Posts tagged as David Cho
LIVEBLOG: The Cobra Capture Press Conference
The 20-inch-long Egyptian cobra who had been on the loose since Friday has now been caught! There is a press conference scheduled for 4pm (which will be streamed live on 7online.com) that will hopefully give more details. Before we liveblog, here's what we know so far. READ MORE
Some Brief Impressions Of The Village Voice Choice Eats Event, Including Thoughts On The Term "Foodie"
Walking up to the 69th Armory in Gramercy (Is that what that area at 26th street and Lexington is called? Or is that Murray Hill? I always have trouble differentiating it as anything other than the place where the people-I-went-to-college-with-who–I-don't-necessarily-really-hang-out-with-anymore-although-they-still-show-up-on-my-Gchat-and-I-definitely-read-their-status-messages-on-the-reg live and consider themselves to be "downtown.") and seeing the line of half Asian/half not-Asian people wrap, literally, around the entire block, you would have thought the Village Voice's food event Choice Eats would be a complete disaster. But once you entered the large room, sectioned off convention-style with booths and booths of restaurants, it was actually pretty organized and without that really crowded feeling that comes with things that are poorly conceived and then oversold. Honestly, the woman who walked by me while talking loudly to her friend said it best when she rhetorically asked (not to me): "How many pulled pork sandwiches can one person eat?" READ MORE
The Awl Bracket Contest Update: The One Where Readers Find Out That The Tournament Is Still Going On!
Believe it or not, the NCAA college basketball tournament is still going on! In fact, it's a very exciting tournament that is currently taking place! Upsets (teams that are seeded lower and less favored to win, are defeating teams that are higher seeded and more favored to win!) are happening left and right! Here's how crazy it is: Of the almost 6 million brackets filled out on ESPN, only TWO of them correctly predicted the Final Four (the four teams that make it to the semifinals) correctly. That is a very low percentage! I'm not sure if you'll believe this, but none of the intrepid Awl sports fans were also unable to correctly predict the Final Four. Sad face! But we still have updates to be done! READ MORE
The Awl Bracket Contest Update: In Which Everyone Learns That TruTV Is Channel 779
Wow! Now I don't want to speak for everyone here, but I think we can safely say that the first two rounds of this tournament (I'm ignoring the nonsensical practice of calling the play-in games the first round. Is anyone who's not being paid by the NCAA actually calling it this?) have been pretty crazy! Equally exciting: the The Official 2011 Awl March Madness Bracket Tournament Challenge Sponsored By The Awl! Let's go through some of the highlights. READ MORE
Sign Up For The Official 2011 Awl March Madness Bracket Tournament Challenge Presented By The Awl!
That's right, folks, it's that time again! The ides of March are upon us, and it's TIME TO GO MAD! Don't have any idea what I'm talking about? Well, that makes sense as I've currently not given you much, if any, context with which to understand what I'm saying. Wait, but you know what, readers of The Awl are so sports savvy*, I'm sure you guys caught my "mad March" reference up there as an allusion to our (now) annual tradition: The Official 2011 Awl March Madness Bracket Tournament Challenge Sponsored By The Awl! READ MORE
A Discussion With The Auteur Behind "Racist Cat"
"Renaissance Man" is an appellation bestowed too freely these days, but if anyone is deserving of the title it is David Cho. Entrepreneur, web designer, social networking theorist, food critic and visual artist of striking conviction (his vociferous campaign against the placement of awl imagery, while wrongheaded, reveals a creative confidence that defies popular taste in favor of a spare and unforgiving aesthetic), Cho's most expressive work comes in the medium of YouTube annotation. In a series of short films that he has birthed over the last few years, Cho has given us a new way of seeing. (When Cho's Dancing trilogy debuted at Cannes, director Werner Herzog famously despaired of his own ability to achieve such an uncompromising vision.) While often perplexing, these works do what the best art does: they force us to confront a world in which certitude no longer exists and perspective is distorted by the fun-house mirror of identity. We spoke with him briefly about his latest project, Racist Cat. READ MORE
Korean People Seem To Prefer Asian People On Their Superhero Movie Posters
Some people don't seem to know that the Jay Chou, the Taiwanese person who plays Kato in the new Green Hornet movie is actually somewhat of an Asian megastar! This might be why on the Korean version of the posters (which is the same version that's being used in other Asian markets), Chou is featured front and center, with Seth Rogen's big face hiding in the shadows (compared to the new US poster released today, which is just a car). Cameron Diaz, also pretty famous with Koreans, gets a more prominent placement in comparison to the American poster, where she's not featured at all.
