Every Frame a Painting’s Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou are back with a video essay about pushing the boundaries of genre in Tsui Hark’s 1995 film The Blade . One reason filmmakers like to work in a genre is that it gives us a pre-made box: a set of expectations, tropes, and
As I watched the teaser trailer for season three of Silo , I discovered that I am very much looking forward to this new season. July 3, 2026. Tags: silo · trailers · TV · video
Trials for a pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine : “Nearly 90% of people whose immune systems responded to the vaccine were still alive up to six years after receiving the last treatment. The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is around 13%…”
“ NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected organic molecules on Mars , including chemicals widely considered building blocks for the origin of life of Earth.” And: “We think we’re looking at organic matter that’s been preserved on Mars for 3.5bn years.”
It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. “The word salads that we might identify as AI today may not be the kind of machine-made writing that we will see tomorrow.”
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"For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters."
“ The Extrapolated Futures Archive is a reverse-lookup for speculative fiction. Describe a situation you are facing, and find the SF stories that already worked through the implications.”
The artist “questions our relationship to objects, their use value, and their narrative potential.” 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 Stained Glass
"I thought of the pinkish, folded gel which in its mysteries congeal all my memories and dreams, and how it had been thrust from a moving vehicle onto an English road with nothing to protect it but the back of my skull."
The benefits of rave culture, Genesis P-Orridge's subversive mail art, Jean Shin’s memorial to the trees of a New York cemetery, and more.
The Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team discovers what “home” can mean—on a field in Arkansas.
Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return - by Likam Kyanzaire Read on Aeon
If we remove impediments that are in the way of where our customers seek to go, they support us. But when we remove the friction that gives people traction on their journey, they flounder. Remove the hassles that people don’t care about, but celebrate the hassles that make it
Image via Wikimedia Commons It must come up in every single argument, from sophisticated to sophomoric, about the practicability of non-violent pacifism. “Look what Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were able to achieve!” “Yes, but what about Hitler? What do you do about the
The Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing’s ‘Til Madness Do Us Part, a documentary about a mental institution in Yunnan, runs three hours and 48 minutes. Beauty Lives in Freedom, on the life of imprisoned artist Gao Ertai, is five and a half hours long; Dead Souls, on the survivors of a
Inspired by Korean funerary practices, the artist's new works examine how ritual and reflection mark the cycles of time.
Archaeologists found 16 drawings and petroglyphs along the route of a forthcoming high-speed passenger train.
Her paintings compress Roman mythology, Italian Renaissance paintings, color relationships, and that moment before disappearance.
"That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture—of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly."
Plus, inside a Black Panther family album, predatory art-world relationships, and the unknown Qing Dynasty trade portraitists.
His sculptures are a striking metaphor for the fragile equilibrium of American life.
"The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times."