Using weeds, pests, and invasive species to make sustainable sushi

At Miya's Sushi in New Haven, CT, chef owner Bun Lai makes sustainable sushi using invasive species and other typically overlook | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

How to see kung fu films

In this video, MoMA film curator La Frances Hui gives us a very quick and informative overview of what to look for when watching | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

This AI makes high-quality slow motion videos from regular 30 fps video

NVIDIA trained a deep learning framework to take videos filmed at 30 fps and turn them into slow motion videos at the equivalent | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The weird and wonderful American roadtrip with John Margolies

For more than 30 years beginning in the 1960s, photographer John Margolies criss-crossed the USA documenting the roadside | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

What does sleep do?

Sleep may be the most important everyday phenomenon that we understand the least well. It's like the oceans; it's everywhere, bu | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

How to ask a favor

Some very useful advice from Valet magazine (which I confess I don't read -- thanks Yuri Victor!) on how to ask for a favor. It's | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The history of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

I am a sucker for high-tech analog art: magnetic tape, early wireless, punch cards, film and vinyl, the telephone, telegraph, an | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Live TV coverage of the Apollo 11 landing and Moon walk

In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress and said:I believe that this nation should commit itself to achie | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The last working fore-edge painter in the world

This is a short video profile of Martin Frost, who might be the last remaining professional fore-edge painter in the world.Dat | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

We should be building cities for people, not cars

Devon Zuegel says that our cities and the people who live in them would be much better off if we designed them around people and n | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Winners of the 2018 Audubon Photography Awards

The National Audubon Society has announced the winners of their ninth annual photography contest. The winning photos, which | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Watch Eloma Simpson Barnes channel Martin Luther King Jr. in a thrilling oration

On Twitter this morning, Craig Mod asked:What's the best conference talk/public speech you've seen? Topic can be anything. Just | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Peter Jackson is remastering old WWI film footage

Working with the 14-18 NOW project, Peter Jackson is making a film about the experience of the soldiers fighting in World War I. A | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Gmorning, Gnight!, a book of affirmations from Lin-Manuel Miranda

On Twitter, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda often begins and ends his days by posting affirmations for his fans & reader | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

I just saw Jaws for the first time. AMA.

Everyone has that one obviously great and popular movie that they haven't seen yet for no good reason. Mine is Jaws. Or at least i | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Remembering the girls of the Leesburg Stockade

In Georgia in 1963, 15 African-American girls aged 12 to 15 were arrested for trying to buy movie tickets at the whites-only the | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The constructive-destructive axis

In his biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson reports on some comments Jobs made over dinner to News Corp's Rupert | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

An entomologist rates ant emojis

An entomologist rates the ant emoji from a number of services including Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter. You can check o | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

When you do a DNA test and find out your dad is not your father

Sarah Zhang writes about a support group on Facebook for people who have discovered surprising parentage through DNA testing.Lis | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Anthony Bourdain on travel, luxury, the Despot’s Club, and more

Back in February, Maria Bustillos was set to interview Anthony Bourdain and she figured she'd get about 15 minutes of his highly s | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Seven bits of advice from Kurt Vonnegut to people living 100 years in the future

In 1988, at the behest of Volkswagen, author Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter of advice to people living on Earth 100 years in the fut | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

America’s ramen obsession

The latest video in the New Yorker's Annals of Obsession tracks the transformation of ramen from a cheapo dorm room food to curr | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The hyperrealistic drawings by this 11-year-old Nigerian artist are incredible

Kareem Waris Olamilekan is 11 years old and makes very realistic drawings like these of his friends, family, and other faces he ru | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Which came first, bread or farming?

Based on the available archaeological evidence, researchers had assumed that bread and agriculture developed around the same time. | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Some reflections on my roadtrip across the western United States

Last week, I stood in the middle of the caldera of a supervolcano, walked on rocks billions of years old, and traveled back in tim | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Open offices result in less collaboration among employees

In a recent study called The impact of the 'open' workspace on human collaboration, a pair of researchers tracked the digital and | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

2018 Amazon Prime Day deals

It's Prime Day! Or is it tomorrow? Prime Day, a holiday invented by Amazon to sell stuff in the lull between Memorial Day and Labo | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The geography of the US is weirder than you think

Americans generally have a skewed view of their country's place in the world, both metaphorically and geographically speaking. F | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

I really like these drawings of NYC with a historical bent by illustrator and "amateur historian" Julia Wertz. The | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Barack Obama’s 2018 Summer Reading List

President Obama is heading to Africa this week for the first time since he left office. In preparation, he shared a recommended su | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Making Amazon Alexa respond to sign language using AI

Using a JavaScript machine learning package called TensorFlow.js, Abhishek Singh built a program that learned how to translate s | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

How Trajan became the go-to typeface for movie posters

In the early 90s, a digital typeface designed in the 80s -- but based on the letterforms used in a Roman column completed in 113 | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The original Mac OS Control Panel done in cross-stitch

iOS programmer Glenda Adams made a cross-stitch embroidery of the original Control Panel for the Macintosh. Lots of parallels be | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Manually pixelated food

Art director Yuni Yoshida has created these pixelated food photos by manually cutting up the foods in question into little cub | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Winners of National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year competition for 2018

National Geographic recently announced the winners of the Travel Photographer of the Year contest for 2018. You can look at | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

A movie adaptation of Sapiens is coming

Ridley Scott and Asif Kapadia are working on a film adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Scott | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

Pete Souza spent 8 years photographing President Obama as the official White House photographer. Souza compiled some of the best | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The story of the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade

In the late 1920s & early 1930s, African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston interviewed an Alabama man named Cudjo Lewis about | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The meaning of the ending of 2001 according to Stanley Kubrick

Few directors allowed their movies to speak for themselves more than Stanley Kubrick. Still, when it came to 2001: A Space Odyssey | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Hallucinatory rollercoaster

Using a 360° GoPro camera, Jeb Corliss films his ride on a roller coaster and, with some help from image stabilization i | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Luminescent fruit

At first, I thought these images by Dennis Wojtkiewicz were photographs of backlit fruit slices, but they're actually super-re | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

This nonsense of earning a living

From a 1970 issue of New York magazine, Buckminster Fuller on the massive economic lever of technology:We must do away with the | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Trump’s unprecedented relationship with Fox News

Brian Stelter is known for media scoops, but sometimes, he can bring the insight too. On CNN and in his nightly newsletter, he b | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

How the safety bicycle changed the world

This excerpt from Margaret Guroff's history The Mechanical Horse focuses on the democratization of the bicycle at the end of the | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Nabokov’s dreams

Lately, I've been getting more and more interested in dreams, as experiences and as psychological phenomena. I don't have a fanc | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

When you’ve died and gone to book heaven

No, you're burned out and just want to look at pretty pictures of books artfully arranged in architecture! Luckily, Condé Nast T | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

How to make tea

Last fall, The Big Picture did a series of photographs of tea workers in China. According to the accompanying short article, &qu | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Google’s keyword voids

This was a new term for me:keyword void, or search void, n.: a situation where searching for answers about a keyword returns an | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago