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☆ VidCon 2024 showcased the internet's hottest stars you may never have heard of. Here are 7 top takeaways from the annual creator industry conference.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The names fans gushed over at this year's VidCon creator conference, held last week in Anaheim, California, weren't the influencers you might expect (or maybe I'm just getting old?) Here are seven top takeaways from VidCon 2024, from the reign of Minecraft streamers to the struggles of once-buzzy startups:Creator collective, Krew, meeting fans at VidCon. Fans of these Minecraft creators lined up outside the convention center each morning, often dressed in cosplay related to the creator's videos. Last year, creator startups made a huge splash at VidCon. Related storiesBut this year, traditional media companies replaced creator startups as sponsors.

Persons: —, Jessica Bravura, Bravura, Products Amjad Hanif, Patrick Stevenson, VidCon, Tara, Alpha, TikTok, Tara Yummy, Jake Webber, Johnnie Guilbert, Hank, John Green, Amanda Perelli, Instagram, Meta, Ray, Twitch, Alix Earle, Jake Shane, Braxton Berrios, Dave Benett Organizations: Service, YouTube, Business, Products, White, Leadership Summit, SXSW, Cannes Lions, Merrell Twins, Publish Press, Disney, Hyatt Regency, YouTube Gaming, Hyatt, Facebook, UTA, Riviera, Cannes Locations: Anaheim , California, Bravura, VidCon, Spotify's, Australia

☆ Analysis: Biden’s disastrous debate pitches his reelection bid into crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden debate at CNN's Atlanta studios on June 27, 2024. Austin Steele/CNN Trump and Biden were debating each other for the first time since 2020. Austin Steele/CNN Biden's campaign won a coin toss before the debate to choose which side he would stand on. Austin Steele/CNN Supporters of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. protest outside the White House on Thursday. Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden debate at CNN's Atlanta studios on June 27, 2024.

Persons: Joe Biden, stiffly, Donald Trump, Biden, John F, Kennedy, Richard Nixon, —, Ron Klain, “, Trump, didn’t, parry, Austin Steele, ” Biden, Will Lanzoni, Jill Biden, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, Adam Rose, CNN US Sen, Marco Rubio, CNN Trump, CNN Biden, Tristen Rouse, Tapper, CNN Tapper, Bash, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, CNN MJ Lee, Mandel Ngan, Megan Varner, Reuters Kennedy, Burk Stringfellow, Troublingly, ”, Van Jones, Kamala Harris, ” Harris, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Harris, Paul Ryan, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer —, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, CNN’s Kasie Organizations: CNN, Trump, Democratic Party, Democratic National Convention, Capitol, Atlanta, Voters, Democratic, White, CNN US, Biden, House, CNN Biden's, CNN Biden, White House, Getty, Reuters, Republican, Trump Organization, coalesces, Biden White, Michigan Locations: Atlanta, America, incoherence, Georgia, CNN's, Washington ,, AFP, United States, New York, California

☆ Opinion: The real loser in the first presidential debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Opinion Cnn Contributors | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +28 min

CNN —CNN Opinion asked political contributors to weigh in on the first presidential debate of the 2024 race. On the other hand, President Joe Biden did not meet expectations and may have increased concerns about his age and ability to lead for another four years. Debates are always more about style than substance, and President Joe Biden’s style was simply awful. Did President Joe Biden come off as a leader or a loser? And yes, the visuals in this first presidential debate of the cycle were phenomenally important.

