[SIC] 226: ZAMBONI

Volume 5, Number 18

Dec 30, 2022

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Corollary sources this week (all worth your review): Music Redef / Semafor / 1440 / The Micromobility Report / Recomendo / Dealbook / Nieman Lab / The Drop / Blu Dot / Public Announcement/ Jimmy / Blazer

Hi all,

Greetings from ‘dead week;’ yes, it’s been predictably slow. Still, lots of good stuff to digest in the digest this week. First and foremost, RIP to the creative gods Vivienne Westwood and Pele; thanks to Iolanda and Celeste for the contributions (always welcome, everybody), and a special thanks to Garrett Colton for the books and his Art Stuff newsletter (which I recommend). Beyond that - this week goes section-free and associative, order-wise. Hope you dig.

Ben

Jenifah oh Jenny

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The 'Vibe Shift' Is Here. 2022 Was Just Beginning "There's definitely an interest in getting away from the tyranny of casualness," said Sean Monahan, who started the whole Vibe Shift thing / Back Row
Soooooo, Can 2023 Be the Year of "Nothingcore"? / Hypebeast
From Celeste Blewitt: “’a mish mash of fast fashion, thrifting and everything in between” The Chaos Theory Of Gen Z Fashion' / WaPo
Is Dickies Basically a Luxury Brand Now? The 100-year-old workwear brand has very much arrived as a fashion powerhouse / Highsnobiety
The Weirdest, Wildest, and Most Important Fashion Shows of 2022 / GQ
Zadie Smith on Tár and the Gen X midlife crisis. At the heart of Todd Field’s new film is a conductor who cannot see beyond her generation’s field of vision / NY Review
Elon Musk Has Been Tweeting a Lot. What Can His Clothing Tell Us? / GQ
“Sexy Robots” Are Coming to Miami / Hyperallergic
Explaining the best memes of 2022 / Inside Hook
Emily in Paris For the Dudes. With the third season of the insanely popular Netflix series out now, men tell GQ why they can’t stop watching / GQ
The “nepo baby” craze has set the internet ablaze with a slew of incredible memes / Hyperallergic
Here is how SBF covered his $250 million bail / Coindesk
2x2 for the restivus: Scale and the small business (freelancer grid) / Seth Godin
How J Dilla Reinvented Rhythm / Rolling Stone
Mythbuster: an ad recession’s biggest misconceptions / Digiday
S/o [SIC] Talks Alum Stefano Rosso: Diesel Unveils First Stage Of Long-Term Web3 Strategy With NFT Collective Hape / Jing Daily
NFTs are becoming more popular in Italy, pushing a sort of revival in the general appreciation of finer arts / Cointelegraph
NFT creators diversify into real-world assets to generate new revenues / FT
Klarna and Shein, partnered to create the SHEIN x Klarna Wonderland, a virtual experience in Roblox / Gamelevate
From Iolanda Carvalho: "What do we need in order to build purpose, resilience, and direction over the next decade?" [The Forerunner Ventures ‘Dinner Party’] / Forerunner
A private company began a controversial “geoengineering” trial, releasing reflective particles into the atmosphere to reduce global warming. Make Sunsets launched weather balloons full of sulfur particles and helium into the stratosphere from Mexico / MIT Technology Review
While this giant fan is sucking tons of carbon dioxide out of the sky in Iceland / Fortune
Elsewhere in sucking: Twitter Blue now allows subscribers to upload videos up to 1 hour in length / TechCrunch
If SUVs were a country, they’d be the sixth-largest emitter of CO2 / The New Statesman
The argument for a four-day workweek is getting stronger. Not one of 33 companies that piloted a shortened workweek for six months as part of a large-scale study this year said they would return to a standard schedule / Bloomberg
CNN is cutting back on the drinking on its New Year’s Eve broadcast / Semafor
THE FACE’s podcast with Hayley Williams and Wet Leg / The FACE
Tho fave painter Chrissy Angliker is on Tulips for Interview Mag /IG
Artist Walead Beshty Shipped Glass Boxes Inside FedEx Boxes to Produce Shattered Sculptures / Colossal
The Louvre shot on a mobile phone—20 artists make three-minute films inspired by the Paris museum. ‘Louvre Looks’ videos will be posted weekly on Instagram / The Art Newspaper
TikTok admits tracking journalists as part of an internal leaks investigation / FT
Filthy recordings for women are exploding in popularity. Erotic MP3s are having a moment / GQ
HighSnob’s favorite IGs of 2022 / IG
Cinephiles take note: Criterion’s “A Year of Essential Reading on the Current” / Criterion
Dezeen's top 10 rebrands and logo redesigns of 2022 / Dezeen
TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES published this year on 032C / 032c
From Celeste Blewitt: “An in-depth piece on language and pronunciation, in particular with the Australian accent, trending on TikTok. Kath and Kim are still making waves on the platforms and now there's many pulling apart vowels, syllables and all that goes with language. Fascinating and a light read the same time.” [‘Naur, Yeah: Australia, You're Performing Linguistic Magic When You Pronounce The Two-Letter Word No’] / The Conversation
This live feed of a watering hole in the Nabib Desert streams live 24/7 / Youtube

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Lastly: Nick & Amantha Weidenfeld’s “THE FIVE, TENS AND TWENTIES” yearly email is a for-real touchstone for me; like Rachel Tashjian’s Opulent Tips it’s an invite-only thing so hopefully re-posting it in its entirety doesn’t get me kicked off the distro - but when it arrived today I felt a duty to re-circ. Nick and Amantha (and Max!) are the best. Here’s what caught their attention this year:

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“We will keep this keep this short and sweet - two things that, quite frankly, do not describe 2022.

Not gonna lie - it was a real year. We felt every single one of the last 365 days.

That said, there were a lot of things that gave us joy and/or a welcome perspective, some of which we’d like to share with you right now as we collectively look to 2023 with bright eyes, open hearts and a richness in spirit.

With boundless love,

Nick, Amantha and Max”

TOP 20 SONGS

SPOTIFY LINK

1. LAST SONG by Destroyer

2. LEFT ME by Kidd g ft. YNW Bslime

3. MY FRIENDS by Ty Dolla $ign ft. Lil Durk

4. PERU by Fire Boy DML ft. Ed Shereen

5. RUNNER by Alex G

6. RUNAWAY by 100 Gecs

7. SICK OF IT* by Jean Dawson

8. DID YOU KNOW THERE’S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD by Lana Del Rey