An almost 2-hour mashup mix by dk darkly of music from...
An almost 2-hour mashup mix by dk darkly of music from France’s two most well-known electronic duos, Daft Punk and Justice . Also available on Bandcamp . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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‘Where the World is Melting’ Documents Communities Amid Indelible Changes in the Arctic
"A photograph is only a small piece in the jigsaw that makes up the big picture, but sometimes it is these small pieces that open our eyes to the broader reality." Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts
Carl Jung on Creativity
The question of what it takes to create — to make something of beauty and substance that touches other lives across space and time — is one of the deepest, oldest questions, perhaps because the answer to it is so unbearably simple: everything. We bring everything we are and
A Lovely 3500-Year-Old Drawing of a Sparrow
From the collection of the Met, an Egyptian artist’s sketch of a sparrow circa 1479–1458 BCE. Much of the art that filters down to us from ancient civilizations was used for official purposes (state, religion, commerce); it’s nice to see something simpler like this drawing.
The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle ....
The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle . “Laughter and humor are fundamental to how babies learn about and participate in the world.” *Highly recommend* watching the laughing baby videos to brighten up your day. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month ....
Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month . Seven! 98 diesel cars & 29 hybrids were also sold, but the rest were EVs. And this comes after Norway cut EV incentives. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
"It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real... It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain."
Roxane Gay : “Humanity is, always, enough. We have...
Roxane Gay : “Humanity is, always, enough. We have a right to protest, legally carry a firearm, drive while Black, walk in a neighborhood at night, play in a park, sleep in a bed or do anything else whether we are wonderful people, and beloved or not.” 💬 Join the discussion on
Good god, this story: Mother Says Asking 13-Year-Old Son...
Good god, this story: Mother Says Asking 13-Year-Old Son to Swim Four Hours to Save Family ‘One of the Hardest Decisions’ . “I knew he was the strongest and he could do it.” Australia: a nation of athletes. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Being in the world: rules and risk
To master our own lives, we must venture beyond the rules and embrace risk – Heidegger’s philosophy grounded in real life - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
SVA Chair's Appalling Epstein Emails
David A. Ross resigns for his ties with the convicted pedophile, shows to see in LA this spring, the role of plastic in contemporary art, and our monthly opportunities listings.
Recreating the Smells of History
"Using chemistry, archival records and AI, scientists are reviving the aromas of old libraries, mummies and battlefields."
Sorting
A surprising amount of our time is spent sorting things to create value. They sort the rotten cranberries from the good ones to ensure that the bag at the market is worth buying. And we sort the movies worth watching, the bargains worth pursuing and the news worth reading.
How the Beatles Wrote Their Songs: From Early Demos to Final Recordings
More than a few of us can claim, with some confidence, to know every Beatles song. And indeed it may be true, in that we’ve heard every track of all their studio albums. But as decade after decade of Beatles scholarship has demonstrated, there’s knowing their songs, and then
The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796)
Image via Wikimedia Commons On the off chance Lin-Manuel Miranda is casting around for source material for his next American history-based blockbuster musical, may we suggest American Cookery by “poor solitary orphan” Amelia Simmons? First published in 1796, at 47 pages (nearly
Minimalistic City Map Posters
This Github project from Ankur Gupta allows you to “generate beautiful, minimalist map posters for any city in the world”. There are a variety of different themes you can choose from and the resulting images are big enough to print out actual posters (20-inch height maximum).
David A. Ross Resigns From School of Visual Arts After Epstein Revelations
In January 2015, years after Epstein’s conviction, the former museum leader told him that he was “still proud” to call him a friend.
From Caravaggio to Tribeca
An Old Master as a young man, Richard Wright’s influence on John Wilson, Tribeca galleries vs. street vendors, other things to know about NYC this week.
The full trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 . The pitch...
The full trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 . The pitch perfection of Miranda completely forgetting Andy gives me hope that this will be a worthy sequel. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
When the Flames Went Out
"Losing home and rebuilding, reluctantly, in the year after Los Angeles’s Eaton Fire."
Roberta Fallon, Champion of Philadelphia Artists, Dies at 76
The artist, educator, and co-founder of local arts publication Artblog is remembered as a warm and energetic force in the community.
Roberta Fallon, Champion of Philadelphia Artists, Dies at 75
The artist, educator, and co-founder of local arts publication Artblog is remembered as a warm and energetic force in the community
Been thinking a lot about this Ted Chiang quote...
Been thinking a lot about this Ted Chiang quote recently: “I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Spring
Arshile Gorky’s road trip with Isamu Noguchi, Steve Arnold’s queer baroque aesthetics, Chicano photography, photography in the Black Arts Movement, and more.
Where Would Contemporary Art Be Without Plastic?
A new anthology on plastics in art reveals the philosophical conundrums and contradictions at the heart of a material the world relies on.
Vibe-coding gone wild . “Stories of family...
Vibe-coding gone wild . “Stories of family groceries delivered to data centers, and “world burnt bacon day” became memes — and resulted in class-action lawsuits against kitchen appliance manufacturers like Breville, Viking, and Cusinart.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Death of an Indian Tech Worker
"A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure."
A collection of thousands of photographs of NYC...
A collection of thousands of photographs of NYC restaurants (2002-2008) taken by Noah Kalina. Quite an archive of interior design from that era. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Bruno Pontiroli Tests the Boundaries of Familiarity in His Uncanny Wildlife Paintings
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Mystery Is Embedded in Julia Fish’s Architectural Art
The artist transforms the act of looking into an intricate modality that visualizes the interplay of geometry and architecture, prismatic light and musical notes.
Claude’s Constitution
A couple of weeks ago, AI company Anthropic published the constitution that they use to train their Claude LLM (“under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Deed , meaning it can be freely used by anyone for any purpose without asking for permission”). From the company’s news release :