Sean Monahan

1 week ago | 8ball.report | Sean Monahan

To alleviate our collective economic pain, 8Ball subscriptions are 20% off for the next month. Find the offer here: www.8ball.report/recessionI was recently at a dinner where a venture capitalist turned to me sharply and declared:"Advertising doesn’t work."Personally, I’m ambivalent. It’s Cannes Lions season and looking through the short list for the most prestigious award, the Cannes Lions Titanium award, I do not recognize any of the campaigns off the top of my head.

1 week ago | 8ball.report | Sean Monahan

Yellow Font Aesthetic or New York PornCity as Luxury Product or Bloomberg’s New YorkCity as Main Character or West Village GirlsCity as Set or Subway TakesCity as Content or Real Estate PornCharlotte’s New York or Breakfast at Tiffany’sYellow fonts. Yellow fonts. Yellow fonts everywhere. Oftentimes swirling and editorial, other times traditional closed captioning: a yellow that isn’t acid or neon, electric or harsh, but instead warm, soft, something you could paint the walls of an infant’s nursery.

2 weeks ago | 8ball.report | Sean Monahan

Tattered Tinseltown or post-Hollywood Los AngelesRecession Indicators or Mariah Carey at The EaglePost-Crashout Musk or Vivian Wilson on Hasan Piker’s streamIt Bars or Silverlake LoungeSperm Racing or the LA tech sceneThe city has main character energy. First the fires and now the protests have ensured that the city, once Hollywood’s stage set for everywhere else in the world, has maintained its role despite consumer tastes shifting from silver screen to phone screen.

2 weeks ago | 8ball.report | Sean Monahan

To alleviate our collective economic pain, 8Ball subscriptions are 20% off for the next month. Find the offer here: www.8ball.report/recessionIt’s Memorial Day and I am bombing around Los Angeles looking for an after party. My friend’s fortieth birthday abruptly ends sometime around 1AM, which for me on a bank holiday is early. We’re in the Johnny Grant apartment at the Roosevelt, but the elevator is out.

3 weeks ago | 8ball.report | Sean Monahan

To alleviate our collective economic pain, 8Ball subscriptions are 20% off for the next month.