Is the name of the card supposed to be a portmanteau of magnum and penises?― Number None, Monday, May 22, 2017 1:28 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Number None, Monday, May 22, 2017 1:28 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Latin for absolutely nothing. The name is made up, but it sounds grand, doesn't it?"
― gr8080, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
gr8080 you should take over the Fyre Festival name and make it a 'Most Dangerous Game' type thing.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
still sad no one has been able to construct a decent "fyre island" joke
― mh, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
more like Three Myle Island from the sounds of things
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Hey, let's check in!
https://mic.com/articles/178929/fyre-emails-leaked-docs-show-execs-were-notified-of-urgent-concerns-weeks-before-festival#.k7LJ0qt4L
In an urgent April 3 email with the subject line, "RED FLAG- BATHROOMS/ SHOWER SHIPPING," a mid-level Fyre Festival worker alerted senior staff, including 25-year-old co-founder Billy McFarland and Fyre Media president Conall Arora, of a growing crisis: the unexpectedly high costs (estimated to be at least $400,000) of shipping enough toilets and showers to the Bahamas to accommodate an anticipated 2,500 people on the island.This followed the news that its caterer, Starr Catering Group, had just pulled out of the festival. Those two events prompted one assistant on the email thread to joke, "No one is eating so therefore no ones pooping."
This followed the news that its caterer, Starr Catering Group, had just pulled out of the festival. Those two events prompted one assistant on the email thread to joke, "No one is eating so therefore no ones pooping."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
On the same day Mic reached out for comment, Fyre Festival's official website stopped working.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
“Having seen many of the houses, they don’t have toilet paper, soap, water. Do we want to stock these items for guests / do we want to add anything - eggs, liquor, chasers?"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
“That’s not fraud, that’s not fraud,” Ja Rule said, according to the recording. “False advertising, maybe — not fraud.”
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 June 2017 06:20 (six years ago) link
Fraud like Pawn Stars
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 June 2017 07:17 (six years ago) link
shoe's dropped http://pitchfork.com/news/fyre-founder-billy-macfarland-arrested-charged-with-fraud/
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Saturday, 1 July 2017 02:48 (six years ago) link
"festival bro"
― calstars, Saturday, 1 July 2017 02:50 (six years ago) link
Actual LOL.
― Austin, Saturday, 1 July 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
Also, big Vanity Fair story up yesterday
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-millennial-marketing-fiasco
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 July 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
At Roker Point, where McFarland and Ja Rule could be seen many days popping wheelies on their A.T.V.’s, local workmen were hired to prepare the site. Because the building site was covered in crushed white rock, sand was trucked in and spread about; a trio of bar cabanas were built. The site itself had no beach, so McFarland’s crews improved a potholed road at Coco Plum Beach, six miles away, where they fixed up a pair of cabanas and sank swing sets into the surf. “They tried to do it all on their own,” the production executive says. “What I heard was Billy literally Googled ‘How to rent a stage,’and he rented a stage, and that was it. That was all they had.”
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 July 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
Ja Rule must be tellin his homies to get the helicopter
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 July 2017 06:31 (six years ago) link
these are my favourite bits of the vanity fair piece:
the phrase "checkered bid for moguldom" -- which is expertly crafted to seem witty and exact and yet, upon experiment, turns literally applicable to everyone
and this, bcz lol the sub-surface ja rule shade:
Then he kind of randomly throws out there that his partner in all this is Ja Rule, which floored me. I would’ve assumed a guy like Kanye West or Jay Z was behind the scenes.… Anyway, I knew we wouldn’t invest in it.
but actually it's an all-too typical VR essay in the sense that it puts a LOT of detail and quasi-detail together to give an impression of a story -- and yet the story really isn't actually there yet, as soon as you put a bit of bodyweight on its structural walls: in fact it's full of stuff like "tickets costing up to $12,000 apiece", but no clear evidence anyone actually ever paid this amount etc etc. The evident ridiculousness of Ja Rule to a "money manager for a famous rapper" needs the proper backfill.
(I mean, I know "lol ja rule" flies w/o a further sentence on ilm but that's bcz we're a hive of zingy cynics w/not mucy money. this is actually a grown-up story abt celebrity credibility, how this works and what it entails: allegedly VR's wheelhouse, the clue is in the mag's name ffs)
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
In the summer of 2013, he caught a glimpse of his friends’ultimate fantasy: an American Express Centurion Card
lame fucking fantasy imo
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 July 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
Yeah the VF piece isn't definitive but it's a handy collation of details plus some new ones.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 July 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
yes sorry ned i wasn't having a go for you putting it up, just a long-term frustration with the actual secure well paid end of longform journalism not really pulling its weight
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
I feel bad for these kinds of people. Maybe I'm the asshole, but I just assume when they have these kinds of goals that they have next to no imagination. Which must be a horribly boring life, amongst other things.
