Week 6 — Digest
Podcast
Boys Like Me
A coincidence that seems apt for a film leads the hosts of this podcast to divert from their original plan to cover one of the most horrific attacks in Canada’s history.
Boys Like Me traces how two people from similar backgrounds and circumstances ended up at totally opposite positions in life. One helping, the other killing.
Art
Lukas Weidinger
The Austrian illustrator uses a unique style of line drawing that creates a smoothly chaotic texture in his pieces. They give a dynamic feel to the artwork as if the wind was slowly uncovering the illustration by removing layers of hair off the paper.
Fashion
Early Majority: A Fashion Degrowth Label
Early Majority calls itself the first fashion degrowth label, meaning it is shifting away from voluminous production at breakneck speed and instead focusing on quality and practicality.
The corporate structure of Early Majority raises an interesting contrast between good intentions and the realities of the capitalist market and how the latter may be changed and improved from within.
Early Majority balances out these contrasts by incorporating a membership system and heavily focusing on community-building through its blog.
Pas Normal Studios & Salomon
The luxury sports apparel brands Pas Normal Studios and Salomon combine their expertise in their latest collaboration. The new line shows off sleek designs with typical PNS sophistication and Salomon utilitarianism.
Music
Young Fathers Returns
After a break lasting five years, the British trio is back with their new album Heavy Heavy. The band retains their classic characteristics with high-energy drums, droning rhythmic basses, and sweet choir melodies.
Culture
TikTok Corecore
TikToks of seemingly non-sensical compilations from news clips, podcasts, films, etc., known as corecore, are gaining popularity on the platform. These videos don’t have explicit meaning or goals, therefore serve as blank canvasses upon which the audience can project their own meaning. This essay by Kieran Press-Reynolds analyses these corecore TikToks and how they are more bloat than intellectual critiques.
