For an ad campaign running in the United Arab Emirates, Ikea recreated the famous TV living rooms from three shows usin
Still Ill: 25 Years of the Beastie Boys
Still Ill is a short documentary about the Beastie Boys’ career from approximately Paul’s Boutique to Ill Communicatio
Join the Global Climate Strike on September 20th
Last week, Greta Thunberg and dozens of other young climate activists called on adults to join them in a climate strike
Chasing the Moon
In July, American Experience will air Chasing the Moon, a 6-hour documentary film about the effort to send a manned mi
The First Film Footage of a Total Solar Eclipse (1900)
The BFI and the Royal Astronomical Society have recently rediscovered and restored a film taken in 1900 of a total sola
The Trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The first trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Netflix’s long-awaited prequel to Jim Henson’s The Dark Cry
A School of Fossilized Fish
The results of recently analyzed find from the Green River Formation in the western US were published yesterday show t
High-Def Queen Victoria
In the 1890s and 1900s, the Biograph Company sent film crews around the world to capture moving images to bring them t
How Cartography Powered Global Exploration
First You Make the Maps is a survey of mapping technology by Elizabeth Della Zazzera showing how, starting at the end
The Dirty Car Artist
Scott Wade turns the dirty windows of cars into mobile art. Here’s a look at Wade in action:
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BFF: 128 Faces of Friends Merged into a Single Face
Artist Shawn Feeney worked as a forensic artist for a few years and was inspired by that experience to produce BFF, a p
The Women Who Helped Pioneer Chaos Theory
The story goes that modern chaos theory was birthed by Edward Lorenz’s paper about his experiments with weather simulat
America Doesn’t Care About Its Children
Annie Lowrey writing for The Atlantic last summer, How America Treats Its Own Children.
This is a country that profess
The Steep Drop in Britain’s Coal Usage
In Britain, the birthplace of the industrial revolution, no coal has been used to produce power for the last 11 days. T
1838-2019: Street Photography - A Photo For Every Year
This video is so far up my alley that I’m now charging it rent. (For parking in the alley. Yeah, I don’t know how meta
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
Hear ye, hear ye! The third book in Hilary Mantel’s excellent Thomas Cromwell trilogy has been announced. The Mirror &
The Historical Cinematic Universe
In the latest issue of his newsletter, Rex Sorgatz proposes a name for the growing collection of media about the recent
My Recent Media Diet, The “It’s Not Life or Death, It’s Just Tacos” Edition
I keep track of every media thing I “consume”, so here are quick reviews of some things I’ve read, seen, heard, and exp
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is a documentary film on the legendary Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved.
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Concept Drawings from Studio Ghibli Movies
Tales From Weirdland has a collection of posts that feature concept drawings from several Studio Ghibli movies li
McHive, the World’s Smallest McDonald’s (for Bees)
A few McDonald’s restaurants in Sweden started putting beehives on their rooftops to help save dwindling bee populatio
What’s It Like Living with Perfect Pitch and Synesthesia?
LJ Rich has synesthesia and perfect pitch and wrote about what that feels like for her personally.
Now, I’d like you t
WebGL Fluid Dynamics Simulator
Pavel Dobryakov has built a nifty little fluid dynamics simulator in WebGl that runs in any modern browser, including o
TV & Movie Spy Scene Breakdowns from the Former CIA Chief of Disguise
For Wired’s series Technique Critique, former CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez looks at several TV shows and movies
Branded Junkyard Creations
Artist and former advertising art director Alvaro Naddeo does these wonderful paintings of old iconic junk from our bra
Introducing the Playdate Gaming System
Playdate is a new handheld gaming system from Panic, the makers of FTP software. Hold on, what?! From the press releas
We Will Add Your Biological and Technological Distinctiveness to Our Own
Design firm Pentagram has brought in a new partner to their New York office, information designer Giorgia Lupi, who joi
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
This wonderful site presents animations of 507 mechanical movements first published in a book by Henry T. Brown in 1868
The Bit Player
The Bit Player is a documentary film about Claude Shannon, the underrated “Father of Information Theory”, whose work,
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
I am here for any metaphor linking the internet and Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem trilogy. Kickstarter co-founder Yanc
Philip Glass on Soul Train
It turns out that the fourth track off of Philip Glass’ soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi matches up pretty well to the danc
Explore Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus Online
An 1119-page collection of papers known as the Codex Atlanticus has been completely digitized and put online to expl
The World Building Bureaucracy of Sequels
An intriguing insight from Khoi Vinh in his short review of the third John Wick movie:
This is what usually happens: a
The Solitary Garden
In 1960, David Latimer put some compost, water, and plant seeds into a large glass jar and sealed it up. And it’s been
The Trailer for the Downton Abbey Movie
The Downton Abbey movie is nearly upon us (it’s out in Sept) and the first full-length trailer is here. The action pic
Classic Airline Logos
Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of classic logos from American airlines, from the big ones (Delta, United) to small r
Extreme Babysitting from Danny MacAskill
Remember trials rider Danny MacAskill, who I’ve been covering on kottke.org for over ten years somehow?! In his newest
A Crumbling Abe Lincoln
Liberty Crumbling is sand sculptor Damon Langlois’ version of the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, w
My Dad, the Facebook Addict
Meet Vincent LeVine. He’s the subject of “My Dad, the Facebook Addict”, a short documentary by his son Dylan. He start
Hollywood Dream Machines: an Exhibition of Vehicles from Sci-Fi Movies
An exhibition called Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy just opened at the Petersen
A New Old Vermeer
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is restoring a painting by Johannes Vermeer after it was “conclusively determine
Folding a Piece of Paper More than Seven Times
If you could somehow fold a piece of paper in half 103 times, the paper would be as thick as the observable universe.
Why Do Birds Fly in a V-Formation?
Many species of migratory birds, like the Canada goose in North America, fly in a v-formation. Scientists have long sus
An Inverted World Map
Frans Blok has created an incredibly detailed inverse map of the world, where all the current landmasses have been tu
Freezing Executive Salaries to Pay Entry-Level Workers a Better Wage
John Driscoll is the CEO of a healthcare company called CareCentrix. In an opinion piece in The Guardian, he wrote abou
MIT Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in 0.38 Seconds
A robot built by a pair of engineering students at MIT can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 0.38 seconds (which happens to be 19
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