#CoolShit 03.31.20
Happy Tuesday!
Shit!?!? It’s only TUESDAY ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
See you tomorrow!
-Shelby
Today is the 1 year anniversary since Nipsey was murdered.
Nipsey Hussle Changed His World and Inspired a Generation That Will Do the Same
There’s something that you need to know, Nipsey was different. I’ll eventually do an entire email dedicated to all the reasons why…
Nipsey was their ambassador, living proof that those umbilically bound to the streets could still credibly stress peace and unity, entrepreneurialism and local pride. Your birthplace would irrevocably shape you, but it didn’t need to define or consume you.
This is why the streets of Los Angeles honored Nipsey’s last ride with unanimous respect. The procession ambled down Vermont, a central artery cleaving neighborhoods claimed by 18th Street and the Westside Fruit Town Brims, the Hoovers, and the myriad splinter sects of the Neighborhood Crips. It slashed to Watts past Grapes and Bounty Hunters, and then looped around the land governed by factions of Inglewood Bloods and Sureños, eventually stopping for good at the spiritual cradle of Crenshaw and Slauson. Nipsey transcended historic enmity.
He stressed the desperation of circumstance not to glamorize, but rather to explain why the choices were made. A three-part odyssey, “Crenshaw and Slauson” chronicles his rise from flipping mixtapes in the parking lot to stardom. His confessional writing gets all the details right: the grocery bag of dirty money turned into a Sam Ash microphone and Pro Tools, the Mac 11s hidden in the safe under the floor, and the half-joke that he’s not telling the rest until the statute of limitations is up.
I could quote a lot more, but you should just read the whole thing and watch the YouTube docu-series 😬
John Krasinski’s “Some Good News”
Even today, there’s a lot more good news then there is bad news. I’m here for anyone else that want’s to “be a light in the darkness“
You Have a Moral Responsibility to Post Your Boring Life on Instagram
But now the Instagram playing field is as level as it will ever be. All we have to show is our faces, which are the things people want to look at now anyway.
It is no longer taboo for things to be banal. There is no such thing as FOMO when we are all missing out on absolutely everything.
Show me your boring life, it helps keep us connected while were disconnected in quarantine.
NBA.FM is going to fake the rest of the season with “hyper-realistic audio broadcasts”
I’m SO SO into this!
We are simulating each remaining game on the networks' original schedule as a hyper-realistic audio gameplay broadcast.
Let the sounds of the game wash over you, and remember what normal felt like.
10 Compact Computer Desk for Home Office with Limited Space
Don’t know about you, but we we’re definitely not prepared to turn our home into a an office for 2 as well as a preschool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wieden’s COVID campaign for Oregon, “Don’t Accidentally Kill Someone”
Want to create a global campaign, now’s your chance
United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives - help stop the spread of COVID-19
The United Nations (UN) needs your help in translating critical public health messages, into work that will engage and inform people across different cultures, languages, communities and platforms. The shortlisted work will reach everyone, everywhere.
And here’s some tips for you while you’re working on your global campaign for the UN.
6 underestimated soft skills that will make you a better designer(Amongst other things)
Curiosity: Wanting to know more
Holistic thinking: Focusing on the whole, not the parts
Humility: Letting go of the ego
Community building: Actively supporting your peers
Depersonalization: Taking yourself out of the equation
Sense of humor: The most underestimated skill
This photo series of an empty NYC
Eerie for sure, but there’s something soothing about seeing “the city that never sleeps”, asleep.
This soulful mix
The marathon continues…