Clio Sze To paints impressionistic pieces that capture the feeling of a contemplative hour spent on foot. 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 Dappled
At the height of their productivity as Beatles, neither Paul McCartney nor John Lennon could read or write music notation. Clearly it didn’t keep them from making a cultural impact, and as with so much else in life, they regarded it humorously. As McCartney has said, they used
Would anyone in their right mind sign up for a job that had a high risk of mortality/disability? Or a job where red hot metal is being hurled directly at your face? Back in the 1920s this was the lot of the men who built New York’s skyline, the men who constructed the Chrysler
"If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world."
"...only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited."
Jamelle Bouie : The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American
Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer . I’ve always been a little 3D printer-curious and this looks like a good resource to start with.
Ashley Percival imagines fanciful menagerie in which poodles, rotund birds, and boot-wearing insects try on a vast array of vibrant costumes. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as
"The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible."
"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come... We live everything as it comes, without warning."
2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely retranslating The Odyssey . “It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version.” This is the exact opposite of resting on one’s laurels.
Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail . “The Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”
The thing about me is if I see a making-of video for pencils , I’m gonna stop and watch it and then post it to my website, especially if said pencils are Blackwings, made in Japan. Take a first-ever, in-depth look at the Blackwing pencil manufacturing process. This short film
Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.”
The five-volume tome features more than 625 illustrations from The Huntington's vast collection. 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 Twelve Centuries
This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup . “The cells then race through courses less than a half-centimeter long that are etched into microfluidic silicon chips.”
Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another* ~15% next year . We can’t continue like this (but I feel like this has been the case for the last ~10 years and will in fact likely continue…)
For Hieu Thien Nguyen, who works as kelogsloops, death is a constant reminder, but not something to fear. 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