Persons: Ana Marie Cox, Joe Biden’s, Donald Trump, Biden, Ana Marie Cox Faith Fonseca, Trump, mumbling, I’m, Shermichael Singleton, Joe Biden, Paul Begala, ” “, ” Paul Begala, meandered, —, Republicans — Biden, Bill Clinton’s, Clinton, Jeff Yang, Jeff Yang CNN, — Biden, Joe, Bruce, ”, “, ” Patrick T, Brown, Biden’s, Dobbs, Roe, Wade, Patrick T, CNN’s Dana Bash, David Mark, there’s, Kamala Harris, Harris, Nikki Haley, ” Geoff Duncan, Geoff Duncan Alex Slitz, Geoff Duncan, Peter Bergen, Abu Bakr al, General Qassem Soleimani, It’s, ” Susanne Ramirez de Arellano, Susanne Ramirez de Arellano Frank Moya, Biden “, ” Trump, Susanne Ramirez de Arellano, Roxanne Jones, Democrats — Biden, Nobody, Jones, Lanhee J, Chen, Chen Lanhee J . Chen, David, Diane Steffy, Romney, Ryan Organizations: CNN, Democratic Party, Biden, Trump, “, Global, Democrats, ” Paul Begala CNN, Republicans, Democratic, sonics, Public Policy Center, Economic, Republican, South Carolina Gov, Democratic National Convention, Washington, Peter Bergen CNN, US Border Patrol, ISIS, Islamic, Guards, Force, Walmart, New America, Capitol, New, Arizona State University, Social Security, Medicare, UCLA, Politics Initiative, America, Tonight, Univision Puerto Rico, ESPN, New York Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Public Policy, Hoover Institution Locations: Texas, Austin, America, Asian America, Washington , DC, bravura State, Canada, Abu, Uzbek, Manhattan, El Paso , Texas, New America, United States

☆ Opinion: It’s time to change the way we think about sociopaths
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —This piece contains mild spoilers for the Netflix series “Ripley” and a scene in the movie “Civil War.”Are we finally ready to take another look at why we love to hate sociopaths so much? But his rendition of Ripley – highly capable, chameleonic, but never what you’d call charming — represents a refreshing take on one of the most famous sociopaths in literature and film. Gagne feels Hollywood’s nearly always gotten it wrong with portrayals of sociopaths, reducing them to a collection of cartoonish, villainous traits. In fact, I found one of film’s most recent sociopaths to be singularly chilling because of his very plausibility. He’s in Alex Garland’s “Civil War,” the polarizing film about a vaguely-sketched conflict set in the modern-day United States.

Persons: Sara Stewart, Ripley ”, Sara Stewart Todd Thompson, Andrew Scott’s, Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith’s, Scott, who’s, Ripley –, Steven Zaillian’s, “ Ripley, Jennifer Rubin, ”, Rubin, Tony Soprano, Walter White, Patrick Bateman, Dexter Morgan, Don Draper, I’ve, Emily Nussbaum, Norman Lear’s “, Archie Bunker, Carroll O’Connor, Penn Badgley, Joe Goldberg, Sociopath, Patric Gagne, Gagne, Hollywood’s, vilify, Jenna Ortega, Alex Garland’s “, Jesse Plemons —, —, Owen Gleiberman’s, “ Garland, ” Gleiberman, Ripley, sociopathy, we’ll Organizations: CNN, Netflix, Washington, Vogue Locations: Pennsylvania, ”, United States, America

"Giselle," the Romantic ballet whose title role Alonso is best known for and performed through her 70s, will cap a special gala on Oct. 28, the anniversary date, at the National Theater of Cuba. "Ballet was never (for the) elite in Cuba," said Leonardo Vinageras, a Havana resident and ballet aficionado who attended a recent anniversary event. A ballet dancer warms up backstage before performing "Giselle" during the 27th Alicia Alonso International Ballet Festival of Havana, at the National Theatre, in Havana, Cuba, October 30, 2022. Alonso founded her namesake National Ballet Academy in Cuba in 1948 soon after becoming a star in the New York company that would become the American Ballet Theatre. Inspired by Fidel Castro, Alonso identified herself with his 1959 revolution and moved permanently to Cuba, becoming allies in popularizing ballet with strong government support for the renamed National Ballet of Cuba.

Persons: Alicia Alonso, Giselle, Alonso, Leonardo Vinageras, Alexandre Meneghini, King Louis XIV, Viengsay Valdés, Carlos Acosta, José Manuel Carreño, Fidel Castro, Grettel Morejon, Anett Rios, Alien Fernandez, Richard Chang, David Sherwood, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Ballet, Communist, National Theater of Cuba, Company, of, National Theatre, REUTERS, Bolshoi, Mariinsky, National Ballet of, National Ballet Academy, New York, American Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba, Thomson Locations: HAVANA, Cuba, Havana, of Havana, National Ballet of Cuba

☆ Finding ‘Ghost Collaborators’ for an All-American Ballet
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The original “Filling Station” was created for Ballet Caravan, a short-lived touring company led by the impresario Lincoln Kirstein, as part of his long effort to establish ballet in the United States. It was a mix of ballet bravura, vaudeville gags and comic-strip aesthetics. (A 1954 television performance by dancers from New York City Ballet, which Kirstein founded with George Balanchine in 1948, can be found on YouTube.) Kirstein described the gas station setting as an invitingly familiar one, a crossroads where different kinds of “recognizable social types” could meet. “There was a lot of difference in the space, and I was working not to collapse us into the same hole,” Jones said.

