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Van Advertisements
by Erik Gunther
Wed, October 10, 2007, 2:00 am PDT

Vans get a bad rap. Nowadays, the huge haulers bring minivans to mind. And though minivans are many things, cool isn't one of them. Stressed-out suburbanites aren't the only blemish on the van's side panel, either. Think "Silence of the Lambs." Creepy, windowless, faded, dented vans still prowl the roads of cities across America. What if we could return to an age when vans were the sweetest machines on the street? Thanks to this awesome compendium of van advertisements, we can! Turn back the clock and browse this collection of over 200 print ads for vans, van accessories, and van customization. Luxuriate in swivel chairs, customized wing doors, and most importantly, ultra-fresh paint jobs. The '70s were salad days for van lovers, but you'll also find the simpler models of the '60s parked around back. Either way, you'll be transported back to a more innocent time when vans were the ultimate in street-wise self-expression.

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Filed under: Autos, Advertising, Pop Culture

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White Glove Tracking
by Molly McCall
Sat, May 12, 2007, 3:00 am PDT

In 1983, before the baby dangling and the pajama perp walk and the horrifying allegations in court, Michael Jackson performed "Billie Jean" at the Motown 25th anniversary celebration—and looked sublime. For 5 minutes and 35 seconds (and 10,060 frames of video), he glittered and jittered and introduced the world to both the Moonwalk and the fashion potential of a single white glove. Now, the White Glove Tracking project is deep into a collaborative effort to "isolate just the white glove from this moment in pop-culture history." Don't ask why—they're not saying. Just lend a helping hand to isolate a frame or two. Hey, if NASA can harness the power of "volunteer science" for its Mars Clickworks experiment, White Glove Tracking can do it for the Moonwalk moment and the white glove's grand style statement.
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Filed under: Pop Culture, Web Art, Rock and Pop, Collaborative Projects

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Glossed Over
by Molly McCall
Wed, May 02, 2007, 3:00 am PDT

Glossed Over patrols the border between high style and high sleaze that snakes through the nation's fashion magazines. From Cosmopolitan to W, no monthly mag slips through unexamined, and few gushy profiles emerge unscathed. Mandates issue forth ("Memo to Allure: Celebrities not always trendsetters"), truisms sprout ("News flash: not all men are worth knowing"), and an unsparing tally lists stats (number of plus signs on Elle's May cover: three). The categories alone are worth the visit. We loved the murders' row of absurdity, accessories, and André Leon Talley, Vogue's editor-at-large. Speaking of Vogue, all devilish editrixes get their comeuppance, of course. But in the end, this is tough love at work. Glossed Over bemoans the dearth of supermodels on covers these days and still lists all the lambasted periodicals as "required reading."
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Filed under: Fashion, Blogs, Women, Magazines, Pop Culture

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Popnography
by Molly McCall
Thu, April 19, 2007, 3:00 am PDT

While cheerfully tracking who's gay, who's not, and who's "curiously undeclared," this blog from Out.com celebrates all that's glorious and gloriously tacky in our celebri-culture today. In recent posts, "resident popnographer" Shana Naomi Krochmal checked in with the boys of "Entourage," gave a run-down of Jake Gyllenhaal's surprise appearance at the GLAAD Awards, coaxed actor Matthew Rhys to "say something really gay" in Welsh (he did), and waxed on about Jamie Bamber, "the sexiest man in space." We loved the round-up of gay critics' responses to "300," but whatever you do, don't miss the summary of Anderson Cooper's oh-so-candid appearance on "Loveline" in 2001. Before you get the notion that it's all hunks all the time, though, we assure you that plenty of hot chicks and gorgeous dreamgirls sashay through these posts, too.
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Filed under: Celebrities, Blogs, LGBT, Pop Culture, Cultures and Groups

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Angry Asian Man
by Molly McCall
Sat, April 14, 2007, 3:00 am PDT

As he acknowledges right off, he's not as angry as you think. But he's not going to just sit back and let stuff slide by him, either. Since January, Angry Asian Man has blogged loud and proud about everything from the indignity of some Las Vegas advertising to the glorious prowess of air-guitar master C-Diddy, aka "the Asian fury." (Make air, not war.) Our muckraking blogger tracks who's getting in to Hillary Clinton's fundraisers and who's not, spreads the word on police violence against a Sikh-American army vet, and wades in to the Sanjaya spectacle on "American Idol." He marks the anniversaries of the Bataan Death March and the Syracuse Denny's Incident. He revels in the Sundance film festival. And he comes close to gushing about "Chinatown bad boy" rappers Notorious MSG. He loves. He hates. He's a conscious human in America. Blog on, Angry Asian Man.
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Filed under: Politics, Blogs, Pop Culture, Cultures and Groups, Asian-Americans

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