Inspired by the Clinton campaign, my daughter Minna made this campaign poster just before the 2016 Presidential election and tap | Continue reading
For his newest project IDENTITYCHRIST, Joseph Lee is pushing representational abstract painting to its limits.I love how rou | Continue reading
The folks behind the National Geographic cartography blog All Over the Map have come out with a book of the same name that is a &q | Continue reading
In collaboration with creative agency Sagmeister & Walsh, Kurzgesagt explores what beauty is and how it makes people happier | Continue reading
After he retired from making feature length films in 2013, legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki started work on a short film using | Continue reading
The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled aro | Continue reading
Samer Dabra uses a drawing machine called the AxiDraw and a custom program to generate Impressionistic line drawings of people. | Continue reading
For Literary Hub, Alison Pearlman writes about how secret menus at fast food joints like In-N-Out (4x4, animal style) and McDonald | Continue reading
For New York magazine, Michael Avedon took photos of 27 survivors of school shootings, including Parkland's Anthony Borges, a 15-y | Continue reading
In a piece for The Atlantic, Ian Bogost argues that Mister Rogers' "look for the helpers" advice for tragic events was i | Continue reading
Slow television is the uninterrupted broadcast of an ordinary event from start to finish. Early efforts included burning Yule logs | Continue reading
In this video, Carlos Maza talks about how the Republican Party has become more extremist than the Democrats, which has caused our | Continue reading
If you need a moment of relaxation today, check out this live feed of a Norwegian train making its journey through the wintery c | Continue reading
Another thing I learned on my visit to Topographie Des Terrors in Berlin was how the Nazis subtly twisted the meaning of "pro | Continue reading
New Orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band somehow reimagines Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart Again as an upbeat jazzy tune.The band | Continue reading
For the most recent issue of the kottke.org weekly newsletter, Tim wrote about watching almost all of legendary director Hayao Miy | Continue reading
In 2011, an anonymous blogger defined the term "stochastic terrorism".Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communic | Continue reading
I spent a few days in Berlin last week.1 One of things you notice as a visitor to Berlin is the remembrance of the Holocaust and t | Continue reading
I cannot wait to see the new Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. It's out in wide release on November 2 after a long time i | Continue reading
Amanda Chicago Lewis is the best weed reporter.Los Angeles is widely agreed to be the biggest and most important cannabis econom | Continue reading
You probably know Shirley Jackson as the author of The Haunting of Hill House but you should know her because of the brilliant and | Continue reading
Here's a quick roundup of podcasts I've been into lately:30 for 30: BikramBeware how you talk about this show if you have any f | Continue reading
For fans of High Maintenance (don't miss the original HM web series), Broad City (the final season starts in January), and Strange | Continue reading
I'm a sucker for maps so I've been into Haptic Labs quilts since we found out about them nine years ago (thanks Kelsey!). Founder | Continue reading
This is much more satisfying than browsing Google Trends, and just as illuminating about cultural shifts. Merriam-Webster's new Ti | Continue reading
It's been eight years since Robyn's last release, which seems like a Donna Tartt-esque wait in the pop music world. Her new album, | Continue reading
This is an interesting look at how Apple News approaches curating their product, which reaches 90 million people. Unlike other alg | Continue reading
I think we can all agree that Heather Havrilesky is brilliant as Ask Polly, but I'd like to point your attention to her analysis o | Continue reading
The Hilma af Klint retrospective at the Guggenheim is by far the trippiest thing I've seen within the confines of an esteemed art | Continue reading
Since we don't often see the treatment side of the opioid crisis, a new campaign from 72andsunny and M SS NG P ECES streamed the | Continue reading
Will Texas, with five of the 15 largest cities in the U.S., have the first bullet train in the country? Curbed partnered with the | Continue reading
I somehow didn't know until recently that Piet Mondrian created a whole series of flowers, including charcoals and watercolors. | Continue reading
NASA released this photo of a tabular iceberg. It's thought to have just split from the Larsen C ice shelf in the eastern side o | Continue reading
Edith's post on the long history of lavender as a relaxant reminded me that you can now vape herbs just as you've always been able | Continue reading
I've been taking refuge from the news in music (WQXR or Spacemen 3, lately), art (more on that here soon), novels (this weekend's | Continue reading
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)(1990/2018)Nine big questions by Barbara Kruger are now on display at MOCA in Los Angeles u | Continue reading
As the daughter of a trained art conservationist, I find this endlessly fascinating. Edward Forbes, the former director of Harva | Continue reading
Well, this sounds dreamy. The Cloud Appreciation Society (exactly what it sounds like) is hosting a gathering on the island of Lun | Continue reading
Brain Pickings is surfacing some gems from their archives in honor of what would have been Ursula Le Guin's 89th birthday. The nov | Continue reading
I See You, the new short from Jacob Krupnick, is shot on 35mm film and it is beautiful. It features the inclusive yoga community | Continue reading
In an interview with Chinese anchor Chen Luyu, actor and martial artist Jet Li revealed that he turned down the role of Seraph, | Continue reading
National Screening Room, a project by the Library of Congress, is a collection of early films (from the late 19th to most of the 2 | Continue reading
Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman, has a new book out called The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers | Continue reading
Sesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney is retiring after almost 50 years, and everybody is leading with the fact that he played | Continue reading
I don't know how many people under the age of 35 know about the Chicago Tylenol murders, but for a few weeks in 1982, it was a nat | Continue reading
For the NY Times, rabbi David Wolpe writes about the moral courage of Chiune Sugihara, The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With | Continue reading
Stephen Hawking passed away back in March, but left us with a final book that just came out this week: Brief Answers to the Big Qu | Continue reading
It's snowing right now in Vermont, but fall was extra lovely this year, so I'm sharing some foliage shots I've taken over the past | Continue reading