New Yorker magazine alert thread

the vice photo book is u+k

in the nyer piece theyre covering the flooding of venice and its connection to global warming and they goto a flooded bar and have a drink and are all NOW this is a real vice piece lol

Xtreme Bar

vice target audience: alcoholics

i feel like vice are more ironic detachment than they are extreme, like theyre not making a big deal out of things generally, hipsters arent xtreme

in the nyer piece theyre covering the flooding of venice and its connection to global warming and they goto a flooded bar and have a drink and are all NOW this is a real vice piece lol

― lag∞n, Friday, April 5, 2013 2:44 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that scene cracked my ass up

the article kinda made me suspect that the business wasnt as financially sound as they were making it out to be

At present, Vice’s profits—which a source estimates were forty million dollars last year—seem to be dependent on securing and maintaining partnerships with a few major corporate clients. If you spend enough time inside the Vice empire, much of its noise and energy—the Web site and the ad network, the international offices, even Smith’s talk of global domination—can start to feel like a ruse, in the vein of its “basketball diplomacy” stunt, a show to make those partnerships happen.

yeah that scene cracked my ass up

― Jopy's on a vacation far away (Jon Lewis), Friday, April 5, 2013 8:51 AM (3 minutes ago)

guy yelling "look its CNN" was a great KO

i like their video work too. i dunno. i think the vice yall are thinking of is really fucking different from what they do nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYFEoWwDvxY

travel stuff like that is dope to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQC3jp1udUg

there's that kind of thing, too.

and HEY fuck it sometimes i just want to see a guy taking acid and going to a dog show. does that make me a bad person?

westminster lsdiplomacy

dylannn otm

someone was telling me that there was some major fallout from the exploitative libera piece they did.

CNN picked up and after it ran a few times it killed what little tourism economy librea previously had

a friend of mine who works in libera wrote a v angry blog post abt that piece

Seriously, did anyone really not know how to capture the elusive 18-24 male market? Hint:

and HEY fuck it sometimes i just want to see a guy taking acid and going to a dog show. does that make me a bad person?

Also porn and poop and shocking pictures of dead things.

Not that there's anything wrong with this formula, but it should not be lofted up as some sort of standard or goal. Like, is Fareed Zakaria all, "ha ha, these cutting edge kids today and their porn and poop and guns and taking acid at dog shows!" Does he really believe this is some new vanguard, or is it strictly a salacious titillation/exploitation equals moolah calculation? (I mean, I know the answer, because the hack already works for CNN.)

If anything the piece reminded me of the infamous New Yorker essay on the band Radish, with young Ben Kweller kicking it with Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine, Tom Petty and Joe Strummer, with the whole lot all "wow, this kid's got the goods!"

it reminded me of ben kweller also.

Wow, so pretty safe to skip this entire April 15 issue, right? Read the meh Burton/Le Carre and that's it for me, I think.

dog if a susan faludi profile of shulamith firestone is "safe to skip" you need to get yr priorities in order

Same issue?

Ah, didn;t see that one in there! Thanks!

yeah i almost wrote this issue off but then got sucked into that article and it kicked ass. Otherwise, a light issue for me. Which is fine, I can use a week off now and again.

which is the one with the Knife review? That issue had meh articles. Sometimes I'll skip whole issues.

This is the one with the Knife, April 15, a day that shall not live in infamy.

can i just say that lil sharing tab at the bottom of the page on the iphone app go fuck yrself

the le carré wasn't good?

i liked it

I thought it was pretty conventional. Though for about half of it (I was distracted on the train) I was confusing Martin Ritt with Martin Brest, and I was all, wow, the guy who made "Midnight Run" and "Beverly Hills Cop" must have been really old!

le carre was very meh

the paumgarten 1 isnt good? i usu trust that guy imo

the shulie firestone 1 was really sad

interested in the james salter profile

the Salter profile...was missing something? It felt incomplete. Anybody agree?

carre was very meh

― gr8 tr∞lls i have known (forksclovetofu), Thursday, April 11, 2013

the thing builds to a climax that doesn't happen. Instead of Richard Burton awesomeness we get "I coulda been Paul Scofield."

Salter profile? Must investigate. Also, didn't know ILX cared.

i liked the salter profile. weirdly, i have the movie he directed called 'three' saved on my dvr, just thought it sounded obscure & f/ charlotte rampling and i was on board

the Salter profile...was missing something? It felt incomplete. Anybody agree?

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, April 12, 2013 6:55 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it read like half obit and half interview. if the central question around salter is "why were his books not more popular" this piece did not supply the answers. the piece in the last harper's was much more interesting.

http://via.me/-biiu1la

Glad I didn't skip the puppeteer profile--loved it, even though I have not seen a lick of his work!

the hbo vice show is p bad btw

basil twist is amazing; i saw the joey arias show and it stands out as one of the best pieces of theater I've ever attended

Gonna have to try to find performances on the youtube!

video doesn't do it justice honestly, part of what makes twist so effective is his vision really brings you in on the spot in a tremendously immersive and persuasive way

I was agog over the descriptions of his set designs--agree that you'd HAVE to see that in person to truly appreciate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5VK4ymLduo
^here's some arias with a twist, certainly worth a look
he was selling simple leg puppets for fifty bucks in the lobby, wish i had bought one

very much enjoyed the salter profile but agree it was missing a certain something. perhaps it lacked a narrative cohesion (like the opening anecdote did not connect well with his sit down with Salter at the end)? still, paumgarten is my favorite staff writer (along with schjeldhahl and woods) and it got me reading salter's 'light years'.

i appreciated the fact that the tc boyle short story in the same issue namechecked salter

wasn't really into the story tho

I'm usually big into TC Boyle but I wasn't into that one at all, either.

Couldn't get behind the paywall to read the James Salter article thought about buying paper copy, maybe just will borrow from neighbor. In the meantime I found this http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/james-salter-month/

Wow, that puppet dance. Now I have to read that profile.

New issue seems better: Colombian danger-hiking, gondolier ...