"Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing an upcoming Superman feature film from DC Films and Warner Bros." [shadowandact.com]
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Four Quick Links for Friday Noonish
Need to generate some 3D blobs? Use this little web tool. [blobmixer.14islands.com]
A collection of writings and though
The Projection Booth
Projection is a short film by Joseph Holmes of clips from 50 different films that take place in movie theater projecti
Two Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
Andy Works is making aesthetically bold iOS apps that prioritize "play, aesthetics, and quality-of-life over efficienci
The Competitive Quartet
Salut Salon is a German musical quartet that plays classical music with a “passionate virtuosity, instrumental acrobat
A Seven-Volume Book Series of the Complete Works of Hilma af Klint
Abstract art pioneer Hilma af Klint created hundreds of artworks during her lifetime, and a new seven-volume book ser
Three Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
The Pudding Cup: The best visual and data-driven stories of 2020 (non-commercial projects only). [pudding.cool]
Mara Ga
Type in Motion - The SF Symphony’s Dynamic New Look
Design studio Collins has created a new brand identity for the San Francisco Symphony that uses type in a playful, alm
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon
Hiking Is an Ideal Structure for Friendship. "The whole activity of walking in the woods is very conducive to having a
The Earliest Globe to Show the Americas May Have Been Made by Leonardo da Vinci in 1504
The Ostrich Egg Globe, made in/around 1504, is the earliest-known European globe to depict the Americas. And there’s e
The Secret Message Encoded in the Parachute of the Mars Perseverance Rover
NASA engineers encoded a secret message in the parachute the Perseverance rover used to slow its descent to the surfa
Three Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
"When the conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh died on Wednesday of complications from cancer, he ended a decades
Clever “Climate Crisis” Typeface Has Several Weights Based on Arctic Sea Ice Extent
Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has released a free typeface called Climate Crisis that can help designers and the
The Typewriter
A few days ago, I featured Ariel Avissar’s compilation of giant moons from movies and over the weekend, he sent me his
Two Quick Links for Wednesday Morning
Need to generate some blobs? Use this little web tool. [blobs.app]
Hear the first sounds from Mars, recorded by the mic
Three Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
Your Kids Aren't Too Old for Picture Books, and Neither Are You. "With remarkable economy, they excel at the twin arts
Flim, an Intelligent Movie Screenshot Search Engine
Flim is a movie search engine currently in beta that returns screenshots from movies based on keywords like “clock” or
Radiohead. Ballet. Together at Last.
A pair of dancers from the Polish National Ballet perform a dance to Reckoner by Radiohead, choreographed by Robert Bo
Self-Medicating Media: Relax in Online Ambiance Rooms
From the NY Times on The Soothing, Digital Rooms of YouTube, a genre of video that pairs animated scenery with ambi
Onboard Camera Views from Perseverance Rover’s Descent & Touchdown on Mars
Just a few days after the Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars, NASA has released onboard video from t
Two Quick Links for Monday Afternoon
Simone Ellin tracked down the now-adult kids who bullied her in school. "Being able to zoom out and get some perspectiv
Draw an Iceberg and See How It Will Float
Glaciologist Megan Thompson-Munson recently posted an “unofficial but passionate petition” for scientists and science p
Finding All the Source Images for the Sgt. Pepper’s Album Cover
The iconic album cover for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is a collage of images of dozens of peopl
Four Quick Links for Monday Noonish
Andy Baio announces Skittish, "a playful virtual space for online events". [waxy.org]
This is not your usual architectu
Daft Punk Have Broken Up
Musical duo Daft Punk have called it quits after 28 years. They said goodbye with the video embedded above. This is so
The Otherworldly Sounds of the Long String Instrument
Here are a pair of videos of Ellen Fullman playing the Long String Instrument, an musical instrument with up to 100-foo
Three Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
What Our Food Reporters and Editors Make When They're Too Tired to Cook. These overachieving folks have a funny definit
Ian McKellan Recites the “Duck Tales” Theme Song
Hunter Davis does an amazing impression of Ian McKellen and used it to recite the lyrics to the Duck Tales theme song a
String Quartet Performs Billie Eilish’s bad guy
