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The New Yorker Invades iPhone, Aided & Abetted by Jon Hamm + Lena Dunham

The New Yorker’s produced a snappy new iPhone app that’ll enable users to download all its issues, automatically, every week! (This week it’s free, so snatch that bad-boy up.)

The iPhone app resembles the existing iPad app in terms of functionality, providing complete magazine content and some digital easter eggs. It’ll also be a significantly smaller download (issues on the iPad app were often as big as 100 MB) because the geniuses at Condé Nast and Adobe (who built the app) have finally figured out how to handle “paginated HTML”, meaning text (of which The New Yorker has much) now appears as text, and not as imagery. The same technology will be used to slim down downloads for iPad, thank heavens.

Access is free for print subscribers. Digital-only subscriptions include iPad and iPhone access. You can also buy issues individually. 

The choice to avail New Yorker content on iPhone represents a first for Condé Nast, which has historically preferred to confine digital copies of its publications to tablet devices.

Above, a kitschy, rapidly-devolving video promoting the app, featuring Lena Dunham of TV series Girls and Jon Hamm of Mad Men. (TV folks making web videos to promote the mobile version of a print mag! We’ve come full circle, minions.) Try to keep watching until the end, because somebody needs to tell us what Lena was trying to do with that weird handshake.

Hat-tip.

The New Yorker Curates Crowdsourced Kraftwerk Here’s some easy ingenuity. Last week, Sasha Frere-Jones wrote an awesome New Yorker article about German band Kraftwerk’s performances at the MOMA. As often happens at concerts of epic style and breadth (eight whole nights!), official photographers were confined to a few choice but restrictive spots.  What’d The New Yorker do? It sifted through Instagram, Facebook and Flickr, where the audience — free to photograph at will, wherever they were — uploaded a diversity of concert shots. Here are three by Steve Milanowski, Daniela Stigh and Stephanie Zussman; visit the site for a complete slideshow. This material is just as good as pro photog work. It adds value to The New Yorker’s coverage and also valorises the people who were present (readers or not). Also, as readers of the magazine and the site, we have a richer perspective of the Kraftwerk shows. Nice!The New Yorker Curates Crowdsourced Kraftwerk Here’s some easy ingenuity. Last week, Sasha Frere-Jones wrote an awesome New Yorker article about German band Kraftwerk’s performances at the MOMA. As often happens at concerts of epic style and breadth (eight whole nights!), official photographers were confined to a few choice but restrictive spots.  What’d The New Yorker do? It sifted through Instagram, Facebook and Flickr, where the audience — free to photograph at will, wherever they were — uploaded a diversity of concert shots. Here are three by Steve Milanowski, Daniela Stigh and Stephanie Zussman; visit the site for a complete slideshow. This material is just as good as pro photog work. It adds value to The New Yorker’s coverage and also valorises the people who were present (readers or not). Also, as readers of the magazine and the site, we have a richer perspective of the Kraftwerk shows. Nice!The New Yorker Curates Crowdsourced Kraftwerk Here’s some easy ingenuity. Last week, Sasha Frere-Jones wrote an awesome New Yorker article about German band Kraftwerk’s performances at the MOMA. As often happens at concerts of epic style and breadth (eight whole nights!), official photographers were confined to a few choice but restrictive spots.  What’d The New Yorker do? It sifted through Instagram, Facebook and Flickr, where the audience — free to photograph at will, wherever they were — uploaded a diversity of concert shots. Here are three by Steve Milanowski, Daniela Stigh and Stephanie Zussman; visit the site for a complete slideshow. This material is just as good as pro photog work. It adds value to The New Yorker’s coverage and also valorises the people who were present (readers or not). Also, as readers of the magazine and the site, we have a richer perspective of the Kraftwerk shows. Nice!

The New Yorker Curates Crowdsourced Kraftwerk

Here’s some easy ingenuity. Last week, Sasha Frere-Jones wrote an awesome New Yorker article about German band Kraftwerk’s performances at the MOMA. As often happens at concerts of epic style and breadth (eight whole nights!), official photographers were confined to a few choice but restrictive spots. 

What’d The New Yorker do? It sifted through Instagram, Facebook and Flickr, where the audience — free to photograph at will, wherever they were — uploaded a diversity of concert shots. Here are three by Steve Milanowski, Daniela Stigh and Stephanie Zussman; visit the site for a complete slideshow.

This material is just as good as pro photog work. It adds value to The New Yorker’s coverage and also valorises the people who were present (readers or not). Also, as readers of the magazine and the site, we have a richer perspective of the Kraftwerk shows. Nice!