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Andrew Hearst


Andrew Hearst is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the proprietor of the blog Panopticist.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New York Sun, Print, Metropolis, Lingua Franca, Book, and many other publications.




Jul 2009

Re-creating a BACK TO THE FUTURE scene for BACK TO THE FUTURE II 22 Jul 2009
Great public-art project: Repairing bomb damage with Legos 20 Jul 2009
What it looks like to go really fast 16 Jul 2009
Jean-Luc Godard interviews Woody Allen, 1986 14 Jul 2009
MIT’s Sixth Sense, a wearable interface straight out of MINORITY REPORT 10 Jul 2009
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, electronica-style 07 Jul 2009
Visualizing Twitter 01 Jul 2009



Jun 2009

Stop-motion Post-Its 30 Jun 2009
Century-old color photography from Russia 29 Jun 2009
A rare glimpse of Stephen Colbert out of character 22 Jun 2009
Street criminals foiled by Google Street View 22 Jun 2009
Trailer: Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White in IT MIGHT GET LOUD 18 Jun 2009
Bike tricks from 1899, filmed by Thomas Edison 17 Jun 2009
Was 30 Rock inspired by The Muppet Show? 12 Jun 2009
Rare footage of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair 10 Jun 2009
The amazing app wall at Apple’s WWDC 10 Jun 2009
The “T” is for totalitarian 09 Jun 2009
Character’s-eye view: Classic follow shots 05 Jun 2009
These business cards are cooler than yours 04 Jun 2009
Why bad design often wins out over good design 03 Jun 2009
The book industry’s slow farewell 02 Jun 2009
White conservatives can’t rap 01 Jun 2009



May 2009

Trailer: What would you do to reverse the aging process? 30 May 2009
An inside look at an IMAX camera 29 May 2009
Amazing fan-made trailer for imaginary GREEN LANTERN movie 27 May 2009
Short film: Your life in 42 seconds 22 May 2009
2001’s monolith in VHS format–literally 21 May 2009
Amazing Tokyo time-lapse 18 May 2009
Font-clone wars 15 May 2009
A peek inside nytimes.com’s research and development lab 14 May 2009
DIRTY DANCING, David Lynch style 11 May 2009
The English language as a first-person shooter game 08 May 2009
Social TV: Watch online with your Facebook and MySpace pals 07 May 2009
Trailer: Meryl Streep as Julia Child 06 May 2009
David Hockney’s iPhone paintings 01 May 2009
Van Halen’s iconic logo was almost not so iconic 01 May 2009



Apr 2009

Jazz history in iTunes U 30 Apr 2009
President Obama, furniture mover 29 Apr 2009
Bob Dylan, Blondie and Radiohead, Modernist-style 27 Apr 2009
Product-placement pioneers: the hair-metal band Autograph 27 Apr 2009
Newt Gingrich and Joe Biden channel T-Pain 23 Apr 2009
Garry Trudeau on “journotwits” 22 Apr 2009
John Lithgow reads a previously unpublished essay by Mark Twain 21 Apr 2009
What’s the Matter With Kansas is now a film 16 Apr 2009
A vintage ad campaign for the Dharma Initiative 15 Apr 2009
You won’t find these records in Guinness 15 Apr 2009
Addled Billy Bob Thornton doesn’t know what you’re talking about 14 Apr 2009
Duncan Jones’s indie MOON looks like excellent sci-fi 13 Apr 2009
Siftables: artificially intelligent toys 09 Apr 2009
Salvaging the reputation of Howard the Duck (the comic book, not the film) 08 Apr 2009
Wii graffiti 07 Apr 2009
Interview: Don DeLillo talks about Underworld 06 Apr 2009
Notgeld: gorgeous German currency from the preinflationary years, 1914-1923 04 Apr 2009
Saatchi & Saatchi transforms people into fleas 03 Apr 2009
Monologuist Mike Daisey and the last cargo cult 02 Apr 2009
OBJECTIFIED: exploring our manufactured environment 02 Apr 2009



Mar 2009

Book Cover Mashup: Face/Off 31 Mar 2009
Amazing Animated Video for Death Cab for Cutie’s “Grapevine Fires” 29 Mar 2009
Clay Shirky on the Death of Newspapers 27 Mar 2009
Finally, a Trailer for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE 25 Mar 2009