Vice commissioned two pieces that felt like what Vice are great at doing, and both were ace to read – well reported and never dull:
some people are shitposting on linkedin, and this looks into it with great interviews and anecdotes from the rascals DISRUPTING THE SOCIAL MEDIA FOR JOBSWORTHS, by Bethan Kapur.
and this from Alice Hall who has been hacked on twitter but is on IG, was the classic vintage vice I know and crave. the taboo of shitting, and some nice narrative tone to it also.
there’s this too!
this is from 2011, but i’ve decided if i read something good, i’ve fuckin read something good, so you’re having it. if it turns out it’s all the past them hmm maybe something something we’ve had it tough avocado on toast leave us the fuck alone let’s just read what we could’ve won. it’s about apples, specifically “Building a better apple.” and the slug is delicious:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/21/crunch
seo go shiver. crunch.
aaaaaaaand – in 2019!! i had an idea: in the rental economy, bedrooms are a weird space: they’re ours and so so personal, but they’re also walls we can’t paint, wine glasses we can’t spill. yet, when the entire house is a landlord-owned sheet of thin ice, we have to hold on to our bedrooms. I wanted to do a photoessay of people in their bedrooms, and just photos of their rooms, little trinkets and stuff, and then an interview alongside it, published as a nice zine. I didn’t get around to it, asking people if i can go to their bedroom felt weird. maybe i should. if i don’t it doesn’t matter because this series from Rosie Foster is basically it, it’s great she’s great:
GOODS:
I did a form of exercise every day this week. ooof.
I haven’t had any caffeine? not totally intentional but i feel no different for it so… yay. (decaf coffee still contains all the antioxidants, just fyi)
BAD:
found it very hard to concentrate, and also felt stressed about money (because i only did my contracted job instead of #sidehustlé) – two things to work on. imagine if these jobs paid enough for people without trust funds to live on bloody heck woah !
gonna send this now so i can enjoy my weekend and do some yoga and weights and stuff, oof. do we want longer next time? lmk innit – xox