∞Andy Warhol, date unknown | Submitted by Grace
With lettering by Warhol’s mother. Just stunning. For your consumption, a larger version. Also, Warhol’s matching business card.
August 6, 2012
August 2, 2012
August 1, 2012
July 23, 2012
There are a few things J. Crew might should leave in the archive, namely, anoraks paired with corduroys. Though my 8th grade self would be thrilled at the revival.
∞July 13, 2012
At no point in time will some shimmery grandpa-of-the-future say, ”When I was your age, Timmy, we had these things called ‘jokes.’ But then they came for our rape humor and our racism, so comedy died and chuckles were abolished.”
How to Make a Rape Joke: the insightful Lindy West on Daniel Tosh and comedian jackassery.
July 11, 2012
BREAKING
Vogue’s resident food scribe Jeffrey Steingarten has Feelings about tattoos. Quoting from this {otherwise venerating) piece on Chef Sean Brock in Charleston:
- “I have examined Sean’s arm in person without touching it in any way”
- “He’s 34, and apart from his arm, he is very pleasant in appearance”
Bonus round: Eff you, Steingarten, pimiento cheese is the mashed-up nectar of the gods!
- Next appeared a thick slice of fried green tomato, battered in cornmeal and topped with somewhere between a dollop and a gallon of “cheddar pimento”—an inexplicable Southern obsession that could still not detract from the perfection of this icon.
July 2, 2012
The earliest definition of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1832 and refers to its origins in the French printing industry. Text was then printed in blocks of tiny pieces of metal type, each representing a different letter, number or symbol. To save time, printers would prepare ready-made blocks, known as “stéréotypes “ or “clichés,” that spelled out popular phrases and would then use them repeatedly.
Alice Rawsthorn on the (unfortunate) cliché that is the Arco lamp.
June 27, 2012
Don’t be fooled by all that pink: Alexandra Lange’s piece on Architect Barbie and gender-pegged toys in our latest issue of Dwell is a sharp must-read. (I’m not biased or anything.)
∞June 18, 2012
June 14, 2012
our new director of real estate having fun with the japanese floral florence broadhurst print.
Classic Megan Feldman.
∞June 13, 2012
June 7, 2012
![Do-Ho Suh. I love this dude.
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June 6, 2012
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GOOD’s editorial team, minus our far-flung editor Nona Willis Aronowitz and our education editor Liz Dwyer, moments after finding out many of us would be fired in the morning“What is best in life?” This is our colleague Cord Jefferson’s refrain. This brilliant little rhetorical question has a way of stopping everyone in the moment—usually a drunken moment, always a really great moment—to make sure we all recognize and remember it.
So what is, in fact, best in life? We’ve uttered that phrase so many times in the past year. When we take an infographic from concept to reporting to design. When we’re drinking beers and brainstorming in the Thursday edit meeting. When we hear that our coverage of a new startup helped it succeed. When we work late to get an important story out the door. When we collaborate with people we respect to produce work we really love. GOOD’s editorial team (nine full-time staffers, along with an impressive cast of freelancers) has had countless opportunities to echo Cord’s refrain.
Six of us were fired on Friday. After that, two additional editorial staffers opted to take severance packages. Although layoffs have become depressingly common in this cash-poor industry, our story is different. As our former boss, CEO Ben Goldhirsh, wrote in a company-wide email on Monday, “We’re profitable through the first half of the year, and this is probably one of the first times in the company’s history where layoffs were made not because of financial pressure, but for strategic reasons.” The company’s founders hope to reestablish the brand as a “community platform.” We wish them the best of luck.
We won’t lie, though. Getting fired sucks. We’re scared because none of us has much in the way of savings. (On a related note, we’re worried about our health. Burritos and Tecate are cheap. Coconut kale smoothies are not.) We’re slowly accepting the fact that several of us are probably going to have to leave Los Angeles, a city we love, because there aren’t many other journalism jobs here.
But mostly, we’re disappointed that this editorial team won’t get to continue working together. We loved making a daily web magazine and a quarterly print magazine with and for GOOD’s community of readers and writers and designers and illustrators. We think we were pretty good at it. And we know we didn’t get a chance to realize the full potential of our collaboration. We were just getting started!
So we’d like to make at least one more magazine together. Not an issue of GOOD—something different. We’re calling it Tomorrow. It’s going to be about what’s next, what’s on the cusp. We want to get out of our comfort zone and push others to do the same. We want to meet and introduce you to great people. We’ll have more details soon, so check back here later this week.
For now, we want to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who’s emailed and called and tweeted at us with kind words. Extra thanks to people who have hooked us up with professional connections or freelance work, and those who have left bottles of scotch on our front porches or taken us out to dinner. Even though the past week has been tough, there have been countless moments that have made us stop and ask, “What is best in life?” And for that we’re extremely grateful.
-Tim Fernholz, Ann Friedman, Megan Greenwell, Amanda Hess, Cord Jefferson, Dylan C. Lathrop, Zak Stone, Nona Willis Aronowitz
