Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. | | | | "No one's very happy, which means it's a good compromise, I suppose." - Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) - "Game of Thrones", on the success of the middle. Something Mitch McConnell knows dick about. As much as any character, Tyrion was my proxy.
(HBO) | | | | |  | “Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”
|
| |
| | rantnrave:// No rantnrave today. Still digesting GAME OF THRONES... HOUSE HIRSCHHORN hasn't made a decision yet... I think ARYA is going to USC... Not easy to rebuild a population with eunuchs... "Accomplished people lacking inner strength can't resist the compromises necessary to survive DAENERYS TARGARYEN and that adds up to something they will never recover from." - NOT THE REAL JAMES COMEY... I've never recovered from THE SOPRANOS and THE WIRE going off the air. And I watch HBO every week. So those that think HBO plummets long-term after GoT goes, give me a f***ing break. As HBO's CASEY BLOYS joked to DYLAN BYERS, "Didn't you... Have you not heard? We're closing down afterwards"... Yeah, we're done. There's no more. That's it." Creative-wise I think their good. Strategy-wise, only time will tell. Greatest track record of programming in the history of TV, just take a browse of ALL and let your jaw drop... At REDEF we love oral histories. We keep a feed just for them. Check that out here. And a few compilations we recently put together... Facts: The iconic red Swingline stapler was made specifically for OFFICE SPACE JON HEDER couldn't wash his hair for NAPOLEON DYNAMITE's entire 22-day shoot. After watching CRUEL INTENTIONS, SELMA BLAIR's mother wondered if maybe she'd used too much tongue in that famous kiss. Straight talk from casts and crews. This and more in REDEF MediaSET: "Movie Oral Histories, Vol. 7"... Did you know GLORIA STEINEM's MS. MAGAZINE was almost called BITCH? Or that HUGH HEFNER's first magazine, SHUDDER, was devoted to his love of horror movies? Or that the torrid trysts from TIME INC.'s early days would put MAD MEN, and maybe even Hefner, to shame? We look between the pages of your favorite periodicals in "Stop the Presses: Oral Histories of Magazines"... Happy Birthday to DMITRI PONOMAREV and ANDY MORRIS. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
|
|
| | | i and in some need of some serious |
|
 | CBS News |
| For individuals in nations where being a part of the LGBT community threatens their freedom, safety and, sometimes, their lives, the Rainbow Railroad provides a way out. | | |
|
 | Deep Dives |
| Introduce yourself: your name, where you’re from, and three words to describe yourself. | | |
|
 | LinkedIn |
| For the second year in a row, SurveyMonkey has teamed up with LeanIn.Org to release research on how women and men are interacting in the workplace in the wake of #MeToo. | | |
|
 | Pollstar |
| "Demand is greater than ever. For any business, that’s a good thing. Thankfully, in Milan, Dubai, Cape Town, there’s a 19-year-old saying, 'I want to go see Billie Eilish,' and that didn’t exist before." | | |
|
 | Defunctland |
| Jim Henson, Jim and his team head to the UK to make the "Muppet Show." What they don't know, is that they are about to make the most popular show in the world. | | |
|
 | Salon |
| The great insight of the philosophy of Stoicism: Shaping your character is the only thing under your control. | | |
|
 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| I was woken up one Thursday morning late last December by my phone ringing and beeping. While still partially asleep I saw that my dad and my lawyer had each called several times, as well as some fellow journalists. I answered my dad's next call, and he broke the news to me: a decision in [...] | | |
|
 | VentureBeat |
| Stephen Machuga credits video games for saving his life. In dark days as an Army Ranger captain in Iraq, Machuga escaped being harmed physically. But mentally, it was hard for him to stay focused and keep from panicking. During his 13 months in Iraq, he narrowly escaped a suicide bombing. | | |
|
 | National Geographic |
| His creativity and foresight in science, engineering, and the arts continue to surprise and amaze today. | | |
|
 | 1843 Magazine |
| We see exceptional intelligence as a blessing. So why, asks Maggie Fergusson, are so many brilliant children miserable misfits? | | |
|
 | Longreads |
| Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop. | | |
|
 | VICE |
| I went to Synchrony, one of the US's last active demoparties, where programmers showcase artistic audiovisual works made in marathon coding sessions. | | |
|
 | Alaska Dispatch News |
| A first-of-its-kind investigation by the "Anchorage Daily News" and "ProPublica" found more than 70 Alaska communities -- places with some of the highest rates of sexual assault in the U.S. -- have no local police protection. | | |
|
 | Syfy |
| To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first episode of the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: Episode I -The Phantom Menace, SYFY WIRE has put together a series of retrospectives and oral histories that detail different aspects of the top-secret, often groundbreaking production of the movie. In this installment, we look at that lovable Gungan scamp, general, and senator, Jar Jar Binks. | | |
|
 | Music Industry Blog |
| Fandom is fragmenting. Streaming personalization and falling radio audiences are combining to rewrite the music marketing rulebook, ushering in a whole new marketing paradigm. Hits used to be cultural moments; artist brands built by traditional mass media. | | |
|
 | Wired |
| Kids today are voracious technology consumers for sure, but they are also active participants-creators, collaborators, and even influencers. So parents have much more to wrestle with than some broad-brush notion of " screen time." | | |
|
| Salon |
| Our culture of ignorance has made possible the rise of a terrible new political blend: Neoliberal fascism. | | |
|
 | Monday Note |
| Last week, five European media published the result of a nine-month-long investigation coordinated by The Signals Network. The non-profit wants to be a one-stop shop for sources willing to come forward. | | |
|
| VICE |
| “Bottles are stacked up in big cartons, placed in vans, and then sent to areas frequented by drunkards.” | | |
|
 | POLITICO |
| The Senate majority leader is relishing his turn as villain to the left. | | |
|
 | Fast Company |
| Leigh Honeywell and Logan Dean have raised a million dollars for a new business, Tall Poppy, that helps companies protect employees against trolls and hackers. | | |
|
 | McKinsey & Company |
| Good social outcomes of technology, or tech for good, adoption require focusing on innovation, skills, and labor fluidity. | | |
|
 | YouTube |
| | | | | | | | |
|
|
| © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group |
|
|
