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Sweats & Swots

“Ugh, this kid is so sweaty!” my son exclaimed as he came under attack in some game he was playing. This was a few years ago; my ears perked up and I asked him what he meant. He explained that “sweaty” was a derogatory term for gamers who were trying super hard to win. Such

Surrealism Against Fascism

"A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?"

An Online Collection of Found Cassette Tapes

Intertapes is a collection of found cassette tapes — some contain music and others voice memos. Each entry includes images of the tape, a description/track listing, and the actual audio (on Soundcloud). This one was recorded off of a NYC radio station in 1994 and includes

Janet Sobel, a Forgotten Pioneer of Abstract Art

The painting above was made in 1945 by self-taught artist Janet Sobel; it’s called Milky Way . Sobel was a Ukrainian-born artist who was a pioneer in abstract expressionist art and in drip painting; her work directly influenced that of Jackson Pollock. From Why This Pioneering

The red zone, wasted

Sports cars have a tachometer, a gauge showing how close the motor is to melting down. When the revs enter the red zone, performance is enhanced–for a while. Do it too much or for too long, and you’ll burn out. In our work, there are two sorts of red zones. Athletes know that