Oh wow, I love these photographs of “big tusker” elephants by Johan Siggesson. I didn’t even know big tuskers were a thing — and they may not be for much longer : The term “Big Tusker” refers to an elephant with tusks so large they scrape the floor. Unfortunately, the
This is kind of amazing: World Monitor is a real-time global intelligence dashboard. Includes military activity, climate anomalies, live webcam feeds in warzones, internet outages, active fires, and even the Pentagon Pizza Index .
“I work as an attorney during the day and let loose at night in my studio.”
Yes, let’s retire the restaurant monologue . “The urge to direct diners through every bite of a meal runs counter to what I love about dining out, one of just a few cornerstones of American life that have not yet been optimized into oblivion.”
As the lake’s ecological crisis worsens, the artist’s new site-specific installation in Salt Lake City renders audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing.
From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures from the Trump regime’s political appointees . “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team.”
After posting the video on the history of HyperCard the other day, I went down a bit of a HyperCard rabbit hole on the Internet Archive. There are a ton of HyperCard programs, manual & packaging scans, and other resources available on IA ; among them: The Manhole , from the
"How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?"
View van Gogh's brushstrokes closer than you're allowed to in a museum. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans
Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute (but you get more time with correct guesses).
As she concludes her term as the university’s Distinguished Chair in Photography, Nielsen’s “light paintings” are on view this spring in West Hartford, Connecticut.
In 2017, city planner Jeff Speck gave a talk on the four ways to make a city more walkable: In the typical American city, in which most people own cars and the temptation is to drive them all the time, if you’re going to get them to walk, then you have to offer a walk that’s
Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth : “Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6.”
“The entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent way, and the oscillations are formed by sound waves trapped inside the Sun that make it resonate just like a musical instrument .”
A masterpiece of Expressionist brick architecture, Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen is medieval-meets-modern. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Scale
"It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled."
A family swim, share meals and tell stories by a creek in Central Australia in a joyous celebration of much-needed rain - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Long-lost Rembrandt goes on view, 3D scans of The Met's treasures, spring shows outside NYC, and how to cure the emotional crash after artistic bursts.
Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook remains shocking, necessary and imperfect – a dazzling experiment in living as a woman - by Catherine Taylor Read on Aeon
We spend most of the time we’re in school extinguishing imagination. “Will this be on the test?” is a much more common question than “What if?” We’ve been trained to do tasks in a factory. Imagination is a skill and it takes effort. It’s not useful to say, “I’m not
You may not be able to name all, or even most, of the seven wonders of the ancient world. But you almost certainly know that there were seven of them. In a way, that aligns well enough with the worldview of the Greeks who first made reference to such a list, given their
When a scraggly band of folk musicians arrived to tour the UK, residents of a small Welsh town were enamored—until they learned that the band’s leader ruled with an iron fist.
Image by National Portrait Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons Advice on how to grow old frequently comes from such banal or bloodless sources that we can be forgiven for ignoring it. Public health officials who dispense wisdom may have good intentions; pharmaceutical companies who
"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring Dek1: The avant-garde environments of Piero Manzoni, the abstract visions of Agnes Martin, Rina Banerjee’s diaphanous monuments, and so much else to see.
The avant-garde environments of Piero Manzoni, the abstract visions of Agnes Martin, Rina Banerjee’s diaphanous monuments, and so much else to see.
The museum offers scans of items including a painting by Claude Monet, Neolithic sculptures, and Greek terracotta vases.
From late January, a 40-minute talk by Rick Steves on “how lessons learned on the road can help Americans better understand and meet the challenges facing Democracy in the USA.”
Narsiso Martinez continues working on cardboard produce boxes, celebrating the people responsible for feeding America. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The