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Last Day to Enter Flavorwire’s First Short Fiction Contest

By Judy Berman on

Writers, take note: today is the last day to enter Flavorwire’s first-ever short fiction contest. In honor of May’s National Short Story Month, we’re offering a prize of $500 for one outstanding short story. To enter, simply send a story of 5,000 words or less — in the body of a message, not as an attachment — along with a brief author bio and all relevant contact information to flavorwirefiction@gmail.com before midnight tonight. Flavorwire Literary Editor Emily Temple will judge all entries and announce the results on the 24th. We’ll publish the winning story, along with a handful of honorable mentions, on Flavorwire throughout the final week of May. … Read More

Television

Your ‘Mad Men’ Season 6, Episode 7 Talking Points: “They’re Shooting Everybody”

By Judy Berman on

No current TV show generates more Monday morning conversation than Mad Men. With that in mind, Flavorwire is recapping Season 6′s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce drama by giving you a handful of talking points to spark your own water-cooler debate. Directed by John Slattery, “Man With a Plan” comes on the heels of Mad Men‘s strongest episode of the season to date — and if it isn’t quite as dazzling as “For Immediate Release,” its fast-paced plot and character friction do seem to suggest that the show has hit its mid-season stride. … Read More

Books

Announcing Flavorwire’s First Short Fiction Contest

By Judy Berman on

Flavorwire is thrilled to announce its first-ever short fiction contest. In honor of May’s National Short Story Month, we’re offering a prize of $500 for one outstanding short story. To enter, simply send a story of 5,000 words or less — in the body of a message, not as an attachment — along with a brief author bio and all relevant contact information to flavorwirefiction@gmail.com by Friday, May 17. Flavorwire Literary Editor Emily Temple will judge all entries and announce the results on the 24th. We’ll publish the winning story, along with a handful of honorable mentions, on Flavorwire throughout the final week of May. … Read More

Television

Your ‘Mad Men’ Season 6, Episode 6 Talking Points: May ’68

By Judy Berman on

No current TV show generates more Monday morning conversation than Mad Men. With that in mind, Flavorwire is recapping Season 6′s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce by giving you a handful of talking points to spark your own water-cooler debate. The title of last night’s episode, “For Immediate Release,” refers to the press release Peggy finds herself writing in its final moments — but the key to understanding Season 6′s strongest installment of Mad Men yet is in the date she stamps on that document: May 17, 1968. … Read More

Television

Your ‘Mad Men’ Season 6, Episode 5 Talking Points: The MLK Test

By Judy Berman on

No current TV show generates more Monday morning conversation than Mad Men. With that in mind, Flavorwire is recapping Season 6′s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce by giving you a handful of talking points to spark your own water-cooler debate. Last night’s episode, “The Flood,” revived one of Matthew Weiner’s favorite formulas; as with Season 5′s “The Other Woman,” which found Joan making partner by sleeping with a client, it forced everyone to react to a difficult situation, thereby taking the moral temperature of each character. The difference is that, this time, the crisis — the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. — was society-wide. … Read More

Art

Amazing Dad’s Adorable Sharpie Drawings on His Kids’ Sandwich Bags

By Judy Berman on

There’s nothing exciting about a brown-bag school lunch — unless, of course, your dad happens to be David Laferriere. The graphic designer has been decorating his kids’ sandwich bags with Sharpie drawings since 2008, photographing each adorable creation and posting over 1,100 of them on his Flickr page. Popular subjects include monsters, Halloween, and non-sandwich foods, but Laferriere has also incorporated Doctor Who‘s TARDIS and even the works of Picasso into his repertoire. Click through for a selection of his drawings, discovered via Colossal, and — seriously — see the whole collection here. … Read More

Television

Your ‘Mad Men’ Season 6, Episode 4 Talking Points: All’s Fair in Free Love and Advertising

By Judy Berman on

No current TV show generates more Monday morning conversation than Mad Men. With that in mind, Flavorwire is recapping Season 6′s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce by giving you a handful of talking points to spark your own water-cooler debate. Last night’s episode, “To Have and to Hold,” was notable for finally revisiting Joan’s story — and for piling up the betrayals, both personal and professional. … Read More

Art

‘Space Tourist’: Mieke Geenen’s Strangely Appealing Post-apocalyptic Vision

By Judy Berman on

“These are the quietest places in the world, it is after the fire and the dust. Our records of the past have gone missing, the stars have become our street lights. Most species have vanished. Echoes, ruins and some wandering, giggling animals appear once in a while.” As Antwerp-based artist and photo manipulator … Read More

Photography

Time Traveling Photographer Photoshops Herself — And Her Cell Phone — Into Famous Snapshots

By Judy Berman on

“How would time travel affect life as we know it?” This is the question that guided Budapest-based Flora Borsi‘s Time Travel project (which we spotted at Faith is Torment), a series of photo manipulations in which the photographer and graphic designer inserts herself — and her cell phone — into famous photos of celebrities from bygone eras. Inspired by a Charlie Chaplin movie, she wonders whether we’d use time travel to “[c]apture the most important events in history” and share them via Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. See Borsi thrust her camera phone into the faces of Marilyn Monroe, The Beatles, Andy Warhol, and more below. … Read More

Television

Your ‘Mad Men’ Season 6, Episode 2 Talking Points: The Return of the Repressed

By Judy Berman on

No current TV show generates more Monday morning conversation than Mad Men. With that in mind, Flavorwire is recapping Season 6′s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce by giving you a handful of talking points to spark your own water-cooler debate. A substantially lower-key episode than last week’s showstopping season premiere, “The Collaborators” took us deeper into Don Draper’s latest affair — and, for the first time, gave us a painful glimpse at his childhood in the brothel. … Read More