Though the book won’t appear for six months, “What If?” quickly reached No. 2 on Amazon’s best-seller list on the strength of pre-orders, trailing only a history book from Rush Limbaugh.
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 March 2014 12:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/business/media/bookstores-forsake-manhattan-as-rents-surge.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe&module=MostEmailed&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article
on the subject of fewer and fewer bookstore in manhattan.
idk if it really qulifies for this thread but a few parts made me roll my eyes --
“How can Manhattan be a cultural or literary center of the world when the number of bookstores has become so insignificant?” he asked. “You really say, has nobody in city government ever considered this and what can be done about it?”
because loland
She said she was concerned that bookstores in high-rent areas like Manhattan would shift their merchandise away from more accessibly priced paperbacks toward more expensive items with wider profit margins.“My worry is that to make these rents, people are going to have to make the bookstore a place where only wealthy people can be,” she said. “The higher and higher these rents go, do you have to bring in these expensive leather journals and art books that only rich people can buy?”
“My worry is that to make these rents, people are going to have to make the bookstore a place where only wealthy people can be,” she said. “The higher and higher these rents go, do you have to bring in these expensive leather journals and art books that only rich people can buy?”
Main points I think: This article seems to focus on purveyors of new merchandise, and in addition to the rising rents I think it's impt to address things like amazon.com, kindle/ebooks, and the larger profit margins of selling used merchandise.
Sad to see no shout outs to sellers of used books like Strand, Housing Works, Mercer St Books, East Village Books etc not to mention the healthy crop of used bookstores in Brooklyn (Book Thug Nation [lol worse name), Human Relations, Molasses Books, Here's A Bookstore in Coney Island etc. Interesting that there's gonna be a McNally Jackson in wburg, cuz i hadn't heard about that. Cool I guess?
― ian, Friday, 28 March 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
It's funny how we're supposed to nostalgically agree that an undefined period when bookstores were more popular/profitable is the ultimate good. People used to only get their newspapers from newsstands, too, and all their clothes were handmade. And stuff. I love books and I made them for a living for 15 years but nothing is out of reach of change, whether you think of it as "progress" or blame it on amazon.com--and I'm happy to blame a lot of things on amazon.com, but I keep coming back to the idea that various phenomenon of history are...trajectories, not...closed circles.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 28 March 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link
phenomena, I mean. Typing while netflix loaded and started playing and I got rushed. Just for one example of storytelling and how books aren't the only vehicle besides in-person verbal performance.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 28 March 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
After scouring Manhattan for a second location for her bookstore, Sarah McNally finally decided to open one in Brooklyn instead. After scouring Manhattan for a second location for her bookstore, Sarah McNally finally decided to open one in Brooklyn instead. After scouring Manhattan for a second location for her bookstore, Sarah McNally finally decided to open one in Brooklyn instead. After scouring Manhattan for a second location for her bookstore, Sarah McNally finally decided to open one in Brooklyn instead. After scouring Manhattan for a second location for her bookstore, Sarah McNally finally decided to open one in Brooklyn instead. After scouring Manhattan for a second location for her bookstore, Sarah McNally finally decided to open one in Brooklyn instead. After scouring Manhattan for a second location for her bookstore, Sarah McNally finally decided to open one in Brooklyn instead.
― marcos, Friday, 28 March 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
brooklyn, who woulda thought???? thanks nytimes, good to know!
"guess I'll take a chance on Brooklyn, nowhere else to go"
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Friday, 28 March 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
is anyone trying the nyt now thing
― iatee, Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
I will now that I am aware of it
kind of wondering what the ipad version is like. Ability to read a device-optimized version over coffee or w/e in the morning would be nice.
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
I didn't dl it on ipad yet but the iphone app is nice
― iatee, Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
it'd be nice if I could make it default to international edition stories like the website
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
the one thing I want is the ability to auto dl the whole thing for offline reading, which is only relevant for me for 10 mins of my commute but its a very read-my-iphone 10 mins
― iatee, Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
so do you have to get a separate sub from the nyt to use nyt now?these tiered things always suck tbqh
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
really throwing down the gauntlet today http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/fashion/hanley-mellon-clothing-line-fashion.html
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
The walls of the pad he and Ms. Hanley Mellon share at the Pierre are lined with paintings by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Peter Beard and, Mr. Mellon said, “Taylor Swift.”
“You mean Sam Taylor-Wood,” Ms. Hanley Mellon said.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
Hah I know a Mellon
― 龜, Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
“I’ve never been to Africa, but I feel like I have this deep affinity for it,” Ms. Hanley Mellon said. “I’ve read every Hemingway, we collect Peter Beard, I’ve watched ‘Out of Africa.’ It touches your soul to visit and smell the smells, and you can’t recreate the experience without immersing yourself.”Of course, being mobile has many connotations in the age of new media, which Mr. Mellon feels ambivalent about. “In the old days you’d have to travel to India or China for inspiration, and these days you’ve just got Pinterest boards and you can create looks from home,” he said. He does have an Instagram account, asliceofmellon, despite believing that “technology has made us lazy.”
