An illustration of a crowded music festival campsite with colourful tents and people milling about. Large, white hand-painted text across the centre reads “THE WEEKENDER”, while a sign in the background says “Welcome to FESTIVAL”.

Weekender: Come on you old trouts, it's Weekender time! Let's be appalling...

Words: It's Nice That
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Date: 28 June 2013; Work

Friday has rolled across our hearts like a silky jazz vocal on a hackneyed-yet-tearjerking love song. Know what i mean? Well you shouldn’t do – I’m talking utter nonsense. It was a trick! Hahahahahaha….hey wait! Come back, I’m sorry! Ok let’s start over. Pray silence, for The Weekender…

People climb and lounge across a vast network of white netting inside a geometric glass structure. Large, transparent inflatable spheres are suspended above the nets, creating floating pods for visitors. — Above
Tomás Saraceno: In Orbit

6. Hats? Are you off your head?

Maiko Takeda’s amazing millinery skills are well worth checking out – Bjork wears them but would you?

5. It does exactly what it says on the tin

Julian Capelle kicked off this week and his Looking for graphic things project plays out exactly as you’d expect.

4. Mag geekery of the week

The Spectator is in the process of digitising its entire archive dating back to the 1820s – a must-see for anyone interested in design, magazines, history etc

3. Summer is naughty – PROOF

Joseph Mann has a slightly NSFW animation which celebrates summer and naked japes. It’s aces.

2. It’s just like being there

Kyle Platts tickled us all sorts of pink with his brilliant festival-themed publication, capturing perfectly the joy/horror of the annual summer migration to Glastonbury and the like.

1. Art you can climb on. Sweet.

Tomás Saraceno has only gone and done it again. In Orbit is a mindbending interactive installation in Germany.

A collection of magazines and booklets scattered across a bright pink surface. A blue book reads “The Studio”, while a green cover features the text “S L” and “Mission 7”. — Above
This week’s Things

What do you most look forward to on a Friday afternoon — a nice cold post-work beer? Putting your feet up and popping the telly on? Or is it scrolling through this unbelievably exciting collection of things that we have for you to lay your eyes upon? Of course. I knew it. Go right ahead. They’re all yours…

A collection of music memorabilia laid out on a bright pink surface. A booklet reads “thought PATTERNS ‘76-’77”, alongside a cassette tape and a record sleeve featuring a blue-toned image of a performer on stage. — Above
Lee Noble and No Kings Records

Two square record sleeves lie on a bright pink surface. One shows a person wearing a pumpkin mask while playing a guitar, and the other shows a person playing a guitar on a stage. — Above
Lee Noble and No Kings Records

An open booklet on a bright purple background features a grid of orange-tinted portraits. Each image is overlaid with a black geometric spiral or circular line drawing. — Above
Lee Noble and No Kings Records

Two cassette tapes, one yellow and one white, lie overlapping on a bright pink surface. Two more tapes in clear plastic cases sit behind them, featuring abstract orange and blue graphic covers. — Above
Lee Noble and No Kings Records

Lee Noble and No Kings Records

It’s not often we receive a bundle of cassette tapes and vinyl over at It’s Nice That, so the fact that these came so wonderfully packaged made them completely irresistible to us. Look at the artwork on those cassettes! And the spirographs on people’s faces! Lovely jubbly!
www.nokingsrecord.co

A bright blue book cover rests on a pink background. The title reads “The Nomadic Studio” in white, spaced-out lettering, with the author “Michael Heigemeier” and a subtitle about art and colonisation. — Above
Michael Heilgemeir: The Nomadic Studio

An open book displays a photograph of a person standing atop a fenced-off structure in a park. The person wears a dark outfit and raises their arms against a backdrop of autumn trees. — Above
Michael Heilgemeir: The Nomadic Studio

An open book displays a photograph of a person in a cluttered art studio. They stand with their back to the camera, facing a canvas amidst paint tubes, brushes and a folding chair. — Above
Michael Heilgemeir: The Nomadic Studio

An open book shows a black and white photograph of two people from the waist down. They stand close together on a dark floor, wearing light-coloured trousers and shoes. — Above
Michael Heilgemeir: The Nomadic Studio

Michael Heilgemeir: The Nomadic Studio

There’s undoubtedly something fascinating about taking a look at the studio space that artists create their masterpieces in, and Michael Heilgemeir’s The Nomadic Space makes for a particularly interesting read. This lovely book takes a closer look at the relationship between art, the artist, and the space in which they create it, focusing on the temporary urban space.
www.thenomadicstudio.net

