Toot toot, it's time to get on the fun bus! Welcome to the Weekender

Date
5 September 2014

Fun bus, you ask? Yes! The fun bus! Because it’s back-to-school week, and while that predominantly means potentially giving our shoes a polish for us non-attending folk we have been getting into the spirit of it by listening to this on repeat and raiding the stationery cupboard for some fancy new pens with which to draw all over our backpacks. School’s the bomb. Here’s some fun/ridiculous/entertaining stuff we found this week.

Above

Photograph by Joanna Piotrowska

– Clap your ears onto some art and design chat plus the occasional quip about how James used to be a goth in this week’s podcast.

– Liv questions whether we’re right to be so up in arms about the demise of MSN Messenger in this Opinion piece.

– This week the editor-in-chief of Riposte magazine Danielle Pender showed us her bookshelf, which features Bridget Riley, Alec Soth and the National Geographic for good measure.

– Animator and illustrator extraordinaire Andy Baker told us exactly why he loves this animated video for Slick Rick’s Behind Bars in the My Favourite Music Video feature.

– We made an Autumn-themed mixtape to celebrate the release of the brand new issue of Printed Pages magazine! It’s actually really great.

Amy Lewin

What inspires someone to tattoo “Lost Soul” on their knuckles? Or “Good Girl”? Does having “Bang Bros” or “Ahoy Mate” on your hands help or hinder a job interview or a blind date, I wonder? Ed Bishop’s been cataloguing knuckle tattoos – “one of the last places a diehard tattoo aficionado had left available” – for us all to gander at here.

Rob Alderson

If you own a dog and you’ve never strapped a GoPro to its back and made it run into the sea then I’m sorry but we can’t be friends.

James Cartwright

I’ve never been excited about anyone releasing a make-up line before. Until now! MAC have just launched a Rocky Horror Picture Show range (does make-up come in ranges?), which means leggy gentlemen all over the world can get upholstered in hosiery for the evening, safe in the knowledge that their lips will look luscious and their eyes as “come hither” as humanly possible before they take to the streets to strut menacingly down to their local karaoke night. Bang on!

Maisie Skidmore

I think I’d actually feel much more inclined to wash my hair on a regular basis if I imagined that it was full of all the tiny people who pissed me off throughout the week. The Japanese are great, great, at making shampoo ads.

Liv Siddall

I love the blue plaques in London. I also love the story about Brian Harvey running himself over with his own car because he “ate too many baked potatoes.” This piece by Vice suggests that the UK should start putting up plaques where legendary crap-spots or embarrassing moments happen. Is this a Kickstarter? If so, pass me my debit card.

Share Article

Further Info

About the Author

It's Nice That

This article was written by the It’s Nice That team. To find our editors and writers, please head over to our Contact page.

It's Nice That Newsletters

Fancy a bit of It's Nice That in your inbox? Sign up to our newsletters and we'll keep you in the loop with everything good going on in the creative world.