WELCOME TO THE·BY·PRODUCT. A WEEKLY RECAP OF WHAT IS GOING DOWN & WHAT IS COMING UP ON THE INTERNET. THIS WEEK WE LOOK AT SOME AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHY, RICK RUBIN’S DESERT ISLAND DISCS AND THE RETURN OF SHELLEY DUVALL TO THE BIG SCREEN. PLUS ANOTHER RANDOM ASSORTMENT OF CLICKABLE AND SHARABLE LINKS TO START YOUR WEEK OFF WITH. ENJOY!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL.
THIS WEEK’S HOT TAKE
Meet me at the minibar.
CATEGORY: PHOTOGRAPHY
The Invisible Man project is remarkable. This photo essay by Ralph Ellison represents a watershed in the canon of American fiction. Winner of the National Book Award in 1953, the novel has been hailed as one of the first to treat the black experience in twentieth-century America as a full human experience. Soon after its publication, Parks set out to evoke passages from the novel by shooting a series of images of an actor on the streets of Harlem, where Ellison had lived for more than a decade. Via / Ruby
CATEGORY: FASHION METAVERSE
From working with singer Grimes to creating signature genderless corsets and owning one of NYFW’s most anticipated brands, acclaimed Australian designer Dion Lee has made a name for himself since jumping into the fashion scene back in 2009. Now, his eponymous label is entering the world of Web3 with its first ever 550-piece NFT drop. “Dion Lee: Facade” takes inspiration from its Fall 2022 lace-clad runway collection and brings light to the complex human sensibilities of sensuality and anonymity. Also I would like to take the time to welcome Dion to the block. The shop is nestled between 21 Mercer and BBC on Mercer Street. / Via Jing Daily
CATEGORY: MUSIC TO BE ALONE WITH
Legendary producer, and personal favorite of all time, Rick Rubin has appeared on the BBC's long-running Desert Island Discs show, where he picked the eight songs he'd choose to keep were he ever marooned on an island. Rubin's choices included songs by The Beatles, Ramones and Neil Young (full list below). Rubin also chose the book he'd take to a desert island (The Red Book by Swiss psychiatrist Karl Jung) as well as a luxury item (a set of tarot cards). / Via Louder
CATEGORY: RETAILING
Ii the minibar the new endcap? “Hotels have a lot of potential, both for brand awareness and sales,” says Paula Rezende, head of brand and partnerships at Biocol Labs. The company began working with hotels five years ago — starting with a Six Senses hotel in Portugal before expanding into the hospitality company’s other locations, like Ibiza and Switzerland. Biocol Labs also has a number of hotel partnerships in the UK and US. The products can be found in the minibar. / Via ThingTesting
CATEGORY: FUNNY STUFF
The joke isn’t funny anymore. Why did comedy die? You should be hard pressed to recall the last funny movie you have seen. Pop over and read how changing culture and movie economics killed the Golden Age of comedy. / Via Kvetch
CATEGORY: SOCIAL STUFF
For aspiring LinkedInfluencers, the field has never been more competitive. LinkedIn told Vox that there are currently 13 million users with “creator mode” turned on (a setting that expands the kinds of features users can deploy in order to grow their audience). I am actually one of those 13 million with that setting turned on.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, its focus on making its users famous has made it look and feel quite a lot like Facebook, as many have pointed out. There have never been more people trying to become LinkedInfluencers, and there have never been so many resources they can pay for to do it. / Via Vox
CATEGORY: FILM STUFF
Heeeerre’s Shelly! Shelley Duvall is set to make her first film appearance in 20 years in Scott Goldberg’s The Forest Hills. The 73-year-old actress, who played Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, will portray the mother and inner voice of Chiko Mendez’s Rico, a mentally and emotionally disturbed man. The Forest Hills is billed as an indie horror-thriller that follows Rico, who is “tormented by nightmarish visions” after he suffered a head trauma while camping in the Catskill Mountains. / Via Hypebeast
CATEGORY: GETTING SPOOKY
Each year, it seems Halloween intensifies: prep begins earlier, and costumes get more elaborate. 2022 is no exception, as celebrities continue to up the ante with pre-Halloween celebrations, a sort of appetizer to this weekend's entrée. Here is your obligatory celebrity halloween post. / Via HighSnob
CATEGORY: PENDING DROP!
As we move into our new brand, the product is gearing up for getting down. Our new brand is being paired with it’s own e-commerce shop for drops. Subscribers will be the first to know as this will be our exclusive channel for announcing such drops. / Via Product
CATEGORY: FRIENDSHIP
Great advice for an under-discussed vector of adult friendship-commemoration. Giving a friend you love clothes you love. If you choose the garment well (and if yr friend has simpatico taste in jawns & is in the right neighborhood size-wise), they will have a piece they can cherish for years — a swaggy totem, that is, of yr bond. / Via BBSP
CATEGORY: WORKPLACE
Meeting overload is a real thing, but it is fixable. Francesca is a community manager on the marketing team at Asana, a company that builds work-management software. Always enthusiastic about trying new ways to make her job easier, she volunteered for the company’s “Meeting Doomsday” pilot study, where she and eight of her fellow marketing colleagues sought to reduce the amount of time they spent in meetings.
The group started by deleting all small recurring meetings (those with fewer than five attendees) from their calendars for 48 hours. During those 48 hours, they considered the value of each deleted meeting and then repopulated their calendars with the ones that still seemed valuable. / Via HBR