The Sunday Digest 065
iPhone photography, special guests, and some supplemental reading.
Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you. Or, if podcasts are more your speed on Sundays, we’ve got that too.
Sunday Read › How Sam Youkilis Captures The World with Five iPhones
by Quinn Moreland for Interview
I discovered Sam Youkilis earlier this summer through the Sunday Scaries discover feed. Much like we all do after taking a big vacation, I made my 2022 fall trip to Italy my entire identity for a while. And Sam’s presence on Instagram only increased my thirst for the Italian coast.
His content is a lot of things at once: beautiful, relaxing, engaging, raw. See for yourself.
Here’s a brief snippet from his interview:
MORELAND: You’ve clearly found your medium and had a lot of success on Instagram. But being tied to social media inherently has its difficulties. You’re kind of at the whim of Instagram’s algorithm and its formal restraints. So I’m curious what your relationship is with social media.
YOUKILIS: Obviously, it’s a blessing and a curse. It’s how we and our generation and the clients I’m working for, and their audience, for the most part, are consuming media and imagery more than almost ever before. So my stuff is so well-fashioned and so well-outfitted for Instagram. It lives there really well. I mean, I started making videos because of Instagram stories. They were initially an accompaniment or a form of proof to my stills and would be presented as this sort of temporal or ephemeral thing. So I think my practice shifted from being a mix of horizontal and vertical to almost always thinking and framing the world in a vertical way. Hold on, I think I lost the thread.
Read in full here. And you can also purchase his book here, which I will be picking up the second I’m done writing this week’s newsletter.
New Episode › Retail Therapy 054: Canoe Club
This week, we had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Timothy and Chase from Canoe Club to the show. We questioned them on the evolution of their business, upcoming brands, Boulder as a fashion city, their personal In/Out lists, looksmaxxing, mogging, and so much more.
Listen to Retail Therapy on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube (see above), and anywhere else podcasts are found.
The Sunday Haiku: Fireplace
Grab another log,
Actually just grab two,
Time is on our side.
Things I Saved This Week
Supplemental Reading
This week, we’re going to round out the digest with some recommendations. Yes, these are somewhat self-serving because I have personal connections to each of the parties involved, but sometimes you simply have to feed the fam.
My sister,
, joined the Substack community recently. She’s cooler than me and her recommendations always seem to be on-point. Go subscribe.
My great friend
writes about things that make me feel smarter. Enjoy his newsletter from this week — “How streetwear may save J. Crew, why CMOs are the new CEOs, and death-by-distraction for Farfetch.”
I wrote a “15 Things I Consumed This Week” for this week. It was a practice in reviewing everything that distracted me through the week, and I have a theory it’s holding me accountable when it comes to staying off Instagram.
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I’m a student who has recently come back from a solo trip to front line Ukraine. I’ve just published a new piece on my experiences and thought readers here may appreciate it. Please do see what you think. https://irongoose.substack.com/