A Vancouver market is handing out "embarrassing" plastic bags to customers to encourage them to remember to use reusable | Continue reading
About two weeks ago, I had my right shoulder replaced. This was the second time I've had surgery on that shoulder, after multiple | Continue reading
When word came out shortly after Prince's death that his estate was looking for an archivist, I briefly imagined the position to b | Continue reading
People are fascinated by prison tattoos. (I include myself in "people.") This post at Mental Floss tries to spell out | Continue reading
Gothamist recently posted some vintage photos of NYC's High Line taken by Jake Dobkin back when it was still an abandoned rail lin | Continue reading
These YouTube goofballs built a xylophone that's playable with die-cast cars.Let's play musical cars, shall we? A total of 37 | Continue reading
In this video, you can watch a simple neural network learn how to navigate a video game race track. The program doesn't know how | Continue reading
Les Animaux Tels Qu'ils Sont is a 1930s book by Robert Lambry that contain instructions for drawing all kinds of animals, | Continue reading
Vocal is a type foundry that makes typefaces that highlight the history of underrepresented people "from the Women's Suffrage | Continue reading
Oh just some flowers & plants casually strolling into my life every spring to brighten up my life after a long winter: | Continue reading
Animated Knots is a collection of animated tutorials on how to tie almost 200 different knots. The knots are broken down by acti | Continue reading
Alan Taylor has put together a selection of photos taken in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union in 198 | Continue reading
In 1969, surrealist Salvador Dali provided a set of 12 illustrations for an edition of Alice in Wonderland, a seemingly perfect | Continue reading
Photographer Jun Yamamoto (a.k.a. jungraphy) takes these subdued (but somehow also vibrant) photos of Japanese cities at night. Th | Continue reading
Hey it's been a little while since we checked in on Primitive Technology, so let's see what everyone's favorite jacked low-tech Au | Continue reading
National Park is a typeface designed "to mimic the National Park Service signs that are carved using a router bit".I | Continue reading
Eleanor Lutz is one of my favorite data visualizers (previously) and she's about ready to drop her new project: An Atlas of Spac | Continue reading
From Ranjan Roy, an essay called The Sweetgreen-ification of Society about how technology and customer segmentation are increasing | Continue reading
Still lifes of fruits and vegetables arranged on tables and in baskets & bowls have been a staple of Western art for centu | Continue reading
The New Yorker has published an excerpt of Ta-Nehisi Coates' forthcoming novel, The Water Dancer. In Conduction, we meet Hiram Wal | Continue reading
Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 12 people in Virginia Beach, Virginia yesterday. While this | Continue reading
For an ad campaign running in the United Arab Emirates, Ikea recreated the famous TV living rooms from three shows using only Ikea | Continue reading
Still Ill is a short documentary about the Beastie Boys' career from approximately Paul's Boutique to Ill Communication.The 15 | Continue reading
Last week, Greta Thunberg and dozens of other young climate activists called on adults to join them in a climate strike on Septemb | Continue reading
In July, American Experience will air Chasing the Moon, a 6-hour documentary film about the effort to send a manned mission to t | Continue reading
The BFI and the Royal Astronomical Society have recently rediscovered and restored a film taken in 1900 of a total solar eclipse. | Continue reading
The first trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Netflix's long-awaited prequel to Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal, is f | Continue reading
The results of recently analyzed find from the Green River Formation in the western US were published yesterday show the fossili | Continue reading
In the 1890s and 1900s, the Biograph Company sent film crews around the world to capture moving images to bring them to audience | Continue reading
First You Make the Maps is a survey of mapping technology by Elizabeth Della Zazzera showing how, starting at the end of the M | Continue reading
Scott Wade turns the dirty windows of cars into mobile art. Here's a look at Wade in action: | Continue reading
Artist Shawn Feeney worked as a forensic artist for a few years and was inspired by that experience to produce BFF, a project wher | Continue reading
The story goes that modern chaos theory was birthed by Edward Lorenz's paper about his experiments with weather simulation on a co | Continue reading
Annie Lowrey writing for The Atlantic last summer, How America Treats Its Own Children.This is a country that professes to care | Continue reading
In Britain, the birthplace of the industrial revolution, no coal has been used to produce power for the last 11 days. This is an a | Continue reading
This video is so far up my alley that I'm now charging it rent. (For parking in the alley. Yeah, I don't know how metaphors work | Continue reading
Hear ye, hear ye! The third book in Hilary Mantel's excellent Thomas Cromwell trilogy has been announced. The Mirror & the L | Continue reading
In the latest issue of his newsletter, Rex Sorgatz proposes a name for the growing collection of media about the recent past: the | Continue reading
I keep track of every media thing I "consume", so here are quick reviews of some things I've read, seen, heard, and expe | Continue reading
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is a documentary film on the legendary Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved.Navigating a white | Continue reading
Tales From Weirdland has a collection of posts that feature concept drawings from several Studio Ghibli movies like Sp | Continue reading
A few McDonald's restaurants in Sweden started putting beehives on their rooftops to help save dwindling bee populations and it | Continue reading
LJ Rich has synesthesia and perfect pitch and wrote about what that feels like for her personally.Now, I'd like you to imagine y | Continue reading
Pavel Dobryakov has built a nifty little fluid dynamics simulator in WebGl that runs in any modern browser, including on mobile de | Continue reading
For Wired's series Technique Critique, former CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez looks at several TV shows and movies to rate ho | Continue reading
Artist and former advertising art director Alvaro Naddeo does these wonderful paintings of old iconic junk from our branded past r | Continue reading
Playdate is a new handheld gaming system from Panic, the makers of FTP software. Hold on, what?! From the press release:Playda | Continue reading
Design firm Pentagram has brought in a new partner to their New York office, information designer Giorgia Lupi, who joins heavy hi | Continue reading