Friday Hook Up 05.08.26

Keeping tabs on internet coolness.

Just discovered the work of Gerhard Richter thru his documentary.

Note to self: Watch more films – BFI The 50 best films of 2025.

On the topic of films, I really enjoyed ROMA ( I am way late) and its companion documentary Road to Roma.

“This world has no meaning. Why fucking bother?” – Via The Red Hand Files

The work of Italian graphic designer, painter, photographer and visual artist Franco Grignani.

The brainchild of Ed Templeton, Toy Machine has been holding it down since (Date). Welcome to Hell, change skateboarding.

Go to Karaoke song:

… keeping up with the Joneses is as old as suburban cul-de-sacs. But digital culture has supercharged this. Social media collapsed the visual distance between a household earning $85K and one earning $500K.”

Hanna Horvarth

Treasure trove of fun, weird things on The Sites We Lost an archive of websites from the past!

The Báulio Amado talk below was entertaining, inspiring, weird, and unique.

Cool Shit:

Been listening to Olas de Luz by Draco Rosa.