A green booklet rests on a bright pink background. The cover features the letters “S”, “D” and “L” connected by white arrows, with the text “MISSION 7” in the bottom right corner. — Above
Hitchhiker’s Galaxy

An open booklet on a bright pink background shows a photograph across two pages. The image depicts a road running alongside a lush green hedge with a blue directional arrow sign. — Above
Hitchhiker’s Galaxy

An open book displays a collection of images and sketches on a bright pink background. The pages feature a line drawing of two figures and photographs of people in a library and a gallery. — Above
Hitchhiker’s Galaxy

A page from a book featuring a sketch of two people embracing. Above the drawing is a small, dark photograph of a person standing in a room. — Above
Hitchhiker’s Galaxy

Hitchhiker’s Galaxy

The lovely traveller types who sent us this project undertake a “mission” each summer, in which they travel all over Europe. Their routine is to take polaroids in each city, draw them, find a space in which to exhibit them that evening and then hitchhike onto the next place the following morning, thereby relying on the hospitality of strangers for every stage of their journey. The fact that they call these trips “missions” only makes them more fun in our eyes.
www.hitchhikersgalaxy.net

A magazine page titled “Viewport” features a collection of minimalist ceramic vessels in various shapes and colours. Below the image, a black and white photograph shows two people posing together. — Above
Viewport Magazine #2

A printed page featuring three photographs of brutalist architecture. Two black and white images are captioned “Golden Mile 1973” and “Inside Pearlbank”. — Above
Viewport Magazine #2

An open magazine page shows a photograph of a modern, minimalist interior with polished concrete floors and wooden ceiling beams. To the left, a sleek kitchen with dark cabinetry and a red backsplash leads into a bright, open living area. — Above
Viewport Magazine #2

A magazine cover with the title “BACK” in bold black type, set against a bright pink background. Below the title is a close-up photograph of a sleek, metallic object with curved, intersecting lines. — Above
Viewport Magazine #2

Viewport Magazine #2

Viewport Magazine is a veritable feast of architecture, design and travel, covering all kinds of fun and interesting bits and pieces. We were particularly taken with the hand-made vessels by Daniel:Emma which adorned the cover of this issue; there’s nothing like a nice collection of multi-coloured pots to hook you into a magazine, eh?
www.viewportmagazine.com

A magazine cover featuring a black and white photograph of a person with a bob haircut and bangs. The word “Curiosity” is printed across the centre, with “aperture 211” in the top left corner. — Above
Aperture #211

An open book shows a black and white photograph of the Eiffel Tower with a bolt of lightning striking its peak. Opposite the image, a page of text begins with a large headline that asks what can be learned by revisiting the early days of photography. — Above
Aperture #211

An open book displays four small photographs arranged in a grid. The images show various close-ups of documents, objects and a person's hand pointing to a device. — Above
Aperture #211

An open book displays a black and white photograph of complex industrial machinery, featuring a network of pipes and metal valves. To the right, a block of introductory text is paired with the name “Mårten La” and the word “Machin”. — Above
Aperture #211

Aperture #211

Aperture have been around for longer than your average photography magazine — for 211 issues, no less! — so it’s no surprise that they’ve got the quality of their content down to a fine art. This issue continues their dedication to considering the representation of the photographic image within our society and those that have gone before us (and there are a bunch of beautiful pictures to gaze at within its pages, too).
www.aperture.org

Tweet of the Week

You think you're having a good day, then you see that someone found your website by searching for 'Mum dogging' and 'Sex+my+love+gash'
— Stuart Heritage (@stuheritage) June 28, 2013

Video of people running for their trains in slow motion of the week

Youuuu can doooo ittttttt

People running for trains in slow motion from ANDYLISA on Vimeo.

Hilarious anti-Glastonbury article of the week

“The weather continues to be neither pleasant nor entertainingly awful and booths have been set up to help people cope with the realisation they have paid the price of a holiday in Tuscany to camp in a farm whilst listening to XFM.” The Daily Mash have done it again.

Old but topical Adam Buxton video of the week

While we’re on the festival theme…

Most Delightfully British Photos of All Time scroll-fest of the week

Baby ducks, Beatles and Bobbies. What more could you want?!

A police officer in a traditional helmet stands by an open iron gate, looking down at a duck and its ducklings. In the background, a line of guards stands at attention outside a grand stone building. — Above
Quack quack

Brief history of the birth of the GIF of the week

Very, very interesting article on where GIFs came from, and why we love them so much

Depressing but amazing photo of the week

We found Wally!

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There he is!

Tatty bye!

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