A-Ron “The Downtown Don” (né Aaron Bondaroff) finally launched his long-delayed Off Bowery Productions site last night. The brains behind aNYthing, The Wreck Center, 205 Club, and indie popsters The Virgins returns to his roots by doing what he does best: selling tshirts.
Scott Kirsner of Cinema Tech has thrown together a comprehensive list of the sites that share revenue with video content providers and creators. Creating short videos and sharing them is a bodily function at this point, effortless and occasionally unexpected. But generating revenue - at least from the content side - is still difficult.
There is no formula thats appied across the board here. Each site is experimenting with its own way of giving back to the community that have bolstered their net worth to the billions. YouTube, for example,…
And we must treat them as such. Especially when their interiors are veined with “rich Corinthian leather.”
This is like the Tony Montana of car commercials.
Proactiv is the best face-wash I have ever used. Hands down. End of discussion. I have never considered another product since I started using it about 6 years ago.
That said, buying Proactiv has always been somewhat of a frustration. You can order it online at Proactiv.com, but only by agreeing to have it automatically re-ordered every month for something like $49.95. So even if I don’t use up my supply every month it automatically gets re-ordered and delivered, which I don’t like. I want to control when I get…
About a week ago we discovered Brick Arms, a collection of custom Lego mini-figures with custom-molded weapons and accessories. Of course we had to press the button, make the little guys travel across the country into our hands. I was sold the second I saw the Colonial Marine. Hicks or Hudson, doesn’t matter. Aliens is the only film James Cameron needed to make.
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We also picked up some little ditties named Mr. Gray and Mr. White, Brick Arms’ Jihadist tribute to Reservoir Dogs. They come with a bandoleer full…
The World, “water-based island masterplan” off the coast of Dubai, is ready for developers to start building custom $10 million island communities and resorts.
Massive sand-tankers built The World one archipelago at a time by spraying earth into the sea. How God is that?
Transportation around the aqueous city-state will be almost entirely by boat, ensuring that it’s only a matter of time before these azure waters are the setting for some imaginative outburst of zombie plague. This entire setup seems like an ad from the Umbrella Corporation.
We got some neat little juicboxes from Macktez.com the other day: packages with yellow notebooks and instructions for how to make the most of Black Friday (biggest retail day of the year).
Macktez reminds us of last years’ day-after-thanksgiving shopping fiasco:
We hit the mall running at 6am, buying way too much shit we didn’t need, and far too many of the wrong gifts. All because we didn’t plan ahead.
Mackez included a notebook in the package so we could start making our holiday shopping list early and stay organized, hopefully…
As Katrina’s two year anniversary approaches New Orleans is getting the predictable attention from the media, mostly retrospective looks at how little has been done over the past two years to shore New Orleans against renewed ruin from future disaster.
While we agree that pathetic little has been done to protect New Orleans against the very force of nature that devastated the city two years ago, New Orleans is still a vibrantly layered, bursting city, that refuses to let its future be a constant retelling of Katrina.
LVHRD member Rob Hudak’s latest…
It looks like Dow Jones will join MySpace as part of the News Corporation empire. Rupert Murdoch has won enough support from the Bancroft family to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Company for $5 billion. From the NY Times:
“Mr. Murdoch first made his offer to Dow Jones’s chief executive, Richard F. Zannino, over breakfast on March 29, and made a formal, written bid to the board on April 17, but the news did not break until May 1.
That breakfast with Mr. Murdoch set in motion…
Monocle Magazine’s latest issue has an affair’s report called “Top 20 Liveable Cities.” Munich ranks #1, Oslo is in there somewhere, Tokyo, Madrid, an Australian city, some Italian cities etc. Not one of Monocle’s most liveable cities is in the Americas, Africa or Asia (apart from Tokyo). All of the top cities’ inhabitants are of predominantly Anglo-European descent (again excluding Tokyo). Since Monocle is based in the UK, perhaps this is understandable.
To clarify before we continue: we are not taking issue with Monocle Magazine. We like their publication and believe…
Ponoko’s idea for collaboration between designers is a cool one. You submit a design to the Ponoko website, if they like it, they send it to their factory and it gets built by people and machines. Then you take your finished product and post it in the Ponoko online showroom. People see your design, love it, buy it, and you make $.
If you’re a designer looking for a factory you can sign up to beta test Ponoko. Check out their blog for some designs they’ve already manufactured.
By now you probably know that News Corp has reached a tentative agreement with Dow Jones to buy the Wall Street Journal. The $5 billion deal goes before the full Dow Jones board tonight.
No need for a countdown, this deal is as good as done. And why not? Gawker says this is the beginning of the end. It’s no such thing. The end of print journalism, of assertive, questioning, thoughtful publications, started to end in this country long ago. This buy is another inevitable nail in the coffin.
Do…
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