bubbles

This Next Bubble Is Going to Be So Awesome

Hamilton Nolan · 11/04/09 03:49PM

The Way We Live Now: Bubblicious. The Great American Real Estate Bubble is so one bubble ago. People are already gulping in fear for the new bubble. Will it be stocks? Asian currencies? Failed laundromats? Boutique hotels? Golden pennies? Sure!

Google Billionaires Say Happy Days Are Here Again

Ryan Tate · 10/07/09 11:30AM

Good news, jobless poors: The recession is over, according to the billionaire nerds who run Google. Their computers told them so, and now the executives are in New York to spread the word and count their gold bars.

Code Theft Allegations Can't Stop iPhone Bubble

Ryan Tate · 09/08/09 12:12PM

Foursquare has raised its first venture capital investment, and it couldn't have been easy: There are persistent rumors the social networking company stole its code from Google. Plus, it wanted to invest the money in a domain name. Ooof.

Let's All Pitch in to Build a Better Bubble

Ryan Tate · 07/20/09 02:27PM

The economy may wax and wane, but overheated tech rhetoric lives forever. Today's how news: The internet apps for Apple's internet phone will soon be bigger than the internet. What?

Elaine's The Blogger Bar Of Its Time

Rebecca · 04/21/08 01:09PM

If Gay Talese had a blog, he'd be all about promoting Last Call at Elaine's, Brian McDonald's memoir of bartending at the legendary old-school New York intellectual hang-out. Elaine's was to the '60s and '70s what the Magician was to three years ago. That means that McDonald is as connected to old-school media types as you can get without a masthead position at the New York Review of Books. So even though this book appears to be an account of an era only a few dozen people could care about it, it's the right few dozen people. Brian McDonald is Sloane Crosley for The Olds. At a reading last week on the Upper East Side, the book sold out, presumably to its entire audience.

Advertising As Performance Art

Hamilton Nolan · 03/11/08 04:16PM

Sony's Bravia line is famous for making incredible, spectacular ads. They did one that involved dropping a quarter of a million Super Balls. They did another in which they blew up 70,000 liters of paint. You get the idea. Awesomeness! Their newest (unreleased) ad has them covering entire city streets in Miami with bubbles. What does this have to do with selling TVs? No idea! Is it worth it to make wildly expensive performance art pieces as branding exercises for a line of electronics? Who knows? But we have some pictures of them filming the ad [via Adland], and a clip of that crazy super ball production, after the jump. If you can parse the logic here, you are either a great philosopher or a great salesman.

"The Poor Rich And The Rich Rich"

Choire · 10/08/07 02:40PM

Denise Lefrak "We Built This Lefrak City On Rock 'N' Roll" Calicchio, also a former Sotheby's broker, explains the current "trend" of buying extremely expensive apartments and spending years remodeling them and also buying $30,000 couches with this awesomeness: "This trend is not going to go away because there are so many people who want these apartments. There's the new rich and there's the old rich. There's the poor rich and the rich rich." This is from a great article which is especially priceless because each rich person gets to talk about how much they donate to charity when they're not buying $30,000 couches. Well sure y'all do, darlings! Gotta offset that travesty of a tax burden somehow! Also: a couch that costs $30,000! Do want!

Surrender To The Joy Of Bubbles

abalk · 07/19/07 02:40PM


Today on The View, the audience was treated to the bubble magic of world-renowned Bubble Scientist Fan Yang, who played with bubbles. Maybe it's not your thing, but whatever, we find it utterly soothing.