Sketchplanations The Podcast launches its second series in January 2024, following the show’s successful 16-part debut in 2023.
Sketchplanations is an ever-growing collection of weekly illustrations posted online, that cleverly distils big complex ideas into digestible, bite-size sketches. The topic list is limitless and includes science, behavioural economics, wellbeing, nature, psychology frameworks, business models, cognitive biases, and even domestic life-hacks.
Episodes included in Series 2: The Law of Diminishing Returns and Dunbar’s Number. Sketchplanations started as side-project for design expert, author, and father of two, Jono Hey over a decade ago and now boasts over 800 sketches.
In this light-hearted, educational, explainer podcast series, Hey joins lifelong friends Tom Pellereau (2011 The BBC Apprentice Winner and on-going business partner of billionaire Lord Sugar) and Rob Bell as they pick a new sketch from the back-catalogue and share ideas and stories around that week's topic.
Fuelled by their collective curiosity to better understand...
Sketchplanations is an ever-growing collection of weekly illustrations posted online, that cleverly distils big complex ideas into digestible, bite-size sketches. The topic list is limitless and includes science, behavioural economics, wellbeing, nature, psychology frameworks, business models, cognitive biases, and even domestic life-hacks.
Episodes included in Series 2: The Law of Diminishing Returns and Dunbar’s Number. Sketchplanations started as side-project for design expert, author, and father of two, Jono Hey over a decade ago and now boasts over 800 sketches.
In this light-hearted, educational, explainer podcast series, Hey joins lifelong friends Tom Pellereau (2011 The BBC Apprentice Winner and on-going business partner of billionaire Lord Sugar) and Rob Bell as they pick a new sketch from the back-catalogue and share ideas and stories around that week's topic.
Fuelled by their collective curiosity to better understand...
- 1/11/2024
- Podnews.net
[Editor’s note: The following story contains spoilers for “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.” ]
When “Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life” first released in August 2004, a key part of the graphic novel’s premise was a major third-act surprise. Some talk of “subspace travel” aside, the first 100 pages of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s breakout hit tell an ordinary slice-of-life tale about an unemployed Canadian slacker, his terrible band, the 17 year-old he’s sort of dating, and the cool American girl he actually wants to date. In the comic’s third act, title hero Scott gets assaulted on stage by Matthew Patel, one of the seven evil exes of Ramona Flowers, and the story suddenly reveals that A) Scott is one of the best hand-to-hand fighters in Toronto and B) everything is taking place in a universe that obeys video game logic, with crazy superpowers and extra lives and level ups.
At the time, the climax of “Precious Little Life” was a massive rug-pull moment.
When “Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life” first released in August 2004, a key part of the graphic novel’s premise was a major third-act surprise. Some talk of “subspace travel” aside, the first 100 pages of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s breakout hit tell an ordinary slice-of-life tale about an unemployed Canadian slacker, his terrible band, the 17 year-old he’s sort of dating, and the cool American girl he actually wants to date. In the comic’s third act, title hero Scott gets assaulted on stage by Matthew Patel, one of the seven evil exes of Ramona Flowers, and the story suddenly reveals that A) Scott is one of the best hand-to-hand fighters in Toronto and B) everything is taking place in a universe that obeys video game logic, with crazy superpowers and extra lives and level ups.
At the time, the climax of “Precious Little Life” was a massive rug-pull moment.
- 11/20/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July/August 2021 issue of the magazine.
Recently this thing has been happening to Brandan Robertson. He’ll be at a gay bar, minding his own business (sort of), when someone will approach to ask, “Are you a pastor by any chance?” Robertson will nod. “Are you that pastor who did that video on LGBT inclusion?” Robertson will nod again. Then, the gratitude will start flowing. “Thank you for what you do,” they’ll gush. And,...
