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“Who wants to listen to a Black gay has-been?”That was the answer TV producer Joseph Lovett got back in 1979 when he asked ABC why the network hadn’t aired his assigned “20/20” segment on James Baldwin. The network scrapped the piece, featuring Baldwin talking to interviewer Sylvia Chase at the Manhattan apartment building on 71st Street that he bought for his family in 1965.Now, the segment has resurfaced, and it’s available on Vimeo (click here, or search Vimeo for James Baldwin). Esquire and Open Culture have good pieces on the 10-minute clip, which includes footage of Baldwin at a rehearsal for his play “The Amen Corner,” as well as warm clips of Baldwin at home with family members and friends.Baldwin is intensely charismatic, and his comments about race, about slavery, about his mission to “disturb the peace,” dig deep and remain on point. “White people go around, it seems to me, with a very carefully suppressed terror of Black people — a tremendous uneasiness,” he says. “They don’t know what the Black face hides. They’re sure it’s hiding something. What it’s hiding is American history. What it’s hiding is what white people know they have done, and what they like…

ByEmily Bary, MarketWatch Updated June 16, 2021 3:28 pm ET / Original June 16, 2021 2:48 pm ET Order Reprints Print Article Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud. Photo illustration: Staff; Lars Niki/Getty Images for New York Women in Film & Television Text size Vimeo Inc. benefited during the pandemic as more companies turned to its video-software offerings as a way to keep their businesses running smoothly, and its chief executive sees opportunities for continued momentum even as the world reopens. Whereas the Covid-19 crisis also drove greater demand for technology like video-conferencing software, Vimeo (ticker: VMEO) Chief Executive Anjali Sud said that Vimeo’s situation is different because the company’s suite of services offers something new and distinct. “You had markets that were already there,” Sud said at Barron’s Investing in Tech conference Wednesday. “We’re looking to create a market that was never there.” Vimeo, which has spent about three weeks as a stand-alone public company after spinning out of IAC/InterActiveCorp. (IAC) in late May, makes tools aimed at businesses looking to create, store, share, and manage video content. The company’s technology includes live-streaming capabilities, as well as a mobile app that lets businesses make videos in a few minutes while taking advantage of…

Vimeo Inc. benefited during the pandemic as more companies turned to its video-software offerings as a way to keep their businesses running smoothly, and its chief executive sees opportunities for continued momentum even as the world reopens. Whereas the COVID-19 crisis also drove greater demand for technology like video-conferencing software, Vimeo VMEO, +2.81% Chief Executive Anjali Sud said that Vimeo’s situation is different because the company’s suite of services offers something new and distinct. “You had markets that were already there,” Sud said at Barron’s “Investing in Tech” conference Wednesday. “We’re looking to create a market that was never there.” Vimeo, which has spent about three weeks as a stand-alone public company after spinning out of IAC/InterActiveCorp. IAC, +0.22% in late May, makes tools aimed at businesses looking to create, store, share, and manage video content. The company’s technology includes live-streaming capabilities, as well as a mobile app that lets businesses make videos in a few minutes while taking advantage of artificial intelligence and a library of stock footage. See also: How Vimeo dropped its fight with YouTube and turned ad-free videos into a real business “Every business that has a website or social-media account… should be using video, and…

A renowned illustrator lampooned a Tumblr user who "fixed" his cover of "The Amazing Spider-Man." Online fandoms have embraced "fixing" art as a tool of criticism.  The illustrator's response sparked divergent opinions about the practice of art fixing.  Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. In May, J. Scott Campbell, a comic-book illustrator with 398,000 Instagram followers, sparked a culture battle after he lampooned a Tumblr user who changed his 2009 "The Amazing Spider-Man #601" cover.The Tumblr user was engaging in a practice known in fandom circles as "art fixing." To express dissatisfaction with an artist's work, amateur illustrators tweak minor or major details and post it on social media. In this particular case, the art fixer's adjustments referenced how Campbell's work is often perceived as overly sexual.Unlike fan art, which offers playful reinterpretations, "fixing" showcases an alternative that implies there was something wrong with the original work. Just about anyone with a computer has the tools to do it, which can be an infuriating dynamic for accomplished creators like Campbell. Campbell's polarizing decision to take it upon himself to fix an art fixer's work illuminates the ever-evolving relationship between creators and their critics. Should artists accept that social media has given…

Mario Tama/Getty ImagesThe comic industry is torn over ‘art fixing,’ the practice of editing an artist’s work to make it fit the editor’s personal tastes. A renowned illustrator lampooned a Tumblr user who “fixed” his cover of “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Online fandoms have embraced “fixing” art as a tool of criticism. The illustrator’s response sparked divergent opinions about the practice of art fixing. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. In May, J. Scott Campbell, a comic-book illustrator with 398,000 Instagram followers, sparked a culture battle after he lampooned a Tumblr user who changed his 2009 “The Amazing Spider-Man #601” cover. The Tumblr user was engaging in a practice known in fandom circles as “art fixing.” To express dissatisfaction with an artist’s work, amateur illustrators tweak minor or major details and post it on social media. In this particular case, the art fixer’s adjustments referenced how Campbell’s work is often perceived as overly sexual. Unlike fan art, which offers playful reinterpretations, “fixing” showcases an alternative that implies there was something wrong with the original work. Just about anyone with a computer has the tools to do it, which can be an infuriating dynamic for accomplished creators like Campbell. Campbell’s polarizing decision…

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Do people want an app specifically for discovering events and messaging as a group? That’s the bet behind IRL, a young social network that has been quietly growing over the past year and just attracted an eye-popping amount of money to take on Facebook. The two-year-old startup is betting that a post-pandemic world will fuel its mission to help people “do more together,” usually by meeting up in real life — you know, IRL. The idea has attracted the deep pockets of the Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank, which is the biggest investor in a new $170 million round of funding that values IRL at roughly $1 billion. That’s a remarkable amount of money for an app with roughly 12 million monthly users and no revenue. Even still, IRL is finding early traction primarily with people under the age of 18 in the United States, and the app has already facilitated more than 1 billion messages in barely a year. A handful of universities have now let students enter their school emails to gain access to virtual events and group chats.  » Read More

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Getting stuff done is hard. Getting stuff done while there is a pandemic rumbling on is almost impossible. Even for work-from-home lifers who haven’t had to make an adjustment to their professional environment, it can be a struggle to summon the energy to get through a list of tasks. But perhaps change is still within our grasp. If you struggle to get through your to-do list, here are some productivity tips from experts.Embrace the Eisenhower matrixThis is a piece of paper divided into a four-square grid, with squares marked “Urgent”, “Not urgent”, “Important” and “Not important”. Take every task you have to do each day and place it in one of the squares. As Barnaby Lashbrooke, a productivity expert and the founder of the virtual assistant service Time Etc, puts it: “Anything urgent and important should be done by you as soon as possible. Anything important but not urgent should be scheduled in your calendar for later. Anything urgent but not important should be delegated to someone else. Anything neither urgent nor important gets cut; it’s just not worth your time or effort.”Don’t be a prisoner to emailAllocate times to check for messages. Photograph: Prostock-Studio/Getty ImagesFaye Cox, a mindset and…