Ryan Pyle is a Guinness World Record holder. He’s also a documentary photographer whose work has been published in Newsweek, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times; a presenter; an author; an entrepreneur; and the owner of a production company that makes “insane adventure films.” He answered Four Questions.
The booby trap
posted by Brigitte Noel
If you search for British Columbia Premier Christy Clark on Google, the third option in the auto-complete is “Premier Christy Clark cleavage.” A tweet by David Schreck, a former provincial NDP representative, started the saga, which the Internets have since dubbed Cleavagate. "Is Premier Clark's cleavage revealing attire appropriate for the legislature?" Schreck tweeted in October. A maelstrom of feminist anger ensued. In the wake of this response, Schreck spoke to the media and defended his comment: “I've got nothing against cleavage, but there's appropriate dress for appropriate occasions,” he later told the Vancouver Sun.
This modern love…
posted by Brigitte Noel
My first boyfriend coincided with my first computer, the latter used almost exclusively to feed an addiction to the instant-messaging dinosaur ICQ. The program’s ubiquitous “uh-oh” sound is now nostalgic to those who came of age with the screeching sound of dial-up Internet, and for that sliver of a generation, this chime – and the whole ICQ experience – was a huge, pre-and-then-fully pubescent deal.