A 35" TV in 1996 was how much?: the quiz

TV: Great Job, Internet!: A 35" TV in 1996 was how much?: the quiz



About a year ago, Buzzfeed posted a copy of the Best Buy Sunday circular from September 15, 1996. It was very funny, of course, to see how much we all overpaid for 35” RCA TVs that you can’t pay someone to take away now and a 133MHz Pentium Acer computer with a 14” monitor.  Oh, the mid-'90s were a more innocent, richer time.

Now Buzzfeed has turned the same circular into a virtual Price Is Right guessing game, and man, is it depressing. We, as consumers, spent millions of dollars on fancy Minolta film cameras and VCRs that clog bins at Goodwill stores now. But the iPhone 5 is sweet, right?

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How A Mortifying Arclight Promo Became A Silly Meme Called "Kevining"

How A Mortifying Arclight Promo Became A Silly Meme Called "Kevining"

              

Tina Fey does it. Drew Pinsky does it. Yankees and Dodgers fans do it. Even Canadians do it. "Kevining" an awfully silly internet trend that accidentally started when Kevin Ryder of "Kevin and Bean" agreed to do a promo for the Arclight's 10-year anniversary.

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In 1992, Bill Plympton made history by drawing an entire film on his own

Film: Rescued From Semi-Obscurity: In 1992, Bill Plympton made history by drawing an entire film on his own






Sometimes largely forgotten pieces of pop culture need to be dusted off and given a fresh look. Rescued From Semi-Obscurity does just that.
These days, independent creators have plenty of unlikely side roads to mainstream success. Like animator James Curran, who created his own animated opening-credits sequence for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures Of Tintin, released it to the web, watched it go viral, and ended up with a job offer from Spielberg himself. Or E.L. James, who wrote a series of erotic Twilight fan-fiction pieces, then turned them into novels and self-published them as the 50 Shades Of Grey series, which sold so well as e-books that the brick-and-mortar publishing houses came sniffing around and put them into print.
But back in 1992, there were fewer opportunities for a wholly independent creator to get national attention. That never stopped DIY animation pioneer Bill Plympton, who in 1992 released ...

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