event at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park tonight, for a Rookie anthology. Might go.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
she's already pretty famous!
― goole, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah i was gonna say
― human centipede hz (thomp), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
But like famous famous.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
she's pretty famous!!
― human centipede hz (thomp), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
i don't know how famous she is, she is probably more famous than animal collective but less famous than emma stone
shes not famous
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
definitely not as famous as animal coalition! be srs
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
She's plenty famous. After all consider who she was ranked with when it came to winning the Internet.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
1 tavi = 1.7 ancos = .4 emmastones
― Ye Mad Puffin, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
and i mean come on shell be burned out by the time shes 19
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
okay is she more or less famous than tao lin
― human centipede hz (thomp), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
more
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
two times as famous as tao lin or not that much more famous
― human centipede hz (thomp), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
Bet John Hamm doesn't know who Tao Lin is.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://rookiemag.com/2012/05/ask-a-grown-man-5/
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
two times as famous as tao lin
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
Settle down, folks.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
idk i mean she seems to be pretty level-headed and grounded, esp for her age, maybe she'll move onto something less visible and she'll def mature beyond the sort of wunderkind accolades she's been getting but i don't think she'll "burn out"??
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
no elmo she will burn out trust me i know about these things
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
for instance how famous different non famous people are
Maybe Stevie will post his photo.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
If my parents and/or square sister know who you are, you are famous. Tavi is not famous.
― kate78, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
Most famous babysitter of an ILXor (if I remember correctly).
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
feel like prob 90% of people who know about her heard her interviewed on npr
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
guys the internet is huge! gangnam style!
― goole, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
hasn't tavi gone on ellen or something
― goole, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
Tavi's pretty famous.
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
fameish?
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
not a celebrity but still kinda niche famous
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
She was on Jimmy Fallon the other day, I think.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
She's a good person, smart, responsible, with a nice family (they live down the street a bit; I'm in Oak Park, too), so I have a hunch she's going to turn out great. I was talking to a friend about her, and my friend noted that she's made it pretty far without embarrassing herself. I agreed, but also noted how hard it is for a 13 year old to really embarrass themselves. That stuff comes later when they get older, start driving, start drinking, etc. But Tavi doesn't seem liable to go the screw-up route. She's unhitched herself from the fashion train a bit in no small part due to the skeez of the fashion industry, and she's made an effort to better integrate herself into standard high school stuff, I think. Just saw her Monday at Rosh Hashana services.
But yeah, anyway: she's had numerous magazine profiles, been on TV, wrote a book, founded a website, been featured in the NYTimes and had a feature on her in the New Yorker. If you don't think she's famous, you have very high fame standards.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
This interview was pretty awesome. She's super level headed, exceptionally honest with and about herself and with reasonable expectations.
http://www.bust.com/blog/tavi-gevinson-dishes-on-anna-wintour-feminism-and-her-plans-for-world-domination.html
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
is tao lin still a thing
― skrill xx (cozen), Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
tavi is not 13 anymore
tao lin got a 'sizable advance' for his next novel which is coming out from a 'major publisher' -- god even talking about him it's easy to slip into aspects of his online schtick -- has had a couple of minor things about his personal life/online schtick become semi-'stories' -- also was somewhat referenced obliquely in the 'controversial' hbo tv series 'girls' -- (also, mumblecore)
― human centipede hz (thomp), Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
btw this thread title still makes me go 'tavi started posting on i love style??'
Ha I know I thought that too
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
def p famous, her instagram is constantly spammed by teenage girls begging for shoutouts, its bizarre
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
she should send them chewed-up postcards
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
booooooo.
