The Shapeshifting Sculpture of Diane Simpson
From one angle, her sculptural constructions appear deep, but from another flat; here they look angled, there not.
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Queer Arab Art in Manhattan
A Texas university shutters a show critiquing ICE, a medievalist’s ode to a 15th-century Black angel, and “Ponyo” arrives in LA.
The snowball effect
Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth - by Graham Shields Read on Aeon
Mysterious predictability
A watched pot will boil. As it heats up, there’s no way to predict where the cavitation will start and which bubble will arrive first. But with enough time and enough heat, it’s going to boil. That tree down the street is going to lose its leaves this winter. We don’t know
Ten Lost Roman Wonders: The World’s Longest Tunnel, Tallest Dam, Widest-Spanning Bridge & More
Apart from a few bridges that still work, the infrastructural achievements of the Roman Empire exist, for us, mostly as ruins. With a little imagination, those historic sites give us a clear enough sense of the empire’s sheer might, but if we want to go deeper, we should then
David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds
Madman or visionary? A little of both? A genius? A brand? A mensch? David Lynch was all these things and more, and this fan-made video above serves as a quick reminder of the career and the consistency of the film director/artist/transcendental meditator who passed away last
How to Live and How to Die
"Leave something of sweetness and substance in the mouth of the world."
Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts
The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the same time takes you out of yourself. Writing is the best instrument I have for metabolizing my experience and clarifying my own
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
"Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged."
How Not to Waste Your Life
“Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the portal through which Kepler arrives at the laws of planetary motion; not realizing that the