Persons: Lincoln Kirstein, Kirstein, George Balanchine, Lutz, Kinoy, he’s, ”, “, ” Jones, Maxfield Haynes, Mina Nishimura Organizations: Ballet, New York City Ballet, YouTube, Lincoln, Museum of Modern Art Locations: United States, New, Kinoy’s, Kirstein

☆ How the ‘Spider-Verse’ Movies Have Changed Animation for the Better
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It was wonderful to have ‘Spider-Verse’ going on in the next room so we could point to it and say, ‘Look, they’re doing it. We can do it too, right?’”Films like “Into the Spider-Verse,” and those that have followed in its footsteps, blend animation techniques that are common in 3-D computer-generated movies with those that were commonplace in the 2-D hand-drawn animation that preceded it. It’s not just that the images are less photorealistic, the movements of the characters are as well. The results are more broadly impressionistic in the ways that Looney Tunes cartoons, Disney classics or decades of anime have been. “The Last Wish,” directed by Joel Crawford, is linked to the era of animation dominated by C.G.I.

Persons: Rianda, It’s, “, ”, Joel Crawford, Crawford, ” Crawford Organizations: Disney, C.G.I, DreamWorks

Brigid Berlin, a fixture of the downtown art world in the ’60s and ’70s, will be forever associated with Andy Warhol — the Factory superstar played Duchess, a version of herself as a lesbian drug dealer, in Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s 1966 film “Chelsea Girls” — but three years after her death in 2020, a new exhibition considers Berlin’s art in its own right. “Brigid really was an innovator when you think of the way she used persona as a medium,” says Alison M. Gingeras, who has curated “Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest,” at New York’s Vito Schnabel Gallery, which examines the artist’s life, from her tony uptown upbringing to her secluded later life, with the wild times in between. “For too long she has been pushed into the footnotes.” In a room that features the same wallpaper as Berlin’s Murray Hill apartment, visitors can peruse photos and letters from her childhood. “Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest,” is on view through Aug. 18, vitoschnabel.com. Stay HereA Hygge Homestay in Seoul

Persons: Brigid Berlin, Andy Warhol, Warhol, Paul Morrissey’s, “ Brigid, ”, Alison M, Gingeras, New York’s Vito Schnabel, tony, Murray, Honey Berlin, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, “ Brigid Berlin Organizations: Factory, Chelsea Girls ”, Max’s, “ Locations: New, Max’s Kansas City, Seoul

☆ At Christie’s ‘21st Century’ Auction, the Sound of Records Breaking for Women
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Seven artists achieved new sales benchmarks at Christie’s Contemporary Art sale in New York on Monday night, including Simone Leigh, a star of the 2022 Venice Biennale, and Robin F. Williams, a figurative painter still in her 30s. Lively bidding from inside the sale room at Christie’s helped the auction house sell nearly $99 million worth of paintings and sculptures, with buyer’s fees. Interest in female figurative painters who are not necessarily household names is rising for artists like Danielle McKinney, Rebecca Ackroyd and Williams. in 2017, Roberta Smith wrote that she was “extravagantly in-your-face regarding execution, style, image and social thrust. Lower estimates helped propel prices.

☆ (VIDEO) Fără cască şi centură de siguranţă! Un tânăr surprins montând schele la etajul 10 pe un şantier din Capitală
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-04 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Fără cască şi centură de siguranţă! Aşa a fost susprins un tânăr, în timp ce monta schele la etajul 10 pe un şantier din Capitală. Autorul filmuleţului menţionează că imaginile au fost filmate pe un bloc în consctrucţii din sectorul Râşcani. Videoul a fost postat pe Tik Tok, iar cel care filma, a fost probabil colegul de muncă al tânărului. Tânărul păşeşte cu bravură pe suportul lat de circa 50 de cm, la o înălţime de cel puţin 10 etaje!

Persons: Videoul, Tik Locations: Capitală

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