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By Jess Schiewe 6/08/12 4:22pm

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Grand Prize winning team, Everynone, was too embarrassed to reveal the budget of their winning film, "Symmetry," but now that they have $25,000, that shouldn't be a problem. (Photo: TK)

Vimeo Awards Show Proves by Example that Imperfection Is Interesting

Perfection is overrated. It’s boring and predictable and uninspiring. But imperfection? Now that’s fun.

Take for instance last night’s 2012 Vimeo Awards show. Within the first few minutes, the audio crapped out. Awkward silence ensued.  The light projections turned on and off sporadically.  Jokes were occasionally lost. Awkward laughter ensued.  The audio crapped out again.  Some award presenters missed their cues.  Others read verbatim off the teleprompters.

Imperfection might be, um, imperfect, but it is also endearing and refreshing. And, given that this was only Vimeo’s second semi-annual award show, we’ll cut them some slack. After all, it wasn’t the show that people were there for, it was the films. And not just any films: user-generated online films. Read More

By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay 4/27/12 6:27pm

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Hands off, buster!

Fern Mallis Has “Achieved a Whole Fucking Lot!” Says Betsey Johnson

When you can drag CFDA’s Steven Kolb, Vogue’s Hamish Bowles, Paul Wilmot, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Cathy Horyn, Dennis Basso and Vivienne Tam from their hectic lives in the fashion and editorial worlds to attend a student fashion show, you know you have sway. Or you have industry legends Calvin Klein and Fern Mallis. Last night the former presented the latter with a lifetime achievement award at Pratt’s 113th graduate fashion show, where over a dozen talented designers presented their edited collections. Read More