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In probably the most exciting Citizens news yet - Citizens of...

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:50:00 -0400

In probably the most exciting Citizens news yet - Citizens of the World is a finalist in the 2012 Pedestrian.tv Ultrabook Blogster Awards!

Makes all the blood, sweat, and insane Virgin Mobile excess data usage bills worth it. [Virgin Mobile owns my backside for the next 12 months.]

If you’d like to check it out go to:

http://www.pedestrian.tv/ultrabook-pedestrian-blogster-awards/blog?id=674

And thank you in advance if you’d like to give us some Facebook Like love.

Thanks Fashionologie.com for giving Citizens of The World a...

Thu, 17 May 2012 01:21:47 -0400

Thanks Fashionologie.com for giving Citizens of The World a shoutout.

The only thing better than getting a shout out for your blog...

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:39:00 -0400

The only thing better than getting a shout out for your blog from a stranger is getting a shout out for your blog from a stranger from another country (if only for the engrish translations from Google Translate)

Citizens of The World (www.hellocitizens.com) got a wrap up from Hola.com (http://streetstyle.hola.com/index.php/2012/05/15/australia-fashion-week/) recently.Warm and fuzzies ensued.

“The gateways do not rest, as Europe does, the antipodes are in full swing. In this case, we refer to the Fashion Week in Sydney. The recipe, the same: bloggers and publishers dressed in their best clothes (very summery) to attend the parades. And again a figure that appears strong, the blogger, which, as we show you our review of Madrid, Paris, Milan and London, also in Australia’s undisputed star and reference style.

In the second row, Candice Lake again, this time with a silk blouse and white pants pliers, cutting width. Emma Lucey, blogger austrialana SpinDizzyFall creative and responsible online communication MinkPink signature vintage red miniskirt with matching socks. Finally, Meghan McTavish publishing house specializing in digital content, dressed in yellow and lime minfalda top athletic style with raglan sleeves. One of his projects in the network is the web Citizens of the World.”

Citizens of The World (www.hellocitizens.com) made it on to...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:59:40 -0400

Citizens of The World (www.hellocitizens.com) made it on to Wordpress.com’s Freshly Pressed blogs of the day. Huge win for us. Thank you Wordpress team!

Watch Tavi Gevinson (of The Style Rookie) talk feminism and teen...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:05:00 -0400

Watch Tavi Gevinson (of The Style Rookie) talk feminism and teen girls. Is good.

@trentpower @isabelchild (Taken with Instagram at The Compound)

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:08:12 -0400

@trentpower @isabelchild (Taken with Instagram at The Compound)

@domlono & I working on a project together....

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:37:27 -0400

@domlono & I working on a project together. www.hellocitizens.com Day 1 complete (Taken with Instagram at North Bondi)

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/bik/2896467643.html

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:20:06 -0400

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/bik/2896467643.html:

“I am selling my Vista Carrera 7 road bike. Perfect for the aspiring culture creator. I have recently become a Successful Entrepreneur and I no longer have the need for such trifling possessions. I drive a gigantic cargo van that literally pisses gas onto the road to mark its territory.

Just think of all the great places you could see and be seen on this bike:

1. An Obama rally
2. A Ron Paul rally
3. Rally’s
4. Miscellaneous”

imwithkanye: Website of the day: Obama Loves You Back.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:57:52 -0400

imwithkanye:

Website of the day: Obama Loves You Back.

Tim Parks on The Writer's Job

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:51:00 -0400

Inside every writer is another writer. This is the imagined real writer, who believes themselves as the next Orwell, Ibsen or Kafka - if only they were given a bottomless tin of change and hours to just sit alone. Usually reserved for that common breed that writes for food.

Moving on.

Inside every writer is also the fear that if one were actually given said hours and coin they’d actually have to produce something of actual greatness.

Tim Parks’ article ‘The Writer’s Job’ puts forward the idea that being considered GREATin our time might not be all that great after all (here’s looking at you Tao Lin).

So the pressure’s off!

I kid. I kid. But seriously.

“As we know, T.S. Eliot rather complicated matters by telling us that the writer had to overcome his personality and find his place in a literary tradition; his work would only be truly distinctive when it marked the next development in the natural unfolding of the collective imagination

Only those who had real personality, special people like himself, would appreciate what a burden personality was and wish to shed it. Literature became the drama of this special person’s sublimation or sacrifice of self through exploration of the work of other equally special people who came before him, to whose achievements he then added his own individual contribution. There was something painful and noble about this endeavor that raised the writer to a pantheon worshiped by an elite.

It became clear that the task of the writer was not just to deliver a book, but to promote himself in every possible way. He launches a website, a Facebook page (I’m no exception), perhaps hires his own publicist. He attends literary festivals all over the world, for no payment.

The emergence of the agent signals an awareness that there is a clash between the idea of writing as a romantic, anti-establishment vocation and the need for the professional writer to mesh with a well-established industrial and promotional machine.

One of the problems of seeing creative writing as a career is that careers are things you go on with till retirement. The fact that creativity may not be co-extensive with one’s whole working life is not admitted. A disproportionate number of poets teach in these courses.

…books travel further and translate faster than they ever did in the past. A natural selection process favors those writers whose style and content cross borders easily. Success and celebrity breed imitators. Lots of them. Nobody can read everything. Nobody can read the hundredth part of everything.

