Vanity Fair and existential questions at the Royal Ontario Museum
Posted by Simon in media, Uncategorized on 06. Jan, 2010 | 5 Comments
As I strolled the halls of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Vanity Fair exhibit, all I could wonder was; is this a tomb to magazines? Conde Nast was once the gatekeeper of high culture. Now the storied publishing house is struggling simply to stay relevant (and financially stable) closing previously untouchable halo titles such as Gourmet. [...]
Ash Scans: George Wallace and John Kennedy
Posted by Jef in Ash Scans, media, Politics, Race on 29. Dec, 2009 | 0 Comments
George, October-November 1995 The Aughts in America are book-ended by George W. Bush’s caricature of the red states on one end, and Barack Obama’s idealized blue state persona on the other. Over a decade ago, it was a similar middling American uncertainty that was the creative impetus behind John Kennedy Jr.’s mid-90s launch of George [...]
High concepts, low budgets, no concepts, fix it in Photoshop
Posted by Jef in Art, media, Pop Culture on 03. Dec, 2009 | 5 Comments
When I get drunk and talk about the death of magazines, every Wednesday, I’m mostly lamenting the death of the job market and the PR-approved pap that we’ve come to punch John Lahr in the face with and call profile pieces. But what can I say. I’ve written the shit myself. Mostly because I’m green, [...]
For Sale: prime editorial space
Posted by jessekg in media on 28. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
I could be over-reacting about this whole thing, but I was a bit confused when I opened up to the feature in the October issue of Toronto Life to see this spread (above). I probably thought about it for five minutes, wondering whose idea it was that a picture of birds on a telephone wire perfectly [...]
