The CAP/Dwell Connection

Penelope Green reports for the New York Times about the vast cultural influence of my twitter feed:

The earnestly modern habitats extolled in Dwell magazine, which celebrates its 10th birthday this year, veered into parody last week, pushed there by a mischievous blog called Unhappy Hipsters (unhappyhipsters.tumblr.com). With its deadpan captions (example below), it ricocheted in the blogosphere like a shuttlecock, as Twitterers like Matthew Yglesias, a political blogger, Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic and Michele Posner, Dwell’s own managing editor, thwacked it onward and upward. Original Dwell cast members gleefully sent it back and forth. “We did brand the dispassionate hipster, didn’t we?” wrote Maren Levinson, a former photo editor, to Karrie Jacobs, the departed founding editor.

Dwell and The New Yorker are the only magazines I subscribe to, so I was happy to find the site. But yesterday someone pointed out to me that the CAP/Dwell nexus goes deeper than I’d realized, as my colleague Nina Hachigian has been featured in the magazine:

I would write an amusing caption, but that's someone else's blog concept

I think the internet has basically supplanted print as a way to convey information about news and politics, but architecture photography still works much better in a magazine.