Well this is just wonderful: Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of high-resolution still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones: Princess Mononoke , Sprited Away , My Neighbor Totoro , The Boy and the Heron , Howl’s Moving Castle , etc. etc. The
I Just Got Into Harvard. My MAGA Grandparents’ 6-Word Reaction To My Acceptance Devastated Me. “We are not your culture war — we are your kids. We are the future.”
The formidable concept of capturing the unseen lies at the core of the photographer's work. 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 Charles Brooks
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is seeking conservation expertise after a child scratched the surface of “Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8” (1960).
This is a lovely little short film about the many snowy owls that migrate down from the Arctic and settle at Boston’s Logan airport and the man who safely captures & relocates the owls away from the airport. I love this story about what a fierce hunter the snowy owl is: A
A new game from the creator of One Million Checkboxes: One Million Chessboards . “Moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. There are no turns. You can move between boards.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
“There are other meat-eating caterpillars that ‘do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake ,’ said study author Dan Rubinoff with the University of Hawaii at Manoa.” I, for one, think it’s cool when bugs wear other bugs. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The artist describes his process as "a simple way to rapidly engage in an artistic process, with an ultra-manageable scale." 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.
Silenced Science Stories is a collaboration between scientists and artists to tell the stories of scientific experts who have been affected by the Trump regime’s purge of their ranks. We are organizing an illustrated series of portraits and stories of scientific experts whose
Scientists have invented (or discovered?) a new color called “olo” . “Verifying that [the] participants had indeed seen a novel color was tricky. Only one person witnesses the experience of color: the person who sees it.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts . “Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support.”
A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right . “Leaders in the far right conceal their true nature to present a more acceptable version to potential voters, donors and sometimes their own members.”
In Hanoi, an uprooted tree inspires a meditation on war, peace and the power of objects to create deep meaning - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
The weird paradox of Schrödinger’s cat has found a lasting popularity. What does it mean for the future of quantum physics? - by Jim Baggott Read at Aeon
Here are just 10 of the many exciting artists to meet at the fair, whose work we think you’ll find particularly out-of-this-world. 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
When the investment committee is unanimous, it’s unlikely that the idea is a brilliant one. Significant division and strong opinions (and widespread skepticism) don’t cause great ideas, but they’re often present when they arrive.
If you happen to go to the Louvre to have a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, you’ll find that you can’t get especially close to it. That owes in part to the ever-present crowd of cellphone photographers, and more so to the painting’s having been installed behind a wooden
Combining pop music with opera was always the height of pretension. But where would we be without the pretentious? As Brian Eno observed in his 1995 diary, “My assumptions about culture as a place where you can take psychological risks without incurring physical penalties make