“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone with AI-generated podcasts . By one count, almost 40% of new podcasts are written by AI chatbots and presented by “AI voice synthesizers [that] can sound eerily humanlike”.
Lines, Ranked . “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous, but hot damn is it effective.”
Werning's chronicle of a time-honored Latin American Indigenous tradition highlights patience, joy, and cultural pride. 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
"On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me."
What if the tools for sustainable space exploration could be found in cellular life on Earth? A NASA astrobiologist explains - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Rallies and revelations about the Israeli pavilion, shows to see in Upstate New York, and remembering Steven Durland.
Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture - by Kiran Kumbhar Read on Aeon
"Colorado’s San Luis Valley was a wildlife poacher’s paradise. Then an undercover federal agent arrived."
Sit back, relax, put on some music (I’ve found Chopin’s Nocturne in B major well-suited), and watch the video above, a silent data visualization by visionary architect and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, “the James Brown of industrial design.” The short film from 1965
In our dreams, the laws of thermodynamics don’t apply, and gravity works in strange ways. We can jump across a chasm and stick the landing on the other side. This freedom is important. It’s part of what makes a dream, a dream. It’s not just the physics of moving matter, though.
Yasujirō Ozu was born in 1903, and made films from the late nineteen-twenties up until his death in 1963. Though not an especially long life, it spanned Japan’s pre- and postwar eras, meaning that in many ways, it ended in a very different country than it began. Not that you’d
A longtime editor of High Performance magazine in Los Angeles, Durland maintained his own practice while advocating for the art form.
Belu-Simion Fainaru alleged antisemitism and discrimination after the jury decided to exclude Israel from awards, new reports reveal.
A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis documentaries . Even if you don’t know who Adam Curtis is, this is entertaining.
Irina Lotarevich’s edgy minimalism, Koyoltzintli’s investigations into a sacred object, Daniele Frazier’s explorations in camera-less photography, and more.
New episode of Great Art Explained on Francis Bacon . “A new generation was starting to ask - who gets to decide what is right? And who has the authority to tell us how to live?”
This week, we honor a German Neo-Expressionist, the creator of the “Sylvia” comic strip, and an arts patron behind SFMOMA.
20 years ago: a guy interviewing for an IT job gets pulled onto live TV . “Mr. Goma is being celebrated as a folk hero of sorts for anyone who has ever found themselves ill-equipped for a challenge in the workplace.”
Jon Krakauer writes about what has changed about climbing Mt. Everest since he wrote Into Thin Air . “The deadly hazards I wrote about attracted novice climbers to Everest like gamblers to a slot machine.”
Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez's synthetic hair sculptures suspend from the ceiling and splay across the floor like organic growths. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as
Infants are dying because parents are opting-out of vitamin K shots . “In the hopes of safeguarding their newborns from what they see as unnecessary medical intervention, they have shunned fundamental and scientifically sound pharmaceutical intervention.”
My pal Matt Haughey recut the first season of Apple TV’s Murderbot into a 3.5-hour-long movie . “I did it fast so there are a few jarring cuts, but I now have an entertaining as hell movie with zero interruptions.”
In NYC, an exhibition of cherished letters, photographs, and talismans brings us into the daily life of the reluctant Beat Generation icon.
"Art should broaden how we see the world—and that includes how we see bodies, too.” 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 How Fatinha Ramos Channels
"The tech world assumes that AI-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite."
Activists led by the Art Not Genocide Alliance blocked the entrance to Israel’s pavilion while waving Palestinian flags on the first day of exhibition previews.
Opening May 9 at Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York City, this exhibition invites viewers to reconsider sculpture and perception.
Explore thousands of images taken by the Artemis II astronauts during their 10-day flyby mission around the moon. 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