Yes, So on and so on

explore-blog: Pie-charting the appalling gender imbalance of...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:54:43 -0500

Pie-charting the appalling gender imbalance of the literary world, based on author bylines and books reviewed. See the full data set here.

Podcasting and academia don’t fare any better.

Fifty years later, “the problem that has no name” has both a name and numbers, but little seems to have changed.

"This was bad. Fort Wayne bad."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:30:00 -0500

“This was bad. Fort Wayne bad.”

- Parks and recreation

Heh heh

(via thetrifler)

"The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for..."

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:37:54 -0500

“The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice that it is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this period of research “childhood.””

- Michael Chabon

#HappyValentinesDay

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:06:22 -0500

#HappyValentinesDay

One for the books.

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:01:53 -0500

One for the books.

Meanwhile, on the armoire…

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:43:39 -0500

Meanwhile, on the armoire…

Save the EU

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:46:19 -0500

The gray-haired lady with a disregard for speed limits zipped around corners in her sports car, a little yellow one that had a “Save the EU” sticker on the bumper. She tossed her head back a little as she passed me, probably late for tea.

brianjanosch: I jot a lot of notes on the train. Today’s topic:...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:30:17 -0500

brianjanosch:

I jot a lot of notes on the train. Today’s topic: @allie_townsend

Well, golly.

Dream

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:40:42 -0500

… that I was in Chicago watching a group of mimes act out episodes of “Pete & Pete.” It was some form of progressive avant garde miming meant to metaphor some society suck I wasn’t aware of. Or so said the angry mob after I laughed during “The Strongest Man in the World” bit.

San Francisco Public Transit, The List

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:41:05 -0500

1. Put $40 on Clipper card. Rode train. Immediately lost Clipper card.

2. Rode Muni in the wrong direction for two stops before strutting across the platform in obvious attempt to “act natural.”

3. Missed Bart by approximately 3.2569 seconds and had to wait another hour for the Caltrain home.

4. Had no snacks.

5. Decided crazy population of California isn’t crazy. These people are just fed up with public transportation and without granola.

I’m having what Francoise Sagan would call a...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:13:44 -0500

I’m having what Francoise Sagan would call a “spinster Sunday.” It’s heaven.

timelightbox: As a photographer, I have exquisitely bad timing:...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:27:44 -0500

timelightbox:

As a photographer, I have exquisitely bad timing: In nearly 23 years of marriage, my wife points out, I have only taken about 10 pictures of her with her eyes open. Instagram helps make my images look better, but it can’t fix bad timing.

In my job, I get to hang out with some of the best photographers in the world, and over the years, shooters like Yuri Kozyrev and Franco Pagetti have patiently explained to be what makes a good picture — composition, lighting, the whole nine yards. I’ve also looked over the shoulders of TIME’s photo editors, the best in the business, and learned a few things.

But photography is a mystical art, and for all my knowledge, I could never take a great picture.

Until now.

The image you see here, taken in Cairo last week, is the best picture I have taken. It may be the best picture I will ever take. If you will indulge a little arrogance, it is perfectly composed, perfectly lit, and perfectly captures a moment of high drama.

It was a fluke.

It happened as TIME Managing Editor Rick Stengel, photo editor Patrick Witty, Cairo correspondent Ashraf Khalil and I were making our way to Tahrir Square. We’d heard that the protests against President Mohamed Morsi’s recent emergency decree were growing, and there was a sense of something big about to happen. As we turned into one of the entrances to the square, we stopped to watch a street battle between young men (some mere boys) and the Egyptian riot police. This was taking place some 200 yards from us, so we felt relatively safe. I pulled out my iPhone, and started taking some shots.

Suddenly, things changed. The young men turned away from the police and started running up the street, directly toward us. It took me a moment to realize why: the police had started to fire tear-gas canisters into the crowd. Ashraf and I have been gassed enough times over the years to know what to do next: get the heck out of there. Patrick was a few yards away, out of the firing line.

I grabbed Rick and pushed. Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw the smoke trail of a canister coming in our direction. I told Rick to close his eyes, and kept shoving him through a panicking crowd. There was no strategic thinking going on, we just needed to get out.

We did, but not before we’d taken a blast of the gas in our faces. All things considered, it wasn’t the most noxious gas I’d encountered: Ashraf agreed it was a mild dose. (The really nasty stuff can burn skin.) By the time we got to the square, the effects of the gas were already clearing.

It wasn’t until much later that I looked at the pictures I’d taken, and realized that I had somehow captured the moment the gas canister landed at our feet. I have no recollection of taking that picture, but there it was, perfectly framed and lit. Instagram helped sharpen it up. Rick and Patrick liked it, and the photo editors back in NYC decided to run it in the magazine.

So there it is: the best picture I’ve ever taken, published in TIME Magazine, no less. And it’s a total, utter fluke.

— Bobby Ghosh, Editor-at-Large

(Follow Bobby on Instagram @ghoshworld)

Happy Halloween! Love, Sam Shukusky & Suzy Bishop

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:17:41 -0400

Happy Halloween! Love, Sam Shukusky & Suzy Bishop

The things that connect us.

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:19:20 -0400

The things that connect us.

thedailywhat: Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Daniel Cui, a...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:26:00 -0400

thedailywhat:

Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Daniel Cui, a freshman goalie, was being blamed for his high school soccer team’s losing season.

Then his classmates decided to show him they had his back.

[petapixel]

On repeat.

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:05:45 -0400

On repeat.

Even my walls miss New York. (Taken with Instagram)

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:35:13 -0400

Even my walls miss New York. (Taken with Instagram)

Words I Wish I Used More

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:02:57 -0400

wunderkind, visceral, fragility, apricot (the color), ephemeral, roiling, scamp, strut, seismic

timemagazine: Marco Grob for TIME Last week, TIME won a...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:19:25 -0400

timemagazine:

Marco Grob for TIME

Last week, TIME won a National Magazine Award for Digital Media for our culture focused iPad app, Populist, which was named the best Utility App of 2012.

We’ve been pop culture junkies since the 1920s, and Populist is a curated collection of our entertainment favorite lists, from books to film to TV, with new content added every week. If you haven’t already, we hope you’ll check it out for yourself. (Did we mention it’s totally free?)

We’d also like to send a big congratulations out to the TIME team members who worked so hard on the app: (From left to right) Product Manager Laura Detmer, Senior Producer Christine Lim, Director of Design & User Experience Davina Anthony, Senior Editor Gilbert Cruz and Senior Designer Simon Fung. Bravo, guys.

"Stop sending me that video."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:40:49 -0500

"Stop sending me that video.":

shortformblog:

The Daily What’s effective takedown of the Invisible Children movement. We don’t agree with every point here, but again, we want to encourage you guys to think about this on your own. So … read.