One fascinating aspect of today’s media landscape is that many creators and executive producers enjoy using Twitter to engage with their audiences, share behind-the-scenes information about their shows, chat about politics, and otherwise communicate about what matters to them. So, each week, we’ll compile some of our favorite exchanges representing the wide variety of discourse seen on social media.
Last Week’S Tweets: Save ‘Underground,’ And Don’t Piss Off David Simon
This week: The executive producer of “Lost” gets a turn behind the camera, and Baz Luhrmann makes us miss “The Get Down” even more than before.
Disney Sure Knows How to Celebrate Pride
These photos shared by “Once Upon a Time” producer Jane Espenson and writer Leah Fong are pretty delightful. Cupcakes! Mickey!
Good times on the lot! Rt @leahfong: Celebrating #Pride2017 on the Disney lot with the #OnceUponATime staff. pic.twitter.com/plyNSq1irH
— Jane Espenson...
Last Week’S Tweets: Save ‘Underground,’ And Don’t Piss Off David Simon
This week: The executive producer of “Lost” gets a turn behind the camera, and Baz Luhrmann makes us miss “The Get Down” even more than before.
Disney Sure Knows How to Celebrate Pride
These photos shared by “Once Upon a Time” producer Jane Espenson and writer Leah Fong are pretty delightful. Cupcakes! Mickey!
Good times on the lot! Rt @leahfong: Celebrating #Pride2017 on the Disney lot with the #OnceUponATime staff. pic.twitter.com/plyNSq1irH
— Jane Espenson...
- 6/10/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
10. “Angie Tribeca” (TBS)
Can Rashida Jones and her department of hysterical cops get some love this year? Nancy and Steve Carell’s new TBS comedy skewering the police procedural, “Naked Gun”-style, produced two full seasons, 20 total episodes, and a countless total of cumulative laughs. Absurd humor of such high regard is virtually impossible to do well without becoming repetitive, and “Angie Tribeca” proved itself sustainable in one year by pumping out two perfect seasons. 2016 should be looked at as a banner year for the program, even if it continues to top itself in seasons to come.
9. “Search Party” (TBS)
With episode titles inspired by Nancy Drew mysteries, “Search Party” is a noir-ish nod to the classic plucky sleuthstress, but with an irreverent millennial sensibility. The mesmerizing Alia Shawkat plays Dory, an underemployed post-grad who finds her purpose when she begins to investigate the disappearance of college acquaintance Chantal. With...
Can Rashida Jones and her department of hysterical cops get some love this year? Nancy and Steve Carell’s new TBS comedy skewering the police procedural, “Naked Gun”-style, produced two full seasons, 20 total episodes, and a countless total of cumulative laughs. Absurd humor of such high regard is virtually impossible to do well without becoming repetitive, and “Angie Tribeca” proved itself sustainable in one year by pumping out two perfect seasons. 2016 should be looked at as a banner year for the program, even if it continues to top itself in seasons to come.
9. “Search Party” (TBS)
With episode titles inspired by Nancy Drew mysteries, “Search Party” is a noir-ish nod to the classic plucky sleuthstress, but with an irreverent millennial sensibility. The mesmerizing Alia Shawkat plays Dory, an underemployed post-grad who finds her purpose when she begins to investigate the disappearance of college acquaintance Chantal. With...
- 12/22/2016
- by Ben Travers, Hanh Nguyen and Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
When it comes to celebrities and beards, Kevin Smith's beard was just as iconic as Zach Galifianakis and George Lucas', but today Smith revealed a babyface that even George Nelson would admire. If you get that "Nelson" reference you're probably doing a deuce in your Depends from laughing so hard. I kill the senior citizen crowd with my out-of-dated references. Anyways, Kevin Smith mutilated his beard for a green screen shoot for his new movie that stars Johnny Depp's daughter Lily-Rose Depp and Kevin Smith's daughter Harley Quinn Smith. The title of it is, Nepotism Yoga Hosers. Comic Book Men is a show that is for Fanboys by Fanboys. Set in uber-geek Kevin Smith's iconic comic shop Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, the show explores every nook and cranny of Fanboy culture from A to Z. Endless circular debates about the technical accuracy of the USS Enterprise's warp-core schematics?...
