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The Great CATsby

Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby might have landed the #2-spot at the box office, but how well would it have done in the capable hands of Walt Disney? Watch this mashup, and decide for yourself.

13 May 2013 ·

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With Charles Ramsey becoming the latest to find Internet fame, we wondered: What would the perfect eyewitness interview look like? So we cut together the most famous of these people to make the Perfect Eyewitness Interview video.

9 May 2013 ·

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It’s NBA playoffs season, but maybe you don’t know as much as you’d like about the ol’ game of roundball. This video tutorial should help you out.

1 May 2013 ·

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Supercut: A Cinematic Tribute to Boston

The people of Boston have shown incredible courage and resilience in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, so here’s a short supercut of a bunch of Boston shout-outs from movies both old and new.

19 April 2013 ·

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There’s nothing better than girls enjoying the first day of warm weather by shedding all the winter layers, so we hit the streets to show them our appreciation.

10 April 2013 ·

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I was under the impression that all the Blockbuster Video stores had closed down, but when I found one on a recent drive between Dallas and Wichita, I had to stop and relive the glory days of brick and mortar video rental houses.

18 March 2013 ·

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Here’s a video I did for Reuters, in which my friend and Vanity Fair editor Sarah Ball explains the science behind making your Oscar picks, while I go ask a monkey to choose the winners. Spoiler alert: Sarah is better

21 February 2013 ·

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Video: Trust Us, You Want Alexander Wang on Your Snowball-Fighting Team

This is my favorite thing I’ve done for Fashion Week so far (probably because it has little to do with fashion). The great Jenni Avins, loaded with a bodega bag of artisanal snowballs, gets the cream of the fashion crop to show off their throwing abilities outside the Alexander Wang show.

11 February 2013 ·

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Here’s another example of me humiliating myself to appease the gods of the web. I wanted to get relationship advice from kids, but things quickly went awry. Check it out!

11 February 2013 ·

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Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars: Best Actress

Welcome to “Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars,” a series of rhetorical exercises illustrating the finer points of internet-style debate — live! Each episode of WYWAO features a pair of movie enthusiasts with opposing views about who will win a particular Academy Award. The catch: Each cannot explain why he or she is right. Instead, he or she can only enumerate the many reasons why the other person is wrong. So very, very wrong.

Today’s Best Actress episode is an all-Tumblr edition featuring our fashion mandarin Valentine Uhovski (championing Jennifer Lawrence from Silver Linings Playbook) versus our communications director, Katherine Barna (contrariwise saying Jessica Chastain from Zero Dark Thirty shall get the nod). Could either of them be more wrong? Let’s find out!

Shot on location at the Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

This is the second episode in a new series I’m working on with Tumblr’s Storyboard blog. Check out the first episode, and check back every Thursday leading up to the Oscars for another installment. Also, note the beautiful sonorous tones of the voice over featured in the intro and conclusion of each video.

31 January 2013 ·

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Here’s a video I did for Reuters, in which my friend and Vanity Fair editor Sarah Ball explains the science behind making your Oscar picks, while I go ask a monkey to choose the winners. Spoiler alert: Sarah is better

Why You’re Wrong About the Oscars: Best Actress

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