Morning Dump: Wyclef’s bid for Haiti, Arcade Fire on Tube of You, Ice Cube stock plummets, Can Scott Dadich save the magazine industry?
Posted on 07. Aug, 2010 by Simon in Morning Dump
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PedroWyclef Jean! In a barely coherent open letter to the Huffington Post, former Fugees member Jean explains he’s running for the presidency of Haiti because, you know, he loves his daughter. My interpretation of all celebrity decision making is perpetually stuck on skeptical — but even I figure what could really be the harm of Jean winning this political race? Haiti is in shambles. I mean, it can’t get worse, right? Sure, Jean might have to take time away from promoting his soon-to-be-released seventh studio album, and yes he might not know how to speak like an actual Haitan, and ok, he might demand a daily appearance fee if he gets the gig — but as long as Haiti doesn’t need anything from Lauren Hill I think Jean’s going to do juuuust fine. -sy - Woo, am I ever tired (and lazy) this morning. It hurts my brain to even write this, so I definitely don’t want to be reading anything like some sucker when I could be watching something instead, especially when it’s a bunch of clips from Arcade Fire’s recent Madison Square Garden show, directed by Terry Gilliam, that I didn’t catch the first time live (it’s that lazy thing getting in the way again). -jk-g
- Apparently there are people who study glaciers for a living. Double apparently, they now tell us a giant chunk of a Greenland glacier has broken off, paving the way for somebody to undoubtedly build an accurate reproduction of Superman’s fortress of solitude. FINALLY.
- Can Scott Dadich save the magazine industry? The New York Observer has a great article on how Daddich — creative impetus behind the Wired magazine iPad app and now tasked with leading Conde Nast at -large into the touchscreen era — has almost overnight become heralded as the new saviour of print institutions. Lofty expectations for a 34 year old who never grew up wanting to work in magazines. Having played with the Wired app, I can say it’s impressive but probably not going to revolutionize the floundering medium overnight. Still, it seems Dadich understands that in order to preserve magazines, he can’t be aiming to save them — he’s going to have to reinvent what they are entirely .
