Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Space shuttle gardening, Ikea beer, superhero tech and more in our look at the web this week

1. Stanley Kubrick in Naples Before making some of modern cinema’s most important films, Stanley Kubrick spent four years as staff photographer at Look Magazine from the time he was 17. A new exhibition at Pan in Naples looks at his work as a young photojournalist, filling the gallery with 168 images of everyone from boxer Roy Graziano to vintage portraits of Hollywood starlets. Kubrick’s …

Ikea Beer

Space shuttle gardening, Ikea beer, superhero tech and more in our look at the web this week

While Ikea’s release of the cardboard camera and pre-fab home seems like a hard act to follow, the Swedish megastore now introduces beer. That’s right. The “dark lager beer” will be exclusively available in the UK and promises to make getting lost in the labyrinth of showrooms that much easier.

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love LCD Soundsystem

Space shuttle gardening, Ikea beer, superhero tech and more in our look at the web this week

On the heels of LCD Soundsystem’s newly released documentary, journalist Smith Galtney lauds the graceful denouement of this iconic band with a nostalgic reminiscence that details how he went from loathing to loving LCD Soundsystem—all during an era when the face of New York was changing just as rapidly as its coolest “in crowd.”