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The Flipbook of the Rings

For more than a year, marshalled by animator Andy Bailey , more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, shot-for-shot, animated, flipbook version of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire three hours. 120,000 individually

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The hotlist

I just built a page containing many of my books. Click on any one of them and it’ll take you to a directory of where you can get a copy. And the page then re-indexes based on which ones get the most clicks. https://hotlist.sethgodin.com Thanks for reading.

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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting of continents and the splitting of atoms. Out of it all, we emerged as creatures muzzled

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The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards

The winners of the 2026 Epson International Pano awards were announced recently, featuring some of the best panoramic photography in the world. Alan Taylor at the Atlantic shared some of his favorites and I shared some of mine above. Starting at the top, photos by Xuecheng Liu,

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Introducing the Museum of Delight

After twenty years of making immaterial things with my mind — ideas sculpted of words, questions woven of sentences, translucent vessels for thought and feeling in the shape of poems — I found myself overcome by the urge to make things with my hands out of matter: clay, thread,

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How to Hold Your Heart with Golden Hands

One bleak English winter a long time ago, wandering through London in the wake of a relationship that had just unraveled, I walked into an antiquarian bookstore and chanced upon a rare century-old edition of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales — which I had grown up with —

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The Dominican Baseball Factory

"Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it."

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Bhutan: the last place

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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Other people

Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally - by Elizabeth Oldfield Read on Aeon

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Charnel Heart

A bone chapel promised to teach me about mortality. It took a life-threatening illness for me to learn.

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The age of initiative

We’re unprepared. In high school, the quarterback isn’t allowed to call the plays, the actor isn’t allowed to write the lines and the math whiz isn’t allowed to choose what to prove. We all grew up in the age of compliance (and indoctrination). The long tail of the internet and

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What Ancient Latin Sounded Like, And How We Know It

Latin is a language As dead as dead can be; It killed the Romans long ago, And now it’s killing me. That famed ditty isn’t likely to resonate with many modern school children, but interest in ancient Rome remains fairly robust. We’ve come to accept that those stately ruins

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Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine

Sometime in the past few years, media sites like Bloomberg, The Economist, The Atlantic, Defector, Talking Points Memo, and the NY Times started offering a way for subscribers to share paywalled articles with friends and followers. These are commonly referred to as gift links.

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