Mens Magazine Covers interpreted so you don’t have to. Modern Primate is a new project from the mind of Chris Menning (Know Your Meme, Buzzfeed). It’s kind of a anti-mens-magazine mens-magazine. So far it’s posts seem smart (‘How To Pretend to Care About The Super Bowl’), snarky without being obnoxious (‘What Mens Interest Magazines Are Really... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Thank you Project X for making this gif of a dog in a bouncy castle possible.
I don’t want to see Project X in the theater. (The fact that Corey Delaney basically did this for absofucking real is such a better story, imo.)
But I am forever grateful that I can gif the trailer and stare at the dog above all day today. - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. In this environment, the best an audacious manager can do is to develop small improvements to existing systems—climbing the hill, as it were, toward a local maximum, trimming fat, eking out the occasional tiny innovation—like city planners painting bicycle lanes on... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
entrepreneurdesigners: Above: previous state of the world Below: current state of the world Courtesy of the wonderful Kenyatta This was my bastardization of the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari as I apply them to the entertainment industry for Gary and Christina’s Entrepreneurial Design class at SVA. The top is an illustration of... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Everyone’s Asian Mother snuck into Jeremy Lin’s press conference last night I know that the Jeremy Lin story is about breaking down stereotypes and everything… … but I think this woman writes for Asian American Moms Magazine which is probably a real thing. And if you get that joke then your mom is probably a charter member: “Your fans in Taiwan... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Kickstarter has its first two $1M projects in less than 24 hours(!) We talked about Kickstarter funded content projects during Gary and Christina’s class on Wednesday and how they, along with Louis CK’s direct to fan experiment, could be seen as a positive sign of things to come. My only concern that night was that successes like Louis CK,... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
As an old-school internet guy *and* a massive music nerd, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the future of the music industry (and similar content businesses) over the past 15 years and I’ve come to the conclusion that most traditional publishing models are totally unsustainable at this point, and are just being kept on life support by... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Jeremy Lin’s line vs the Lakers tonight: 38 PTS 13-23 4 RB 7 AST 6 TO As a Knicks fan, I was holding my breath all week waiting to see what he’d do in tonight’s game vs the Lakers. Fortunately he was phenomenal. Best part, though, was at halftime when ESPN reporter Lisa Salters didn’t believe Lin when he said that he was going to the locker room... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, England and a Whole Lot More heressomeawesome: As Felicia is out of the country this week, you’re getting a double-dose of me (Barrett) instead. I can already hear you science nerds squealing with joy, but I’ve got something a little different up my sleeve today. This week, one of my... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Russian Film ‘Aelita, Queen of Mars’ was to Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ as ‘Ghost in the Shell’ was to ‘The Matrix’ If you took/are taking a film theory class in college, chances are you had to watch Fritz Lang’s classic expressionist 1927 film ‘Metropolis’. What you may not learn (or at least I didn’t) was that his work was strongly influenced by a... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Everything is a Remix: The Matrix futurejournalismproject: Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker, and friends have been working on a four-part video series called Everything is a Remix. Here, to demonstrate their point, they juxtapose scenes from the Matrix with films that it drew inspiration from. For example, as we move along the timeline:... - http://finalbossform.com/post...