[nonostantement #31] - the blaze's queens / this coke is a fanta / akira influences

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The Blaze - Queens (Official Video)

• How the Blaze’s emotional dance music brings listeners to tears
  "It is body music — dance music — but it works subcutaneously, operating on the level of emotion and thought more than movement. In the lineage of heavily exported French dance music, it’s less plastic than Daft Punk, less brute than Justice. And as a contrast to the Red Bull orgy that is contemporary dance music culture, particularly in the festival context, the Blaze are monastic outliers."

• Coca-Cola - This Coke is a Fanta - Cannes lions 2018 (case study)
  "In Brazil, apparently “That Coke is a Fanta” is a common homophobic slur. To celebrate International LGBT+ Pride Day, Coca-Cola launched a limited edition Coke can with actual Fanta inside and a message: “This Coke is a Fanta, so what?” thus flipping a derogatory expression into a symbol of pride, which captured the public and social media imagination to massive brand awareness, engagement and goodwill."

• Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
  "Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings in the past 12 months, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Around four-in-ten (42%) say they have taken a break from checking the platform for a period of several weeks or more, while around a quarter (26%) say they have deleted the Facebook app from their cellphone."

• How I got my dj brother a collab with a Billboard hot 100 artist​
  5 replies on 20 cold emails sent - all with just being smart.

• Everybody Dance Now
  "[...] given a source video of a person dancing we can transfer that performance to a novel (amateur) target after only a few minutes of the target subject performing standard moves."

• (in Italian) Dinanzi all’orrore, l’impotenza
  "La costituzione psicocognitiva dei neoumani – voglio dire proprio il loro hardware cognitivo – non può far girare il software lasciato in eredità dalla vecchia cultura umanistica: parole come «libertà», «uguaglianza» e «fraternità» hanno perduto il loro significato situazionale. Possiamo datare precisamente l’inizio di questa mutazione? Naturalmente no. Io però ho arbitrariamente deciso che la data d’inizio è il 1977."

• Celine has a "New" logo thanks to Hedi Slimane and with it comes a play for clicks & cash
  "Trending even more than ugly shoes is the rebranded logo. "

• Akira influences w/ Dr Yamashiro
  "Dr Yamashiro, the musician and scientist who recorded and conducted the film's soundtrack, will be taking of the NTS airwaves to present a one-off show running through the film's musical influences and inspirations."

• Altered grammar: re-reading Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in the time of Trump
  "For me, and many others, the 2016 election of Donald Trump in the USA was an equally revelatory moment, where the true horror of ‘democratic’ tyranny took to the stage, and a new dark age of ignorance, hatred, war and oppression slithered nakedly into view. "

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