After launching last month, the Delta game emulator has been one of the most popular apps in Apple’s App Store . It allows you to play NES, GB, SNES, N64, and DS games on your iPhone or Mac. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
This year’s show features art by MFA, MA, and BFA students working across a variety of disciplines. On view May 15–29 in the Bronx.
Attempting to thwart ticket scalpers, Billie Eilish is selling supposedly “untransferable” tickets for her new tour. 404 Media has the details on how these tickets can actually be transferred . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Greenery abounds in the large-scale murals of Italian artist ONIRO , who often focuses on themes of interconnectedness and balance, especially between humans and the natural world. In “Coltivazione del Sé,” or “self-cultivation,” a human form emerges from the leaves and
I love these (haunting? are they haunting?) photos of Cate Blanchett taken by Jack Davison for this 2022 profile in the NY Times Magazine . When the magazine asked the photographer Jack Davison to create the art for this story, he took inspiration from Cate Blanchett’s
I’d missed that Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend now has a graphic novel adaptation . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
In 2019, artist and engineer Tega Brain gave some kids the opportunity to create targeted advertising relevant to their particular interests: Bushwick Analytica . Politicians and marketers now use data and targeted advertising to try to change our behaviors and influence our
“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the first wildflower into her astonishing teenage herbarium until the moment Susan pinned a violet to her alabaster chest in the casket, she filled her poems with flowers and made of
The Cheese-Making Magic of Alka-Seltzer, Explained . You can make a creamy nacho cheese sauce at home using Alka-Seltzer — its ingredients react to form an emulsifying agent. Plop, plop, Cheez Whiz, oh what a trick this is… 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
When you decide to buy something, there are many key factors involved. Customer experience has become one of the most relevant aspects to consider when designing a retail journey, whether physical, digital, or both. It’s time to define how retail spaces will evolve in the next
A short essay on freediving . “In the mindful state of freediving, I don’t panic. I find stillness. Centeredness. Calm. I am belonging in the moment. I’ve retrained my mind to be underwater.” I love mind vs. body stuff like this. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Now obsolete, the term zoophytes once referred to organisms that exhibited both animal and plant characteristics. It’s also an apt title for a poetic exhibition of sculptures blending beastly and botanical forms by the late Claude (1925-2019) and François-Xavier Lalanne
Meet Hypatia of Alexandria, a rare female – and moderate secular – public intellectual, who was murdered by religious zealots - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
"How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out."
Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. Attributed to various luminaries of antiquity, that saying (the probable inspiration for Isak Dinesen’s poem “Ex Africa,” itself the probable inspiration for her memoir Out of Africa, which in turn was loosely adapted into Sydney Pollack’s
Ever since there has been high school, there has been the instinct to read the Cliffs Notes. The internet took this idea, added a gratuitous semicolon and perfected Too Long; Didn’t Read. This is the mistakenly proud assertion that we are far too busy and too important to read
On August 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was synthesizing a new compound called lysergic acid diethylamide-25 when he got a couple of drops on his finger. The chemical, later known worldwide as LSD, absorbed into his system, and, soon after, he experienced an intense
"People think that I'm just munching pingers and making music all the time, but I'm also fucking around here!"
Restor(y)ing Oceania provides a powerful sense of the devastation faced by Pacific Islanders — and the ecosystems that may soon be lost.
Rather than deduce manufacturers’ intentions with typo-ridden clothing, the collective New York Shanzhai Lyric trains attention on the artistic value of these texts.
Inside Berlin’s censorship of a Palestine solidarity conference that police shut down as soon as it began.
The student protest was a most fitting setting for a peaceful, focused, and deeply moving Passover seder.
"The Origin of the World" was one of several artworks targeted in a performance by artist Deborah De Robertis at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
At Hunter College’s MFA thesis show in Manhattan, six artists decode modern life through unusual, surprising, and joyful installations.
“Ecce Homo”(c. 1605–1609) was previously misattributed and slated to hit the auction block before experts stepped in to halt the sale.
Online, parallels to the Hunger Games saga abounded as the lavish display of wealth proceeded amid several international humanitarian crises.
“For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did .“ 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
This is a clip from the BBC series Edwardian Farm that shows how rope was made in the olden days. The entire series is available to watch online . [This is a vintage post originally from Mar 2013.] Tags: Edwardian Farm · how to · timeless posts · TV · video
"He sees himself as many Angelenos do: in the gray area between homeless and homeowner."
"Danielle Wall’s first encounter with a rattlesnake “wasn’t that scary,” she said. Now the reptiles are her passion."
"But Hawk still finds it easier to chat with character.ai bots than real people."