Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
He was commissioned to design an architectural extravagance at ground zero. He succeeded, an accomplishment that threatens to destroy his reputation. Photo: Jacqueline Roberts HTML COMPONENT MARKUP BEGIN Santiago Calatrava was commissioned to design an architectural extravagance at ground zero. He succeeded, an accomplishment that threatens to destroy his reputation. HTML COMPONENT MARKUP END Santiago…
When New York City’s cultural czars revealed the choice of a new piece of public art for Long Island City late last year, the response was swift and withering. Residents of the Queens neighborhood and others lit into the proposal — an eight-foot-long reclining human form painted vibrant pink — saying it was too bright,…
Entry Text Azealia Banks did not hold back during her interview with Playboy for the magazine’s April 2015 issue, discussing topics like pervasive racism, her sex life and even Kanye West. The 23-year-old Harlem native, known for her no-holds-barred tweets, began her career sharing songs on Myspace and emailing producers for beats. In November, she…
No one knows who wrote this infamously bad, now-legendary <em>Harry Potter</em> fanfiction. Photo: Jed Egan and Photos: Warner Bros., Shutterstock Like Stonehenge or the works of Shakespeare, we’ll probably never know who was behind “My Immortal” — the massive Harry Potter–inspired text that is widely regarded as the worst piece of fanfiction ever written — but…
cache hit 185:single/related:3a5449b86601aec7e9aac3e20cf38559 empty On Wednesday evening, Twitter changed its rules to state that it would forbid users from posting revenge porn and non-consensual nudes on the service. In the private information section of the site’s policy list, the company added that users “may not post intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed…
It was October 2, 2000, and somewhere in the sub-basement of CNET’s popular website Gamecenter, two editors simultaneously inserted their keys into the doomsday machine. They looked at each other, a mix of pain and grim determination on their faces. One nodded. They turned their keys and pressed the glowing red button. It was done….
Entry Text Warning: This article contains lots of photos of naked bodies. Read at your own risk.When you think of honey, what comes to mind? Is it a perfectly sweetened spot of tea? Your special someone calling your attention? Winnie the Pooh? Kanye West and Kim Kardashian making love on a motorcycle? If you hold…
In 1997, a writer and web developer named Paul Ford walked into a sushi restaurant in midtown Manhattan to meet a group of strangers. These were bloggers—a term not yet widely in use—who, along with Ford, formed a tight-knit vanguard of individuals publishing personal writing online. Ford had been building experimental personal websites since 1993, and had…
Last week, director Joseph Kahn dropped his “dark as f*ck” POWER/RANGERS short. Soon, it was pulled from the internet, but now it’s back in full NSFW glory. So what happened? In an exclusive interview, Kahn explains how the internet saved his short. Plus why he doesn’t think the real Power Rangers show should be this…
When Danuta Danielsson stepped out of a crowd in the Swedish city of Växjö in 1985 and hit a neo-Nazi with her purse, the photo quickly became famous around the world. Danielsson was widely praised back then: Her mother had reportedly survived a German Nazi concentration camp, according to Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. Thirty years later, Danielsson,…