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Kelly Hayes interviews Rebecca Solnit . “There is...

Kelly Hayes interviews Rebecca Solnit . “There is no rewind button on history. Once people have power & agency, and have seen what it’s like to have rights, voting rights, reproductive rights, they’re not interested in going back. And we’re the majority.”

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Cow Trip: A Retired Dad Agrees to Rescue a Baby Cow

This is one of those videos that you start watching and then can’t really stop until you’ve finished. Cow Trip tells the story of an effort to save a baby cow by driving it (and another baby cow rescue) in a not-huge SUV 600 miles from Vermont to a sanctuary in Maryland. A

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Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions . “What’s...

Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions . “What’s different about the XP is that they’ve actually borrowed some of the same technology used by SpaceX, incorporating it as well as a whole slew of other safety features that are basically non-existent.”

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The memories of others

How a Japanese war photographer became one of the most insightful chroniclers of the Troubles in Northern Ireland - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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Behind the Scenes at Pace

Employees describe the gallery’s disorienting layoffs, Brenda Goodman looks back on her six-decade practice, and artists urge Mayor Mamdani to ban AI in schools.

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Diatoms and the Meaning of Life

In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter from an anonymous correspondent. (At the time, until well into the twentieth century, anonymity often meant the scientist writing was a woman, though the word “scientist” itself was more than a

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Empathy and good advice

Focus groups and informal feedback offer a trap: Asking someone in the target audience if they like something might get you useful feedback. But most of the time, the people you’re asking aren’t actually in the group of early adopters that are going to make your rollout work.

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How to Cook Like Frida Kahlo & Georgia O’Keeffe

It’s a myth that starving artists don’t eat. They do, just not often or well. Their meals rarely rate recipes, let alone cookbooks. Those cookbooks do exist though.… The mostly conceptual Starving Artist Cookbook put together by EIDIA (aka artists Paul Lamarre and Melissa Wolf)

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Going Deep With Brenda Goodman

“I remember taking a plaid dress, tearing it up, and using it as paint rags,” the 83-year-old painter tells me in a knee-to-knee interview at her studio.

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VOTE!

An interview with artist and Congressional hopeful Claire Valdez, Kim Dacres’s rubber art, and Christopher Myers’s kaleidoscopic subway mosaics.

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Room Tone

For each of their on-camera interviews with filmmakers, actors, critics, and other film nerds, Criterion records 30 seconds of “room tone” that is used to cut the footage into a seamless video. When trying to explain what room tone is to someone unfamiliar with the concept, I

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