Not just anyone can be a convincing and successful pitchman. (Look no further than Luke Wilson’s AT&T commercials for proof.) The best pitchmen fall under three main categories: the average joe, the celebrity endorser, and the professional. Here are the decade’s top ten:
10. Bob – Bob’s…
From fastcompany.com
December 31, 1999, 11:59 p.m.
Hello, people of 2010, and congratulations on finding this time capsule! I’m writing this chronicle of my era to the sweet clackety-clack of the keyboard on my state-of-the-art Apple iBook. Can you imagine? 366 MHz? This thing’s faster than a jackrabbit on a date! And unlike the iMac, it’s not like I put a VW…
Reduce this decade to a word, and you might come up with YouTube. (That or another webbed-out compound word like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or Craigslist.) Little changed our day-to-day more than the massive online experience-catalogue. YouTube not only democratized video, but gave us a kind of global omniscience, a remote control for what we see outside the confines of our…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
Brobible scoured the nets for every publication that quantified the 00’s and laid them all out for our enjoyment. Amidst the Entertainment Weeklys and GQs, our very own Popten has a list that made the cut!
By Ji-Un Kwon
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…
By Peter Brauer
There is open revolt in Iran right now. I have seen it. For the last two days videos of the people asserting their freedom in the face of tyranny have appeared on youtube. The online video sharing site is a bastion for freedom. Iranians may not have the freedom of speech, but they speak. The government is powerless silence them.…
By Jeremy Kotin
In order of release date, not necessarily influence…
1. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Considering I wrote my college thesis partially on this film, it’s impossible not to include it when looking back at the decade as a whole. Lars von Trier created a haunting and horrifying story anchored on the use of the movie musical as an escape from the modern world…
So we here at popten got together and assembled a gigantic list of our favorite albums of the past decade. Then we voted on each others choices. It is amazing how wide a variety of listening styles your trusty pop culture gurus have. I’ve assembled the top vote-getters into a trusty A to Z list. Albums are in order by…
It’s been predicted by everyone from John the Revelator to Roland Emmerich, and the evidence is stronger than ever that The End is Nigh. Here are the top ten signs from the last decade that the world isn’t long for this world.
10. The Y2K Bug
It could be argued that the Y2K scare wasn’t really part of this decade, and it…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…