Ooh, Mestra is a new short story from Madeline Miller ( Circe , Song of Achilles ). “Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is granted a unique gift by Poseidon: The ability to transform herself into any being she can imagine.”
From mapped.earth, a map of every lighthouse on the planet , along with other charted lights like lighted buoys and such. The screenshots above are static but the lights on the real map move: each lighthouse sweeps out its actual arc and the reach of the beams is true to scale.
Reinterpreting canonical works is nothing new, but her work shines when it's most personal.
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from ArtFields, The Image Centre, Millay Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
Looks like Every Frame a Painting is ramping up again! “Over the last 10 years, Taylor and I have amassed a series of ideas — some of them originally designed to be on Youtube, some designed to be other things. All of this is currently in progress”
The Communist painter depicted the 1949–51 Foley Square trials while on assignment for a Marxist magazine.
Contributors include artists such as Dawoud Bey, who wrote that the venerated institution has "changed the shape of my life."
Attend print and drawing-focused sessions in person and online with LACMA, The Met, and more throughout the month of October.
I love watching Gordon Ramsay make scrambled eggs. I first saw this video years ago and, possibly because I am an idiot, have yet to attempt these eggs at home. You and me, eggs, next weekend. P.S. Jean-Georges Vongerichten makes scrambled eggs in a very similar way . Not
The annual fashion-meets-performance competition is an international visual feast. 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 World of WearableArt’s ‘GLO!’ Is
Amazon is releasing some new Kindle models, including a thinner Paperwhite (my fave) with an aluminum back, more storage, and faster interactions . If I didn’t just get a new last-gen Paperwhite to replace one I lost, I’d be tempted to pre-order.
"The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia."
"Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter in Russia, thought he was meeting a source. Instead he was arrested for spying."
A raw, revealing interview with an 80-year-old Sylvester Stallone on the occasion of his new memoir, The Steps . I listened to about half of this and had to stop…it’s incredibly candid but what he went through as a kid & young adult, oof.
A 15-minute tour of former NFL coach Mike Tomlin’s Minecraft city . As previously mentioned , he started playing the game to connect with his kids and never stopped. (This is only part 1 of ???)
teamLab consists of hundreds of collaborators who tap into the provocative intersection of art, science, and technology. 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
"If returning to America was like getting on a lifeboat, why did I feel like I was drowning?"
In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
An eventful season in the art world, Johanna Hedva surrenders to the cosmos, Derriann Pharr’s cycles of history, and other stories.
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more - by Sasha Mudd Read on Aeon
In a southwest Virginia fairground, thousands of musicians gather every August to keep a centuries-old tradition from flickering out.
Rock and roll came from the transistor radio. When Sony launched its cheap portable radio more than sixty years ago, it came with a headphone. For the first time in history, teenagers could listen to music without their parents eavesdropping. This opened the door to Chuck Berry
Image via Buckminster Fuller Estate The novels of John Brunner have become a niche taste, even within his genre of science fiction. A more sociologically minded version of Philip K. Dick at his best, he could write with what now looks like a simultaneous prescience about the
When work on the Sagrada Família first began in 1882, the original architect could hardly have imagined that, 144 years later, the ambitious undertaking would still be underway. Yet here we are. Famously, the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) spent the last four
"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."
You can destroy kottke.org if you want. Or any other site!
This is a three-hour, high-quality recording of thunderstorms in the distance in the Slovakian countryside. The rest of the channel is loaded of similar (and similarly long) atmospheric videos: thunderstorms, blizzards, rain, wind & fog, winter storms, etc. The most recent
Eternal Family is a media service that shows “a hand-picked collection of unique & rare films across Vintage Animation, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Action, Documentaries, Found Tapes & Much More”. KDO readers might like the Early Technology section .
Blackbird Spyplane’s Jonah Weiner on his past career as a profile writer . “If you’re doing the job well, you find yourself asking them profoundly intimate questions, and they find themselves answering them.” Really interesting.
The Wisconsin museum’s ownership transfer was followed up by a Virginia museum’s announcement of the return of another “Dave the Potter” vessel this week.
Derriann Pharr, an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum, draws from girlhood and womanhood in works that metamorphose before our eyes.
“There are more self-storage facilities in the U.S. than there are Starbucks, McDonald’s, Walmart, Home Depot, Domino’s, Dunkin’, and Costco locations combined.”
"Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway."