bubbles
Lust for Another Bubble Leads to IPO Porn
Ryan Tate · 01/11/10 05:25PMThis Next Bubble Is Going to Be So Awesome
Hamilton Nolan · 11/04/09 03:49PMGoogle Billionaires Say Happy Days Are Here Again
Ryan Tate · 10/07/09 11:30AMSilicon Valley's Mass Delusion
Ryan Tate · 09/17/09 04:29PMCode Theft Allegations Can't Stop iPhone Bubble
Ryan Tate · 09/08/09 12:12PMLet's All Pitch in to Build a Better Bubble
Ryan Tate · 07/20/09 02:27PMHuffington Post Worth Just $2 Million?
Ryan Tate · 01/04/09 08:58PMA Brief History of Life Inside the Presidential 'Bubble'
Gabriel Snyder · 12/28/08 12:12PMWho's Not to Blame for the Housing Bubble?
Owen Thomas · 12/22/08 03:03PMThere are so many gaudily fraudulent characters in the story of this country's mania for buying and selling homes — like Sam Leccima, the former Flip This House star who allegedly slapped "Sold" signs on unsold houses and didn't even have a real-estate license. A&E yanked his shows from the channel's lineup after charges that his house-flipping efforts were a hoax.
Elaine's The Blogger Bar Of Its Time
Rebecca · 04/21/08 01:09PMIf 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 04:16PMSony'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 02:40PMDenise 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!