Kinetic Social, a digital advertising platform in New York City, is hiring for absolutely every level of position.
Product Marketing Manager:
This critical role will help define the positioning, and evangelize our proprietary tools, products and capabilities. This person will work with the EVP Marketing and VP Product to position Kinetic’s products strategically in the marketplace, solicit feedback from clients to support the overall product roadmap.
Social Media Intern:
Kinetic Social is looking for a social media superstar to join our marketing team. The intern will assist with the development, implementation and maintenance of a strategic social media plan in an effort to increase brand awareness and engagement through social media. The intern will be responsible for developing content calendars, utilizing tools to post daily content on various social media networks, analyzing and reporting on campaigns, identifying trends in social media, marketing and emerging technologies, and contributing input and strategic thinking on various social media and marketing endeavors.
Aveeno Active Naturals Daily Moisturizing Lotion – Hmm. Mixed feelings about this one. The texture is lovely – a light, almost transparent white cream, and blends in so well to the skin. It also smells wonderful and gives the skin a nice glow. As far as actually moisturizing however, I’m not sure this is effective for dry skin – it did not improve my skin’s condition over time and does seem like the kind of milder lotion which must be used EVERY day to be moisturizing. Not exactly what I’m looking for, but not a “lose it!” either.
Nivea Essentially Enriched Lotion – Lose it. Has the thickness and consistency of suntan lotion; not what you want in a daily body lotion.
Nivea Intensive Body Lotion. This is a good body lotion. The formula is thick and white but rubs easily into your skin without leaving a residue. It gives skin a healthy glow and moisturizes and gives relief to even the driest skin. I tried once on the face and don’t recommend (a little strong and made skin tingle) but as a body lotion this is very effective – and has a wonderful, light smell. I use this during the winter.
Nivea Smooth Sensation Daily Lotion. Jackpot with this one! This is perhaps slightly better for summer as it’s a little lighter than the Intensive, but it’s my favorite body lotion so far – great smell, moisturizes well, and blends in easily to give skin lovely light glow.
Jergen’s Ultra Healing – relieves dryness but left small, raised bumps on skin. Don’t buy.
Yes to Carrots Super Rich Body Butter – Great stuff – I was looking for a deep but not greasy winter moisturizer to supplement Nivea Intensive and this is amazing – very light but lovely smell, absorbs quickly, and seems to moisturize thoroughly – definitely a keeper
The Los Angeles Review of Books, a nonprofit literary and cultural arts institution, is looking for a Social Media Director to manage our strategic social media communications and oversee all social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr.
The Los Angeles Review of Books is looking for an Ad Sales Director to manage our complete advertising portfolio, both print and online.
The successful candidate will have established experience in managing an ad sales portfolio for a magazine, preferably with a background in literary and cultural arts publishing. He or she will work to meet existing advertising revenue goals and develop new opportunities for expanding those goals whenever possible. The Ad Sales Director will maintain LARB’s existing relationships with core clients and develop new client opportunities across a variety of industries and platforms.
The New York Times on inbuilt poverty – “Critics note that if a person manages to get through high school and avoid drugs, crime and parenting outside of marriage, it’s often possible to escape poverty. Fair enough. But if you’re one of the one-fifth of children in West Virginia born with drugs or alcohol in your system, if you ingest lead from peeling paint as a toddler, if your hearing or vision impairments aren’t detected, if you live in a home with no books in a gang-ridden neighborhood with terrible schools — in all these cases, you’re programmed for failure as surely as children of professionals are programmed for success.” RT
William Dafoe via Indiewire on the differences between working with Lars von Trier and Wes Anderson – “There are similarities, but there are probably more differences. You know, their interests, they have a different kind of cinema, but they both have very clear visions, their ways of working are very different. Wes likes to shoot a lot, he’s very obsessive, and he works things out ahead of time. Lars prohibits rehearsal, because he wants the actor off-balance and he wants the actor to be fresh, he doesn’t want them to be able to deliver a performance, he wants the performance to happen. I mean that’s my interpretation of it, but he really doesn’t want them to rehearse. Also, the camera is more fluid, some shots are very designed but they’re huge signs.
In the sequences in Lars’ work where the camera moves, you don’t even know where it is, and he really believes you can cut anything to anything so he doesn’t shoot conventionally. Wes doesn’t shoot conventionally but he does shoot in a very formal way. He really knows the frame, while he may have these wildly athletic camera shots, it’s quite built. He plays very little with chance.” RT
EW has 10 pilot season trends for fall. “IN: Spin-Offs: SO many this year, plus a copycat bonus: Two are set in New Orleans. CBS is yet again expanding its acronym-based cop-show empire with a Big Easy edition of NCIS starring Quantum Leap‘s Scott Bakula plus a Virgina-based CSI set in the FBI Cyber Crimes Division starring ex-Medium Patricia Arquette. Also: The CW’sSupernatural has its spin-off Tribes starring Lucien Laviscount and Nathaniel Buzolic while Arrow has The Flashstarring Grant Gustin. CBS’ How I Met Your Mother spin-off pilot How I Met Your Dad, a female-view twist on the departing hit sitcom starring Greta Gerwig, which is considered a lock for a fall series.” RT
Really, really great interview with Gillian Anderson on choosing a career in the UK, and her work. “Despite her full slate, Anderson keeps busy away from acting. She recently announced “A Vision of Fire,” the first book in a co-authored science fiction series with writer Jeff Rovin, who approached Anderson with the idea, as well as narration for the Emma Thompson–produced film “Sold,” about the child slavery and sex trade industry. “I’ve got so much to say about that,” she says. “Hopefully [the film’s] presence will shine a light on the situation, because the sale of children is becoming the No. 1 industry in the world.” RT
Rapid-fire opportunity for any Aussie pals: The Lane, a high-end online fashion directory and all-services-provided bridal website, is hiring interns in the following departments, applications due March 10:
Sam Tsui and Sariah have this bubbly, playful, gorgeously shot-in-a-colorful-arcade cover of Pharell’s “Happy.”
You probably heard how John Travolta called Idina Menzel “Adeel Dezeem” at the Oscars. Now, courtesy of Slate, you can Travoltify your name! RT
The Wall Street Journal debunks the juice cleanse craze – “Consuming more vegetables is great, mainstream doctors and nutritionists agree. But they dismiss the detox claims as a confusing jumble of science, pseudoscience and hype. They argue that humans already have a highly efficient system for filtering out most harmful substances—the liver, kidneys and colon.
“If you’re confused, you understand the issue perfectly,” says Edward Saltzman, an associate professor at Human Nutrition Center on Aging at Tufts University.” RT
Ann Voskamp in a beautiful post on Lent, which starts tomorrow- “He will have to accomplish it all. I am ashes and I am dust and there is no good in me and I am in dire need and lent has given me clear eyes to see my sin and I am the one broken under all this skin.” RT
Coffee and Irony 