New Webseries ‘The Feed’ Preys on Every Journalist’s Worst Social Media Nightmare
"There's definitely a lot of pressure with running your own Facebook news feed."
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‘High Maintenance’ Creators Thriving Under Controlled Conditions
I love High Maintenance. And not just because Ben Sinclair, the star and half the creative team behind the Vimeo web-series turned HBO pot comedy, was the first person I met at a campus party in college. (Standing in line for Jell-O shots with a guy who looks like an 18-year-old John Malkovich, reciting the opening lines of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...it's the kind of memory that sticks with a person.) It's as much about how well Sinclair and his wife/co-creator Katja Blichfeld, managed to create a world that keeps expanding outward, like the tendrils of a certain leafy green supplied by the show's protagonist (a weed delivery guy, appropriately named "Guy.") Over the course of its six seasons on Vimeo, a seemingly disparate series of interactions evolved into a meta-narrative of inter-connectivity between its subjects, who at first were only tied together by their dealer.
This Comedy Web Series Is Using Kickstarter to Take Aim at NYC Gentrification
"This whole island is one big Duane Reade with a Starbucks inside and an IHOP inside that and a Bank of America inside that.”
