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two months in a row!

shananaomi:

It’s finally time for Star Trek: Into Darkness. I can’t actually go until Sunday but here is an extended outtake from the OUT cover story to celebrate and/or hold you over until you get there yourself. (Spoiler-free beyond the most basic of teaser trailer plot points.) 

Going back through the transcript I realized that a lot of this didn’t end up making the cut of the print piece, in part because I knew he would be asked similar questions over and over and over in the junkets leading up to the premiere. But it was still great to hear him talk in such smart, big idea terms about Kirk.

CHRIS PINE ON JIM KIRK IN THE 2009 FILM: He’s young. He’s impulsive. He trusts his gut. He listens to his heart. He follows his passions, whichever way they throw him. He’s a man of the flesh, I think—his mind goes along with whatever his beating heart is telling him to move toward. That was a lot of fun to play in the first movie—the guy in the bar who’s drunk and hits on a woman and gets in a fight. That kind of microcosm—that’s the man. 

ON WHAT’S CHANGED FOR CAPTAIN KIRK: Coming into the second film, I don’t know how self-aware Jim Kirk is of his own faults. I think he leads with his bravado and thinks he’s just that—just brawn and strength and courage and decisiveness. Jon Harrison, our bad guy, it’s like he puts up a huge mirror and Kirk finally has to slow down for a minute and look at all that he thinks are his strengths. I think he sees in those strengths a lot of cracks in his armor. He’s brought to his knees, and becomes very vulnerable, very, very insecure and questioning. It’s like he has a mini-—not a mini, a major existential crisis in the midst of a major, world-ending crisis. I don’t know if that’s a sign of masculinity or that’s a sign of being human, of what it means to be human. Being human is being questioning and introspective, I think. 

ON PLAYING A CHARACTER WHO HELPED CREATE THE MODERN BROMANCE: I never thought about it that way. I always thought about it more like it was a dialectic of a human being. One couldn’t be more logic and reason—that’s his genetic coding. And the other was more impulsive, following his passion, his fists. That was how it was a functional relationship. You have Spock as the cold reason, you had the passion of Jim Kirk, and then you had the ironic sarcasm of McCoy, which gave the whole thing levity. That dynamic was beautiful.

ON WHY KIRK NEEDS SPOCK: The relationship [with Spock] is the core of what Kirk goes through. It’s substantial, and the arc and the trajectory of his journey is huge, almost Greek. But you can’t talk about Kirk without talking about Spock, and it’s through his relationship with Spock that he learns the greatest lessons, about loving someone to the point of being able to do away with all rules and regulations and the constraints in order to save, protect and do justice to your friend. 

More outtakes, extras, answers are all tagged here.

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selenographics:

~ Mermaids & Books - Strategic Mariners

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blurintofocus:

shananaomi:

noirbettie:

mightyhunter:

This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers

Imagine you forget to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones the night it airs. Even if coworkers stay mum about important plot points, Twitter is abuzz with spoilers. Fortunately, there’s Twivo, a new program that allows Twitter users to censor their feeds from mentioning a certain TV show (and its characters) for a set time period. Jennie Lamere, a 17-year-old girl, invented the software last month—and won the grand prize at a national coding competition where Lamere was the only female who presented a project, and the only developer to work alone. Internet: Meet the reason we need more women in tech.

(From Mother Jones)

I’m so excited by all of the teenagers in science and tech that we’re hearing about these days. MORE GIRLS PLEASE! 

At SXSW, we talked about how we can’t wait to see the apps fangirls create to make the internet further work the way THEY want. What we may have not said so clearly is that it’s really the way that EVERYONE wants the internet to work. Go girl.

^^^  so into this.

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shananaomi:

one more with the wife from last night.

shananaomi:

on the cover…

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So, this: Is not a Photoshop. Is in fact the cover story I’ve been working on the past couple of months. Is nothing compared to what you’re going to get from OUT early next week. 

Just hang tight, OK? I think/hope you’re gonna love it.

(Source: luvmoonsurfacecpine)

shananaomi:

“I really, honestly think that anybody who is openly gay and visible is powerful. It doesn’t matter what you do, you are impacting people.”

—Portia de Rossi in OUT’s May 2013 issue.

In my new cover story with Portia de Rossi, she talks about taking the plunge into producing, happy home life with Ellen and how she feels about having the gayest TV husband ever on Arrested Development.

Read it here.

blurintofocus:

shananaomi:

Me + Rae @ VH1’s 2nd Annual Music + Pop Culture Event @ W Austin.

This week I’m interpreting “lean in” as “go out,” and Rae kept me honest and made it easy by planning our social networking agenda (in the old school sense of the world).

My homebody tendencies are lovely and lazy and comfortable but probably ultimately less helpful, especially right now, to my short- and longer-term career planning. 

So I’m going out. One more night (minus Rae) and then I fully intend to return to LA and collapse on the couch with my wife and dog for a weekend of cuddle-based detox.

Would you like me to be your social event planner? I cannot promise adorable GIFs, but I guarantee fun!

you guys are good times.

shananaomi:

blurintofocus:

This is what panel prep looks like. Of course Jared Leto is our competition so we has to chat and take greenroom pictures.

Today I was on a panel at SXSW organized by Rae called “Girls and Tech: Why Young Women Rule in Music” and it sort of blew my mind so much that - as Tumblr says, I can’t even. Full recap and thinky thoughts tomorrow, but I’m already six hours behind in reblogging this RIDICULOUS AMAZING photo so I wanted to get at least that much up now. 

I’ve heard Jared Leto talk about music and fans before - at a social GRAMMYs panel that Megan (blue dress above) helped organize - so somehow it seemed to make perfect sense that we would ALL go talk to him about how it was ridiculous that we had panels down the hall from each other at the same time (and invite him to come crash ours). He immediately got that the girls and women we were going to talk about were the same fans who he’s been using social media to connect with for years.

Also - this is what you get when a teenage dream-slash-rock star tells five ladies dressed up in honor of their inner fangirls to take a photo where everybody reenacts the most amazing/exciting thing that’s ever happened to them.  

Thanks to everybody who came hear us talk. This was a truly inspiring day for me and I’m just proud to have been a part of it.

I knew when you saw Jared Leto it was an omen for a good panel. He’s in your karass, somehow.

shananaomi:

today I learned how to supreme a grapefruit.

It’s probably frowned upon to sleep with your sous chefs, but.

shananaomi:

my wife & the rock.

barackobama:

shananaomi:

current:

“These are not just women’s issues. These are family issues.”

One of the most important differences heard tonight.

Last night’s debate in one GIF.

oh nbd

flamingoxboots:

Colorblocks Breakfast

idk what this is but awwww.