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VINYL LOVE LovesVinyl is a new monthly record sub
scription service being freshly pressed by the Dublin Vinyl heads. Working with local and international labels, the curated selection will be carefully considered by the DV heads including essentials, classics and rarities. Subscribers will be able to select from one of three albums each month. Their March selection featured Damien Dempsey’s Union, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Rest and Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin On. An indication of the resurgence in the popularity of the spinning plastic came with Artic Monkey’s Tranquility Based Hotel selling 38,000 copies on week of release in the UK last May making it the fastest-selling vinyl album of the past 25 years. lovesvinyl.com, €29 per month ROADMAP Michael McDermott PRETTY WILD Our pal Ellen Kenny accompanied us on a lost and found summer in Berlin back in 2016. While some of us remain ‘lost’, we’re glad she has ‘found’ herself and her vocation in Bristol. Pretty Wild delivers a refined natural elegance in its floral bouquets. Her colour pairings are instinctual, soothing and ever so pleasing on the eye let alone in the hands of the intended recipient. While her base is in Bristol, Ellen’s always up for a hop across the pond to cater for wedding and event requests. IG: itsallprettywild itsallprettywild.com Big up… MAP IT OUT Lightscape’s testing of their Dublin Interactive project caught our eye recently. They developed a wall mural in their studio as a “way of reducing our screen time by merging our most searched for information into our physical environment”. Using a combination of interactive ink and projection mapping they explored how best to display, in real time, the most relevant information about our neighbourhood, including transport information from Dublin Bus, Luas, Irish Rail, Dublin Bikes and the ever-changing Dublin weather. Areas of the mural acted as buttons for different interactions. They even included a hotline to their favourite pizza joint and a means of arranging after work drinks. In a nutshell, we want one! lightscape.ie the Global Action Plan Community Garden in Ballymun who are bringing people together of all ages and abilities to promote sustainable, local and organic food production, wellbeing and community engagement. They were the recent recipient in the ‘Energia Get Ireland Growing’ community growing fund created by GIY (Grow It Yourself). 10