DESIGN, BUSINESS & INNOVATION

Illustration via Fast Company.

Ryan Bradley writes an interesting article in Fast Company: Understanding Facebook's Lost Generation of Teens: "Facebook is not cool. Everybody knows that, not just teens. "Coolness is done for us," Mark Zuckerberg said last year. This, more than anything, must be the reason teens are leaving, this lack of coolness. Facebook's chief financial officer, David Ebersman, said as much during a fourth quarter earnings call: The social network is not a cool hangout spot anymore, he said, which is why its user rates among young teens is dropping off. Some estimates have it at about a million teens a year, quitting Facebook entirely." Read full article in Fast Company. E.T.P. 7'

CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT

Photo via Dazed.

Now you can get a uni scholarship for playing video games! "Robert Morris University in Illinois has become the first college in the United States to offer scholarships to professional gamers who play League of Legends, one of the biggest PC games in the world.
The university's new scheme is now seeking to recruit high-school gamers under the principle that this League of Legends – which attracts 27 million players a day – is a sport equal to other traditional athletic pursuits like rugby and soccer." Read full article in Dazed Magazine. E.T.P. 2'

Photo via the New Yorker.

Emily Nussbaum writes in The New Yorker about watching TV on the gym: "When you watch television for work, many questions come up regarding your viewing habits. How do you watch so much? And don’t you get tired of watching? No, actually: I like television. And in my case, I have the benefit of multiple screens. There are plenty of shows that I watch on a swanky flat-screen TV with high-definition magic. There are others that I watch on a computer, either full-screen or popped out in the corner, so I can type while I watch. There are shows that I watch on my iPhone, too, lying in bed, with headphones on. This approach works nicely with Netflix, and for a Hulu catch-up on network shows that I’ve missed, and whenever I watch this way, in the darkness, I can hear the distant screams of cinephiles, which sweetens the experience all the more." Read full article in The New Yorker. E.T.P. 5'

IN DOG WE TRUST

 

Photo via 3bulldogges Instagram.

 

 

Hello dog lover! Hope you're having a beautiful weekend!
 

Here are some links for you:

40 dogs and cats who just love to cuddle

Dog owners enlist professional pup photographers for pet portraits

What's does "Fido's" behavior say about the relationship between you and your dog?

Wackiest pet products

How many words do dogs understand?

Video of the week: Boxer puppies and baby

Enjoy your Sunday! And follow Sumo, Buddha and Ayumi on Instagram

 

 

 

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In Dog We Trust is edited by: Carola Melguizo from La Guía del Perro. 

 

The Procrastinator (some) Times Sunday 15th of June Edition

EDITORIAL

Morning everyone!  Hectic past week building up to a crazier one, but in a good way! And this is why: in our To Do List we invite you to Central Saint Martins Degree Shows' week, and specially to our Conference Night: Exploiting Chaos this next Wednesday night (:

In News, like the rest of the world, we share articles about the World Cup. In our Science & Technology section Anita Hamilton writes in Time an article about this (not-so) new behavior: bedtime procrastination. Larry Clark's US$100 photos and Haruki Murakami's short story "Yesterday" in Culture & Entertainment. And In Dog We Trust by La Guía del Perro share tips to take care of your pet during the summer and introduce us to Koda the puggle.

Happy Sunday happy reading, and follow the Procrastinator in Twitter, #whydontyou? ;)

NEWS

Still of John Oliver's HBO video.

Of course the World Cup is the big news of the week, and if you are having confused feelings about it, because football is fun, but FIFA is the devil and half of Brazil is unhappy about hosting the World Cup, you definitely need to see John Oliver on Fifa, (if miraculously you haven't done so, it's all over the Internet!). "Putting aside its perennial bribery scandals, the way FIFA does business with host countries is appalling. Here, Oliver walks you though the hundreds of millions in tax breaks, the new laws, and the new criminal courts the (nominally) nonprofit organization demands." Have a look in Gawker. E.T.P. 14'

Photo via Vice.

Vice also has been covering the World Cup from an alternative perspective. Have a look at their series of Contra a Copa: the other side of Brazil's World Cup videos here. E.T.P.: 10-12' each.

"The World Cup started in Brazil this week among celebration and protests. The host nation won the game opener in front of 62,100 fans at Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo, and masses watched in various positions around the country and world. -Some in protest that a huge amount of funds are directed to this prominent event." See these 27 photos in The Boston Globe's Big Picture. E.T.P. 5'

Image via The Atlantic.

In a lighter note, Uri Friedman in The Atlantic explains why the Americans used the word soccer. "In May, Stefan Szymanski, a sports economist at the University of Michigan, published a paper debunking the notion that "soccer" is a semantically bizarre American invention. In fact, it's a British import. And the Brits used it often—until, that is, it became too much of an Americanism for British English to bear. The story begins, like many good stories do, in a pub." Read full article in The Atlantic. E.T.P. 5'

Stephen Collins via The Guardian.

Finally "The not giving a toss about the World Cup World Cup final", a cartoon by Stephen Collins in The Guardian.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Photo via TIME.

Anita Hamilton writes an interesting article about Bedtime Procrastination, because there's never enough time during the day to get all your procrastinating done... you know it resonates with you.

"It probably goes without saying that you’re super busy most days. So busy, in fact, that by the time you’re ready for bed, you feel like a zombie. But if you’re like a lot of people, it’ll be a while before your face actually hits the pillow and you drift off into dreamland. After all, you still need to Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, call your Mom and play with your cat before you hit the hay." Read full article in TIME Magazine. E.T.P. 3' (Thanks Lynch for the link!)

CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT

Photo via Dazed Digital.

Larry Clark is selling his snapshots at £100 a pop. According to the director, this sale is for "all the kids that come to my shows in their thousands and could never afford ten to fifteen thousand dollars for a print... This is a pay back to all the skate rats and collectors who would like a souvenir so I can die happy". Read full article in Dazed. E.T.P. 2'

Photo: The Procrastinator (some) Times.

This past week The New Yorker shared Haruki Murakami short story Yesterday. This is how it begins: "As far as I know, the only person ever to put Japanese lyrics to the Beatles song “Yesterday” (and to do so in the distinctive Kansai dialect, no less) was a guy named Kitaru. He used to belt out his own version when he was taking a bath. Yesterday Is two days before tomorrow, The day after two days ago." Read full story in The New Yorker. E.T.P. 25'

IN DOG WE TRUST

 

Koda the puggle via his Instagram.

 

 

Hello dog lover! Hope you're having a lovely weekend!

Here are some links for your Sunday morning:

War Dogs

Pig: One dog's story of beating the odds

Healthy happy pets: How to look after your pet during summer

How to live longer: Have a dog

Are you getting a ruff night's sleep?

Video of the week: Dog gets a puppy for his birthday

Enjoy your Sunday! And follow Koda on Instagram

 

 

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In Dog We Trust is edited by: Carola Melguizo from La Guía del Perro. 

 

TO DO (OR NOT TO DO) LIST

Image via CSM website.

Granary Square looking all summery.

Conference rehearsal. And in your right hand side there's the bar ;)

This Wednesday 18th of June the second round of Degree Shows at my uni, Central Saint Martins, starts. I've seen the making of wonderful exhibitions to be like MA Narrative Environments, MA Architecture and MA Textile Futures and I cannot wait to have a proper look when they're ready. My course, MA Innovation Management, had also been working hard to put together a great conference night that will be the opening of our show.

Our lecturers will be Susie McKenna, Director of Hackney Empire, Dr. Carl Reynolds founder of the NHS Hack Days and Indy Saha, Director of Creative Strategy at Google Creative Labs. You can also have a look at all the students projects, the insights and opportunities for innovation we discover during of our final dissertation process (warm up with the articles in our website). I (Ana) will be there, as well as a lot of nice collaborators of the Procrastinator: Marie, Rita, Kerilyn & Jonny.

All the info of our show Exploiting Chaos: Innovation in the Making is available in our website. Tickets are now sold out, but most probably if you want to have a look (and a drink) the night of the 18th you should definitely come along around 7:30! (:

This is the moment we've been waiting and working for several months now, come and share our happiness and exhaustion with us!

(Also I have two extra tickets for the Private Show, if you want them, tweet me!)

The Procrastinator (some) Times Sunday 8th of June Edition

EDITORIAL

This week edition our News section features articles about the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, and John Oliver explaining Net Neutrality; also, a couple of infographic, one about gay rights in the world and another one about the economic split in Latin America between Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance. A glimpse into the humanoid robotics movement in Japan in our Science & Technology section. The future of work when (and if) robots take over and Van Gogh's ear in Design, Business & Innovation. In Culture & Entertainment we feature a moving portrait project by photographer Sasha Maslov with some veterans of the Second World War; and in a lighter note a fun campaign where glasses transform impressionism turns into hyperrealism. La Guía del Perro share with us how Panda-Dog craze sweeps China and how to tell if your dog is putting on weight, check In Dog We Trust.

Happy Sunday and happy reading!


NEWS

Photo via The Independent.

This past week The Independent published an article about Tiananmen Square 25th anniversary – the massacre as it happened as told by Michael Fathers, The Independent's then Asia Editor, who was there. These were his dispatches from the atrocity. It is a quarter of a century since the People's Army put down China's incipient protest movement with shocking brutality.  'Rows of troops advanced slowly, shooting directly into the crowd.' Read full article in The Independent. E.T.P. 18'

Meanwhile in 2014, China blocked Google ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary to slience its discussion. Read article in Mashable E.T.P. 3'

"Being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is illegal in almost 80 countries, and in at least five of them is still punishable by death. In honour of the International day against homophobia and transphobia on 17 May, explore the legal situation for LGBT people around sex, marriage or civil partnerships, adoption, workplace discrimination and hate crime by region, country and overall population." Great interactive infographic made by Feilding Cage, Tara Herman and Nathan Good. Have a look in The Guardian.

I really enjoyed this video of John Oliver explaining Net Neutrality. It's an easy and fun way of understanding a very serious problem that I hope we don't have to face anytime soon. "John Oliver took on net neutrality on Last Week Tonight in the way only he can on Sunday evening. "They should call it cable company fuckery," Oliver said. After tearing into the FCC, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and the Obama administration, Oliver called for help from someone unexpected — Internet trolls. Oliver pointed viewers (and, more importantly, web commenters) to visit www.fcc.gov/comments to vent about the FCC proposal, which was opened for comment in mid May. "This is the moment you were made for, commenters," Oliver said." Read full article and watch the video in Mashable. E.T.P. 17'

Finally Latin America's economic split explained by a Bloomberg graphic. The inflation one is a beauty: "Latin America is divided between fast-growth countries along the Pacific coast and stragglers facing the Atlantic." Have a closest look in Bloomberg. E.T.P. 3'