#we love skig

[umblrspectrum]

i started drawing this and forgot where i intended to go with it

[luvmuw]

SHE DIDN’T LOVE ME 2

- Your documents," said a sweet voice calmly.

- Shouldn't you go back to your toy car and forget about me and my violation? - Karina said, handing out five thousand with one bill. The man chuckled, looking closely at the girl's dilated pupils.

- How old are you?

- It's indecent to ask a girl like that.

- What are you messing with her there, pack, - his partner looked out of the car and nodded demandingly towards the detainee.

- I don't advise you to do that, my dad will make you all eat the earth later.

- Get in the car," said the man who came to the mustang evenly exhaling. Karina laughed loudly, showing an uncertain gesture, and then started the car.

- You'll remain garbage, and my friends are waiting for me," she finished and squeezed out the gas pedal, accelerating to hundreds of kilometres.

The cheerful chase to the new club and on the pavement did not last long. Karina mockingly twisted the steering wheel, the car was skigging, clinging to the poles in some places. Music, a new feeling, a pill and night. Nothing could spoil that feeling.

***

- Dad, well, you don't understand, everything was wrong at all... you don't know, - Karina stretched out, despite her father's eyes, she got used to getting out of different situations with impunity and considered this one no exception. The man left the room surrounding them with an awkward look. Then he abruptly grabbed his daughter by the elbow and pulled her to him, spitting out evil words in his ear:

- What I don't know? I already put your case on the table in the morning, which collected so many articles, there is not enough particularly hard!

- What nonsense!

- You're not a little girl anymore, eighteen years old, and you can't understand simple things. I can't help you anymore, the policeman you almost hit in a wheelbarrow? He's in the hospital now. And the lantern that drove on your hood? What's next?

- Well, you have a lot of money that costs you...

- I'm just nothing... I wasn't pulling you out of that, I came if you remember... - the last man said quietly and with a slight sadness in his voice, - just don't you think, and who did you grow up? What happens when you're left alone? You don't have any brothers or sisters, which means that the whole "Jk Corp" will be at your disposal!

- We seem to have already talked about your idea, I'm not going to go into business, let alone continue your endeavours," Karina said demonstratively playing with her voice. The fire in Grachevsky's heart, which harbored hopes for even a small education of his daughter, instantly went out. The sparks left over from the flames suffocated from the words of the only native person.

The man moved away from the brunette without further words, leaving this conversation for later, which is likely not to come. Grachevskaya Jr. was still smelling with a fresh smell of strong alcohol. Her eyes have already returned to a normal perception of the world. The smell of cigarette smoke, hqd and hooka broke into each curl. Grachevsky meticulously, with undisguised disgust, waved off Karina and ordered her to be taken home. The man himself was returning to work, where an important meeting was already waiting for him.

[un-enfant-immature]

Group Nine hires Brian Lee to lead its commerce business

Group Nine Media has hired Brian Lee to as its first executive vice president of commerce.

Lee held a similar role at Maker Studios before its acquisition by Disney, and he also founded the New York-based accelerator SKIG. Group Nine — which was created by the merger of Thrillist, NowThis Media, The Dodo and Discovery-owned Seeker — says Lee’s job will include licensing, merchandising, affiliate advertising and direct-to-consumer products.

“Group Nine has some of the most loved and impactful brands, coupled with the ability to leverage a host of deeply powerful insights,” said Lee said in a statement. “I believe we are uniquely positioned to make huge strides in this space and can’t wait to get started.”

When I met with Group Nine CEO Ben Lerer earlier this year, he laid out his vision for the company moving forward.

“We’re successfully building brands — not to be distributed over a paid TV pipe, not to sit back and watch on your TV passively,” Lerer said. “Instead, we’re building brands for the kind of content consumption that someone who’s grown up with a smartphone in their pocket patronizes. What we’re doing is shows and characters and telling stories that are meant to be delivered via Facebook, via YouTube, via Snapchat, via Twitter.”

That kind of strategy, where a publisher relies on third-party platforms to reach their audience, has been disastrous for other digital media companies, but Lerer sounded pretty confident, particularly as the company gets smarter about which shows to invest in: “We’re making less and less content that is disposable every month than we did the month before.”

That approach seems to tie into Group Nine’s commerce strategy. In today’s announcement, Lerer said, “We have some of the most engaging brands on mobile, built around deeply dedicated communities of loyal fans so it’s imperative that we make the most of the opportunities that presents.”

