by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on October 1, 2014
- The New York Times reports that it will cut 100 newsroom jobs, and more. They need to give people more reasons to read the paper, not less. [The New York Times]
- It’s National Kale Day. It’s also World Vegetarian Day. It’s also International Day of Older Persons. Celebrate. Eat a salad and call your grandma. [The Internet]
- Threshold Entertainment, the people behind those Mortal Kombat movies from the 1990s, are partnering with the makers of Tetris on a live-action Tetris movie. “It’s a very big, epic sci-fi movie,” claims Threshold CEO Larry Kasanoff. As you probably remember, Tetris is a puzzle game about stacking blocks. [Future Tense via The Wall Street Journal]
- A new piece by Constant Dullaart works on the false assumption that all Instagram followers are equal. He’s bought followers on Instagram and assigned them to specific Instagram accounts in order to “level influence.” Engagement levels of these followers aren’t mentioned once. This project doesn’t do much more than illustrate bad business practice. [ARTnews]
- In a Medium story, a teenager accuses a 29-year-old Brooklyn “alt-lit” editor of rape. Other teenage girls come out with similar stories. [Gawker]
- Want: Trip to Iceland. The National Gallery of Iceland is opening the “Vasulka Chamber,” a research department devoted to preserving video art and new media. The chamber is named after Woody and Steina Vasulka, founders of the Kitchen. [e-flux]
- The Guggenheim plans a second location in New York. [Hyperallergic via The Art Newspaper]
- Artist Tony Fitzpatrick sure can tell a story. In his latest Dime Story column for New City he recalls a period of time he spent bartending for a rather unsavory cast of characters: “[The bar] was full of bikers and mechanics and hard-labor guys who didn’t much like the ‘college pukes.’ They scared the shit out of me, and I was careful to keep my head and learned the gentle art of cutting people off when I sensed trouble. This was a culture full of the white people we don’t put on the brochures, with guys named Orville and Roland, a lot of wide foreheads and disappearing chins. I swear some of these guys were their own uncles.” [New City]
- Because nobody knows how to make decisions without advice from the Internet, here’s a venn diagram on how to pick the perfect office plant. [The Huffington Post]
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