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The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no...
The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no longer afford, or have given up on having” . Among the answers: medication, car repairs, new clothes, having more kids, eating out, and contact lenses.
‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen
700+ cats. 1900+ film stills. 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 Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on
Old Newspaper Headlines About the Name Doppelgängers of Current Celebrities
This is great: Annie Rauwerda (of Depths of Wikipedia fame) sifted through the archive at newspapers.com to find the goings on of long-ago celebrity name doppelgängers ( follow-up post ). A few of my favorites: Tags: Annie Rauwerda · celebrity · language
A Cult Grew Around the First Emperor of Rome in 27 B.C. A New Book Argues His Followers Might Have Created the Template for Christianity
Augustus was seen as a descendant of the gods who would go on to redefine authority. New research posits that his rule paved the way for Jesus
I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery...
I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery site) that kinda kicks ass: NYT Cooking is now a separate source (which you can filter by). The Rigatoni With White Bolognese recipe is a favorite of mine. 🤌
Traveling Route 66 in the Age of Data Centers
"Driving through America’s back roads, the emptiness of the information superhighways comes into sharp relief."
Hills and mountains
A girl’s story of forced marriage reveals how the Soviet invasion of 1979 transformed life in Afghanistan - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The physics of getting fired
Physics offered me a sense of order and purpose. But when life got messy I realised it had a much deeper insight to give - by Zahaan Bharmal Read on Aeon
Road Trip at the Borderland
A trip along the North Korean border, with a Chinese father and his estranged daughter, plastic bags of food, and an 81-year-old grandmother who refuses to wear a seat belt.
An Epstein Survivor’s Message for MoMA
Dani Bensky explains why the museum must drop Leon Black from its board. Also: The Vatican is serious about protecting artists from AI.
Explaining funny
This is one of the most famous comedy bits of all time: But why is it funny? The disconnect between experiencing it and explaining it represents one of the challenges of teaching. It’s also at the heart of leadership, marketing and culture. Design, good taste, genre,
The Early Years of Electronic Pop: The Moog Craze, Psychedelic Experiments, and More
There’s a decent chance you’ve heard at least a couple of tracks from Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach. But when was the last time you put on Switched-On Rock, Switched-On Country, Switched-On Santa, or Switched-On Bacharach? More likely than not, you’ve never even heard of those
Surreal Pinscreen Animations Bring Kafka, Gogol & Mussorgsky to Life (1933–1972)
What do Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, and Modest Mussorgsky have in common? They stand alone among their peers for their darkly humorous sensibilities, fascination with the grotesque, imaginative takes on cultural traditions, and a predisposition for the proto-surreal. Like the
Errol Morris shot ads for Theranos and recently revealed...
Errol Morris shot ads for Theranos and recently revealed he has a two-hour interview with Elizabeth Holmes that he’s considering releasing . “Did I have any reason to believe that she was a fraud? I did not. Did that change as time went on? It did.”
Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out:...
Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out : “Kevin Bacon is not the center of Hollywood. In fact, he never has been, and almost certainly never will be.”
The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother
"It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger."
Found Object Masks by Romuald Hazoumè Counter Sorrow with Sympathy
Romuald Hazoumé encircles plastic jugs with feathers, netting, paintbrushes, and other found materials. 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 Found
A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive...
A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive will be auctioned off early next year , including Jack Torrance’s axe & the sisters’ blue dresses from The Shining, Kubrick’s director’s chair, and a chess set owned by the director.
The Moving Image Archive
The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections. The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricate the
It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how...
It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical . “It was disappointing how easily money turned a lot of them into sudden conservatives, full of right-wing doctrine about bootstraps and the fantasy of a black capitalist utopia…”
Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we...
Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we treat as separate failures of separate organs may share one deeper problem: cells struggling to extract and use energy from food ” (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, etc.)
I’m an Epstein Survivor. MoMA Must Drop Leon Black.
Institutions must reckon with the possibility that their prestige can be used to legitimize people whose conduct warrants serious investigations.
Vatican Exhibition Series Centers "Fundamentally Human" Art Over AI
A triennale across seven cities expands on Pope Leo XIV's message that artificial intelligence models “lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective” necessary to create art.
Cici Wu's Memory Lanterns
Her flickering, hollow, and bandaged forms trace histories embodied across generations.
Beverly Buchanan at the Raw Edge of Art
Instead of leaving the South behind, the polymath artist carried it into her writings, zines, paintings, and “shack sculptures” that echo the architecture of her childhood.
San Francisco’s Galleries Explore Alternative Routes for Survival
Amid a cost-of-living crisis and the closure of local arts organizations, some are turning to different models to foster community, from nonprofit status to retail businesses.
Lisa Sanditz’s Seismic Sublime
Her environmental paintings ask: What can we do to change our destiny? What effect can we have on the place we inhabit?
