Inspired by his island upbringing on O’ahu, Hawai’i, Ching turns to nature as a boundless source of wonder and solace. 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
The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris . “Ironically, Tetris’s success began because the totalitarian Soviet regime did not recognize what we take for granted in the West: the freedom to publish.”
You may remember a time when it was difficult to make it through the day without hearing someone cite a TED Talk. A major technological reason for that was streaming video’s new accessibility on practically everyone’s computer (especially those of people bored at work). A major
On commodified, automated intelligence . “If any of these things shake out and we make it out of the near-future, the best you can hope for is a universal basic income, pegged to a meaningful percentage of existing compute.” (God that’s bleak.)
The Berlin-based artist and inventor is fascinated by the convergence of art, science, and technology. 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 Niklas Roy
There are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself regularly in the path of wonder and getting out of your own way in order to receive what you encounter there. Wonder, like enchantment, is not something you can control or plan for or will — it
Highlighting patterns of war and migration, her installation "Tidal Crossing" is the latest artist intervention at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
Over the past six months, dozens of people pitched in to create the MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt , which is made of 12,500 squares, each one representing an immigrant abducted in Minnesota by the Trump regime’s secret police (ICE + CBP). The quilt was recently unveiled at the MN
In the wake of her divorce, Curtis Sittenfeld revisits her 2015 piece on marriage . “Toward the end, I felt as if the best versions of ourselves had married and the worst versions of ourselves were getting divorced.”
"I had to do everything the jurors did—sit in every court session, examine each piece of evidence, look out from the jury box every day at a man accused of murder—but I wouldn’t participate in the deliberation unless two jurors dropped out."