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• For Nancy Pelosi and the new women in Congress, fashion was a defiant statement of purpose — and resistance - The Washington Post

  Their opening gambit was made plain and eloquent in their clothes. The full story will be in their votes.

  Stored on: 2019-01-03 18:55

  Tags: #fashion #politics #dc #democrats #congress #power #beauty #washington

• ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Cinematography, in GIFs

  “I’m not someone who totally buys into the color-theory discussions of, like, yellow means wisdom and green means envy,” Laxton says. “But thinking about love, and thinking about young love especially, what comes into my mind is warmth. Memories of past loves, I think of reds and yellows and oranges.”

  Stored on: 2019-01-03 14:25

  Tags: #art #movies #film #cinema #beauty #love #storytelling #creativity #memory

• Padma Lakshmi: ‘Top Chef’ Profile

  “It was only because Helmut Newton happened to find me and happened to love scars that all of a sudden everybody wanted me for their fashion shows, and everyone wanted me in short sleeves, so you could tell it was me,” she reflects, tearing off a piece of the voluminous dosa. “It took another person who had power to look at me another way, to give me permission, that that was even available to me.”

  Stored on: 2019-01-03 14:03

  Tags: #nyc #magazines #food #writing #fashion #beauty #power #television #books #memory

• The Post-Advertising Future of the Media - The Atlantic

  We’ve accelerated backward, as if in a time machine, whizzing past the flush 20th century to a more distant, more anxious, and, just maybe, more exciting past that is also the future.

  Stored on: 2019-01-01 16:06

  Tags: #journalism #media #newspapers #history #usa #politics #engagement #business #nytimes #news #advertising #technology #subscription

• Róisín Murphy: 'Pop’s about putting across the primitive parts of yourself' | Music | The Guardian

  “It’s weird in a way – it’s like I’ve bypassed my past. But Sheffield gave me the sense of where all music came from, and it’s good to remember that. It was the perfect size of city, where I worked out the connection between electro into house into hip-hop into soul music and back again. And it saved me, you know, music: being something just to immerse yourself into and be obsessed with, which leads you to be interested in other things.” She smiles. “Do you know what I mean? It all started with music for me. Everything still does.”

  Stored on: 2018-12-25 17:23

  Tags: #news #music #culture #cities #uk #london #pop #creativity #art #dance #songwriting

• Race and Russian interference: Senate reports detail age-old tactic | World news | The Guardian

  “Equally important was putting black activist language out on social media in order to scare white citizens into thinking their nation was changing, and mobilize white voters in support of Trump,” he said, pointing to posts that falsely showed Black Lives Matter activists with guns and claimed they planned to exercise their second-amendment rights. “Black folks were not the target for that,” Johnson said, adding in reference to pro-law enforcement conservative reactionaries: “I’m convinced the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ crowd was the target there.”

  Stored on: 2018-12-24 22:52

  Tags: #facebook #twitter #race #uselections #activism #2016 #protest #russia #power #black #white #social #socialmedia

• It’s Official: Aardvark Books Will Close in January - October 30, 2018 - SF Weekly

  Aardvark’s impending closure marks the end of another independent bookstore in San Francisco. There are about 57 left in the city, according to the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, a figure that includes comic-book shops, museum gift shops, and retailers with small book selections

  Stored on: 2018-12-21 20:05

  Tags: #sanfrancisco #books #business #reading #economics #economy #jobs #work #culture #bayarea

• Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics - The New York Times

  “It was a group that, like, honest to God, next day was gone,” said Mr. Watson. “It was weird,” he said. “The whole thing was weird.”

  Stored on: 2018-12-19 17:13

  Tags: #news #social #politics #socialmedia #alabama #usa #russia #democrats #republicans

• The Fresno Bee and the War on Local News - GQ

  "I do think there is a future in what we do, because it is essential," he said to me. "When faced with a future of no news? Then maybe it will be valued."

  Stored on: 2018-12-19 17:05

  Tags: #journalism #newspapers #california #magazines #politics #news #media #reputation #attention

• Why Your iPhone Selfies Don't Look Like Your Face - The Atlantic

  The global economy is wired up to your face. And it is willing to move heaven and Earth to let you see what you want to see.

  Stored on: 2018-12-18 15:04

  Tags: #iphone #photography #surveillance #technology #beauty #identity #app #apple #google #mobile

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