Sony and Marvel Studios (Disney) signed a deal that will allow Marvel to use Spider-Man in the Avengers movies and other Marvel properties.
Unable to contain their excitement, the folks at Screen Crush put together a fan trailer.
Illustration Age Talks to Tara Jacoby... (Illustration Age)
Maybe it's because I've been spending a lot of time this year thinking about design, but it seems like editorial illustration is making a serious comeback, especially online. With that in mind, Gawker Media illustrator Tara Jacoby talks describes her time in that specific job, and it sounds pretty cool. Stressful, but cool.
The Ballad of Rog and Tyrone (The Verge)
Did you know you can go online and hire a spokesman to record a low-difficulty video on your behalf for $5? Of course you did.
Did you know crazy-ass anime fans have been exploiting that fact to hire the same two guys —an Australian computer salesman named Rog and a former journalist from Cameroon living in London called "Tyrone"— to hash out their arguments for years now?
I didn't think so.
Ethno-sensitivity issues aside—for example, "Tyrone" is not his real name—this is the story of how the internet and the blown-out economy of content facilitated something wacky and crazy and kind of magical.
R.I.P David Carr (NYT, The New Yorker, Gawker)
New York Times media critic and general all-around journalism idol David Carr passed away on Thursday at the age of 58. His death has drawn out a wave of obituaries and general reminiscing from reporters across the media, which should be surprising considering that Carr's job was to investigate the media.
Kings of Their Crafts, but on Divergent Paths (NYT)
Ironically (or not) I had been planning on putting up Carr's last column, which was about the convergence of Brian Williams and Jon Stewart as titans of the "post-anchor" era of broadcast television.
Our Hole in The Wall: An Oral History of the CBGB Scene (Cuepoint)
The story of iconic house of punk CBGB, as told by some of the artists that played there. Who says Music Journalism is dead?