I love echo - any kind of reverberation or atmosphere around a voice or a sound effect that tells you something about
Bach’s Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1, Deconstructed
The Prelude in G Major to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 is one of the world’s most recognizable pieces of
Pasta Making Machines Are Mesmerizing
The machines that cut the pasta at Brooklyn pasta company Sfoglini are mesmerizing to watch.
I predict that a 10-minut
Life Under the Ice, a Microscopic Tour of Antarctica
Ariel Waldman and her microscopes spent five weeks in Antarctica investigating the microbes that live in the seas, lake
Recommended Soundtracks from Mobile Games
I am always on the lookout for good music to write, design, and code to and video game music is definitely one of my go
New Solar Telescope Shows the Sun’s Surface in Unprecendented High Resolution Images & Video
The National Science Foundation has just released the very first images of the Sun taken with the new Inouye Solar Te
YelloPain: My Vote Dont Count
In his new music video, My Vote Dont Count, rapper YelloPain provides an excellent 4-minute summary in the sprit of Sch
American Totem
By digitally elongating them in a glitchy sort of way, motion graphics designer Theodore John transforms the buttes an
Beastie Boys Story
Here’s the trailer for Beastie Boys Story, a feature-length documentary about the band directed by Spike Jonze. The fi
Smaht Pahk
There’s nothing more entertaining than watching Boston-area natives do over-the-top Bawston accents, but it’s always a
The Stop Motion of the Ocean
This clever stop motion animation by Charlotte Arene features a bedroom taking on the characteristics of an increasing
Normal People TV Series
The BBC and Hulu are producing a 12-part TV series based on Sally Rooney’s book Normal People (which I excerpted here)
Remembering Jason Polan
New York artist Jason Polan has passed away at the age of 37. The cause was colon cancer. From the NY Times obituary:
A Night at the Opera
One of my favorite video series is Estelle Caswell’s Earworm for Vox — you can check out my posts about it here. It ha
The Timeless Isolation of Wilderness Solos
For The Guardian, Mark O’Connell writes about experiencing something called a wilderness solo. The basic idea is that y
Milk - White Poison or Healthy Drink?
When humans domesticated barnyard animals (goats, sheep, cows) starting around 10,000 years ago, they stumbled upon one
Darth Costanza
The premise is pretty simple and there’s no need to oversell it because you can imagine what this is going to sound li
The Story of Two Monks and a Woman
Something shitty just happened to me. (Don’t worry, I’m alright!) But after it happened, I was pretty preoccupied by th
Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
The long-time host of PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died this week at the age of 85. In this age of news as entertainment and
Scary Sea Monster Really Just Hundreds of Tiny Fish in a Trench Coat
As a defense against predators, these juvenile striped eel catfish from Jemeluk Bay near Bali organize themselves into
Maps of Every Single Street in Any City
Andrei Kashcha’s City Roads tool will draw you a map of just the roads in any city around the world. I’m in Saigon righ
Pandemic - How to Prevent an Outbreak
With the Wuhan coronavirus in the news, this is a timely release from Netflix: Pandemic is a 6-part series on the inev
Parasitic Fake ATMs
This is a few years old, but is it ever clever: some thieves in Brazil put an entire fake ATM interface (screen, card r
The Lost Central Park Neighborhood of Seneca Village
In the 1850s, the well-heeled residents of Manhattan were convinced the city needed a grand park like the European cap
The Short Student Film That Became Napoleon Dynamite
While in film school at BYU, Jared Hess made a short film called Peluca in just a couple of days for under $500. Two ye
A Collection of Children’s School Notebooks from Around the World
For the past 15 years, the folks at the Exercise Book Archive have been compiling a collection of children’s school
10-Year Time Lapse of US Weather Radar
Sometimes I load up the US map on Weather Underground just to watch storm systems tumbling and swirling across the cou
Dancing Twigs
Artist Chris Kenny uses bits of twig from tree branches to make these interesting found art pieces that exploit the hu
Hello from Asia!
