An ethereal, life-size sculpture by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh is an ode to the historic Herkenrode Abbey. 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 Gijs Van
"All working-class people deserve better than what we're getting,” a former Amazon worker told Hyperallergic ahead of this year’s gala, co-chaired by Jeff Bezos.
Nowhere on XKCD’s map of The Contiguous 41 States does it say that you need to find the missing seven states, but that’s immediately where my mind went. And it was a little more challenging than I anticipated — all of New England is present & accounted for somehow? The answer
MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp show made me long for those simpler times when "eliminating the artist's hand" provided a pathway back to the true self.
A 55-minute mix of Boards of Canada B-sides and rarities .
“They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”: Alderaan Residents Reflect on Their Support for the Empire as a Large Imperial Installation Enters the System . “The Senate was ineffective, and the liberal Jedi were out of touch…”
I’m gonna call it: Every Frame a Painting, my all-time favorite YouTube channel, is back. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos stopped producing their fantastic video essays back in 2017 and while they have popped up here and there since then, they’ve mostly stuck to their retirement.
One man's obsession with microscopic creatures is literally illuminated in marvelous transparencies. 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 Vibrant
How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With a Radical Recut, Cutting It From 3½ Hours to 93 Minutes . “The solution that ended up saving the movie wasn’t much less drastic, producing a 93-minute cut that excised most of Rambo’s dialogue.”
Ancient Athenians chose leaders by lottery rather than elections. Could this solve the problems facing democracy today? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The insidiousness of artists' contacts, visitors will now judge the Venice Biennale, and Trump’s border crew damages 1,000-year-old Native etching.
Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of? - by Felix Flicker Read on Aeon
Pay attention to what’s in front of you. Don’t let fear contaminate your understanding of the situation. Act with commitment. Notice the gap between event and reaction. Embrace the resources that are available to you. Optimism is a belief about possible outcomes, but equanimity
Even in death we are only limited by our imagination in how we want to go out. There are now ways to turn our corpse into a tree, or have our ashes shot into space, or press our ashes into diamonds–I believe Superman is involved in that last one. And now for the music lover, […]
The animated short above, The Dot and the Line, directed by the great Chuck Jones and narrated by English actor Robert Morley, won an Oscar in 19656 for Best Animated Short Film. Based on a book written by Norton Juster, “The Dot and the Line” tells the story of a romance