Hey, real quick, what’s something you always wanted to do, but only just started to learn how to do in the last year? I always wanted to learn how to play guitar and last year my son and I started taking guitar lessons together and now I can sort of play guitar a little. If
If there’s a lesson from the Godzilla anthology, it’s that Asian-American art is deeply complex, much like the many manifestations of Godzilla the monster.
Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving.
The controversial Washington, DC, institution’s hot new attraction will have you back for a second coming.
For some artists, erasure is a way to restore dignity.
Girls State follows a group of young women participating in the mock political program in Missouri just before the overturn of Roe v. Wade .
Nature’s subtle irregularities and variations are fodder for Jon Foreman ( previously ). Using found leaves, stones, and sand, the Wales-based artist assembles swirling gradients and organic motifs that radiate across forest floors and beaches. He precisely arranges each
The works by Mary Bradish Titcomb and Elizabeth Okie Paxton show how women artists inserted subtle agency in scenes of seemingly ordinary domesticity.
Workers call for meaningful wage increases and protections for part-time employees.
Unionized staffers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art will now earn a minimum hourly wage of $18.
This 2013 Kings of Leon cover of Robyn’s Dancing on My Own inspired Callum Scott to sing Dancing on My Own for his audition for Britain’s Got Talent, which eventually lead to Scott’s version of the song hitting #2 on the UK charts in 2016 and becoming the #1 download in the UK
Chicago-based artist Peter Frederiksen ( previously ) pinpoints the most ridiculous, exaggerated moments in cartoons and animated shows to dramatize them further into absurdity. Cropping a single outlandish action or event, Frederiksen uses free-motion machine embroidery to
"For three days, Al Jazeera followed three families in Gaza to document how they are coping with hardly any food."
I get furious every spring there isn’t an iced tea soda because I just want to try it once even though I know it would probably be terrible and we have chocolate milk soda and I can’t get iced tea soda? It’s madness is what it is. The lack of iced tea soda is only an aside to
“The suspect…told his probation officer about his activity. The probation officer tipped off the SPCA after attending a training module called “Recognizing Animal Cruelty” and realizing… spray-painting squirrels qualified as animal cruelty .” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"Is the medium dying? What might we lose if we let it go, like a stranger rounding an airport corner?"
At its best, an intimate relationship is a symbiote of mutual nourishment — a portable ecosystem of interdependent growth, undergirded by a mycelial web of trust and tenderness. One is profoundly changed by it and yet becomes more purely oneself as projections give way to
Here’s a cat holding on for dear life to a pint of ice cream and it’s illustrative of a quirk of cats where you can’t tell if the cat really loves the pint or is furious at it. Peep the bloody hand at the end. Pints only do this when they’re in distress. 💬 Join the discussion
When Bauhaus came to West Africa – Tropical Modernist architecture as a response to the spirit of its people and its climate - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
"I worried about his ability to fit in. But then he fell in love with Russian — and on a trip to Central Asia, he flourished."
More than a quarter of a millennium after he composed his first pieces of music, different listeners will evaluate differently the specific nature of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s genius. But one can hardly fail to be impressed by the fact that he wrote those works when he was five
Michael Lopp helped coin an important term. When you’re a skilled craftsperson with high market value, there may be recruiters knocking on your door. An employee who has ‘shields up’ doesn’t even bother to answer the door. When shields are down, you’re open to at least hearing
Everybody can sing. Maybe not well. But why should that stop you? That’s the basic philosophy of Pub Choir, an organization based in Brisbane, Australia. At each Pub Choir event, a conductor “arranges a popular song and teaches it to the audience in three-part harmony.” Then,
I love Australian pro skater Ricky Glaser’s narration of all the videos he could find of people attempting to jump a famous set of 25 stairs in Lyon. Aaron “Jaws” Homoki (no relation), was the first to do it despite injuring himself on the stairs previously. At 6:15 the scooter
There was a race in Paris where waiters from all the restaurants and cafes and hotels rush through the streets carrying trays with water, croissants, and empty cups of coffee. The race started around 1914, but then it stopped for the last 13 years and now they’re doing it again