Friday, 24 January 2025

LINKED UP 108

Hand-picked from digitised public collections and ready for reuse, the Public Domain Image Archive is the perfect antidote to AI. (It's Nice That)

Athenian Chris Kontos is a photographer and the editor of Kennedy Magazine. His latest project is a natural wine bar in the shadow of the Acropolis, called Kennedy Vins Bons Vivants. Kontos shares tips for his favourite tavernas around Attica, tells us about his daily bread and talks us through his eclectic record collection. (Monocle)

New York Fashion’s Favourite Grocery Store
Sami Reiss takes us inside Happier Grocery, a small, health and wellness-coded grocery and lunch counter that has become a hotspot for the fashion industry. (SSENSE)

inKONBINI Is a Chill Simulator Where You Run a Convenience Store in the 90s, and the Vibes Are Immaculate
If you’ve been looking to run the store of your dreams, inKONBINI may be the game you’ve been searching for. (VICE)

Millennial Rebrand Syndrome
Who’s still buying stuff that looks this torched? (Blackbird Spyplane)

Denzel Curry - “What's In My Bag?
Rapper Denzel Curry goes record shopping at Amoeba Music in San Francisco. (YouTube)

John’s Music Blog Goes “In the Mix”
For Miley Serious on Rinse France. (John's Music Blog)

Tracklist: Hotline TNT
Behind the song titles of Trilogy, sort of, not really. (Monster Children)

Ben Kadow Is the Human Wrecking Ball Star of the Latest Epicly Later’d
Watch our profile of one of New York’s most intense skaters. (VICE)

How Would Hollywood’s Most Famous Directors Make a Skate Video?
A brief “what if?”, detailing which big-wig director’s visual presentation would lend itself to the gentle art of the skate video. (Jenkem)

David Lynch’s Cigarette Cinema
For the iconic writer-director, who was diagnosed with emphysema before his death last week at 78, cigarettes were more than a habit - they were a form of meditation, a symbol of the art life, and an endless source of visual poetry. In Lynch’s work, they were the only totem more omnipresent than coffee; we’ve charted his most enduring obsession one drag at a time. (GQ)