We Love the Internet 2020/17: The Hollywood job edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Is this the end of Airbnb?
• Anime brand Crunchyroll shows the potential of niche streaming at scale
• It’s A “Cold War Every Day” Inside This Group At Apple

Reference points:

• HK Mask manual
• Producing for today
• 10 of the world’s best virtual museum and art gallery tours

Longer reads:

• The Hollywood job
• Esports and the Dangers of Serving at the Pleasure of a King
• All Your Favorite Brands, From BSTOEM to ZGGCD
• When a rising star of China’s live-streamers fell in love offline, it cost her the virtual world
• How Bon Appétit’s wildly popular YouTube channel is making videos in quarantine
• Some shirts hide you from cameras — but will anyone wear them?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Escape room in google docs
• The Neighbors’ Window — Oscar Winning Short Film
• 13 Levels of Beatboxing: Easy to Complex
• 41 Quick Food Tricks
• Matt tries to ditch all his Zoom calls using AI
• Metalhead Teens in a Record Store (1989)
• Billie Eilish vs SUSHI RAMEN
• The Pond On My Window Sill — Ecosphere Week 1

Things to look at/read:

• They Were the Last Couple in Paradise. Now They’re Stranded.
• Why do human beings keep getting diseases from bats?
• Everyone wants a puzzle
• Inside Rapper Drake’s Manor House in Hometown Toronto
• Eggs and orange juice are the best performing assets this year

Animal corner:

• Baby lion cubs trying to roar like their father
• PURRfessional MEOWdel
• Boop
• Gerbils Museum Opening
• Monkey Rides Her Dog BFF everywhere
• Cat mesmerized by optical illusion
• Still laughing abt this
• Had to post it here too. 😂 I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks I’m a genius

Tweets of the week:

• I hadn’t expected Tesco to proceed to the “eat the rich” stage of pandemic crisis quite this soon.
• Omfg best one yet
• When you’ve left your lockdown home brew fermenting for just a little too long..
• i owe the Jurassic Park franchise an apology, it is in fact very realistic the rich would reopen a park in spite of it consistently resulting in mass death
• Possibly the greatest 30 seconds of sport you will ever see anywhere
• This is too perfect, her face at the end
• The existence of the meatball sub implies that there also exists a meatball dom
• sitting in the passenger side of my best friend’s ride, trying to holler at scrubs

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Allow Fiona Apple to Reintroduce Herself
• The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit
• Secret Life of an Anonymous Speechwriter to the Stars
• Book review: Hoover
• Everything on ‘Naked and Afraid’ is real — and I lived it
• The secret resistance behind the world’s most dangerous cheese
• Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire
• The chaos of the dice

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