Considering how famous she is in her early teens, to other teens, I think she's likely to be present in public consciousness for my entire lifetime. If she doesn't make a move into a seriously entrepreneurial endeavour (I hope she doesn't) then she's probably already seen the height of her fame and that's just OK, I love her writing and she's totally awesome
― a whiter shade of paleo (Ówen P.), Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
the recent malcolm in the middle reunion got me wondering if the kid celebrity burnout syndrome is bad enough that there's a culpability in even spectatorship, or if it's just a thing where only the worst cases make the spotlight and it's no worse than just normal kids who are good at something.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
i was into when she was on i love style, kind over it now
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 September 2012 03:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
Jessica Hopper @jesshoppKeep thinking about how the 2 of biggest influences on teenz-culture right now are local: Chief Keef and Tavi.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Friday, 21 September 2012 03:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
U FORGOT SKRILLEX
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 September 2012 03:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ok now I gotta figure out wtf this chief keef character is. Been seeing his name nonstop for last 2 weeks. Some kind of rapper I guess.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Friday, 21 September 2012 03:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
he is a teen who raps abt guns
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 September 2012 03:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ok he has a single that hit #100? Gtfo with that influential stuff. I know, i know, real measure of teenz culture isn't billboard but the weird wild Internet.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Friday, 21 September 2012 03:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
easily one of the fifty thousand most influential people w/teens
how hard it is for a 13 year old to really embarrass themselve
this is crazy i think! teenage embarrassment is way more linked to how embarrassing teenagers inherently are than just some goofy/drunken stuff they do. that she's so level headed & sage & smart, even out of a teenage context/standard - so ie she's a good interviewer, writer, &c - reps v well for her.
I love her writing and she's totally awesome
― a whiter shade of paleo (Ówen P.), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:27 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Friday, 21 September 2012 03:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
Jimmy Iovine's next big bet.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Friday, 21 September 2012 03:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:22 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok lol here is me with a v famous person
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 September 2012 15:49 (7 months ago) Permalink
best
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
i read that long thing on her in the nyt a while back so even i know who she is. more importantly, i was REALLY impressed with her website. smart funny stuff on it and it looks great. and i can't say any of those things about too many websites.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:06 (7 months ago) Permalink
xposting I guess I don't think of teenagers embarrassing themselves because teenagers are typically so awkward, anyway, that no one magnifies gaffes and whatnot, and even then, (young) teen behavior is typically forgiven. It's when you start getting older that embarrassments start to stick. Tavi is uncommonly composed, but she's also 16 and lives at home, safe and sound, in the 'burbs, with reasonable parents still involved in her life. When kids got indie and leave home, let alone with money and some degree of fame, that's when the bad stuff potentially goes down. But again, I don't expect it from her.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:09 (7 months ago) Permalink
she has this one routine down perfect. she's successful, and smart, and creative, and more than a little precocious, and as soon as someone says "so where do you see yourself in 10 years?" she says "but i'm only ___teen, how can i know where i'll be in 10 years?" and reminds us that she is still a kid. she's canny!
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
jaymc doesn't know who keef is?!!?
what?!
Well, I've see his name in tweets, headlines, etc., but never bothered to investigate further.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
She's totally canny, but also right. People forget how young she is, and, (obvs) how young she's been. It reminds me a bit of that child prodigy who got into U of C's medical school at a ridiculous age, then entered a sort of holding pattern while he essentially grew up. And now that he's graduated, he's just another doctor. A doctor that started his serious academic career in the single digits, yes, but still, just a doctor.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
poor doogie...
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
Interesting read:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-03/news/ct-met-boy-wonder-20120603_1_yano-medical-degree-medical-team
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
People forget how young she is
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, September 24, 2012 12:30 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
uh
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:24 (7 months ago) Permalink
Obviously they know how young she is. I mean more that people see this precocious person who is well put together, well spoken, seemingly well intentioned et al. - all things we do not associate with youth - and automatically more or less amend a decade to her actual age due to her seemingly mature emotional age. Her 16 is surely not the typical 16 year old kid, and interlocutors etc. adjust.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
Think about the converse: all these ridiculous post-college age actors and actresses that get humored as kids. I remember seeing Britney Spears several years ago, and she went through this precious routine where she noted she was not a girl, but not yet a woman. The first thing that popped into my head was, you know, Britney, there are people your age dying in Iraq right now. You're a woman.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
How well do you guys think Jessica Hopper navigated her career from precocious zinester to whatever she is now?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
Mostly I think of how she'll have more than a decade of experience under her belt by her mid-20s, in the way that my friends' daughter,who reviews plays at a very young age and gets invited to openings, etc., will.
Susan Sontag was at the U of C at age 16 (and married a year later).
