Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of another. Along the way, we keep confusing experiment and exploration. An experiment
"The questions, hypotheticals, and past haunting me as the father of Balin Miller, who fell to his death in October."
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service . “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.”
From the Norwegian Consumer Council, a funny video that warns against the dangers of enshittification . It’s part of their Breaking Free initiative: Digital products and services are steadily becoming worse. Software becomes increasingly difficult and frustrating to use,
He has never lost his love for art and artists, while recognizing that nothing stays in time.
The "Triumphal Arch," one of the largest prints ever produced, will go into storage at the New York Public Library in the fall.
What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking workshop with Werner Herzog (in the Azores). “Take your camera, get the shot, forgo storyboards, don’t overdo it and, above all else, do the doable.” But also: “What will the local priest think?”
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a collaborative album called (maybe?) Nine Inch Noize . Available April 17.
Three of my friends got hacked this week. You get an ecard and click. It asks you to log in to your email. Boom, done. It hacks your email account, steals all of your contacts and then sends itself to the whole address book. And while they’re at it, they could be scraping and
New research identifies more than 600 objects discovered in the United States as two-sided dice crafted by Native Americans.
This week, we honor an intrepid photographer, a punk German artist, and the founder of the Museo Picasso Málaga.
The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission . It had little to do with science or celestial bodies; instead it was a moment shared by four curious, caring humans , united in purpose, far from home.
The 1927 work is the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the Hispanic Society Museum and Library’s collection.
I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d like to be similarly surprised, stop reading now and just watch the video . … … The sunshine recorder was invented in
Since 2019, the New York-based archivist has cultivated a digital and physical menagerie of censored mass media spanning South Asia to the Maghreb known as Khajistan.
Oh, about that story you may have read about one guy single-handedly building a “billion-dollar company” using AI: The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI . Oopsie!
Colossal Members have hit an amazing milestone! 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 Colossal Members Have Funded 100 Projects in K-12 Classrooms
The latest big exposé on the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the secretive inventor of Bitcoin, names cryptographer Adam Back as the likeliest suspect. John Carreyrou has won Pulitzers & helped expose the Theranos scam, but his evidence seems thin.
“How do fantasy sports leagues fit into the larger story of the male loneliness epidemic? You might be surprised.”
NASA has made available more than a dozen mobile wallpapers of photos taken during the Artemis II mission for free download . Basic Apple Guy has made some wallpapers of his own (that are slightly larger than NASA’s and better for iPhones). I have also made a few of my own:
Djerassi board members Michael Molesky and Alexander Maxwell Djerassi, nephew of Ghislaine Maxwell, visited the notorious private island in 2011.
"It was the first ceremony of its kind in America. It's unlikely to be the last."
The Artemis II mission is currently underway and scheduled to last a total of 10 days. 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 Artemis II Captures
"Michael Haskell, 17, set out to make some money from his locker dives. He ended up learning about life."
"How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller? What does it mean? What shall I do about it?"
“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession . They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.”
The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the same time takes you out of yourself. Writing is the best instrument I have for metabolizing my experience and clarifying my own
The forthcoming book from Hat & Beard Press leans into the dualities of Los Angeles. 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 Daniel Sackheim Traverses Los
Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada might release some new music soon . Please let this be true, we need this!
From poetry to politics, this radio show asked listeners to speak their minds. Decades later, their words still resonate - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Plus Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s first retrospective in 25 years, Larissa Pham’s debut novel about an artist and her predatory mentor, and the art collective reclaiming spirituality in art history.
The New Yorker staff writer and author of the new book London Falling on running, writing in the morning, a life-changing childhood trip, and more.
From kangaroo grass to Kakadu plums, native foods are redefining diners' taste buds and deepening their connection to the land
Engineers, scientists, and most of all, businesses are looking for the right answer. It’s such a common quest that we take it for granted, but it’s new, and it continues to cause stress. The right answer is productive. It’s resilient. And it’s a powerful ranking tool. The right
If monorails have a bad name, The Simpsons may be to blame. In an episode acclaimed for its hilariousness since it first aired 33 years ago, a huckster shows up in Springfield and convinces the town to build just such a transit system, which turns out to be not just
Considering the possibility of a truly proletarian art, the great English literary critic William Empson once wrote, “the reason an English audience can enjoy Russian propagandist films is that the propaganda is too remote to be annoying.” Perhaps this is why American artists