[SIC] 179: Hair in a Tantrum

Volume 4 Number 23

Feb 10, 2022

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Hi all.

Today is going to be fun. [SIC] Talks returns with special guest Recho Omondi, the podcaster, designer and entrepreneur behind The Cutting Room Floor podcast.

Recho and I met through our mutual friend (and [SIC] Talks alum Jian DeLeon, and while we’ve had a couple of really great chats on Clubhouse, this will be our first time talking 1:1. In my experience Recho is bright, informed and opinionated, so it’ll be cool getting her takes on some of the week’s stories, as well as an update on what she’s been busy with. Come check it out on IG Live at 4p ET / 1p PT @dietznutz, or in my grid thereafter.

Also, instead of promising a frequency for “5 Questions For,” they’re just gonna come out when I have material for them. Back next week, in other words.

Finally before we get into the links, a thanks as always to friends who contributed - Iolanda, Marcella, Matthew, Celeste, Aaron and Greg - for the links. Keep ‘em coming, all.

xo B

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Trends

From Iolanda Carvalho: “Still talking about trend season, by Faris Yakob... (with one of my all time fav quotes!) ‘So it’s worth thinking about how you think about the trend reports you read. As Schopenhauer wrote, “the task is, not so much to see what no one has seen yet; but to think what nobody has thought yet, about what everybody sees.”’” / Warc
The Culture that is Portland / Marginal Revolution
Related?: If Everything Is ‘Trauma,’ Is Anything? puffnachrichten via Public Announcement
Shhhh. Generation Mute: when silence becomes a trend / In Bed With Social
Tho… Schoolchildren in the British capital have developed a dialect, Multicultural London English / New Yorker
Why Wall Street Is Suddenly Bullish on Work-Life Balance / NYT
Workers Are Having Their Moment. How Long Can It Last? / WSJ via Ritzholtz
Meanwhile, meet the Fractionalized Employee. / Rishad Tobaccowala
Why do Millennials feel so anxious about money? / Future Party
And when’s a Good Time to Buy a House? / The Atlantic via Motive Unknown
We’re building a social+ world, but how will we moderate it? / TechCrunch
Are Screens Robbing Us of Capacity for Deep Reading? / LitHub via Strat Scraps
Related? Wired says it’s time to reimagine the Cyberpunk future / Instagram

Style

How fast homeware became the new fast fashion / Dazed via After School
Regenerative agriculture is a hot topic for sustainability / Vogue Business
From Marcella Farman-Dietz: Puffas: The price of staying warm / Quartz
adidas posted bare breasts on Twitter and IG in a new sports bra ad / IG
Can these women save Savile Row? Female-focused businesses are growing where traditional tailoring fails / How To Spend It
From Matthew Davis: The most flagrant Shaq sneaker knockoffs / Sole Collector
The Vanguard of Footwear. Kicks is wiiiiild / Highsnobiety
Understanding the Power of Mycelium and the Mushroom Movement / BoF

The Arts

Brooklyn Museum will honor Virgil Abloh with an exhibition this summer / BoF
Solange’s creative agency Saint Heron launches a Brooklyn-based ceramics residency. / Hyperallergic
While 2,700 Artists in New York State get a new $125M Program / Hyperallergic
The Warhol Album Cover edition of WITI is great / Substack
Auction houses were the big winners of the pandemic / The Art Newspaper
From Celeste Blewitt: Christie's Will Auction Art And Furniture From Hubert De Givenchy's Homes' / Town & Country
Appreciating the Performative Quality of Computer Generated Art / Hyperallergic

Entertainment + IP

The Jackass Series Deserves Serious Recognition as Documentary Art / Hyperallergic
The film that brought reggae to the world / Criterion Channel
A pretty illuminating interview with Abel Ferrara, about his Times Square hijinks in the late-70s / Mubi via Oi Polloi
Contemporaneous: this bot that tweets out links to tracks Larry Levan played at Paradise Garage from 1977-1987 / Twitter via Unskippables,
How to Write a Love Song / Frieze
The gamification of the music industry has just begun. /Music Business Worldwide via Music Redef
The bull case for music NFTs as the next big thing / Bankless via Inside Cryptocurrency
$not Is Gen Z's Most Mysterious Rapper / GQ
Sue Kwon photographed the artists whose music would go on to change the world / The New Yorker via Music Redef
My Media Diet: Chloe Cherry, the actress pumping fresh blood into Euphoria / The FACE

