Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Grey has returned the Bronze Lion its Singapore office won at Cannes for its I Sea app, which purported to find refugees stranded in the Mediterranean. The app, which was eventually pulled after Grey said it was in the testing phase, caused a storm on Twitter and elsewhere. One blogger, global senior manager of sponsorship…
Last week, a corner of the internet went 100 percent gorillashit over a tweet comparing Taylor Swift’s vagina to a messy ham sandwich. And why shouldn’t it? It is gold-standard content, delightfully shocking and utterly insane. Several times that day, I returned to the tweet, pleasantly agog. But other people saw something more sinister in…
A horrible story from Minnesota, as reported by the Washington Post: A Minnesota traffic stop turned deadly Wednesday evening when a police officer opened fire on a black driver. The victim, 32-year-old Philando Castile, died at a Minneapolis hospital, a family member told The Washington Post. The aftermath of the shooting was filmed by…
Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Under The Sun is really two films, threaded together: one a carefully crafted lie, and the other something closer to the truth. A child of the former Soviet Union, Mansky has spent much of his career recording life in post-communist Russia, while occasionally taking his cameras to places like Cuba, where some…
If there’s anything to be said about Bernie Sanders fans, it’s that they’ve handled the past year with the sort of sensitivity so rarely seen in politics today. And now that Bernie Sanders has finally conceded to Hillary Clinton, they’re responding with the same fair-minded thoughtfulness we’ve all come to know and love. http://gawker.com/bernie-bites-t… You’ll…
Today in Dallas, the city held a memorial service for the five officers killed by Micah Johnson last week. The service was attended by Barack and Michelle Obama, among others. It was, as you would expect, a somber affair for everyone—everyone except George W. Bush, who was ready to fucking party. The video above captures…
Image: Green Arrow #13 Kevin Smith’s already directed an episode of The Flash, and he’s going to be back directing another episode for season three. But what he really wants to do is direct and write an episode of Arrow. Smith created Onomatopoeia as a villain for Green Arrow back in 2002. He’s the usual…
The Greatest Millennial Actor in the Universe is Justin Long One of the great parts about being a millennial is that everyone else likes to tell you what you are and aren’t like and what does and doesn’t represent you. It’s the best. It’s American tradition to anoint pop culture figures as being totally representative…
An app to locate rentable driveways for parking. An app to locate rentable yachts. An app to help you understand “cause and effect in your life.” An app that guides mindful meditation. An app that imparts wisdom. And a new proposal to create an app designed to stop police killings. We are overloaded daily with…
[UPDATES BELOW] There are currently extensive delays on every single subway line, thanks to a power outage at the MTA’s Rail Control Center in Manhattan. #ServiceAlert: b/d, all train lines expect extensive delays, due to power outage. Allow additional travel time. — NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) July 13, 2016 The outage was first reported at…