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A couple years in a row I've had to hunt around for this on YouTube. Never again. Here for safe keeping.
Also: Tree.
Monocle animations from graham Lewis on Vimeo.
Monocle is a beefy magazine with at least four kinds of paper in every issue. It charges subscribers more than cover price. It covers global affairs with a focus on multinational business, and hyper-local civic issues. It's growing its foreign bureaus.
It has TV specials on financial news networks.
Despite its wonky domains of expertise, its immersive design makes excited fans react to new Monocle works as if they were new Beyonce videos. #projecting
Monocle pretty much lives on Planet Opposite Direction of All Other Media Properties.
On October 17th, Monocle will launch Monocle 24. It's a radio station that happens to run on the Internet. We don't say Internet radio station coz Monocle wouldn't like that and goes out of its way to reference the Internet medium only as an aside.
Respect.
Monocle and the Internet have a strange relationship.
To position Monocle's relationship with the Internet as a reactive one would be wrong. Launched in 2007, Monocle was born into a media world with the Internet (and even social media) well-internalized.
Monocle is no New York Times or Time or USA Today on the defensive, awkwardly adjusting to a new media reality. It's not disrupted by the Internet BUT it's not molded by the Internet BUT it's not denying the Internet. Monocle gives none of its print content away for free. It offers a single web-only bulletin each day, refusing to call it a blog (it's a Monocolumn, bitch).
It doesn't have Facebook or Twitter or Google+ buttons.
Monocle 24 a post-Internet effort. In the animation above, Monocle shows the listener next to a home stereo, at a club, in the car listening to Monocle 24. The implicit assumption is that these devices are Internet-enabled. But the message is that Internet media is not a style of media. The Internet is invisible to the experience. Monocle publisher Tyler Brule is telling us that Monocle 24 is not your typical thinly streamed .m3u.
Monocle makes no Internet concessions. No tweetable headlines, no compressed audio. Even as it undeniably exploits the Internet. After all, its radio station is Internet only.
Traditional media types like to champion Monocle as a victory against the Internet. But they're missing the point. Monocle is post-Internet. Monocle is an example of how purposeful creative work is bigger than its medium.
Monocle 24 is on the Internet coz it's 2011, not coz it's an Internet opportunity.
Who knows how Monocle 24 will do, business-wise. But we can be sure that it won't resemble any terrestrial or Internet radio we've heard. It will just sound like Monocle.
While you wait for Monocle 24 to launch, you can check out Monocle Weekly. It's a weekly podcast with archives as far back as you want.
A very fun but also seriously intense cover.
I've been meaning to evangelize the entire Bloomberg news empire overhaul. Quickly:
Notes on this cover from Richard Turley's Tumblr
A special double edition of our magazine dedicated to the most popular products, people, and trends in America. Photograph by Corriette Schoenaerts. Styling by Lisa Edsalv. A big shout out is needed for our valiant Photo Editor Emily Keegin for pulling this together. She suffered to bring this cover to life. She suffered a lot.
Each object on her dress relates to a story or theme inside the magazine which- seeing as we werent sure what was in the magazine up to minutes or so before the shoot- was a something of a challenge for Corriette and Lisa.
If you liked our end of year issue, you’ll probably like this edition of the magazine too. I’ll post more about the inside next week. But for now, we’re off to the beach to recover.
OH on YouTube:
"This is jazz for punk rock. F---ing godly. I bet they play this shit at the bottom of the Ocean. While your spirit lies in a sunken ship, you listen to this."
Still with us? This next song's instrumental, and they have way too much fun playing it:
Deerhoof is unique in that it's experimental and challenging, but not sterile. Math rock with a heart of gold.
Both songs are from Milk Man.
Anyway... was just talking about them with two separate people. Thought I'd document. Bon Appetit, etc.
This week Beyonce's 4 came out. (Her new album. I love it, etc.)
One part itched my brain a way I couldn't figure out. Why did the cello + piano in I Was Here feel so familiar?
Total Social Network soundtrack moment.
Had to share this. Hermeto Swang from the new White Rainbow mixtape, From Now On Let's.
Give it 'til :37. Then you can click what you need to click. :D
You can download the whole mixtape from the generous + prolific White Rainbow who's letting us name our own price.