Platforms & Influencers

Understanding Tiktok’s issue 69 (niiiiiice) is an amazing resource for finding the TikTok press to follow. / Substack
TikTok updates rules to combat viral hoaxes / Axios
But TikTok shares your data more than any other social media app — and it's unclear where it goes, study says / CNBC
Related? The story behind the sudden popularity of Soviet Union-themed social media accounts / The FACE
Also, TikTok not only holds huge influence over the music industry, it's also become a major force in book publishing. / Forbes via Simon Owens
LinkedIn is trying to keep up with an uptick in Gen Z users / WSJ via Dealbook
While Salesforce is looking into an NFT cloud service to create and sell NFTs, which could erase the need for OpenSea / CNBC
Speaking of: How one company (OpenSea) took over the NFT trade / The Verge.
Discord is growing in the music industry, being used to connect with fans / KEXP via Music Redef
Hence, the music industry's Hot New Job: Community Manager. As more talent flocks to Discord, the expectation is that hiring community managers will become a natural extension of an artist's team. Billboard

Marketing & Advertising

Miami is the US’ new hotbed of marketing creativity and innovation / The Drum
Complex Collective — a community of 30,000 users who can be tapped directly— is a “seven-figure” vertical for BuzzFeed / Digiday via Future Party
Is Momentum Shifting Toward a Ban on Behavioral Advertising? / The Markup
And Why many publishers stand to benefit from the demise of the third-party cookie / The Rebooting Podcast
Does Peloton trick us into working out? / FT Podcast
Mascots might be the key to TikTok strategy for brands / Marketing Brew
Eileen Gu is every marketer's dream. / Jing Daily
How Valentine's Day hurts men's mental health / The Drum

Media Business

In light of Dutch and Morgan: an incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism / Nieman Lab
Related: How can you judge the quality of a news outlet? Look at how politically diverse its audience is / Nieman Lab
But also, 40% of paying subscribers to news products are sleepers, meaning they haven’t visited the site in the past month / Piano via The Rebooting
News media companies now have more than 1 million followers on TikTok, even though TikTok has done little to court news publishers / Axios
B/c forget Tiktok: Wordle and recipes are the secret sauce of news / FT
Rolling Stone Is Buying a Music Festival / Bloomberg
You're Remembering the '90s All Wrong, According to Chuck Klosterman / GQ

Metaverse & Web3

The metaverse will simply be too big for any one company to dominate / Fast Company via Protocol
VC-backed DAO startups are racing to define what DAOs actually are. / TechCrunch
DAOs Aren’t A Fad - They’re A Platform. Forbes via Upstream
The internet is just investment banking now / Atlantic via Nieman Lab
After player backlash, video game companies are quietly scrapping their NFT plans / Fast Company
A marathon is among the first IRL-Metaverse Mashups / CoinDesk via Upstream
Here’s another: McDonald's is making a restaurant in the metaverse that will deliver food to you IRL / Insider
The Metaverse Glossary / Wunderman Thompson
This is how war in AR looks. A first look at the U.S. Army’s mixed-reality helmet. / Task & Purpose via Protocol
From Aaron Radin: A Billionaire’s son aims to democratize sports ownership with a soccer DAO / Forbes

Food & Drink

Paulie Gee makes my favorite slice. He also made an appearance on Crescendo! last week, too. / Spotify
McCormick Wants Hot Sauce Supremacy / Bloomberg via Trend Report
Oscar Mayer is selling bologna facial masks / WaPo via Trend Report
Millennials aren’t drinking enough wine / NYT
Carl Icahn’s secret activist campaign: pushing McDonald’s to improve the treatment of pigs. / WSJ via Dealbook

Miscellany

Researchers create plastic twice as strong as steel. Fast Company via 1440
While Microbes have learned to eat plastic. / Quartz
Anarchist-designed DIY Heaters are Saving Lives of Unhoused People / Hyperallergic
Americans should instead just use existing EV incentives to buy electric golf carts for dirt cheap. / Motherboard via The Micromobility Newsletter
Parking lots cover 5% of the US / Arch Daily via The Micromobility Newsletter

Things to Do

Aaron Rose launches the Alleged Podcast with Ed Templeton / Instagram
And [SIC] Talks alum Brynn Wallner’s Dial Dimepiece clip show / Instagram
Plus, Spyplane TV is the show nobody saw coming / Blackbird Spyplane
Spotz.Club photo show at fave gallery Public Access show this weekend / Instagram
[SIC] Talks all-star Ana Andjelic on the Future Laboratory podcast