Valleywag: richard blakeley

Dentyne's Facebook-themed ads annoy New Yorkers

Paul Boutin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:40:00 PDT

"Friend request accepted. Close browser, open arms. Make face time." This is just one of a series of Dentyne ads spotted in New York by Gawker Media video comic Richard Blakeley. I'll send more, they are annoying, Blakeley emails. Aw, I think it's cute. That probably annoys him even more. Here's another he just sent.

Julia Allison parody funnier than anything she's ever produced

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:20:00 PDT

Richard Blakeley, the Gawker videologist who turned this year's CES into a TV-free zone, has turned his clicker on Wired covergirl Julia Allison. She is a rich target for parody: the lip dubs, the outfits, the new friends she charms into acting like old friends. The only problem with Blakeley's "NomSociety," a spoof of Allison's startup NonSociety? It assumes that anyone was ever paying attention to Allison's "startup." The original work, which you probably haven't seen, below:

NonSociety 101 from NonSociety on Vimeo.

Anybody else sick of those smug bastards living it up in Austin?

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:40:10 PDT

"I'm bored as fuck and jealous all those assholes are in Austin and I'm not," my colleague and professional troublemaker Richard Blakelely told me over the weekend. Social media minx Alisa Leonard concurred in a Twitter: "not at sxsw and feeling like everyone went to the prom besides me." My sentiments, exactly.

Gadget blogger takes on AT&T on AT&T's show

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:26:30 PST

AT&T wants to scan all your emails and downloads for illicit content. Not very happy about that, Boing Boing gadget blogger Joel Johnson brought up the topic on The Hugh Thompson Show. Which is, of course, distributed exclusively on the Web over the AT&T Tech Channel. Because Johnson eventually got the audience involved, the first take of the interview likely won't make it to the episode's final cut. But troublemaking Gawker Media videographer Richard Blakeley took his own footage for the clip above. "I was tackled by 3 guys trying to get the footage out of the building," Blakelely tells us. CES wishes they had such security.

Banned cameraman hawks CES press badge

Owen Thomas — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:38:08 PST

Richard Blakeley, the Gawker Media cameraman whose antics for Gizmodo drew widespread attention, is selling his press badge — the last one he'll ever get, he says — for $100 on Craigslist. Why is it a collector's item? Because CES has banned him from attending future events after he filmed himself using a remote control to turn off TV screens on the show floor. (Gizmodo, like Valleywag, is owned by Gawker Media, and Blakeley does video work for both sites.)

More CES sanctions against Blakeley

Paul Boutin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:07:35 PST

Star Wonkette commenter FlakJack listed additional punishments the Consumer Electronics Show people should mete out to Gizmodo's TV-remote prankster. Edited version:

No protective sleeve for press room coffee cup.
Photo credential only allows you to take pics of booth dudes, not babes.
Shocks from a designer Taser anytime you roll your eyes at a vendor's use of jargon.
Mandatory lunch with Scoble and Calacanis.

A week to remember: At CES, more time in jail than Paris Hilton

Jordan Golson — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:00:47 PST

What a week! On my first trip to Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show, I survived harassment by bulldog aficionado Jason Calacanis, discovered that HP adman Jay-Z uses a Mac, and laughed at Richard Blakeley's TV-B-Gone prank. Now we hear that he's been banned from the show. It could be worse. He could be behind bars...

... like this pair of adorably cute bulldogs!(WORLD EXCLUSIVE bulldog photo courtesy of Jason Calacanis)

Gawker staffer banned from CES, "additional sanctions ... under discussion"

Jordan Golson — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:09:08 PST

Richard Blakeley, the scamp behind Gizmodo's TV-turnoff stunt at CES, has been banned from attending the show. Here's the CEA's official response to the Gizmodo TV-B-Gone prank:

We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the exhibitor booth operations of numerous companies, including disrupting at least one press event. The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion.

The employee in question, Richard Blakeley, is clearly credited, so it shouldn't be difficult to "identify" him, though both Portfolio and Silicon Alley Insider failed to get that essential detail right. Blakeley tells us that he has received "no notice at all" from CES about the banning. Though, seeing as how CES is over, we've got a year for this to all blow over. And Blakeley has a year to think up another stunt.

How to suck up to the consumer electronics industry

Paul Boutin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:00:37 PST

Self-styled serious bloggers are tripping over each other to distance themselves from Gizmodo's childishly funny prank at CES, in which Gawker Media class clown Richard Blakeley turned off entire banks of TV displays with a remote control. The critics advocate for more maturity and morality, in posts titled "douche" and "crap." The bloggers' real concern is that they'll lose their recently acquired just-like-old-media access to PR dog-and-pony shows and the snack room at CES. It used to be bloggers bragged about not needing those things, and not being corrupted by them. The guy at TechCrunch's gadget blog weighs in: "Will Denton's kids grow up? Absolutely." Then he posts a photo of a douche box. When I grow up, I want to be just like him.