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
most prodigies never become super triumphant adults, this prob says more abt how rare it is to be highly successful than anything abt prodigies
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
although i knew this guy who was a childhood cello prodigy and oh man
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
is tavi a prodigy in that sense though? she really does seem more in the jessica hopper mold, which is... worrisome.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
when you are a child prodigy blogger what kind of super triumph adult can you become? don't you just turn into an older blogger
― iatee, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
ppl love this young woman so much i want to hate her but afaict theres not actually a good reason to do so
― max, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
Marcello to thread.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
― iatee, Monday, September 24, 2012 2:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tumblr book deal
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
who knows what the publishing world will be in a decade, or even if 'blogger' will mean anything other than 'author,' tho tbh i can see tavi becoming the millennial edition of a diana vreeland or a grace coddington
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
She can be anything she wants. Cameron Crowe: precocious rock critic to extremely successful director to has-been, and he's only 55!
Seriously, though, even within her field, there is plenty of room for Tavi to become an editor, author, director, whatever.
She is not at all like Hopper, personally or professionally. But who knows what kind of adult Tavi will make.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
idk what tavi is rly like bit i wkiw her, she seems super chill
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
she really does seem more in the jessica hopper mold, which is... worrisome.
Why "worrisome"?
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
real worried abt tavi u guys
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
I read some text about riot grrl movement recently, and it seems like the early media attention on hopper didn't ultimately do her much favors.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:24 (7 months ago) Permalink
she's not gonna wurtzel. she's cooler and more level-headed than all that. she will totally dunst. you'll see.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
speaking of level-headed, geni just sent me an awesome e-mail right this minute:
Scott, You're Related to Claire Danes!
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:34 (7 months ago) Permalink
i'm pulling for her in that regard. i'm like, great job! plz don't wig out!
― goole, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
i bet shell turn into a chill adult whos reasonably successful but not wildly ambitious or famous
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
i mean does she even do weed yet
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:39 (7 months ago) Permalink
she's not gonna wurtzel.
"I ... I ... I think I'm gonna wurtze!"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
When you hear her talk its v easy to forget how young she was; I assumed she was like 17 or 18 when I saw her.
And yeah you would be very hard-pressed to come up w a legit reason to hate her
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
Tavi seems really grounded and unspoiled; good for her. She's had extreme fash-holes paying attention to her and it hasn't seemed to turn her head.
J-Ho's mother was the features editor of the Minneapolis paper and there was open hostility towards teenaged her for the nepotism aspect of her opportunities, and for being available as a go-to person about riot grrrl when there was supposed to be a 'media blackout'. It is very easy to be hurt by scenester bitching or to find yourself stepping on toes when you do media things as a teenager. In the UK there was a post-riot grrrl rush of clever teenaged girls eg Emma Forrest/Caitlin Moran starting their writing careers when most people were sitting GCSEs; every magazine had one, they're all around 35 now and most of them are successful because they had a head start, and any fuck-ups or burn-outs on their part were probably short in duration and happened before they were really adults, or seen as such by commissioning editors.
― ella fingerblast hurls forever (suzy), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
J-Ho seems pretty level-headed these days, I think she's turned out pretty well and not sure why she's being held up as a "worrisome" ideal for Tavi.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
Maybe she could have been a neurosurgeon or something? It just seems like a bad deal. Would any of you want this kind of attention visited upon you at that age, knowing how it could end up defining you?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:45 (7 months ago) Permalink
J-Ho is just had or is about to have her second. She's much father along on the timeline of life.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
Already had! She is a successful journalist/irl good person -- not sure how she could be anything but a top notch role model. People caught shit for much different stuff back in the 90s.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
i bet shell turn into a chill adult whos reasonably successful but not wildly ambitious or famous ^^
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
Tavi's evolution is already interesting: moving from pure fashion-week fashion to a bigger cultural/social/political context. Seems to be making good choices.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
Tavi Gevinson @tavitullei will only go to homecoming with you if i can get a cut of whatever my mom paid you for asking me
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:16 (7 months ago) Permalink
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
jon hamm, bro
― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
I am contented to live my life without a single worry over the future of Tavi Gevinson. I wish her well, tho.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
bf is girling out over the Style Rookie yearbook I just gifted him. "omg it comes with a crown!"
― whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
^GREAT reason to get a thing
― free-range chicken pox (Matt P), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
I need her help...she needs to mentor me!
― *tera, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:48 (7 months ago) Permalink