{"id":2592,"date":"2017-08-14T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2017-08-14T08:27:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T08:27:33","slug":"the-wrap-has-plans-for-the-week-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-wrap-has-plans-for-the-week-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrap is looking for a sweeper system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1)\u00a0Every Friday morning, I add 10 tracks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/byjimcarroll\/playlist\/4kQSpjgPfkeEJqmhQk0rJn\">12345678910<\/a>\u00a0playlist. They could be new tunes or vintage tracks, recent\u00a0finds or old favourites, just ten tracks which made sense to me in the previous week. Last week&#8217;s bunch went from\u00a0mighty new-school bad ass <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stefflondon\">Stefflon Don<\/a> and the righteous <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/charmaxromeo\">Max Romeo<\/a> to the incomparable <a href=\"http:\/\/sandydennyofficial.com\">Sandy Denny<\/a> and quiet-LOUD-quiet troubadour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/isaacgraciemusic\">Isaac Gracie.<\/a> Dig in.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/user\/byjimcarroll\/playlist\/4kQSpjgPfkeEJqmhQk0rJn\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0From\u00a0Vapor Wake dogs that screen hundreds of people at once to invisible anti-drone walls, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/concert-securitys-new-frontier-w494570\">the latest innovations that claim to be the future of venue and live music security<\/a>. Face-mapping is mentioned in the piece which is a reminder\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/08\/22\/londons-super-recognizer-police-force\">this New Yorker piece<\/a> on the London detectives who never forget a face.<\/p>\n<p>(3) The 2017\/18 football\u00a0season across the Irish Sea\u00a0kicked off in earnest at the weekend. While you could enjoy such opening day Premier League fare as Huddersfield Town&#8217;s heroics and Chelsea&#8217;s woes, it&#8217;s really the season when the overall mood is pretty meh. Given that\u00a0the dominant pre-season story has revolved around escalating transfer fees, \u00a0you&#8217;re dealing with a sport which is now as romantic and dramatic as a balance sheet. A <a href=\"http:\/\/ciarantierney.blogspot.ie\/2017\/08\/our-divided-tribal-loyalties.html\">very good blog\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/ciarantierney.blogspot.ie\">Ciaran Tierney<\/a> about the politics of tribal loyalties when it comes to sport in this country is worth reading in this\u00a0regard.<\/p>\n<p>(4) &#8220;Today the Voyagers are 10 billion and 13 billion miles away, the farthest man-made objects from Earth. The 40th anniversary of their launch will be celebrated next month.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/03\/magazine\/the-loyal-engineers-steering-nasas-voyager-probes-across-the-universe.html\">An excellent piece of writing<\/a> about the engineers and explorers who worked on the Voyager mission. And if you have&#8217;t done so already, go see <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thefarthestfilm\">The Farthest<\/a>, Emer Reynolds&#8217; superb and fascinating documentary on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Farthest (2017) documentary trailer\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/znTdk_de_K8?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>(5) The art of colour: <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/88445\/how-pantone-comes-new-colors-its-authoritative-guide\">how Pantone comes up with new colours<\/a>. &#8220;Twice a year, Pantone representatives sit down with a core group of between eight and 12 trend forecasters from all over the design world, an anonymous group of international colour experts who work in product design or fashion, teach colour theory at universities, or are associated with institutions like the British Fashion Council. They gather in a central location (often London) to talk about the colours that seem poised to take off in popularity&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(6)\u00a0&#8220;As people are bombarded with more and more entertainment options, quality has become a determining factor for a movie\u2019s success. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hollywood\/la-fi-ct-rotten-tomatoes-20170721-htmlstory.html\">And moviegoers use Rotten Tomatoes to select films<\/a> the same way they turn to Yelp to determine what restaurants they visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1)\u00a0Every Friday morning, I add 10 tracks to the 12345678910\u00a0playlist. They could be new tunes or vintage tracks, recent\u00a0finds or old favourites, just ten tracks which made sense to me in the previous week. Last week&#8217;s bunch went from\u00a0mighty new-school bad ass Stefflon Don and the righteous Max Romeo to the incomparable Sandy Denny and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-wrap-has-plans-for-the-week-ahead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wrap is looking for a sweeper system&#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\/2592"}],"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=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}