Designed to elevate the mobile photography experience to a more professional level, Moment launched with a two-piece lens system on Kickstarter in January 2014, pulling in nearly $500,000 and over nine times their goal. But while their lenses have……
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The launch of Condé Nast’s sponsored content studio — 23 Stories by Condé Nast — will likely mean good things for advertisers, and awkward things for Condé staffers.
The new unit — named for the 23 floors that Condé occupies in 1 WTC — will use Condé writers to create the ads, effectively taking the typical separation of business and editorial and mashing it into one giant, messy ball of content.
23 Stories will be led by Pat Connolly, vice president of marketing solutions for the Condé Nast Media Group. Connolly will report to Edward Menicheschi, Condé’s CMO. Menicheschi, of course, does not see the problem with using Condé staffers to create ads. In an announcement, he was proud to offer advertisers “access to our unparalleled editorial assets.”
Yet one wonders what this means for Condé brands. Does The New Yorker still hold its place of esteem when its editors are worrying about creating ads? Obviously Condé’s execs think it is worth the risk. We doubt editors and staff writers feel the same way.
Snapchat — the app for sending people short, disappearing videos of your butt — is getting serious about media. The company just launched Snapchat Discover, which allows media orgs the chance to send “snaps” or “stories” to users.
“Snapchat Discover is a new way to explore Stories from different editorial teams,” the company explained in a blog post. “It’s the result of collaboration with world-class leaders in media to build a storytelling format that puts the narrative first.”
Publishers are obviously going to take advantage of this new tool because the kids love them some Snapchat. Those that have jumped aboard already include National Geographic, CNN, Vice, Yahoo, People, Daily Mail, Cosmo, Comedy Central and The Food Network.
Another bricks-and-mortar video store has been conquered.
And although it’s no surprise that April will mark the end of Vidiots, a friendly destination for LA westside residents and familiar sight to many more zooming off the 10 Freeway past the Pico Blvd. storefront, it’s news that still stings. Last night, Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern, who has relied many times at deadline on the inventory of Vidiots and expertise of store staff, blogged about what is truly being lost:
High on the list of losses is something that a young clerk at Vidiots referred to in a conversation a few months ago. “I know places like this are doomed,” he said, “and there’s no way to stop progress. But it’s so great when someone comes in without a clue what he wants to rent, and I can suggest half-a-dozen terrific films he’d enjoy. I wonder where people will go for advice like that in the future.” I wonder too.
The Web is awash with user comments, of course, and endless lists of best this-and-thats. But it’s not the same as walking into a neighborhood shop you know and trust, and talking to a curator who calls himself a clerk.
Indeed. Last year, Morgenstern hosted a couple of Q&As at Vidiots with filmmakers Anjelica Huston and Nicole Holofcener. He writes that even then, folks in attendance knew the end was near. The silver lining: Vidiots’ owners, rather than selling their collection for pennies on the dollar, are hoping to pass on the inventory to an organization-individuals that can continue to make the titles available somehow.
[Photo via: vidiotsfoundation.org]There’s certainly no shortage of bad news about metropolitan newspapers. But every once in a while, there’s also some resplendently good news.
In January, The Cincinnati Enquirer added six full-time staffers. In officially welcoming this group over the weekend, the paper began by highlighting a New York state native – sports strategist Matt Tabeek:
Where I grew up: I grew up in Binghamton, New York, which is considered the Southern Tier of upstate New York (it’s about an hour south of Syracuse and an hour north of Scranton, Pennsylvania). I also spent parts of my childhood in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Rumson, New Jersey.
What I do at the Enquirer: I oversee the sports coverage and make sure we’re generating the kind of content that Reds, Bengals, University of Cincinnati, Xavier University and high school sports fans in this region want – especially for digital/social media consumption.
Where you can find me: I just moved here in mid-January, so I’m still getting to know Cincinnati. I just got an apartment downtown (and love it), so you might see me out wandering around downtown after work looking for a good pizzeria and/or Irish pub.
The other hires are storytelling coach Amy Wilson, digital producer Gin A. Ando, sports visual journalist Kareem Elgazzar, retro Cincy reporter Joel Beall and breaking news reporter Emilie Eaton. In terms of coolest job titles, it’s probably a tie between Wilson and Beall. And in the case of the latter, since his purview is to “connect Cincinnati’s vibrant past to the present,” we look forward to some sort of imminent WKRP in Cincinnati filming locations feature.
[Today’s Enquirer front page via: newseum.org]This short film celebrates the “Pink Helmet Posse,” three 6-year-old girls who share an..(Read…)
Michael Kenna est un photographe anglais né en 1953. Diplômé de la London College of Communication, l’artiste vit à Seattle. Devenu célèbre pour ses magnifiques paysages en noir et blanc, voici une sélection de son travail, avec des clichés capturés aux quatre coins du monde.
Réalisé par Danny Sangra, voici la nouvelle campagne promotionnelle de Mercedes-Benz avec Justin O’Shea, directeur des achats en ligne de la boutique de mode mytheresa.com, ainsi que les frères Chipperfield et les rédactrices de mode Veronika Heilbrunner et Julia Knolle. À l’aube de l’édition automne/hiver 2015 de Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, Justin se retrouve pris dans les clichés de la publicité de mode mais peut toujours compter sur Veronika et son cercle d’amis pour le ramener dans le monde réel.
‘Spikkel’ trays are the result of material tests with porcelain glazing. In these trays enamel grains are mixed with the porcelain clay,creating a sur..
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