Whatever in the future masquerades as a canon for our own time will largely be the result of good marketing, self-promotion, and of course pure chance.”

Ten Unlikely Celebrities Who've Endorsed Republican Candidates

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:11:00 -0500

Dean Cain, Kelly Clarkson, Megadeath, Gary Busey and a whole slew of colourful characters who just want to make the world a better place… :-|

http://www.papermag.com/2012/02/ten_unlikely_celebrities_endorsed_republicans.php

Arrived 2 days late but next time, I promise, I’m there....

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:16:26 -0500

Arrived 2 days late but next time, I promise, I’m there. ;-)

Remember that time we went and saw Roger Waters perform The...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:48:00 -0500

Remember that time we went and saw Roger Waters perform The Wall?

“In the eight or so years that I was working online, it was...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:03:00 -0500

“In the eight or so years that I was working online, it was marked by how cynical and truncated fashion journalism was becoming as a result of on-demand media. By the time I left SHOWstudio in 2008, most websites and magazines were a mess of shopping pages and shouting, ‘love the shoes’-style editorial. So when we started working on The Gentlewoman in 2009, we weren’t thinking about a marketplace as such – we just wanted to make an ambitious, intelligent publication. For a start, we were launching at the height of the recession, and importantly, as we are a magazine for readers, we had to focus on developing a voice that didn’t speak to them like dumb consumers. I think what’s striking about The Gentlewoman as it’s grown is that it’s a hybrid between a classic women’s magazine and a fashion title, thus there’s equal attention to the photography and design as the writing, which is increasingly rare since it’s a difficult balance. And also, we absolutely love women and want to hear what they think as much as see how they look. It sounds like an obvious prerequisite – but it’s not always a given in this industry.” – The Gentlewoman’s Editor-in-Chief Penny Martin

: How Much Would It Cost to Build the Death Star from Star Wars?

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:09:35 -0500

: How Much Would It Cost to Build the Death Star from Star Wars?:

keepsdiary:

“Let’s say you’re an evil Imperial overlord in the Star Wars universe, and you want to keep the rebels in line. You should build something they fear, say, a Death Star. How much will advancing your evil plans set you back? Short answer: it’s more expensive than you can possibly imagine.

Even…

“They’ve already evolved from their original...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:56:00 -0500

“They’ve already evolved from their original function as person-to-person communication technology into their second iteration as pedestrian-scaled billboards.

I wanted to see if there is a third option in that, yes, they get our eyes for advertising dollars, but they can also give value back to a neighborhood. I was most interested in turning what is perceived as an urban liability into an opportunity.”

John Locke from the Department of Urban Betterment (or DUB New York) on How New York Pay Phones Became Guerilla Libraries.

Our Infamous Lana Del Rey Interview

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:29:23 -0500

Our Infamous Lana Del Rey Interview:

“I think we should just end this because… I don’t know. I feel like you don’t really like it.”

Stephen King is like literary McDonalds; you know its bad for...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:03:00 -0500

Stephen King is like literary McDonalds; you know its bad for you but every now and then you just want something really tacky and hope for dear God that nobody sees you devouring it in a moment of weakness.

Nerdgasm alert:

The above is a video of King reading out a chapter from Dr. Sleep, his sequel to The Shining. If you haven’t read/seen The Shining then The Simpsons sums it up quite beautifully here.

Yes, there’s a new serving of supernatural douchebaggery in the works and this time the story resportedly focusses on Danny 30 years after his dad Jack Nicholson (sorry, Jack Torrance) tried to bring the family closer with the aid of a fire axe.

Danny now works in hospice as sort of John Edwards-esque psychic shrink helping terminally ill patients feel better about crossing over. For a moment everything seems perfect until psychic vampires turn up and begin to feed on life force of the living. As they do.

Either way it’ll probably be amazing in a “I’ll read it on Kindle and nobody will know” kind of way.

If it doesn’t end up with the Stephen King go-to ending of choice, that is, disrupted Indian burial ground/Satan did it, then I’ll be very disappointed.

“Come play with us Danny….Forever… And ever… And ever.”

This is an oldie but a goodie. The above video is Strange Poses...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:32:00 -0500

This is an oldie but a goodie. The above video is Strange Poses by Madrid-based artist Yolanda Dominguez. The aim was to demonstrate how absurd and ridiculous the the poses used in glamourous fashion spreads translate to the mundane real world (in comparison).

The result is all arched-back or hunched over hilarity in the most prosaic of every locations; in the supermarket, on the sidewalk, at the bus stop.

While fashion magazines have sometimes provided easy target practice for critics, Yolanda’s poses has sparked the conversation with shrewd humour.

Newt Gingrich provided what looks to be the most awkward and...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:59:00 -0500

Newt Gingrich provided what looks to be the most awkward and defining soundbite of the Republican primary race earlier this week when he suggested (flat out said) that immigrants learn English because it is the language of prosperity.

I was inspired to know more about about this wizard of speechcraft and after reading about where Newt stands on the issues I stumbled on the video above from the team at Bad Lipreading. As one commenter said, “this is the most sense Newt Gingrich has ever made.”

Enjoy.

At this point it Mitt Romney could walk around Harlem with Bruce Willis’ sandwich board sign a la Die Hard With a Vengeance and still get out alive.