[nonostantement #87] - monetizing esports apparel / vegetarian butchers / getting real on instagram
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We’re Taking More Photos Than Ever—but Do We Still Treasure Them?
"The public aspect of images is no longer just for artists, photojournalists, or celebrities. Our photographs lead a double life: as memories that we can revisit, like journal entries; and as statements about ourselves to our social networks, like self-declarations—or self-promotion."Inside the Race to Monetize Esports Apparel
"Everyone from automaker Nissan to rapper Offset wants a piece of the esports pie, but it’s sportswear brands that stand to make the greatest profit and, subsequently, are making the biggest waves."The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers
"How several former vegans and vegetarians across the country came to see meat as their calling."The Rise of the “Getting Real” Post on Instagram
"Although Instagram has been well documented as one of the most demoralizing places on the Internet, it’s easier to post about insecurity and isolation as if they flowed solely from external factors, rather than from the powerful, consuming platform by which many of these people make their livelihood."Foot Locker Bets On Cultural Authenticity With Greenhouse Incubator
"The retailer is launching a new platform to change the way it interacts with customers."The Privacy Project
"The Times is embarking on this monthslong project to explore the technology and where it’s taking us, and to convene debate about how it can best help realize human potential."Compelling Portraits of People Who Live Alone in the Forest
"They make their homes in the Russian and Ukrainian forest and fashion makeshift dwellings from the land."[In Italian] - La nostra casa sta bruciando, arrediamola da Ikea
"Ikea ha rivoluzionato il nostro modo di vivere, ma è anche il simbolo di un modello di sviluppo insostenibile."[In Italian] - Sin Hombre
"Sin Hombre è la libera ricostruzione di un amore difficile, impossibile, in un ambiente dominato da una cultura prevalentemente maschile, ispirata al libro biografico di Narciso de Gabriel, che narra le vicende di Elisa Sánchez Lorica e Marcela Gracia Ibeas che ebbero luogo in Galizia all’inizio del 1900, a La Coruña."For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth
"It’s not just the megarich: increased spending power leads us all to inflict environmental damage. It’s time for a radical plan"
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