Citing Nielsen, Group Nine says its content reaches nearly 45 million Americans every day. Business Insider also reported recently that the company is in talks to merge with women’s lifestyle media company Refinery29.

Group Nine Media hires Stacy Green as its first chief people officer

[toomanysinks]

Group Nine hires Brian Lee to lead its commerce business

Group Nine Media has hired Brian Lee to as its first executive vice president of commerce.

Lee held a similar role at Maker Studios before its acquisition by Disney, and he also founded the New York-based accelerator SKIG. Group Nine — which was created by the merger of Thrillist, NowThis Media, The Dodo and Discovery-owned Seeker — says Lee’s job will include licensing, merchandising, affiliate advertising and direct-to-consumer products.

“Group Nine has some of the most loved and impactful brands, coupled with the ability to leverage a host of deeply powerful insights,” said Lee said in a statement. “I believe we are uniquely positioned to make huge strides in this space and can’t wait to get started.”

When I met with Group Nine CEO Ben Lerer earlier this year, he laid out his vision for the company moving forward.

“We’re successfully building brands — not to be distributed over a paid TV pipe, not to sit back and watch on your TV passively,” Lerer said. “Instead, we’re building brands for the kind of content consumption that someone who’s grown up with a smartphone in their pocket patronizes. What we’re doing is shows and characters and telling stories that are meant to be delivered via Facebook, via YouTube, via Snapchat, via Twitter.”

That kind of strategy, where a publisher relies on third-party platforms to reach their audience, has been disastrous for other digital media companies, but Lerer sounded pretty confident, particularly as the company gets smarter about which shows to invest in: “We’re making less and less content that is disposable every month than we did the month before.”

That approach seems to tie into Group Nine’s commerce strategy. In today’s announcement, Lerer said, “We have some of the most engaging brands on mobile, built around deeply dedicated communities of loyal fans so it’s imperative that we make the most of the opportunities that presents.”

Citing Nielsen, Group Nine says its content reaches nearly 45 million Americans every day. Business Insider also reported recently that the company is in talks to merge with women’s lifestyle media company Refinery29.

Group Nine Media hires Stacy Green as its first chief people officer

source https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/23/group-nine-hires-brian-lee/

[fmservers]

Group Nine hires Brian Lee to lead its commerce business

Group Nine Media has hired Brian Lee to as its first executive vice president of commerce.

Lee held a similar role at Maker Studios before its acquisition by Disney, and he also founded the New York-based accelerator SKIG. Group Nine — which was created by the merger of Thrillist, NowThis Media, The Dodo and Discovery-owned Seeker — says Lee’s job will include licensing, merchandising, affiliate advertising and direct-to-consumer products.

“Group Nine has some of the most loved and impactful brands, coupled with the ability to leverage a host of deeply powerful insights,” said Lee said in a statement. “I believe we are uniquely positioned to make huge strides in this space and can’t wait to get started.”

When I met with Group Nine CEO Ben Lerer earlier this year, he laid out his vision for the company moving forward.

“We’re successfully building brands — not to be distributed over a paid TV pipe, not to sit back and watch on your TV passively,” Lerer said. “Instead, we’re building brands for the kind of content consumption that someone who’s grown up with a smartphone in their pocket patronizes. What we’re doing is shows and characters and telling stories that are meant to be delivered via Facebook, via YouTube, via Snapchat, via Twitter.”

That kind of strategy, where a publisher relies on third-party platforms to reach their audience, has been disastrous for other digital media companies, but Lerer sounded pretty confident, particularly as the company gets smarter about which shows to invest in: “We’re making less and less content that is disposable every month than we did the month before.”

That approach seems to tie into Group Nine’s commerce strategy. In today’s announcement, Lerer said, “We have some of the most engaging brands on mobile, built around deeply dedicated communities of loyal fans so it’s imperative that we make the most of the opportunities that presents.”

Citing Nielsen, Group Nine says its content reaches nearly 45 million Americans every day. Business Insider also reported recently that the company is in talks to merge with women’s lifestyle media company Refinery29.

Group Nine Media hires Stacy Green as its first chief people officer

Via Anthony Ha https://techcrunch.com

[larryland]

Stapitol Ceps

by Barbara Waldinger

What would summer in the Berkshires be like without a new edition of Capitol Steps, currently in residence at Cranwell’s Harvest Barn, their tenth year in Lenox?  This company of singing parodists, whose motto is:  “We put the ‘Mock’ in Democracy,” have been performing throughout the country live, on radio, television and recorded on albums (37) since 1981.  It is a nationwide operation, self-described as a “well-oiled machine,” able to dispense touring companies to private and public events “with almost frightening efficiency.”

