fyre festival is going well

Am I the only one that thinks that because this kid is white and walks the Silicon Valley talk, he's still going to end up pretty wealthy by age 35

he def is

Seems more likely than not. Still...a little hard to explain away that resume item.

Or dead, under sordid circumstances, before he even gets to 35

He'll have a book out by Christmas 'Under Fyre - How Not to Run A Festival'

if the other liar lifestyle types are any guide, he'll "grow up" into some kind of marketing/mens' advice guru

https://nyti.ms/2rHz76f

Well into March, the event’s website — which briefly vanished because its designer had not been paid — claimed it would take place on Fyre Cay, a private island that once belonged to the drug lord Pablo Escobar. Ticket packages included the $400,000 “Artist’s Palace,” with four beds, eight V.I.P. tickets and dinner with one festival performer.

But there was no such island or palace. Fyre employees recalled higher-ups inventing extravagant accommodations just to see if people would buy them — and some did, they said.

"they said"

And we'll probably never know what really happened.

This just gets better all the time.

And by better I mean it crushes my already fragile faith in humanity.

Mr. McFarland seemed flush enough. “He always had a few thousand dollars cash in his swimsuit,” said Luca Sabatini, an owner of Unreal-Systems, which built the festival stages and supplied the high-caliber sound systems and lighting. If someone needed extra cash, Mr. McFarland would dole it out — “$500, crumpled up, a little humid because he went jet skiing with it,” Mr. Sabatini observed.

"Here you go, brah. Sorry about the pubic hairs."

"unreal systems" well yes

Hard to believe the guy featured in this article turned out to be untrustworthy...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/fashion/Black-Card-Magnises.html

Is the name of the card supposed to be a portmanteau of magnum and penises?

a theory I could believe

http://vgtidbits.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/zelda-wiiu-scrn-magnesis.jpg

i went to a magnises event once

rick ross was performing

rushomancy otm

um more details please xp

Is the name of the card supposed to be a portmanteau of magnum and penises?

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"Latin for absolutely nothing. The name is made up, but it sounds grand, doesn't it?"

gr8080 you should take over the Fyre Festival name and make it a 'Most Dangerous Game' type thing.

still sad no one has been able to construct a decent "fyre island" joke

more like Three Myle Island from the sounds of things

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."

On the same day Mic reached out for comment, Fyre Festival's official website stopped working.

“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?"

“That’s not fraud, that’s not fraud,” Ja Rule said, according to the recording. “False advertising, maybe — not fraud.”

Fraud like Pawn Stars

shoe's dropped http://pitchfork.com/news/fyre-founder-billy-macfarland-arrested-charged-with-fraud/

"festival bro"

Actual LOL.

Also, big Vanity Fair story up yesterday

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-millennial-marketing-fiasco

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.”

Ja Rule must be tellin his homies to get the helicopter

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)

In the summer of 2013, he caught a glimpse of his friends’ultimate fantasy: an American Express Centurion Card

lame fucking fantasy imo

Yeah the VF piece isn't definitive but it's a handy collation of details plus some new ones.

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

lame fucking fantasy imo

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.

I don't feel bad for them at all!

what's VR?

Typo for VF

i blame venture capital

This VF seems less like Thackeray more like Trollope.

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.”

Woulda been funnier if he was accused of using bing

the grim irony is bing has a festival organizer feature and he never knew

ok lol

http://pagesix.com/2017/07/01/failed-fyre-festival-promoter-too-broke-to-hire-defense-attorney/

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.

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.