Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- “Skip intro”: Netflix could’ve saved TV title sequences, but now it’s killing them
- With Rupert Murdoch’s Help, Tab Media Targets Young and Cheeky on Campus
- Social Media Anxiety Disorder, Explained
- The Rise of the Twitter Thread
- How Instagram Makes You Basic, Boring, and Completely Deranged
- How Apple finally made Siri sound more human
- Jeff Bezos Mandates Programming Shift at Amazon Studios
Reference points
- Social media cheat sheet 2017
- Platforms and Publishers: A Definitive Timeline
- More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism
- Amazon Advertising Pitch Deck
- Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you
- Keeping Insecure lit: HBO cinematographer Ava Berkofsky on properly lighting black faces
Longer reads:
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- 30 Days Timelapse at Sea
- Lego GTA
- Dad Practices ‘Ventriloquism’ On Baby, Baby Is Not Amused
- World’s Worst Driver Pulls Out In Front Of Loudly Whistling Train
- Highlight: USC’s blind long snapper Jake Olson finds game action on extra point against WMU
- Superheroes without special effects look pretty silly.
Things to look at/read:
- Cheese tea is the newest food trend and there’s nothing you can do to stop it
- The art of the heel
- Twin Peaks Finale: A Theory of Cooper, Laura, Diane, and Judy
- Every TV Show Would Be Better With Jason Statham In It
- Silicon Valley’s Politics: Liberal, With One Big Exception
- The Ugly Evolution of Cyberbullying
- This genius photo experiment shows we are all just sheeple in the consumer matrix
Animal corner
- I’m worried that we’re giving our cats unrealistic expectations of physical beauty.
- The kids thought it would be fun to play pie face with the dog
Tweets of the week:
- I just searched “vape wedding” and apparently this is a pretty popular and normal thing
- I, for one, welcome the world’s coolest dog.
- My housemate is a film and TV prosthetics artist and today she sent me this from her workshop. I can’t stop laughing.
- When internet users evacuate.
- Went to see IT, I’m first in the screen and this fucking guy’s just sitting there.
- Pokémon Go trying to murder people
- Oprah Dee Oprah Dahl …life goes on brah La-la how the life goes on
- Before u leave the house, think of the acronym ‘WOWEE’ Wallet phOne Wkeys Egg Egg (backup)
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads
- ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’
- Vincent Is Telling You Everything
- The risk of nuclear war with North Korea
- The First White President
- The Thankless Task of Being Michael Moore
- The Sucker, the Sucker!
- Every Stephen King movie and miniseries, ranked
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