Batten down the hatches - it’s the weekly tornado of art and design, The Weekender!

Date
28 November 2014

Here we are again, another Friday, another reason to sit back and catch up on what you may have missed from the last five days of creative gloriousness we’ve been putting before your lucky little peepers this week. Enjoy.

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MR PORTER: How to Be a Leader illustrated by Giordano Poloni

- Our Digital Publishing feature Behind the Screens has been exploring all the things that are great about online content, and boy did we get some scoops from the likes of the editor of MR PORTER

- Booooooom founder Jeff Hamada told us what he thinks about the state of art blogging

- And Brandon Stosuy, the editor of Pitchfork chatted about what he believes is the future of music journalism, and what the internet can offer people who love zines and music simultaneously

- We’ve also been whipping ourselves into a big blue frenzy over the launch of the It’s Nice That Annual, thanks to the promise that not one not two but 50 creatives will be running us through how their 2014 has been; and that each book has a signed postcard on its cover

- For the last Studio Audience podcast of November 2014, we’ve talked about KFC’s trendy hipster redesign, Monument Valley, and the Tate Modern’s wonderful new photography show

- But what’s been on the Bookshelf, we hear you whisper? Well, none other than photographer and “the David Bailey of grime” Ewen Spencer has been getting his shelves out and telling us about what he likes to leaf through on a rainy day

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Ingvar Kenne: The Hedgehog and The Foxes

- This week you smutty little things have been loving our post about a project covering 48 hours with portly porn star Ron Jeremy

- And sticking to the theme, it turns out you’ve also been as entranced as we have by Harvey Weir’s stunning (and also rather rude) shoot for i-D magazine’s Beautiful Issue

- When you’re not looking at filth, you’re “trying to navigate a little princess through a geometrically impossible world” in the Monument Valley game – or at least reading about doing so for its last ever level

Rebecca Fulleylove

If you’ve never seen the film Teen Witch I urge you to watch it immediately. Pre-Sabrina days it tells the story of Louise who learns she has supernatural powers. At first she uses her powers for high-school revenge and to bag the babe on campus but soon she realises you can never cheat your way to popularity. The absolute BEST part of the film is the Top That rap, which made the rounds so many hilarious times while I was at uni (we didn’t have Lad Bible then). Feeling nostalgic, I watched the video again last night. OH BOY. The clothes, the dialogue and the dancing are so on-point it’s cringingly amazing. It might just be the best rap in the world, I mean just look at how funky he is!

James Cartwright

There are many good reasons why musicians should aim to vary their output as they continue along their career paths, and this Pitchfork review of Eminem’s latest album is proof of that fact.
Apparently the rapper that defined our early adolescence has produced nothing but straight-up bullshit for the past decade, his lyrics deteriorating in quality to the point where they’re just straight gibberish. Reading Jayson Greene’s brutal assassination of this once-great artist’s efforts is an incredibly satisfying way to spend five minutes of your time, if only to remind yourself never to rest on your laurels – or create shit for cash.

Emily Gosling

Admittedly this is far from a new discovery, but today I was reminded of one of my favourite videos of all time – the documentation of that magnificent, yet poignant moment when Bobby Davro falls flat on his face from a badly assembled set of stocks, having just had his trousers pulled down by a rather cheeky Lionel Blair. It may be childish to say, but this really is one of the best pieces of footage on the internet. YouTube user gregormcclung echoes our sentiments exactly in his simple statement: “If I’m having a bad day I watch this and I feel so much better.” Oh Bobby!

Maisie Skidmore

On the occasion that I have ten minutes to kill at my computer screen my favourite place to spend it is on the Nowness site, so their post in which the team there picked their all time favourite bits of content was something like being handed a golden ticket. I’d never seen Raven Smith’s selection, “this video,” in which Ryan Heffington teaches Sia’s Chandelier dance, before, but it’s like the golden tiara in the treasure chest. It’s hilarious. You can see it, as well as what the rest of the bunch there chose, here.

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