Chris Mohney

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tylercoates:

Are you a certified diver? (this will dictate which type of dive we do with the sharks) and do you want to golf? Golf is optional and will be at Atlantis, probably 9 holes. Let me know, thanks!

 Tyler Gets His Groove Back, Is Eaten By Sharks.

Are you a 10 handicap golfer? (this will dictate which type of golf we do with the sharks)

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Anonymous asked: When they're old enough, what will you tell your children about Nick Denton?

I won’t have to tell them anything. They’ll know all about him from the state-mandated History of Blogging curriculum. But on cold windy nights when spindly treelimbs claw the windowpanes and the eaves rattle and the rooftimbers creak with the passing of an age, I’ll gather them round the fire and spin dark tales of the days when posting quotas ruled the roost, when the couches were somehow overstuffed and uncomfortable and reeked of sexual violation, when I was driven from my warm blogger pajamas into the unforgiving streets of the Upper East Side to photograph dead men fallen from the sky, and how I failed, and how bad I felt about that failure, and how I felt bad about that feeling of badness, and how aren’t we all so much better here in our cabin in the mountains, and yet how it was no fault of that man’s we speak, because he was and is the man of the age, and it’s a lesson they had all best learn well, when they’re in school, so they should pay attention during that History of Blogging class because that is the history of America and

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BlackBook: Please Welcome Joshua David Stein

bbook:

BlackBook is most pleased to announce that Joshua David Stein will be joining our team in February as our new editor in chief. Josh will take over editorial responsibility for the BlackBook brand across web, mobile, print, and any other yet-to-be-discovered media throughout the universe.

Josh comes to us most recently from Departures magazine, where he served as senior editor as well as overseeing their Black Ink premiere title. Otherwise, he has edited or contributed to Gilt Manual, Eater, Page Six, and Topic among many other venues, as well as editing Gawker and Gridskipper back in the day.

We expect great things from Josh and can’t wait for him to get started, so stay tuned and expect along with us.

huzah

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brooklynmutt:

Database Cinema: An Instant Movie Mashup Generator

Julian Palacz’s Algorithmic Search for Love, an interactive digital media installation, works like a search engine; viewers can search a collection of films for a certain spoken phrase and the program plays back a montage of all those moments in sequence. The program works by parsing the English subtitle tracks of 500 films on a local hard drive, creating an edit similar to the “supercut” sequences that have been so popular on YouTube lately — like this one. This video demonstrates how the program works with the phrases “where are you?” and “holy shit!” (the video contains some adult language and scenes). 

Read more —> The Atlantic