Recently this thing has been happening to Brandan Robertson. He’ll be at a gay bar, minding his own business (sort of), when someone will approach to ask, “Are you a pastor by any chance?” Robertson will nod. “Are you that pastor who did that video on LGBT inclusion?” Robertson will nod again. Then, the gratitude will start flowing. “Thank you for what you do,” they’ll gush. And,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Alex Morris
- Rollingstone.com
Trojan Records is set to reissue its legendary 1971 collection The Trojan Story — a three-lp set that helped introduce the world to artists like Jimmy Cliff, the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, and Lee “Scratch” Perry — for its 50th anniversary this June.
Long out-of-print, the 50-song anthology — due out June 18th — will be reissued physically and digitally with its original tracklist intact, along with a 50-page illustrated booklet featuring liner notes for every song by Trojan’s label manager Rob Bell — who helped curate the original release — and musician Rusty Zinn.
In addition...
Long out-of-print, the 50-song anthology — due out June 18th — will be reissued physically and digitally with its original tracklist intact, along with a 50-page illustrated booklet featuring liner notes for every song by Trojan’s label manager Rob Bell — who helped curate the original release — and musician Rusty Zinn.
In addition...
- 5/12/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Viacom’s Channel 5 is exploring the history of London in a four-part documentary series from The Big Family Cooking Showdown producer Voltage TV.
The British commercial broadcaster has ordered London: 2000 Years Revealed, hosted by Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb, Dan Jones and Rob Bell.
The series will chart the origins of London and its meteoric rise to power and take viewers through the frequently glorious and always compelling history of the British capital. The series examines how it grew from a small Roman trading post, to the capital of the British Empire, and ultimately to the thriving megacity we know today, despite facing dramatic invasions, fires and deadly plague.
Distributed by Banijay Rights, the doc series was commissioned by Factual Commissioning Editor Lucy Willis and is exec produced by Sanjay Singhal and Alice Harper.
Willis said, “London is now a global metropolis but 2000 years ago it was still a wild and uninhabited swamp.
The British commercial broadcaster has ordered London: 2000 Years Revealed, hosted by Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb, Dan Jones and Rob Bell.
The series will chart the origins of London and its meteoric rise to power and take viewers through the frequently glorious and always compelling history of the British capital. The series examines how it grew from a small Roman trading post, to the capital of the British Empire, and ultimately to the thriving megacity we know today, despite facing dramatic invasions, fires and deadly plague.
Distributed by Banijay Rights, the doc series was commissioned by Factual Commissioning Editor Lucy Willis and is exec produced by Sanjay Singhal and Alice Harper.
Willis said, “London is now a global metropolis but 2000 years ago it was still a wild and uninhabited swamp.
- 12/5/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Universal Pictures International and Universal 1440 Entertainment are launching new content on the dedicated Woody Woodpecker YouTube Channels in December. Ten new episodes have been created for Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English YouTube Channels.
These are the newest Woody Woodpecker episodes 46 years after the last of the original cartoons were released, 16 years after the three modern Woody Woodpecker seasons and one year after the launch of the dedicated YouTube channels.
As part of the new series – for the first time – the Walter Lantz-originated character will travel to Brazil for two adventures. Created by Universal Pictures International (Upi) and Universal 1440 Entertainment, each of the ten new cartoons is five minutes long. Also, a new, short documentary was created to complement the new cartoons. Bird Gone Wild: The Woody Woodpecker Story goes behind the scenes with the makers of the new cartoons and takes a look back at the origins of the high-energy bird.
These are the newest Woody Woodpecker episodes 46 years after the last of the original cartoons were released, 16 years after the three modern Woody Woodpecker seasons and one year after the launch of the dedicated YouTube channels.
As part of the new series – for the first time – the Walter Lantz-originated character will travel to Brazil for two adventures. Created by Universal Pictures International (Upi) and Universal 1440 Entertainment, each of the ten new cartoons is five minutes long. Also, a new, short documentary was created to complement the new cartoons. Bird Gone Wild: The Woody Woodpecker Story goes behind the scenes with the makers of the new cartoons and takes a look back at the origins of the high-energy bird.
- 11/22/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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