Ready to Instagram your brunch? Jolly good! Here's the Weekender

Date
29 May 2015

Back in the mists of the pre-internet era, the end of the week was a somewhat muted affair. Brunches went un-Instagrammed, plans could be boasted about only to a select few and everyone just had to do what was directly in front of them rather than tracking down an exciting pop-up yak milk yurt in deepest Clapton. But no more – the weekend is now in our hands and this very weekly round-up is proof that there’s a new world order. Bend your knee yeah, it’s The Weekender…

– What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever Googled? New app Nice 2 Hack You by Big Data and Rajeev Basu is ready and waiting to uncover the dirt in your browser history.

– This week we’re asking who should design degree show identities – current students, former students, or external design studios? Add your thoughts to the comments section!

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Namsa Leuba: Acrobats

– More extraordinary work here by half-Guinean, half-Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba, who photographed the Guinean acrobats who perform at ceremonies in Conakry.

– Ever found yourself gazing at a shelf full of cotton wool balls in Boots and wishing they would come alive to mirror your actions? Me neither, but that’s something like what this new fur mirror by Daniel Rozin does, and you lot went mad for it this week.

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Francesca Jane Alllen: Pearls Negras for i-D

– “I couldn’t really relate to a lot of fashion magazines at the time,” John Holt, editor-in-chief of LAW magazine told us this week. “When I was growing up I was more concerned about getting hold of the new Argos catalogue and looking for bargains in the Free-Ads newspaper on a Saturday.” Read more here!

– “We came to think of the composition as an ecosystem, composed of balanced parts, or even an organism, with a spine, flesh and skin,” Hanna Tuulikki explained of her new birdsong composition, Away With the Birds. “The sum of the parts is greater than the whole." Find out more!

– “I’m scared of people getting bored of me,” Francesca Jane Allen told us when we had a chat with her about freelancing earlier on this week. “Most of all I’m scared of boring myself, scared of making work that is only just OK. I don’t see myself as a creative person, rather as someone who creates.” Have a read!

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The first time it took me weeks: there are 43 quintillion permutations!’ … Erno Rubik with his daughter Anna in 1981. Photograph: ANL/Rex Shutterstock for The Guardian

The Guardian had a chat with Erno Rubik, the inventor and father of the Rubik’s Cube this week, and thank God they did! Here’s a fascinating insight into the iconic puzzle and its reason for coming into existence.

– When does the zine stop being a small printed publication and turn into a weapon for female sexuality? Dazed explores…

AnOther ran through the most magical swimming locations in the world this week, and provided us with folders full of holiday porn in the process.

– A new lifestyle magazine for men who shun all worldly possessions? Here’s The Daily Mash at its absolute best.

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Photograph by Gilbert Blecken

Rob Alderson

I have had misgivings about this nation’s relationship with tea for a while but lacked the wherewithal to do anything about it. Step forward this week then Joel Golby who dismantled or mollycoddled fetishisation of a brew with his usual verve. The problem, as Joel elucidates, is that pick away at tea and our national identity comes crumbling down – “Once we examine tea, once we put that central tenet of British culture under the microscope, what else will we start to doubt?” Nearly 1,600 increasingly frenzied comments and counting…

Beccy Fulleylove

It makes us females seem bit frivolous and silly, but in the spirit of not taking myself too seriously this BuzzFeed video, If Guy BFFs Vacationed Like Girl BFFs did make me chuckle. Mainly because of the amount of times I’ve heard myself say “We’re on holiday!” when it comes to justifying any activity, food choice or clothing dilemma when I’m away. I’d like BuzzFeed to make a version for girl BFFs holidaying like boy BFFs, but taking into account the numerous stories I’ve heard from male friends about their holidays, I imagine it wouldn’t be suitable for public viewing.

Maisie Skidmore

London’s Cob Gallery is making history next week with a screening of Keeping Up With the Kapulets, which will see actors in full period costume recreate a full episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians word for word, in the context of a classic Shakespearean theatre production. If that isn’t a scoop then I have absolutely no bloody idea what is. Here’s the trailer you get you started.

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Hull’s Settee of Culture

Emily Gosling

I really like the Turner Prize, and I equally love the “my four-year-old-could-do-that” Daily Mail circus around it. And so I present this offering from the Hull Daily Mail, which draws our attention to one Hull resident’s reaction to the announcement that the city’s been named 2017 city of culture, and the year’s host of the prize.

“Dubbed the Settee of Culture, Turner judges would no doubt say the modern masterpiece juxtaposes the everydayness of the banal with the iconoclastic, ubiquitous qualities of the biomorphic forms that emphasise the extraordinary in the ex-facia ordinary. It just so is. Or it could just be a knackered old sofa with a phone book dumped next to it.”

Alex Hawkins

In a suitably Lynchian twist, I didn’t quite believe it when I heard a documentary about an obsessed Twin Peaks fan who has based his life on the fictional life of David Lynch’s Laura Palmer is in the works. It’s an amazing story and one that totally needs to be told so head over to the Kickstarter campaign and get behind the project ASAP.

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