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Fukuoka, Japan When the Kimura family moved here from Tokyo, their middle school-aged daughter missed her old friends. Midway into her first year in high school, she stopped going. Between 14 and 19, she barely left the house, and for one year hardly left her room, interacting only with her parents. Now 33 and recovered,…
googleon: snippetFor the past four years, photographer Brandon Stanton has documented people he encountered along the streets of New York City for his popular blog, “Humans of New York,” but it was a photo last week of a teenager in Brooklyn that has taken the world by storm. Walking through Brownsville, Brooklyn, an area with…
The PC Police are coming Chaiters Gonna Chait — The Nib — Medium.
In centuries, when we look back at the menswear seasons of yesteryear, autumn/winter 15 will be remembered first and foremost as the season that Rick Owens sent three penises down his runway. It sounds silly in this day and age, but while no one bats an eyelash at female nudity on the catwalk, the male…
For the next two years, the chances are good that the U.S. government will be almost completely paralyzed. After the midterm elections, power is more perfectly divided between a president and Congress that detest each other. Each sees its main job as blocking the other’s ambitions. The Republican majorities on Capitol Hill will pass bills…
/.byline-inner Nearly every single trend people used to wear in the ’90s has made a comeback by now: relaxed-fit jeans, logo tees, turtlenecks, camel coats. Many of them played a big role in last year’s normcore movement. If we’re going to be honest, though, most of us who are loving the redux probably didn’t wear…
On Sunday morning, Dec. 7, Michael Jeffries called some of the senior executives at Abercrombie & Fitch to discuss the holiday season. That was typical Jeffries. He was the creator and chief executive officer of the modern-day Abercrombie and had controlled virtually every aspect of the company for the past 22 years. He approved every piece of…
Today Tumblr is announcing the launch of Creatrs, a new program that matches up Tumblrs artists with brands and advertising campaigns. The project has been in development for roughly a year. At a breakfast meeting at Tumblr’s offices in New York, head of creative strategy David Hayes explained the ways in which Tumblr is expanding its…
Michael Connor | Wed Jan 21st, 2015 1:06 p.m. This is Rhizome Today for Wednesday, January 20, 2015. This post will be deleted on January 21. Rafaël Rozendaal, tinycursor.com (2008). Screenshot from Chrome browser on Android device. It’s well known by this point that, while mobile use rises, the web browser’s popularity is declining. Forbes reported last…
Rich User Experience, UX and Desktopization of War “If we only look through the interface we cannot appreciate the ways in which it shapes our experience” — Bolter, Gromala: Windows and Mirrors Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied: “Rich User Experience” from the series With Elements of Web 2.0, 2006 This essay is based on my…