An awesome behind-the-scenes gallery from the Mad Men set, including some anachronisms like this:
And for Caroline, Vincent Kartheiser!
Via Core77.
Category: pop
Unacceptable.
Literally six days after I started watching Party Down on Netflix, Starz killed it.
Via @DrGrist
Tweevee.
Alyssa Rosenberg catches television shows diversifying:
It’s becoming more common for shows and movies to create character Twitter accounts. Glee, for example, has a whole bunch of them set up, but they aren’t particularly good: lots of repeated jokes, extreme sporadic entries, no real interaction with the events of the plot or deeper development of the characters beyond their tics. I think feeds like these will work best if they’re treated like webisodes, a way of offering more, quality original content that expands a universe, and can be produced at no cost other than the time of the person who is tasked with updating them. But that means taking them seriously. Just because a product doesn’t require major production costs doesn’t mean it should look and read cheap.
Although I’m not sure how it’d work for movies, it’s a great idea for TV–I know I’d follow Community twits. Also, a few webcomics have been doing this for a while; Achewood had blogs1 by several characters, and Questionable Content‘s characters are on Twitter.
- For all I know, they may still be active, as paid content. ↩
Sprezzatura.
I don’t blog much about my sartorial choices and obsessions, mostly because a) I don’t really dress up much anymore, and b) this isn’t that kind of blog. However, this Dress a Day post is more or less what goes through my head when considering an item of clothing (with some gendered substitutions):
- Fabric. Is there some in my stash or lurking somewhere on the internet that I simply can’t live without? Have I been obsessing about a particular event for which a stunt dress is necessary? Have I been thinking about a particular theme, like stripes or eyelet or giant florals? Do I have a new cardigan in a weird color (yes, I’m looking at you, Land’s End) that needs a mate?
- Visualization. Where will I wear this dress? Who will be there? Will I wear it once, or over and over again? Will I blog it?
- Shoes. Which ones? Do I already own them? Would this dress require shoes that do not, in fact, actually exist? (E.g., every pair of boots I’ve ever wanted.) Do I have a pair of shoes in a weird color that I need to make a dress to match? Am I looking for an excuse to buy a new pair of shoes in a weird color? (Lather, rinse, repeat for “Coat” and “Bag”.)
Style blogs like the Sartorialist extol a personal kind of style, but time and thought goes into creating an apparently effortless, unique-snowflake look.
HT: Kottke