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Once they had both came up that this might constitute a red flag to some of those who may monitor of our cell phone and internet traffic. “Now watch me get on an F.B.I. watch list now that I’ve pulled this up,” I laughed. Check it out on your droid or iPhone. Search the market for Tune In radio. 2012 Pirelli Calendar, with photos by Mario SorrentiI love how the annual Pireili Calendar isn’t considered porn because the fully naked girls in it don’t show pink and aren’t having sex, when sex is all that most men and many women think about when seeing it. Hey, art is all in the lighting. Take a good, long look at all of it HERE. Below: Kate Moss, modeling for car tires, by Mario Sorrenti. Andy Warhol’s non-editing approachEvery Picture’s Right Joe Dallesandro during the making of San Diego Surf Andy Warhol would have been a good journalist, had he been so predisposed. His tendency towards capturing pop culture as it existed had a real documentarian’s eye. The excerpt below and photo at right are from warholstars.org. In Andy Makes A Movie, Aaron Sloan, the producer of the film, interviews Warhol and some of the stars of San Diego Surf. When Sloan asks Warhol who is influenced by, Warhol responds, “Uh, I guess I’m influenced by everybody but, uh, I like the way Godard works… just because I think he’s bringing television out to the movies and, um, I think that’s what we’re trying to do sometimes too.” (AM) Warhol was an avid television watcher. He also mentions the influence of television during the following exchange in Smith’s film: From Andy Makes a Movie: Aaron: Why did you give up painting to go into cinema?Andy: Uh, well the camera’s easier to work. Aaron: How do you mean easier? Andy: You just have to turn on the button. Aaron: Isn’t there a little more – the eye? The selectivity? Andy: Uh, no… because every picture’s right. [More on San Diego Surf in a Carl Ekstrom interview at the website for the San Diego Reviewer HERE. ~Editor] [parody] Hitler as a hipster.Found on hipsterhitler.com Episode 1 – Book from Hipster Hitler on Vimeo. “Whaaat a TRIP.”I tested to see if I had good transmission on the sand at Windansea the other day with my new Qik.com Premium account. The tide was really, really low. I wish the qik app on my droid recorded videos at a better resolution. I don’t know if it’s the app or just the normal shittiness of the cellphone video quality. But the image really reek. Time to get a team of scientists on it. On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Tash Jones wrote:[Tash is a British student at an English University. She's been sending stories to us at Reviewer on and off for a while now. She pressed me to answer her brief list of questions via email so I obliged. ~Editor] Interview My parents did. My dad had a love of reading and reportorial storytelling that he passed down to me and my mom had a love of the English language and grammar and took the time to transcribe my stories I would relate to her when I was a very young child. Then when I was older in grade-school I won a contest the nuns had me enter (it was Catholic school) to name the school paper. There were weekly writing contests in middle school (public) that I regularly won where I read to the class — one time to the whole school — things I would write. It further reinforced in me the idea that there was potentially real effect in the written word. In my very early teens I took up surfing as a sport and in Southern Californian surf culture there was a tradition of “talking story,” so I learned from that as well. I developed greater interest in newspaper writing as I did more formal journalistic studying in my early twenties before starting out at local papers. Yes, finally at about the age of of thirty I decided the only real way I would be able to do what I really want in print was if I started my own paper. In the summer of 1996 the Republican national convention came to San Diego and I remember wanting to get that first free issue of Reviewer Magazine out on the street in the coffee shops, bars and stores before all the big wigs arrived. The convention being in town was only a coincidence. I had set out to do Reviewer long before I learned of it. It’s been pretty flush as far as content; there’s always plenty of stuff to write about. Reviewer started out covering mostly nightclubs and music, with a little bit of the San Diego art scene. It was primarily a venue for local entertainment publicity. Since then we’ve begun covering more general topics. Now we do music, art, fashion, local business, politics, social justice issues, the arts… stuff like that. But Reviewer is not limited to those. Pretty much anything that is newsworthy, important or even remotely interesting is fair game. They come to me or else I meet them through friends and ask them if they want to be involved. In the last few years social networking websites of course have played a role in recruiting new writing talent. In 1996 the web wasn’t really a viable option for an online magazine to reach a broad audience so the paper was all there was. The online version started around 2000 or so, mainly as an e-card used for helping advertisers contact us. Now though the web version reaches so many more people than the current 10,000 copies per-issue that the printed version can. That’s inevitable. Now we’ve began to have the live streaming video feeds that are possible for on-the-spot reporting from smartphone handsets. It just keeps growing. Yes, it is. It’s not always my main source of income, but it’s my main job and the one I feel strongest about. To continue to be an honest and independent venue for covering news, the arts and social issues. ArthurIs Departed.A noble experiment: Arthur magazine. Well, this is … sad. I remember when their first few issues were being distro-ed here in San Diego and LA. They had an ad posted among their copy requesting “volunteers” to help out with getting the mag out. I called the number and cheerfully asked if they wanted such help. The guy sounded like a total asshole. I never called back. I liked their graphics though and they did have some good writers — a lot of them actually. Too bad their mag’s gone. Not too surprised though because a little while after that call, maybe a year or two later, I did some checking with their advertisers and a few of the prominent, cooler-looking quarter page ads were apparently being given away for free. :/ It was about this time I was introduced to the term “vanity press” in association with the independent print media. What a load of crap. I hope it got the cool people somewhere. He died as he lived—free, high and a-dreaming of love, ‘neath vultures’ terrible gaze. Thank you, and love to all. POTD: real glamourI can get into a studio tan as long as the rest of the girl is a real as she is. Click the pic for the uncropped full-frame version and see Steph in all her glory. An awesome skinterview flash video with Steph is linked HERE. 
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