A View From the Easel
“The darkness surrounding my studio has its own magic.”
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Smithsonian’s Online Native Cinema Showcase Presents Free Short Films by Indigenous Filmmakers
This curated selection of 13 Indigenous short films features stories of resilience, inspiration, and hope.
Delight in the Color and Symmetry of YoAz’s Kaleidoscopic Digital Illustrations
Animals, architecture, celestial phenomena and more merge with vibrant patterns in kaleidoscopic illustrations. Yohann Azancot, who works as YoAz, focuses on repetition, color relationships, and maximalist compositions in his digital works. Drawing on the legacy of 1960s
Why Movies Don’t Feel Real Anymore: A Close Look at Changing Filmmaking Techniques
Anyone who keeps an eye on Hollywood knows — indeed, has been ever more frequently and anxiously informed — that the theater business is in trouble. If fewer of us than ever have been going out to the movies, one reason must have to do with the easy availability of home
Experiences in Groups
"The more you can perceive, the more choice you will have about how to respond."
A Bright Light Has Gone Out
I’m headed out on an unexpected trip this afternoon, to attend the funeral of Dr. Steve Feller, who was my advisor in college and to whom I owe a great deal. I talked about Doc, as all his students called him, on this podcast with Craig Mod several years ago. From the
Simon Laveuve’s Scaled-Down Tableaux Reveal Post-Apocalyptic Lifestyles
Laveuve is known for his meticulously sculpted miniatures rendered in 1/24 and 1/35 scale. 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 Simon Laveuve’s
My Pace
Goro Obata went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived. In the mountains of Hokkaido, Goro Obata traded
Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original...
Stigler’s law of eponymy : “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” Stigler’s law is itself an example of Stigler’s law. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
A Theology of Smuggling
"In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement."
Angles of love
What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Our phosphorescent world
This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient cycle we have just broken - by Jack Lohmann Read on Aeon
Hard work and goodwill
The other day, Tom Cruise gave a long acceptance speech. But unlike every other speech of its kind, there were no notes. No rambling. No false starts. He did what he always does–he outworked everyone else. It must have taken weeks to write, rehearse and edit this performance.
J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work
Image via Wikimedia Commons I’ve just started reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit to my daughter. While much of the nuance and the references to Tolkienian deep time are lost on her, she easily grasps the distinctive charms of the characters, the nature of their journey, and
40 Years Later: Sade, “Promise”
"Promise" isn’t necessarily about love, or even about surrender, but about giving your heart over, repeatedly, and enduring the failures that come with the exchange.
16 Acts of Artistic Resistance Happening This Weekend
The exhibitions, performances, readings, and more are just a sliver of the more than 500 events in the nationwide Fall of Freedom series.
Remembering Bill Ivey, Guy Cogeval, and Marilyn A. Zeitlin
This week, we honor artists, museum directors, politicians who championed art, and others.
A Good, Bad, and Ugly History of Parenting Gadgets
Designing Motherhood illuminates how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
Why Is DC’s Phillips Collection Selling Off Its Masterpieces?
The museum’s decision to deaccession works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and more has come under public scrutiny.
Stan Douglas Conjures Histories That Might Have Been
Through his narrative art, Douglas reminds us that every story contains the potential for history to take another course.