Of course, being mobile has many connotations in the age of new media, which Mr. Mellon feels ambivalent about. “In the old days you’d have to travel to India or China for inspiration, and these days you’ve just got Pinterest boards and you can create looks from home,” he said. He does have an Instagram account, asliceofmellon, despite believing that “technology has made us lazy.”
― 龜, Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
i know a melon
http://nutritioncheckup.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cantaloupe.jpg
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
But Mr. Mellon is an unabashed fan of embracing new technologies, including Bitcoin, which the company accepts as payment and to which he was introduced by the venture capitalists Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
“Now we just need a hashtag,” Ms. Hanley Mellon said.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
sometimes its unclear if the reporter despises the subjects but not today
http://i.imgur.com/F3CGzRb.png
― 龜, Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
trustfund cokehead layabout recommends u buy fake money
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
hanle y mellon
― j., Sunday, 13 April 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
Fun fact: It's actually pronounced Mey-on
― 龜, Sunday, 13 April 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/04/13/fashion/13MELLONS/13MELLONS-master675.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 14 April 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
Amazing pants.
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 April 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
My brain is slow, I was thinking "man those are some horrible jeans, and..." my eyes traveled to the right and my brain just glitched
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 14 April 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
it looks like someone photoshopped a garter belt and stockings onto him
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
“I’ve never been to Africa, but I feel like I have this deep affinity for it,” “I’ve never been to Africa, but I feel like I have this deep affinity for it,” “I’ve never been to Africa, but I feel like I have this deep affinity for it,”
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 14 April 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
THANK YOU
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 14 April 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Monday, 14 April 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
also, cross-post from rolling hipster studies, but this needs to have a home in this thread:: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/realestate/new-york-boomers-on-hipster-turf.html?_r=0
A few weeks later, the Berners moved from a two-bedroom apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which they were renting for $4,500 a month, to a 39th-floor waterfront rental in Long Island City, Queens — the price tag a more modest $3,850.
barf, new york is gross guys
― marcos, Monday, 14 April 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
The people in that article really great. "I FEEL LIKE MAYBE I'M NOT HIP ENOUGH FOR THIS NEIGHBORHOOD" stfu.
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
haha I mean really GRATE
Aldo Sampieri, who is in his 50s, ventured even deeper into hipster territory. After 16 years in a loft near New York University, Mr. Sampieri, a painter and graphic artist, moved to Williamsburg in 2010. And last August he paid $760,000 for a renovated century-old townhouse on Moffat Street in Bushwick, a couple of subway stops farther along Brooklyn’s hipster trail. And he has only good things to say about the perks of living in a youth-oriented part of town.
“It helps you be looser, not so uptight,” Mr. Sampieri said. “Your mannerisms change. You feel comfortable wearing more eccentric clothing.
“I’ve always had a very funky life,” he added. “I was married, divorced. I have no family. I can do what I want. And when you’re in a neighborhood filled with people of different ages, you feel like you’re not that old. Seeing young people walking around makes you feel happy, more alive. You find yourself playing bass with some guys in a studio, leading a life that a person my age usually can’t do.”
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
cue sienfeld bass
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
something about the way the light reflects off Mr Mellon's hair and face in that pic above. he's wearing a mask, right??
― tobo73, Monday, 14 April 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
also those are some weird-ass pants
― marcos, Monday, 14 April 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
all I keep thinking of is Andy's stockings in the Erasure Oh L'Amour video
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
I used to sew ties in a neck tie factory and we made a lot of woven silk patterned ties, some of which looked a lot like his pants.
I actually really do like those pants. They seem like horrible people, but those pants are fine by me.
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 April 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
the rest of his look is so staid that i literally did not even notice his pants until now. fun pants!
― gbx, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
they look kind of like leggings
I wonder which part of his path in life led him to put that outfit together
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
they're not even sitting on the couch, they sit on top of the couch because fuck rules man fuck your 501s i'm gonna paisley this shit and let god sort it out
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
I doubt there is any rebellion in their souls, but probably a lot of cocaine use in their pasts
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
Creepy plastic surgery face. On HIM, surprisingly.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
yea he looks like the abercrombie ceo dude
― johnny crunch, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
for extra distress, go to his instagram profile
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
nope
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 April 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 April 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
"4. Going places The stand for my computer is a small, old suitcase, which we bought with a bunch of other suitcases on Etsy.com. We have a stuffed bear I also bought on Etsy. I am also, by the way, the chairwoman of Etsy."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/business/home-sweet-headquarters-for-an-app-start-up.html?from=business
― calstars, Saturday, 24 May 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link