- 10/27/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
Photograph by Lisa Shin
Singin', workin', playin' -- do whatever you like in the rain with these dapper umbrella designs.
"There's not a person on the planet who hasn't been frustrated with a cheap umbrella," says David Kahng, CEO of Davek Accessories. Seven years ago, the mechanical engineer reinvented the wet-weather standby with his 200-piece metal-frame model. The Solo's clean design points to a long-standing trend: The stronger the umbrella, the more spartan the look. But the industry is lightening up, thanks to new interest in spunky prints -- or, in the case of London Undercover, alphabet soup. "We show traditional heritage patterns, but we also have to serve the eccentric," says CEO Jamie Milestone. Ironclad or ironic, they've got you covered. -- margaret rhodes
The asterisk: not just for dissertations. Deck the walls with a dose of über-modern grammar with the George Nelson Asterisk Clock, originally designed by the...
Singin', workin', playin' -- do whatever you like in the rain with these dapper umbrella designs.
"There's not a person on the planet who hasn't been frustrated with a cheap umbrella," says David Kahng, CEO of Davek Accessories. Seven years ago, the mechanical engineer reinvented the wet-weather standby with his 200-piece metal-frame model. The Solo's clean design points to a long-standing trend: The stronger the umbrella, the more spartan the look. But the industry is lightening up, thanks to new interest in spunky prints -- or, in the case of London Undercover, alphabet soup. "We show traditional heritage patterns, but we also have to serve the eccentric," says CEO Jamie Milestone. Ironclad or ironic, they've got you covered. -- margaret rhodes
The asterisk: not just for dissertations. Deck the walls with a dose of über-modern grammar with the George Nelson Asterisk Clock, originally designed by the...
- 3/23/2011
- by Margaret Rhodes
- Fast Company
Behold Cubebot, the world's most tasteful robot.
Design snobs and Gundam nerds might be worlds apart on, oh, pretty much everything, but one thing they can both agree on is this: the awesomeness of David Weeks's Cubebot.
Cubebot is both a toy robot and an art object. You can fold it into a box as if it were some sort of Tony Rosenthal sculpture or sic it on your model Rx-78 till mom yells bedtime -- whatever. Designy types will love it because of the Cubist reference and because it's made out of sustainably harvested cherry wood and because it'll look perfectly at home on the Noguchi side table, next to the George Nelson sofa, just across the way from the original Koons balloon dog. And geeks will love it because it's a Robot!!!
Cubebot is part of a new summer collection Weeks, who's based in Brooklyn, produced for the ur-hip design distributor Areaware.
Design snobs and Gundam nerds might be worlds apart on, oh, pretty much everything, but one thing they can both agree on is this: the awesomeness of David Weeks's Cubebot.
Cubebot is both a toy robot and an art object. You can fold it into a box as if it were some sort of Tony Rosenthal sculpture or sic it on your model Rx-78 till mom yells bedtime -- whatever. Designy types will love it because of the Cubist reference and because it's made out of sustainably harvested cherry wood and because it'll look perfectly at home on the Noguchi side table, next to the George Nelson sofa, just across the way from the original Koons balloon dog. And geeks will love it because it's a Robot!!!
Cubebot is part of a new summer collection Weeks, who's based in Brooklyn, produced for the ur-hip design distributor Areaware.
- 6/30/2010
- by Suzanne LaBarre
- Fast Company
In an exclusive interview, new Design Within Reach CEO John Edelman talks about knockoffs, Dwr's desperate need for a better Web presence, and China.
John Edelman, the new CEO of Design Within Reach, officially starts work on January 3, but he's already unofficially on the job and trying to orchestrate a turnaround for the woebegone retailer. He recently spent four days in San Francisco, brainstorming and meeting people. (For the time being, he'll be commuting between his home in Connecticut and Dwr headquarters in California.) In his first interview since his appointment, he talks about the big mistakes that Dwr has made, his background running his family's leather business, and the disrespect that many people show "to the entire nation of China." Here are some choice bits from the conversation:
Fast Company: What's the first thing you did on the job? Edelman: The first thing when I got to San...
