For all the sartorial advancements in bike commuting apparel, producing a suit that can truly crossover from the bike lane to the boardroom has eluded most designers. Where a taped-seam, zippered pocket or smattering of visible reflectivity (however……
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DMG Media, publisher Daily Mail and MailOnline.com, has purchased Elite Daily. Elite Daily, as most of you know, is your worst Facebook friend’s favorite site. It publishes mostly mindless “sharable” articles aimed at millennials.
Despite our thoughts on Elite Daily, the site has plenty of fans. According to ComScore, it gets about 74 million unique visits a month. Also, 70 percent of its visitors fall in that coveted 18 to 34 year age range.
David Arabov, Elite Daily’s CEO, was obviously excited about the deal. “This is the next step in our development as a media company for and by millennials and will position us to deliver millennials the content they desire on an international scale,” he said in an announcement.
Bon Appétit has made a few changes to its editorial team. Details are below.
In the latest and perhaps most dramatic sign of just how much the New York Daily News is following in the footsteps of UK’s Daily Mail and betting on the profit margins of a Web-driven international purview, Joe Pompeo has the scoop on a sad, symbolic retrenchment:
There are plans to close down the Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens bureaus in the coming weeks, sources with knowledge of the matter told Capital New York, in a move that one insider described as the “end of an era.”
The good news: The remaining 10 or so reporters and editors still devoted to the boroughs will not be let go, but rather redeployed to other areas of the organization, like the Web team, city desk or courthouses, the sources said. For instance, the News will now have a couple reporters combing through lawsuits full-time in Queens and the Bronx.
Another wrinkle to all this, from our end, is that every time we’ve lately visited the NYDN site, we’ve noticed just how much entertainment and celebrity items dominate the “Most Read” articles hit parade. In other words, we live in a news cycle now where it’s way more about JLo than Castle Hill.
Pompeo got a statement from managing editor Rob Moore when he contacted the paper. Read those comments here.
Starting this weekend, LA will be spitting out its own version of girls. To HBO and Brian Williams‘ daughter Allison, it is answering with Snapchat and Steven Spielberg‘s daughter Sasha.
From an exclusive report by our sister site The Hollywood Reporter:
Literally Can’t Even comes from writers Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn, the daughters of Steven Spielberg and John Goldwyn, respectively.
The series stars the friends and writing partners as comedic versions of themselves — Spielberg recently single after a long relationship and Goldwyn embarking on a six-month cleanse — and follows them on a series of misadventures in Los Angeles.
The series debuts tomorrow, january 31, with each episode clocking in at a lot less than a Girls chapter. Under five minutes. You can find the show on Snapchat’s Snap Channel, part of the overall Discover initiative announced earlier this week.
[Pictured, left to right, courtesy Snapchat: Goldwyn, Spielberg and Rylee Ebsen]A couple Revolving Door items for you this afternoon, involving O, The Oprah Magazine and Bloomberg. Details are below.
Many folks will not have heard of Swedish-based company Aspiro before today. But it’s a whole new ballgame now.
Per a report by UPI writer Veronica Linares, Jay Z has tendered an offer of $56 million to acquire the overseas firm:
Aspiro offers a subscription service called Tidal in the the U.S. that allows users to stream “HiFi quality audio,” magazines and video content. Jay Z – whose real name is Shawn Corey Carter – reportedly
plans to make the purchase thought one of his side ventures, Project Panther Bidco.
“The recent developments in the entertainment industry, with the migration to media streaming, offers great potential for increased entertainment consumption and an opportunity for artists to further promote their music,” said a statement released by Project Panther.
According to Lindares, Streaming Media AS, which owns three-quarters of Aspiro, has accepted the Jay Z offer.
[Screen grab via: aspiro.com]Lors de ses balades nocturnes, Kevin Yang capture les lumières des enseignes, des parkings ou des commerces ouverts de nuit. Comme sorties du néant, ces structures apparaissent encore plus belles quand il fait noir, entre lumières vives, couleurs et reflets. Une sélection à découvrir en images.
A winner of the Franz Award for Porcelain Design, the Sphere pendant find inspiration for this year’s “eternity” theme in the visual symbol. Now in its three dimensional form, the two overlapping ellipses meet at the center where there is a focused, direct beam light. On either side are horizontal extensions with embedded LEDs that cast a softer ambient light. With filigree, complex shapes, the design is also an example of porcelains many applications, even for intricate details.
Designer: Markus Kurkowski
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This interactive installation by design studio Kram/Weisshaar allows users to remotely control a robotic arm that sculpts foam cubes into furniture pieces (+ movie).
Stockholm-based Reed Kram and Munich designer Clemens Weisshaar have devised, coded and built a pop-up robotic plant for CODE_n, a digital innovation platform.
Their Robochop installation allows online users anywhere in the world to harness the power of one of four robotic arms – more commonly used to manufacture cars – and control their actions to carve anything from furniture designs to abstract sculptures out of a 50-square-centimetre cube.
Located in separate spaces, the robotic arms are equipped with a needle gripper at the end, which they use to pick up, hold and move the dense foam blocks from a storage unit.
Mounted in front of each robot’s pedestal is a cutting wire, used to slice sections from the cube as the machine moves its surface over the heated element.
An app designed by Kram/Weisshaar provides the interface for users to create a set of instructions for the robot, by making hand gestures on a touch screen.
Once the design is complete, the file is uploaded to the system and the cutting process takes place. The finished products will be packaged and posted to their creators.
From 16 to 20 March, both internet users and on-site visitors to the CeBit 2015 IT fair in Hannover will be able to participate.
The project follows the 2010 Outrace installation set up in London’s Trafalgar Square, which allowed users to trace light patterns with six robotic arms.
“In 2010 Outrace enabled people all over the world to take over giant robotic arms to write messages in light,” said Weisshaar. “With Robochop we are going all the way to let users manufacture real world objects rather than media.”
Kram/Weisshaar recently installed a film studio inside one of Audi’s super-fast driverless cars to capture the reactions of passengers experiencing the high-speed journey.
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