Entries from April 2009

Monday, April 20th, 2009

a little bit reimagining the website experience

Just checked out the new Lacoste Red site today, at the recommendation of John Drake. In theory, this is the kind of website that gives me nightmares. All flash, long intro before you actually get to the navigation of the site itself, loud music playing at you without warning–all the kind of stuff that I’ve [...]

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Know Your Counter-Culture Youth Movements History

At Passover Seder a friend of my mother’s brought me a DVD of the movie Stilyagi (“Стиляги.”) The movie is about a counter-culture youth movement that took place in mid-1950′s USSR. These kids would listen to jazz, dress in outlandish western fashion, with zoot suit jackets and skinny pants, style their hair into pompadours, call [...]

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

subliminal messages

The latest short film from London Squared Productions. Urban Anthropologists, Andy and Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens. Love it!

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

greed is good. sex is easy. youth is forever.

Just saw the trailer for the latest Bret Easton Ellis adaptation: The Informers – Check it (if you’re seeing this in a reader, click HERE to see the video). Ellis is one of my favorite writers. There’s a lot of people out there who enjoy his writing in a disturbingly literal way (particularly the people [...]