I just wanted to let you know that I am going to be travelling for the next few weeks and the site’s regular metronomic
The Radiohead Public Library
Let’s be generous and say that over the years, Radiohead’s web presence has been eccentic. Disorganized and scattersho
Welfare vs Subsidies
I was travelling yesterday and so missed observing Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the site, but I ran across this quote
An Astronomer Explains Black Holes in 5 Levels of Increasing Complexity
In this video from Wired’s 5 Levels series, NASA astronomer Varoujan Gorjian explains the concept of black holes to fi
Dozens of Classic Interviews from The Dick Cavett Show
Open Culture’s Josh Jones takes us on a tour of the amazing YouTube channel for The Dick Cavett Show. The show ran from
Boda Boda Madness
Ugandan-Kenyan fashion designer Bobbin Case and Dutch artist Jan Hoek have collaborated on a project called Boda Boda
World Map Projection, But All South Americas
I bet you never noticed that South America can kind of approximate most of the world’s other continents pretty well. XK
How to Please Elise
Christoph Niemann with a clever take on the Beethoven composition for piano, Für Elise. He’s offering it as a letterpr
Kenobi, a Star Wars Fan Film
Although the announced Disney+ series about Obi-Wan Kenobi may shed some light on the matter, we don’t know too much a
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Airplane Sleeping Positions
From The Washington Post, an illustrated encyclopedia of sleeping positions on a plane. Economy only…we don’t need to
The Best Best Picture Lineups in Oscar History
Using their extensive database of member ratings, Letterboxd averaged the ratings for the Best Picture nominees for eac
Winners of the Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest
Underwater Photography Guide has announced the winners of the 2019 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition. The top ph
Goldman v Silverman
Filmed during Uncut Gems, Goldman v Silverman is a short film by the Safdie brothers starring Adam Sandler & Benny
Official Posters for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Wow, check out the official posters for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
What an amazing array of styles
Abstract Photographs of the Colorful Insides of Golf Balls
James Friedman is primarily a documentary and street photographer, but for his Interior Design project, he went abst
“World Travel: An Irreverent Guide”, an Upcoming Travel Guidebook by Anthony Bourdain
Just before be died, Anthony Bourdain began work on a travel guide with his long-time assistant and coauthor Laurie Wo
Five Ways to Ditch Your Climate Stress and Be Part of the Solution
Emma Marris has a five-point plan for dealing with the psychological toll of climate change — the constant news of fire
How 1917 Was Filmed to Look Like One Long Continuous Take
1917 is the latest in a string of one-shot movies, where the action is presented in real-time and filmed to look as th
This Striking Image of the Moon Is a Combination of 100,000 Photos
Backyard astronomer Andrew McCarthy has created some arresting images of various objects in the sky, including galaxies
Steven Soderbergh’s Media Diet for 2019
Every year, director Steven Soderbergh publishes a list of the movies, books, TV series, short films, and short stories
Retitling “Little Women” So Men Will Go See It
The audience for Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is running about 2/3 women and 1/3 men. Bruce Handy has some suggestions f
The First and Last Time Mister Rogers Sang “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” on TV
Including special shows, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood ran for 912 episodes and at the beginning of each one, Rogers san
The Arsonous Birds of Australia
Ornithologists have collected a number of eyewitness accounts from Australia of three types of birds that deliberately
McMillions, an HBO Documentary on the Massive McDonald’s Monopoly Scandal
In July 2018, I posted about the FBI investigation into the multi-million dollar McDonald’s Monopoly fraud.
For years,
Hosting Christmas Dinner for 50 Strangers
Inspired by his holiday solitude in a new place last year, Brad Lancaster decided to host a Vancouver Christmas dinner
Paris Museums Put 100,000 Images Online for Unrestricted Public Use
Paris Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks f
Photos of the Great Migration
Librarians at the Library of Congress have created a new guide to finding photos of the Great Migration1 contained
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