Where’s Cory Kennedy?
She’s flown away to the NYLON Summer Music Tour!
Check out her adventures on the NSMT Blog:
In this episode:
Cory hits Las Vegas, rides the indoor roller coaster, watches The Virgins eat really gross hotel buffet food, and steals $20 million from a casino, just like George Clooney in Oceans 11.
Now that we’ve admitted we watch Gossip Girl every week (even Marvin, who came into the office two Tuesdays ago saying, “Do you think Jenny could really get a table at Butter? Isn’t she like fourteen?”), here’s the next question:
What do you think of Georgina’s style?
As embodied by Michelle Tractenberg, she’s sort of rocking the Los Angeles transplant vibe, almost as if she’s the daughter of a famous old rocker and a model.
The black nail polish is a little whatever, but we’d be lying if we didn’t fess up to loving last nights tie-dye-tank-and-YSL-jacket combo. But still, she’s so… sucky! Don’t you just want to throttle her?
And then our friends at Alex + Chloe emailed Samantha to say that their pendant was featured on Georgina last night, and it looked really cool.
But is it a good thing to have G wear your stuff? Weigh in below.
xoxo… oh, nevermind.
Meet Patricia, as I met her this Saturday in Harlem.
She was cooking Crab Rangoon for our friend Chris’ birthday, and I was like, ooh, teach me how.
Apparently, it’s pretty simple:
1 pack of dumpling skings from an Asian supermarket
1 block of cream cheese
1 cup chopped scallions
2 cups of crab meat.
Mix the filling together, and stuff the dumplings. Then drop them into a small pot filled with 4 cups of boiling oil (not olive oil though, because it burns them too fast), and wait until they start to get brown and bubble. And voila, you have crab rangoon! But you don’t have the ultra-cool, ultra-pretty Patricia teaching you how to make it… xo faran
At today’s NYLON casting call, we met Liza Golden, 18.
Liza comes from New Jersey, and belongs to One Model Management.
She’s part of a growing influx of American models – something really exciting after years and years of Russians dominating the catwalks (though we love Russians, too!).
Liza has a cool tattoo on her wrist, but she says, “My mom would have killed me if I’d gotten it done before I turned eighteen.”
She just graduated high school, so she’s finally making the jump to New York City, to give modeling her best shot.
Do you think we should put her in a NYLON spread? Let us know!
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Today’s Site of the Day brings shame, frustration, and laughter to us all.
It’s the Fifty Nifty game on Ironic Sans, and it seems SO simple: Name all the fifty states, in ten minutes.
Easy! you proclaim.
Deadly, we answer.
Three NYLON staffers, who wish to remain anonymous because they’re so majorly embarrassed, couldn’t do it on their first try. I couldn’t remember “Arkansas” (why? no idea) so I made myself play again for a perfect score. It’s totally crazy, but totally fun; check it out and let us know how you do.
Today’s Song of the Day is Born in the USA, because…well, you get it.
xo faran
Converse needs two awesome interns for their Fashion PR department, who will work out of NYC.
You will work 40 hours a week through summer, and get paid $12/ hour, plus sneakers.
You will do a lot of admin work like answering phones, making photo copies, organizing shoes and clothes in the fashion closet, and making sure everything gets sent to the right place (like NYLON)!
But you will also get to see how a giant, awesome, incredible fashion company lives and breathes every day, and get paid for doing it all summer. That’s pretty amazing.
If you’re dying to intern for Converse (and sorry design students, but this is ONLY for their PR department), then email matthew.kneller@converse.com with your resume and a brief cover letter about how you’re qualified to do all of this.
You must be a rising junior or senior, or a recent graduate of college. And obviously, you must look good in Converse – though everyone looks good in Converse, so you’re safe on that one.
Filmmaker Harmony Korine, spoke at the Apple store last week, and screened a trailer for Mister Lonely, starring Diego Luna as a Michael Jackson impersonator, and Samantha Morton as “Marilyn Monroe.” Korine is probably best known for his controversial film Kids, which he directed at age 22.
The Lonely trailer was impressive– delicate experimental score and dashing fantastic imagery. I love that he’s taking absurdity so seriously. Can’t wait to see it.
Highlights of the Q and A:
-A self-proclaimed film critic asked a really annoying question about what Korine thought of film critics. He somehow managed to weave in an insulting quote from a bad review. To this, Korine responded, “I remember you; you work for that gay newspaper.” The polite iCrowd hesitated, then chuckled.
-Illusionist David Blaine crashed the stage with a number of glory-days tall tales from the making of FightHarm. Apparently, these included indecent exposure, cursing at cops, and willingly having the shit kicked out him.
-The microphone attendant had the most impressive mustache I’d ever seen. Seriously. I should have drawn that instead.
There is something odd about seeing a character like Korine surrounded by minimalist Apple decor, sitting next to a podium with his um’s and throat-clearing amplified. He’s too weird and awesome for that color scheme.
–Bridget Palardy, NYLON TV producer
