Hasta La Creative!

W. Ralph Eubanks, the current director of publishing at the Library of Congress, succeeds Ted Genoways.

Four out of five 10-year-olds say that they're afraid of being fat; 42 percent of girls in first through third grade wish they were thinner; half of girls aged 9 or 10 claim that they feel better about themselves when they're dieting. Rehabs.com has some real-beauty sketches of its own—and they're pretty depressing. Now, the site is putting weight obsession in context by looking at how real women stack up against the world's most notable doll—Barbie. Check out the infographic below to see just how removed from reality the Mattel doll is. As Rehabs.com notes, according to data from the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, the average woman would have to grow 2 feet taller, extend her neck length by 3.2 inches, gain 5 inches in chest size, and lose 6 inches in waist circumference to look like Barbie. That's going to hurt a bit. Another shocking, historical tidbit from the site: Mattel's Slumber Party Barbie, released in the 1960s, came with a scale permanently stuck at 110 pounds, and a small book titled "How to Lose Weight," whose only advice inside was "Don't eat!"

Via Co.Create.

You probably saw this coming: New York Magazine’s Hurricane Sandy cover, dated Nov. 12, 2012, has just been named the Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors. ASME’s citation reads:

Shot on the Wednesday evening after Hurricane Sandy hit, Iwan Baan’s photograph of Manhattan, half aglow and half dark, captured the larger story of a powerful city rendered powerless. A true viral phenomenon, the image became an instant icon of the event — [and a] magazine cover that many New Yorkers have saved for posterity. In fact, a poster version was offered for sale by the Museum of Modern Art.

How did Baan capture the image? At the time of publication, New York magazine’s The Cut blog offered the back story. During half an hour spent circling over the city in a hastily rented helicopter, Baan took “between 2,000 and 2,500 shots — 80 percent of the shots are a blur, 10 percent are maybe useable, and 1 percent were really sharp.”

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When Conan O’Brien became the latest comedian to take a shot at Newark a few years back, Mayor Cory Booker had more options to respond than his predecessors would have.

He looked up how many people watch “The Tonight Show,” where Mr. O’Brien was then the host, Mr. Booker said at the recent Ad Age Digital Conference. “My social media analytics are multiples of that in one week,” he said. “And so I said, ‘Wait a minute. I’m going to change the paradigm once and for all.'”

Hear Mr. Booker tell the story.

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