Friday Top Five 04.29.22
Each week in our ‘Friday Top Five’ segment, we feature five things we thought were interesting, notable, or culturally significant. This week we are showcasing stories on grilling, amazon gets into custom clothing, Blackstar, yeah, that Blackstar is back with a new album, how to upgrade your home office, and spring is here, time to count down till vacation.
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Story-1:: Move over Big Green Egg
Overview: Traeger’s 2022 lineup is impressive. The smoker company just unveiled its latest models, and they’re packed with technology — and a very high price, with models coming in at $3,499 and $3,799.
But now in 2022, the market has changed, and there are numerous, lower-priced competitors following Traeger’s lead into pellet grills.
Link: Website
Story-2:: Amazon Goes Custom
Overview: Amazon is expanding its experimental custom clothing service, Made for You, which allows shoppers to create clothing designed for their exact body measurements. First launched in December 2020 with casual tees, the retailer is now adding athletic shirts that can be customized in close to 50 different ways by selecting from different fit options, necklines, sleeve length, colors, and more. The shirts can also include your name printed on the label as an added perk.
Amazon, yes, that Amazon, is extending isn’t a line of experimental custom clothing ‘Made for You’ which enables shoppers to create clothing for their exact body measurements. Launched in 2020 with a casual tee, they are now launching athletic shirts; we guess they fit like CUTS shirts.
Link: Website
Story-3:: Black Star is Back; “No Fear of Time” arrives May 3, exclusively on Luminary.
Overview: Highly-Anticipated Album No Fear of Time Drops May 3, Only on Luminary. Legendary hip-hop duo Yasmin Bey and Talib Kweli will release their second Black Star album – the first in nearly 24 years – exclusive to Luminary subscribers. In anticipation of the new Black Star album’s release on May 3, Luminary is sharing several content premieres with fans:
A new episode from The Midnight Miracle – the groundbreaking Luminary Original show with Dave Chappelle, Yasmin bey, and Talib Kweli:
The episode titled “BUGS BUNNY MATHEMATICX” shares the origin story of No Fear of Time and serves as audio liner notes to introduce the album (coming: link to Luminary/Apple)
The episode titled “Mineral Mountain” is a freestyle from Yasmin, Kweli, and Black Thought – COMING SOON!
No Fear of Time webpage on Luminary where fans can sign up to listen when the album drops on 5/3
Story-4:: Modern Office Furniture for Home and Work
Overview: If you are like me, you have been watching the rise and fall of WeWork thanks to the entertaining show ‘We Crashed’. If you are like me, you love office furniture in the same way you likely love hotels and sort of wish your house resembled the look of a hotel.
Enter Branch, a New York-based office furniture company, spent the past two years focused on outfitting everyone’s work-from-home digs with its core products. While they might not be able to make your home look like a hotel, they certainly can make your home office look like the magical one you loved and missed at your favorite <<Insert your favorite rent and office>> location. Kicking things off in 2022, they are ready to launch some new products, including some for those returning to their office away from home.
“We sold through our inventory in about a month and spent 2020 trying to keep up and went into 2021 wondering if there was a real business here,” he added. “Turns out there was. We grew 600% in 2020 and then quadrupled that growth in 2021. This year we are pacing to triple it again.”
The Great debate is happening for me, do I go Ergonomic Chair Vs. Task Chair. Tweet me @ReedDailey with your thoughts.
Wanted to also call out this solid tips article they authored for working from home linked here. If you are looking for office packages, look no further than here.
Link: branchfurniture.com | Instagram | Twitter | Linkedin
Story-5:: Countdown to Vacation
Overview: I am one of those people who has never been much of a planner, mostly because my career hasn’t always allowed me to be, and my work requires me to be flexible with my schedule. Now as Dad and Husband, I have tried to become better at planning things on the weekends and planning vacations three and even six months out. I download the simple and solid Countdown mobile app to help me stay focused on getting work down and getting excited about vacations. The app allows you to add multiple events, change the images, and has a home screen widget. I mean, what more could you want!
Do yourself a solid, go download the app and get to planning out some fun events.
Link: AppStore Download
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