It's DOUBLE the weekend! So an extra-excitable edition of The Weekender

Date
3 April 2015

We get excited about the two days off a traditional weekend brings, so with double the time off we’re doubly excited. But why just use that extra time to eat Transformers easter eggs and watch Netflix in your pants when you can be catching up on all the art and design news from the week? You can even do that while you’re in your pants, eating a Transofrmer easter egg, if you want. So no excuses, dive head-first into the gooey sugary centre of fun, The Weekender!

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Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared: Behind the Scenes of Episode 4

– We saw Ricky Gervais give literally no sh*ts in the ad for Netflix Australia

– Do you love us as much as we love you? Even if you don’t, we’ll love you even more if you spare just a few minutes to take our reader survey. Sometimes it feels good to get things off your chest

– Have you seen these brilliant, cute, hilarious behind-the-scenes for the equally brilliant, cute and hilarious Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared?

– There was a chance to vicariously rifle through Frida Kahlo’s bits and bobs thanks to some beautifully poignant photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako

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Ishiuchi Miyako: Frida by Ishiuchi #40, 2012-2015

– The creators of a Twin Peaks-inspired interactive art piece chatted to us about David Lynch, feminism and the sinister undertones of suburbia

– Want a run down of the Type Circle posters created by the likes of Angus Hyland, Jonathan Barnbrook and Craig Oldham? Here you go!

– Boy oh boy, some excellent collage-based art direction from Boyo studio

– And finally, we celebrated a lovely identity by NB Studio for London’s Almeida Theatre

We got our ya yas out again big time this week with another roster of features that are more exciting than the prospect of ruffling Panda Bear’s hair. Which is very, very exciting indeed.

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Frank Hamilton: Dan Deacon

– We had a great feature on weird and wonderful music merch, which touched on Grimes’ Pussy Rings, Rammstein’s dildos and James Cartwright’s Judas Priest weed grinders

– The head of BBC Introducing spilled his industry secrets about how to get your music heard, and why album artwork is still important

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Grimes’ Pussy Rings

– We spoke to the one and only Dan Deacon about his totally bonkers live shows, which occasionally disturb the peace in art galleries and the like

– “Don’t be a dick” was among the advice offered by Us on making excellent music videos

– We feel we can all agree that there is simply NO place for the iPad selfie stick. All those who concur say “Aye!”

– We ADORE Throbbing Gristle founder and pandrogyne Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, so were thrilled to read about their collaboration with fashion designer Yang Li

– Vice had a brilliant interview with diffident documentary-maker par excellence Louis Theroux.

– The Hackaball is a terribly impressive bit of coding-inspiring kit, as featured by the gang over at Creative Review.

Maisie Skidmore

James Cartwright

Those of you lucky enough to follow me on Twitter will have seen me observe the complete lack of irony in this promotional video for Tidal, a more expensive version of Spotify that’s owned by some of music’s biggest names. Witness Jay-Z, Rihanna, Madonna, Calvin Harris, Chris Martin, Daft Punk, Jack White, Alicia Keys, Kanye West and more (some of the greatest names in modern music) make total idiots of themselves by talking about a music streaming service as if it’s the answer to world peace. Favourite quotes: “It’s the beginning of a new world.”
“This is an historic day.”
And my personal favourite: “This collaboration feels so ego-less.” Yeah, egoless. That’s how I’d describe it too Alicia Keys.

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Drawing with Nigel Farage

Emily Gosling

You can draw things with Nigel Farage’s face in various states of grotesque contortion. That’s about all there is to say on that really.

Liv Siddall

Last week I had a day off and I went to Thorpe Park with my friend Lerryn for a day of rollercoasters. It was fantastic. The feeling of being in a theme park is so odd – it’s totally designed for kids, and everything is made of fibreglass. There’s speakers in the fake bushes giving off dinosaur roars and the staff are dressed up as characters or in themed outfits. I was really intrigued by the map at Thorpe Park, and started hunting around for other theme park maps. I found this website, an archive of theme park maps through history. Of course someone’s made this.
www.themeparkbrochures.net

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Dolly Faibyshev: Alison Jones for The New Yorker

Rob Alderson

There’s a lot been written about how the geeks have inherited the earth but few articles demonstrate their cultural ascendancy better than this New Yorker piece. Alison Jones is a casting consultant who works with some of Hollywood’s leading lights to identify thespy nerds who are de riguer for directors like Judd Apatow at the moment. It’s a great profile and it has all sorts of wider cultural implications which makes it especially interesting.

www.newyorker.com

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Emily Gosling

Emily joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in the summer of 2014 after four years at Design Week. She is particularly interested in graphic design, branding and music. After working It's Nice That as both Online Editor and Deputy Editor, Emily left the company in 2016.

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