April 2010
WSJ - Fashion Embraces Online Videos →
“With the Internet and digital technology, industry executives say short online videos have become an essential part of the fashion marketing tool box.”
Tweet Tweet Boom Boom →
New York Magazine piece on a new generation of tech entrepreneurs in NY including foursquare, tumblr, etc.
“For a lot of people, the talking point is how beautifully something is crafted...”
– Rodarte
How Apple is Rethinking a Gospel of the Web →
@stevenbjohnson on open platforms vs walled gardens: “get the conditions right, a walled garden can turn into a rain forest.”
Refreshingly perverse — that was Malcolm.
A beautifully written piece by Tim Blanks. Malcolm McLaren RIP.
The soundtrack that Malcolm McLaren provided for Dries Van Noten’s show in March jammed together Bernard Herrmann’s elegant music for Hitchcock’s Vertigo and a particularly bolshie bit of punk provocation from the Mekons. Herrmann’s romantically surging strings were continually interrupted by a drunken shouty man, and the audio tug...
