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This week: Compton’s forthcoming art center, a Lebanese artist’s workshops for displaced children, dog sledding in Yukon, the NGA goes viral on TikTok, stop-motion versus AI, and more.
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The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape
Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy , is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”. Controlling the stickiness of tape is
Abi Castillo’s Ceramic Beings Contrast Delicacy With the Natural World
The artist's works are an invitation to consider the inner self. 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 Abi Castillo’s Ceramic Beings Contrast Delicacy
Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii ....
Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii . “Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list.”
The Strange Saga of Faces of Death
“It scarred countless children—and allegedly left one dead. Many still believe it was all real. Some of it was.”
“Working with agents feels much less like classic...
“Working with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game .”
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years ....
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years . “There’s a better question for white-collar workers to ask themselves: Am I coal, or am I a horse?”
Bright, Built World
Joseph Osmundson | The Los Angeles Review of Books | April 5, 2026 | 4,717 words
Post-Digital Digital Glitch Collages
I really love these collages by Anton Elfilter ( Instagram , Threads ). They are digital-ish? But also not? And does anyone else see the influence of Hilma af Klint in these? (via moss & fog ) Tags: Anton Elfilter · art · design
Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John...
Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere . The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”.
‘Love Is a Sensation’ Spotlights the Boundless Creativity of L.V. Hull
The Mississippi Museum of Art exhibition highlights the Southern artist's artistic way of life. 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 ‘Love Is a
AI Got the Blame for the Iran School Bombing. The Truth is Far More Worrying
"LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity."
This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M....
This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M. Gessen: The Idiot . “Compassion has its limits when it comes to your own cousin.”
Travelling at the speed of light
A mind-bending trip into the cosmos aboard a speculative (yet theoretically possible) spacecraft near the speed of light - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Jasper Johns Marks Time
John Yau takes on the art world giant, the man behind an archive of censored mass media, Wifredo Lam in New York, and more Epstein art world ties.
White-collar sweatshops
How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? - by Dylan Gottlieb Read on Aeon
The Memory Maker
OpenAI's Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
Attention and effort
The door-to-door salesperson had no leverage. If he was at your door, he wasn’t at anyone else’s door. Every minute you spent with him was a minute he had to spend with you. While it was a tough gig, no one doubted that something was motivating this person enough to put at
Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Paintings, Sculptures, Street Art & More
No art enthusiast’s visit to the United Kingdom would be complete without days at the British Museum, the Tate, the V&A and the National Gallery. The fact that all those respected institutions are in London constitutes a plausible excuse never to stray outside the capital. But
9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971
More than a century after women’s suffrage in the United States, it’s not enough to bone up on the platforms of female primary candidates (though that’s an excellent start). A Twitter user and self-described Old Crone named Robyn urged her fellow Americans to take a good long
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of another. Along the way, we keep confusing experiment and exploration. An experiment
Sea of Nightmares: My Son Died Climbing. Now, I Wrestle With ‘What If.’
"The questions, hypotheticals, and past haunting me as the father of Balin Miller, who fell to his death in October."
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S....
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service . “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.”
A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
From the Norwegian Consumer Council, a funny video that warns against the dangers of enshittification . It’s part of their Breaking Free initiative: Digital products and services are steadily becoming worse. Software becomes increasingly difficult and frustrating to use,
Jasper Johns Keeps Looking
He has never lost his love for art and artists, while recognizing that nothing stays in time.
One Last Chance to See Dürer's Monumental Print in NYC
The "Triumphal Arch," one of the largest prints ever produced, will go into storage at the New York Public Library in the fall.
What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking...
What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking workshop with Werner Herzog (in the Azores). “Take your camera, get the shot, forgo storyboards, don’t overdo it and, above all else, do the doable.” But also: “What will the local priest think?”
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a...
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a collaborative album called (maybe?) Nine Inch Noize . Available April 17.
The ecard virus
Three of my friends got hacked this week. You get an ecard and click. It asks you to log in to your email. Boom, done. It hacks your email account, steals all of your contacts and then sends itself to the whole address book. And while they’re at it, they could be scraping and
Dice Are 6,000 Years Older Than Previously Believed, Study Says
New research identifies more than 600 objects discovered in the United States as two-sided dice crafted by Native Americans.
Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso
This week, we honor an intrepid photographer, a punk German artist, and the founder of the Museo Picasso Málaga.