Constantly amending the show to keep up with current headlines, lyricists Mark Eaton, Elaina Newport, and even cast members concoct ideas for adapting familiar songs to fit the latest scandals.  The playbills include a list of titles that may be included, with the caveat that others could replace them without notice.

When Capitol Steps was formed, many of the performers worked on Capitol Hill, while each of today’s companies consists of five professional singer/actors and a pianist.  The cast in this edition, called Orange is the New Barack, impersonate dozens of political figures across the spectrum, satirizing members of both parties with impartial abandon.  A seemingly infinite number of wigs and costumes (there must be a dresser behind the black curtain that masks their changing area—at least I hope so!) facilitate their instantaneous identity-shifts.  The set, such as it is, consists of a white curtain on which is depicted a colorful representation of the Capitol, a black platform and four microphones.  That’s it.  Cranwell’s air-conditioned Harvest Barn can accommodate a large audience (averaging about 135 per show) with general seating for the ninety-minute intermissionless show.

The performers are exemplary.   Janet Davidson Gordon plays, among myriad others, Melania Trump, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Ann Coulter.  A member of the company for nineteen years and frequent collaborator on their songs, Gordon has done a wonderful job developing the mannerisms, voice and speaking style of each of her characters.  Among Delores King Williams’ roles are Kellyanne Conway, Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Maddow, Angela Merkel and Betsy DeVos, singing, appropriately, Don’t Know Much About History.  Williams is an award-winning singer whose in-your-face characterizations are hilarious.   Morgan Duncan’s Barack Obama impersonation is so spot-on that a sad and loving audience expressed its emotion with tumultuous applause.  Jamie Zemarel as Putin, with his Russian hat and bare chest is priceless, singing Putin on a Blitz;  he also shines as Donald Trump (a la Alec Baldwin), Bill Clinton (hoarse-voiced), George W. Bush (not so bad after all!), a smiling Joe Biden, a smarmy Mike Pence, an overweight Al Gore, and a very southern Jeff Sessions appropriating (more or less) Simon and Garfunkel’s The Boxer to explain his Congressional testimony:  “Lie, lie, lie.”  Brad VanGrack, equally at home with Shakespeare and Capitol Steps, gives us a Yiddish Bernie Sanders in a disheveled white wig, singing If There Were No Rich Men; the president of Mexico, claiming to be happy about the wall because his 13-foot ladder business will earn a fortune; and a side-splitting, unintelligible Bob Dylan in a tie-dyed shirt singing, with Al Gore and others, the climate-change anthem, We Warm the World. 

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There are so many clever lyrics and amusing performances that even when a joke, song, or character fails to elicit the desired laughter, another, funnier sketch follows closely on its heels.  The appearance of the elderly liberal Supreme Court justices led to the clever lyrics borrowed from the Bee Gees’ Saturday Night Fever– Keep em Alive.  And towards the end of the evening, Brad VanGrack delivers a monologue of spoonerisms that brings the house down.  Here’s an example:  “Jadies and lentleman, for over yirty thears now, the Stapitol Ceps have foked pun at skig bandles and poopid stoliticians.”  And it goes on from there, getting more and more scatological by the minute.  The entire monologue is provided on a free crib sheet entitled Lirty Dies:  Tronald Dump and Clillary Hinton; naturally a number of the company’s CDs are available for purchase as well.

It may seem redundant to ridicule the chaos that is today’s Washington.  But if you think that present-day politicians have inadvertently cornered the market on parody, check out Capitol Steps to see what the real experts can do.

Capitol Steps runs from June 30—September 1 at Cranwell’s Harvest Barn.  For tickets call 413-881-1636 or online at cranwell.com.

Cranwell Spa and Golf Resort presents Capitol Steps.  Cast:  Jamie Zemarel, Morgan Duncan, Janet Davidson Gordon, Brad VanGrack, Delores King Williams.  Pianist:  Howard Breitbart.   Running Time:  90 minutes without intermission; at Cranwell’s Harvest Barn, 112 Lee Road, Lenox, MA., from June 30; closing September 1st.

REVIEW: Capitol Steps “Orange is the New Barack” Stapitol Ceps by Barbara Waldinger What would summer in the Berkshires be like without a new edition of…