I think LD already proved that not everyone who creates buzzed about tv shows is necessarily going to be good at writing NYer articles
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
she just kind of falls flat when she's writing/on talk shows/basically anything where she doesn't have a bigger cast to support her?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
Read the article about Elmhurst Hospital in New York, and by the end I felt it was about three or four different subjects, none of which were quite written about to fruition. Frustrating.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, i got the sense it was a promise the author made to herself more than an essay
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
i liked her dog article!
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
woody allen and steve martin proved that about tv writers well before dunham, odenkirk, and kaling got in the game
― balls, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
I actually liked most of the Style issue--Dapper Dan, the crazy billionaire aussie lady, the punk fashion article had some Richard Hell stuff, even the Lena Dunham, though way beneath NYer's standards, did have a circle of puppies sucking each other's dicks.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:50 PM (1 month ago)
― gr8080, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
the Kaling piece better have a cat orgy
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:07 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark'
woody allen wrote some amazingly hilarious stuff for the nyer back in the day
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
was gonna say. martin wasn't too shabby either... and labeling either of them as "tv writers" suggests that those balls are surrounded by a touch of grey
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
oh god forks
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
I was pretty neutral on Mindy Kaling before reading her NYer piece. Normally I would feel like "hey, kudos, it must be pretty cool to be published in the NYer!" But mostly I feel embarrassed for her. Like this is something she is going to regret in the morning.
Because it is really bad.
― quincie, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
tbf the margaret atwood inventions piece is shitty too and she's margaret atwood
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
i think the concept for those pieces was just bad overall
i will get by
― balls, Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Cyber espionage piece is A+, if not something I should be reading first thing in the morning.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:56 (ten years ago) link
"We're completely fucked."
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 May 2013 12:13 (ten years ago) link
a lot of times people who do good work try something a lil out of their wheelhouse and maybe dont care so much and it comes out bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 May 2013 12:24 (ten years ago) link
anyone ever read David Mamet on politics and life my god
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 May 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, May 17, 2013 5:56 AM (3 hours ago)
is this in the newest one?
― gr8080, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
yerp
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 17 May 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Looking forward to getting my hopes up and ultimately quashed with the fungus plastic and the renewable turbine energy articles.
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Friday, 17 May 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
i noticed two different articles commented on the number of piercings the person being profiled has
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 17 May 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
Finally got an ipad subscription after usually buying loose issues. Will start with the cyber crime one first (in the evening)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 May 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
for what it's worth i think the mobile experience is going to drastically improve soon - i interviewed for a mobile app developer job at the nyer a couple months ago and some of the stuff in the pipeline is pretty cool. for one thing, they're moving the ipad version from adobe's proprietary platform to html5 - aka the reason it's normally about six times the filesize of the iphone version. it sounds like conde nast is finally investing pretty heavily in .com and the mobile division, which is long overdue imo
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
good to hear
― markers, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
Oh wow that is good to hear! I understand now why a single issue is 200+ mb, which is... steep. Five issues are 1gb. With my 16gb ipad that can become a problem quite soon.
The app itself is very clear and reader-friendly, but it's also clunky, and not very intuitive. For one, you can't even pinch and zoom in on the text (not that's not big enough, but I like adjusting it to how I want it to be).
Looking forward to the update.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
hey so i'm totally about to board this plane. should be p cool. see u later
― arby's, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
haha wrong thread
― arby's, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
Haha, order your subscription NOW arby's!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
they're moving the ipad version from adobe's proprietary platform to html5
oh god i hope this doesn't require an active connection (i assume not)
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 May 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
nope - it'll function identically to the iphone version, which is already html5-based. each page of the ipad version, iirc, literally gets rendered as a bitmap
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 17 May 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
iphone issues are too big too tho ~40mb
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 May 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
so i read that mindy kaling article, it wasn't great but neither were any of the other ones in that pretty dumb recurring feature... really dont see why hers deserved calling out or why its like PROOF she's untalented or something
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 May 2013 04:14 (ten years ago) link
oh ace
lagϚn: 40 mb isn't too bad given the images, but i agree that 10 mb would be preferable
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 May 2013 08:22 (ten years ago) link
theres no way the the v few images for such a small screen should add up to 40mb, still some weird shit going on there, i mean 40mb for the iphone screen is m/l the same thing as 200 for the ipad
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:40 (ten years ago) link
"I asked if he or Gavin knew anything about fungi, and he said, 'Not that much. I told him that I felt the universe had been directing me to change my life. Skidmore had cut fungi out of the curriculum, and at a Dreaming with the Dead workshop in '05, I had received a message: 'Life is mushrooming.' I was testing him to see how he would react. I told him what had happened the night before--I had seen a milk snake doing a dance of death beside a road near my house, and when I checked again the snake was curled in the shape of a heart. This was a sign that I should do what I loved. Even listened, and totally got what I was saying. That's when I knew I could work with him. I asked him, 'Can we get married?'"
From the plastic fungus piece.
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah i love the way the author just kind of drops the superwoowoo lady into that piece
― discreet, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
i stopped reading that a page or so in because i was like i'm not even sold on this being a thing yet, do i really need to know all about these guys' extended family history, but should i go back?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
try reading it backwards
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
I unno, I didn't mind the family history tbh! Anyway it kind of pays off quickly in that it explains the initial eureka moment, and maybe how they were able to get their startup off the ground (still reading it atm).
― llama del rey (Leee), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:34 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
very frequently feel this way about new yorker articles
― flopson, Saturday, 18 May 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
yeah they could def stand to leave out the background info from time to time
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 May 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
u mad that's what i read nyer for
― gr8080, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
its sometimes illuminating but sometime not and like im just sayin feel free to switch up the format occasionally
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
a nyer story: zoom in, zoom out, childhood, factoids, factoids, think abt it
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
ya that was def something that i really loved about it when i first got into the mag, all the character profiles & the way they'd humanize the most obscure or even evil ppl... but sometimes i find it tiresome, idk like it's stretching out to cover up for less thorough reporting, describing in minute detail what the person was wearing to cover up for the short & shallow interview they're using
― flopson, Sunday, 19 May 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
I wish I were a humanities grad student and could make a thesis out of analyzing all NYer writing, ever, and determine what percentage of pieces had a physical description of someone and/or his/her attire as the second sentence.
― quincie, Sunday, 19 May 2013 02:06 (ten years ago) link
they don't print many photos; physical discriptions are important
― gr8080, Sunday, 19 May 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
they famously didn't print any photos until somewhat recently. for some reason 'no photos' was a point of pride for a certain class of publication - nyer, new republic, wall st journal.
― balls, Sunday, 19 May 2013 03:08 (ten years ago) link