― Austin, Saturday, 1 July 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
I don't feel bad for them at all!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 July 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
what's VR?
― kinder, Saturday, 1 July 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
Typo for VF
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 July 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
i blame venture capital
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
This VF seems less like Thackeray more like Trollope.
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Saturday, 1 July 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
a lot of the people quoted and the anecdotes are just a compendium of the many articles out there
this made me groan, though:
“They tried to do it all on their own,” the production executive says. “What I heard was Billy literally Googled ‘How to rent a stage,’and he rented a stage, and that was it. That was all they had.”
― mh, Saturday, 1 July 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
Woulda been funnier if he was accused of using bing
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Saturday, 1 July 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
the grim irony is bing has a festival organizer feature and he never knew
― mh, Saturday, 1 July 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
ok lol
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 July 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
http://pagesix.com/2017/07/01/failed-fyre-festival-promoter-too-broke-to-hire-defense-attorney/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 July 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
McFarland appeared flustered after emerging from court on Saturday. “I’d love to speak. I’d love to say something. We’ll set it up soon at a better time,” he stuttered to a Post reporter.
I wonder if he still thinks there'll be a second festival.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 July 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
McFarland, clad in a pale-blue T-shirt and black slacks — with briefs depicting brown deer sticking out of his pants — appeared in Manhattan federal court to face a wire-fraud charge.
― nomar, Sunday, 2 July 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
"Gonna put on my power briefs!"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 July 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
Deer in the headlights is his spirit animal
― Moodles, Sunday, 2 July 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
a friend of mine texted me and reminded me that i engaged in my own mini-fyre fest scam when we were in 3rd grade
me and him and these 2 twin brothers that moved away shortly after made a band called "10,000 Volts" (we had a logo, a lightbulb with 2 lightning bolts like a skull & crossbones, anyway we couldn't play instruments and didn't have any instruments or any songs...but for some reason we thought we could do a concert on the playground, so we made up tickets and sold them....we blew it all on candy at a drugstore on main street.
obviously on some level we had to know we were bullshitting but on some level we thought we could do it. i remember positing that we could make this crappy acoustic guitar at my grandma's house an electic guitar by putting a nail into it, then nailing the other end of a piece of wire into a stereo speaker....
i don't know, i guess we wanted to be legends.
a teacher did end up busting us for selling these fake tickets and we had to pay the candy money back.
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
today's tom sawyer
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
somehow our 8 year old thought process wasn't really a whole lot different than the fyre festival organizer's i guess
10,000 Volts needed a pitch deck and some VC
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
i wonder if all this will put paid to many hare-brained-but-heartfelt ideas in the near future. i mean infamously Glastonbury lost money its first few goes round and had all manner of skirmishes and trouble in its the 70s and 80s. if Fyre or same had happened the year before in 1971 or whatever, would they have even gone through with it.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
i was going to try to throw a rave with a friend in "an abandoned warehouse" on "the other side of the lake" and he was going to hire this older dude he knew from "the bottom of the hill" to "run security." we got as far as checking out the site and realizing it was too big a job for two 17 yr olds and a shady dude. we probably avoided a pint sized Altamont.
― nomar, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Shroff said McFarland was paying off a $100,000 Maserati, which prosecutors tried to claim as an asset.
Goddamn prosecutors, clearly never owned a Maserati.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
i remember positing that we could make this crappy acoustic guitar at my grandma's house an electic guitar by putting a nail into it, then nailing the other end of a piece of wire into a stereo speaker....
this is amazing
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
and this seems like it should have been an episode of degrassi junior high
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
Bella Hadid is a noble spirit now:
http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/bella-hadid-august-cover
She’s also learned to protect herself following the Fyre Festival debacle—she and other celebrities, including Emily Ratajkowski, were paid to promote what they thought would be “the next Coachella” but actually turned out to be a disaster. Hadid was the only model to issue an apology on Twitter. “It’s also a different kind of job that I don’t do very often,” she says of social media–based endorsements. “Now I tag everything as an ad.”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
10,000 Volts is a good band name
― qualx, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
Now I Tag Everything is also a good band name.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
glad bella took the time to expound on the difference between stumping for fyre, where she used her image to draw positive attention to a product, and her day job, where she umm wait
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
when she says she tags "everything" as an ad... she's being pretty literal
― mh, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
actin like life is a big commercial
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
xpost qualx thank u
i retrospect i'm glad we had the moxie to do 10,000 Volts instead of just 1000 Volts I think we knew this entirely fictional band had a little more juice than your average
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
I tag all my content #IAmNotPersonallyResponsibleForAnythingIJustPosted
― qualx, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link