Over the past two decades, musical group Vitamin String Quartet has covered the songs of dozens of musical artists and
Two Quick Links for Friday Noonish
Just sent out the latest issue of the @kottke newsletter in which I talk about tags. Remember tags? Still useful! [mail
E.B. White on the Meaning of Democracy
In response to a request from the Writers’ War Board in the summer of 1943, in the midst of World War II, E.B. White wr
30 Minutes of Relaxing Visuals from Studio Ghibli
This. This is the stuff. Lapping water, wind through the tall grass, patient trains, birds, rolling countryside, mount
The Queen’s Gambit, but for Children’s Board Games
Netflix spoofed their own hit show by photoshopping Beth Harmon from The Queen’s Gambit intensely playing children’s
Watch NASA’s Perseverance Rover Land on Mars Live
Today is the day! NASA’s latest Mars rover is scheduled to touch down on the surface of Mars at around 3:55pm EST toda
Five Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
The Evolution from Snurfing to Snowboarding. Sherman Poppen invented snurfing in the 60s and Jake Burton's addition of
Conservatism and Who the Law Protects
I’ve seen this quote, or ones very much like it, a few times in recent years:
Conservatism consists of exactly one pro
Let’s Clear This Up: What Does 95% Covid-19 Vaccine Efficacy Actually Mean?
In popular press and social media, there’s been a misunderstanding of what is actually meant when scientists say that t
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon
Fascinating piece on how big hockey goalies & their protective gear have gotten and how it has stifled the pro game
Dozens of Giant Movie Moons
Ariel Avissar made this 2.5-minute supercut of giant moons from movies — like E.T., The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sp
Why Are Covid-19 Cases Declining So Quickly in the US?
Over the past week or two, I’ve read a number of articles and threads about why Covid-19 cases are falling so rapidly i
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Some donation links to support the people of Myanmar in their struggle against the ongoing military coup. A friend w/ t
Disney’s Recycled Footage & Animated Doppelgangers
I have been on this internet for a long damn time and somehow this has escaped my attention until just this morning: Di
The Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars Tomorrow
Curiosity is about to get some company. NASA’s newest rover, Perseverance, is set to land on Mars beginning tomorrow a
The American Health Care System Cares Not for Your Health
So, I got a link to this video from a reader and didn’t know anything about it going in, aside from the title (“Chris
Six Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
I still don't think most ppl appreciate how miraculously good & safe the Covid-19 vaccines are. 66 cases of anaphyl
How to Turn Your Red State Blue
I posted this as a Quick Link earlier today but decided it needed its own post. Stacey Abrams & Lauren Groh-Wargo
4K Time Lapse of a Boat Navigating Dutch Canals
This is a captivating 4K time lapse video of a boat navigating the canals and waterways of the Netherlands. Infrastruc
Five Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
Last flu season in the US, 400,000 people were hospitalized and 22,000 died. This year so far: only 165 hospitalization
The Ice Bike With Circular Saw Wheels
This person had the genius idea to take the regular tires off of his bike and replace them with huge circular saw whee
Fried Egg Friday
Hi! This is a fried egg blog now. A couple of weeks ago, I shared how master chef Jacques Pépin fries an egg: as gently
Arcade Fire’s Score for ‘Her’ Finally Released
The original score for Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie Her, composed by Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett, will finally see a pr
Five Quick Links for Friday Noonish
The Saving Slave Houses project aims to document and preserve structures in the Southern US that were used to house ens
The Animation That Changed Cinema
This is a treat: a 30-minute video that celebrates the animations & animators that changed cinema, e.g. Yuri Norst
The Simpsons Intro Recreated Using Stock Footage
This is one of those posts that’s really easy to understand — it’s the famous intro to The Simpsons recreated using st
Three Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
I love this little puzzle game where you make chess moves to capture the other king, both stymied and aided by gravity.
Landscape Portraits
This oil painting by Aniela Sobieski is really tickling all my brain cells right now. You can check out more of her wo
Watch Two Korean Master Potters at Work
After the salt harvesting video I posted this afternoon, I got on a mini-roll watching videos from Eater’s Handmade ser
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