Nightmare on Elm St: Inspired by a True Story?

Skateboarding Helsinki airport, picking Jeff Koons' brain, JetBlue stocks cricket bars and more in our weekly look at the web

Apparently Wes Craven wasn’t totally making things up when he introduced Freddie Kruger to the newly-terrified world. According to a new video, Wes Craven got his inspiration from a reported trend of healthy Southeast Asian immigrants unexpectedly dying in their sleep. While the connection to nightmares hasn’t been proven—it’s obviously pretty hard to ask a dead person about their experience—some researchers suggest that simply believing …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Skateboarding Helsinki airport, picking Jeff Koons' brain, JetBlue stocks cricket bars and more in our weekly look at the web

1. The Disaster Issue The witty DIS Magazine, subverting the hierarchy and language of over-styled fashion and art magazines, ignites an atypically hopeful discussion on the “unpleasant and unattractive subject” of ecology from the perspective of art and culture. This “disaster” issue features interviews with Christian environmental groups, reporting from the People’s Climate Change March, a “music for plants” mix and more—and it’s probably unlike …

Brain-picking Jeff Koons

Skateboarding Helsinki airport, picking Jeff Koons' brain, JetBlue stocks cricket bars and more in our weekly look at the web

Four of i-D magazine’s favorite (which for them, is admittedly synonymous with avant-garde) fashion designers—Gareth Pugh, Walter Van Beirendonck, Bernhard Willhelm and Jeremy Scott—confronted artist Jeff Koons with questions of their choice. Learn Koons’ preferred museum, what song he wants played at his funeral, his favorite work by another artist, why he’s so obsessed with balloons (and shiny things)—and who he’s got his money on …