Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin have agreed to host The Academy Awards (ABC, March 7th). This is the first time in a long time that the Oscars have been co-hosted. This comedy duo is sure to be a hit.
via: Variety
The Beatles complete catalogue is being released on digital and a limited release of 30,000 USB versions are up for grabs. Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI have made these little lovelies available for the low price of $279.99. Currently on presale for the Dec 7 (UK) and Dec 8 (US) release dates.
via: Engadget
With 87 percent of precincts reporting early Wednesday morning, 53 percent of voters had approved the repeal, ending an expensive and emotional fight that was closely watched around the country as a referendum on the national gay-marriage movement. Polls had suggested a much closer race.
With the repeal, Maine became the 31st state to reject same-sex marriage at the ballot box. Five other states — Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont — have legalized same-sex marriage, but only through court rulings and legislative action.
via: NY Times
Hiliarious clip from the Graham Norton Show of an interview Ricky Gervais did during a press junket.
more about “Funny Ricky Gervais Interview“, posted with vodpod
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Oct
09
Men in Black 3? Hellz yeah!
Columbia Pictures is adding to its list of recent franchise revivals (Ghostbusters 3) by starting work on Men in Black 3. Etan Cohen has started writing the new script though no word yet on Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones.
via: Variety
30
Oct
09
Spoon’s New Album
On of my favorite bands, Spoon, is due to release a new album in 2010. The new album, Transference, will be in stores on January 26th in the US and January 25th in Europe.
Go to Pitchfork to hear their recent single Got Nuffin.
Track listing: 01 Before Destruction, 02 Is Love Forever?, 03 The Mystery Zone, 04 Who Makes Your Money, 05 Written in Reverse, 06 I Saw the Light, 07 Trouble Comes Running, 08 Goodnight Laura, 09 Out Go the Lights, 10 Got Nuffin, 11 Nobody Gets Me But You
via: Pitchfork
30
Oct
09
Animated Anthony Bourdain
If you like Anthony Bourdain’s show “No Reservations” then you may want to check out the new animated “Anthony Bourdain’s Alternate Universe”. This show will be an online 6-part series due out in 2010 which will focus on “what it’s like in Anthony Bourdain’s head” and can be seen on Travel Channel.com.
via: Laughing Squid
30
Oct
09
NYC vainest city in America?
The blog totalbeauty.com has named New York City as the vainest city in America. Even places like LA, number 5, and Miami, number 2, apparently don’t measure up. Not so sure I buy it….
Sure, there are only 4.1 plastic surgeons per 100,000 people in the New York City region (compared to Salt Lake City’s six), but the Big Apple outspends every other city in nearly every category — more than $21 million on hair coloring, $32.5 million on skin care, $5.5 million on makeup and nearly $530,000 on hair growth products. According to the Census Bureau, there were more than ten thousand personal care businesses (think: hair and nail salons, day spas) in 2002 (the most recent year available) — nearly three times the number in any other city.
via: totalbeauty.com
Penguin Classics cloth bound books were only available in the UK but now they’ve made it over to this side of the pond. The lovely patterns are designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. The lovely blog Design*Sponge has nabbed an interview with her to welcome in the US release of the covers. This may have me picking up a few of these in the near future.
How did you choose the motifs for the patterns? Was it hard to narrow down an entire novel into one icon?
One of the great things about designing for the classics is that the material is so rich and full of possibilities – it’s not about finding the one and only perfect signifier for a book, but one that works within the context of this series, and perhaps which takes a slightly new angle on a familiar work. I read the books and discussed them with one of out picture researchers, Isabelle De Cat, then we created mood boards full of ideas, and narrowed it down from there. Some of the final patterns are more literal than others. The peacock feather on Dorian Grey, for example, plays on the book’s themes of vanity and the superficial, whereas the leaf motif on Jane Eyre refers directly to the lightning-blasted chestnut tree, a concrete element in the text that serves as a potent symbol of the book’s central relationship.
via: Design*Sponge
One of the web’s fastest growing and most liked websites, Hulu, is going to make the switch over from free to paid. This does not necessarily mean that all content is going to be charged for but we can make a guess that most of it probably will. These charges may even encompass broadcast content, the free channels, which is even more of a bummer. Not cool, not cool at all.
via: Lifehacker
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