The Weekender: Ahoy there! Wake up and bury your face in the loins of the weekend

Date
14 March 2014

What a week! How was yours? Good? Hmm. Okay shut up. It’s time for the weekend, strap yourselves in and get ready for a roller-coaster ride! Well, if you can call getting drunk with your weird friends and doing your laundry again a roller-coaster. Depends what you’re into. This week we’ve been entertained by Barack Obama, the sweet drawings of Mari Kanstad Johnsen and this film where dogs fall in love and sniff each other’s butts.

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Illustration by Mari Kanstad Johnsen

–  This week’s bookshelf comes by way of children’s book illustrator Chris Haughton.
– Director Anna Ginsburg told us why The Pharcyde’s Drop is her favourite ever music video.
– We discussed Grayson Perry, Neil Young and Design Indaba in this week’s episode of Studio Audience.
– Did you send something really, really great in to It’s Nice That? See if it made the top five over in Things.
–  Rob Alderson’s Opinion piece this week discusses why designers must guard against the march of homogenous visual culture.
– We also introduced the talented designer Elyn Kazarain!

Liv Siddall

This week I was treated to some unadulterated nostalgia by way of this eight-hour YouTube clip of the entire Sims soundtrack, including expansion packs. I think about, and talk about The Sims quite a lot. I think the amount I played in my teenage years had a positively profound affect on my life. This tinky-tonky shopping mall music just brings it all gushing back like crazy.

Maisie Skidmore

Here’s a really nice little article about a elephant who rampaged through an Indian village smashing up houses but then returned to rescue a baby girl from under the debris. I need say no more, really.
www.independent.co.uk/elephant

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“Hellew! I rescue children!”

Rob Alderson

Two bits of Seinfeld-related stuff from me this week that have tickled me pink. First up I have gone on before about my love for the online interview series Comedian In Cars Getting Coffee (here and here) but permit me to do so one more time. This episode with Tina Fey was flagged up to me this week and it’s brilliant, but look out in particular for the best use of product placement ever at around 4:30. Staying with Seinfeld, hats off to LJ Frezza who put together this six-minute super cut of the people-free NYC filler scenes from the iconic sitcom. Oddly compelling.

Lisa Farrell

Karl Pilkington is a comedy phenomenon discovered by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant way back in the days of their XFM show. Coined by Gervais as an "idiot with a head like a fucking orange,” he made such an impact on the duo that they started the The Ricky Gervais Show podcast simply to record their conversations with him for the world to hear. Over the past 10 years he has kept millions of people amused with his absurd and wonderful observations on modern life, and just to bring him right back into your life, here’s some of the best bits can be found in this compilation of his amazing diary! ENJOY!

James Cartwright

Vice’s Clive Martin just keeps getting better and better. His deeply satirical look at UK club culture is always so brilliantly scathing that I’ve permanently stopped going out. Here he is bemoaning the state of Britain’s young men. Just look at them all. They’re a mess.

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Clive Martin:

Bye!

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