John Edelman, the new CEO of Design Within Reach, officially starts work on January 3, but he's already unofficially on the job and trying to orchestrate a turnaround for the woebegone retailer. He recently spent four days in San Francisco, brainstorming and meeting people. (For the time being, he'll be commuting between his home in Connecticut and Dwr headquarters in California.) In his first interview since his appointment, he talks about the big mistakes that Dwr has made, his background running his family's leather business, and the disrespect that many people show "to the entire nation of China." Here are some choice bits from the conversation:
Fast Company: What's the first thing you did on the job? Edelman: The first thing when I got to San...
- 12/21/2009
- by Jeff Chu
- Fast Company
Photograph by Jonny Valiant
Out Of Fashion: "It throws people off," says ousted CEO Ray Brunner of his white-stocking style. So did his controversial reign. Then-ceo Brunner said that Dwr Kitchen was ahead of plan. That "plan" must have been extraordinarily conservative. Only one person purchased a Dwr kitchen in 2009. | Photograph by Clay Patrick McBride
Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?
Well-founded Fears "Dwr was a profitable, audacious business until the evil forces of mass-market retailing took over," says Dwr founder Rob Forbes. | Photograph by Clay Patrick McBride
The Wigan Garden Spade is a thing of verdant beauty. Its hunter-green steel and sunny ash-wood handle evoke the pastoral fantasias of an aspiring gentleman farmer -- a dwarf maple in your yard, perhaps, around the base of which you can,...
Out Of Fashion: "It throws people off," says ousted CEO Ray Brunner of his white-stocking style. So did his controversial reign. Then-ceo Brunner said that Dwr Kitchen was ahead of plan. That "plan" must have been extraordinarily conservative. Only one person purchased a Dwr kitchen in 2009. | Photograph by Clay Patrick McBride
Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?
Well-founded Fears "Dwr was a profitable, audacious business until the evil forces of mass-market retailing took over," says Dwr founder Rob Forbes. | Photograph by Clay Patrick McBride
The Wigan Garden Spade is a thing of verdant beauty. Its hunter-green steel and sunny ash-wood handle evoke the pastoral fantasias of an aspiring gentleman farmer -- a dwarf maple in your yard, perhaps, around the base of which you can,...
- 11/27/2009
- by Jeff Chu
- Fast Company
New York City, summer 1980. I was a baby of 20 years working as an intern for the iconoclastic design master George Nelson--one of the most accomplished voices on design and architecture of the 20th century. He was a towering design hero to me, having defined much of what I knew as "modern" in design. I arrived eager to learn, but George spent most of his time in a closed office, thinking (or so I presumed). I wanted to chat but he was intimidating and unreachable, not even granting eye contact as he shuffled about the office.
I noticed that every afternoon at 4 o'clock sharp George would disappear for thirty minutes. One day I followed him. He was in the restroom down the hall--one of those turn-of-the-century huge pink marble rooms, shared by other offices on that floor. George was standing at an open window twenty-two floors above Gramercy Park, smoking a cigarette and drinking coffee.
I noticed that every afternoon at 4 o'clock sharp George would disappear for thirty minutes. One day I followed him. He was in the restroom down the hall--one of those turn-of-the-century huge pink marble rooms, shared by other offices on that floor. George was standing at an open window twenty-two floors above Gramercy Park, smoking a cigarette and drinking coffee.
- 9/8/2009
- by Dan Harden
- Fast Company
About a year ago, Dan Harden, the president and chief designer of Whipsaw the Silicon Valley industrial design and product development firm, stopped by the Fast Company offices bearing an armload of products that were as eclectic as they were fascinating. A baby bottle shaped like, well, Mom. A crank-up field radio in juicy orange. A shiny little silver box that purported to be a computer but was as sexy as a jewelbox.
Many went on to win Best of Show in various prestigious design competitions, from Idea to Red Dot to CES to the Medical Design Excellence Awards, and they earned Whipsaw inclusion in our own round-up of the country's top design firms in last year's Masters of Design issue. The idea that these products all came out of the same 25-person shop boggled the mind.
This year, Harden says, the range of design challenges keeping the Whipsaw crew...
Many went on to win Best of Show in various prestigious design competitions, from Idea to Red Dot to CES to the Medical Design Excellence Awards, and they earned Whipsaw inclusion in our own round-up of the country's top design firms in last year's Masters of Design issue. The idea that these products all came out of the same 25-person shop boggled the mind.
This year, Harden says, the range of design challenges keeping the Whipsaw crew...
- 9/8/2009
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
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