{"id":2636,"date":"2017-09-25T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2017-09-25T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T08:52:10","slug":"the-wrap-is-ready-to-kick-some-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-wrap-is-ready-to-kick-some-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrap is ready to kick some leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1) We may well have come across the tune of the year. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/matsoR\">Rostam&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0gorgeous &#8220;Bike Dream&#8221; is an absolute peach of a track, something which makes you realise that the former Vampire Weekend lad and accomplice for the likes of Frank Ocean and Solange is one heck of a talent. Check him out on <a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/rostam\">a recent episode of Song Exploder<\/a> where he talks about how the song came about. His new album &#8220;Half-Light&#8221; is quite marvellous and colourful so check that out too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rostam - Bike Dream (Lyric Video)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/66y8JMEvTas?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2eVtqdI1qU02LHrPH72Omq\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(2) Monday morning blues: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/01\/the-work-from-home-dream-doesnt-work\">why the work-from-home-dream doesn&#8217;t actually work<\/a>. Bonus for those wondering who took their stapler over the weekend: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40438504\/10-inventions-that-shaped-the-workplace\">10 inventions which shaped the modern workplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>(3) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/johnpaczkowski\/iphone-portrait-lighting\">Why the iPhone camera rocks<\/a>: &#8220;what Apple&#8217;s doing is using its software to light a photo as a lighting person might and, more broadly, taking away the complexity of how the fancy cameras you\u2019d typically need to do that stuff work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(4) So punk rock:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yearzero1977.tumblr.com\">Year Zero<\/a> is a symposium to mark 40 years since The Clash played in Trinity College which takes place in that august venue on October 21. You&#8217;ve got readings, screenings, discussions and\u00a0the first ever performance in Dublin by legendary Clash associate, DJ and film-maker Don Letts. Another 40th year bash is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/punk-diy-40-tickets-37997978978\">Punk DIY 40<\/a> from Hope Collective to\u00a0mark the 40 years since the release of the Radiators From Space \u201cTV Tube Heart\u201d. This takes place on October 1 at Dublin&#8217;s Grand Social.<\/p>\n<p>(5) One of our favourite Banter podcasts of late is this conversation about the future of work, which took place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bullitthotel.com\">Bullitt Hotel in Belfast<\/a> over the summer.\u00a0Listen back to\u00a0<strong>Adrienne Hanna <\/strong>from <a href=\"http:\/\/rightrevenue.co.uk\/\">Right Revenue<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/profkevincurran\">Kevin Curran<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulster.ac.uk\/staff\/kj-curran\">Professor of Cyber Security at the University Of Ulster <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/philip-brady-85b414b\/recent-activity\/\">Philip Brady<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citi.com\/\">Citibank<\/a>\u00a0talking robots, AI, automation and Blockchain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F340854372&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=525&#038;maxheight=788&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(6) Long read of the week: <a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2017\/09\/21\/a-high-end-mover-dishes-on-truckstop-hierarchy-rich-people-and-moby-dick\">an excerpt from Finn Murphy&#8217;s The Long Haul: A Trucker&#8217;s Tales of Life On the Road<\/a>. &#8220;I can feel the sweat running down my arms, can feel my hands shaking, can taste the bile rising in my throat from the greasy burger I ate at the Idaho Springs Carl\u2019s Jr. (It was the only place with truck parking.) I\u2019ve got 8.6 miles of 6.7 percent downhill grade ahead of me that has taken more trucks and lives than I care to think about. The road surface is a mix of rain, slush, and (probably) ice. I\u2019m one blown air hose away from oblivion, but I\u2019m not ready to peg out in a ball of flame or take out a family in a four-wheeler coming to the Rocky Mountains to see the sights.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) We may well have come across the tune of the year. Rostam&#8217;s\u00a0gorgeous &#8220;Bike Dream&#8221; is an absolute peach of a track, something which makes you realise that the former Vampire Weekend lad and accomplice for the likes of Frank Ocean and Solange is one heck of a talent. Check him out on a recent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-wrap-is-ready-to-kick-some-leaves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wrap is ready to kick some leaves&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}