A short piece on the process for USPS stamp design and how you can submit your artwork for consideration. "On average w
Restoring a 100-Year-Old Animated Film
You’ve probably seen the work of animation pioneer Max Fleischer; he made the old Popeye, Superman, Betty Boop, and Ko
The Origin of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover Art
For Scientific American, Jen Christiansen tracks down where the iconic image on the cover of Joy Division’s Unknown Pl
Four Quick Links for Friday Noonish
A new study shows that "horses were ridden and raised by [North American] Indigenous groups by the early 1600s", much s
Two Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
What if stars had phone-like battery indicators for how much hydrogen fuel they have left? The Sun is at about 50% batt
How Noiseless Props Are Made For Movies And TV Shows
Insider has been doing a whole series of videos on how movie props are made (view the entire thing here) and I found t
Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
If you needed to write a headline summing up contemporary American culture, it might read something like this: People W
Tapping the Vast Renewable Energy of the Yellowstone Supervolcano
The first few sentences of the abstract for this paper from the scientific journal Renewable Energy contain a twist in
ChatGPT Made Me Cry and Other Adventures in AI Land
[Yesterday I spent all day answering reader questions for the inaugural Kottke.org Ask Me Anything. One of them asked
Two Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City
The top two comments on YouTube sum this trailer for Asteroid City up pretty well: “Just when you don’t think it can g
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Forgotten Photographs of New Jersey
In 1975, famed French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson traveled, at the behest of a public television station, to t
Four Quick Links for Monday Noonish
Fantastic edition of Jodi Ettenberg's Curious About Everything newsletter. So happy she's been able to keep this going
Everything Is a Remix
Kirby Ferguson has released the final and “definitive” full-length version of his fantastic Everything is a Remix vide
A Diorama of Michael Jackson on Fire
I…. Hmm. I really don’t know how to describe this video. Bobby Fingers, who seems to be a professional model maker of
Two Quick Links for Monday Morning
An old favorite link of mine: "This is my personal account of curing my asthma and hayfever by deliberately infesting m
Transcript of Raiders of the Lost Ark Brainstorming Session
Wow. In 1978, George Lucus gathered together Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan to go over ideas for a f
Plastic Scrimshaw
For an exhibition entitled DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, artist Duke Riley t
The Sun, In All Its Glory
Good morning, sunshines! Well, amateur astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has done it again. Collaborating with Jason
A Flower a Day
Every day for three years, Iancu Barbarasa drew a flower for his partner and recently he compiled all the drawings int
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
A Map of Places in the US with the Same Name. "We calculated what place someone is most likely referring to, depending
Mattias Adolfsson’s Whimsical Illustrations
I’ve featured the work of Mattias Adolfsson before, but I ran across some of his marvelously dense & vaguely steamp
Ai Weiwei’s Lego Version of Monet’s Water Lilies
Lego bricks and Impressionism are a natural pairing, and so Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has recreated Claude Monet’s mas
A Potential Major Discovery: An Aperiodic Monotile
The authors of a new preprint paper claim that they’ve discovered what’s called an aperiodic monotile, a single shape
Bono and The Edge’s Tiny Desk Concert
The most recognizable half of U2 made the trip to the NPR offices to perform a Tiny Desk Concert recently. Accompanied
What’s the Deal with Ozempic, the “Breakthrough” Diabetes and Weight-Loss Drug?
In the last several months, semaglutide, a drug originally developed to help manage type 2 diabetes, has been in the n
Roger Deakins Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films
Do you want to sit in on a 30-minute cinematography masterclass with Roger Deakins as he talks about the process behin
Two Quick Links for Saturday Afternoon
Museums Rename Artworks and Artists as Ukrainian, Not Russian. "Museums in the United States and Europe are complicit i
Three Quick Links for Friday Evening
So this is a bit of a mind-bender: the release of Tetris is closer to the World War II than it is to today. WTAF? (via
Kottke 25: What a Week!
Hey everyone. I just wanted to thank you all for the well-wishes on kottke.org’s 25th anniversary. Reading all your com
Three Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
The Media Better Be Smart and Get Wise to DeSantis' Bad-Faith Press Operation. "If a reporter can't recognize propagand
Landing an Airplane on a Tiny Helipad on Top of a Dubai Hotel
As I’ve discussed previously, the Piper Super Cub is an amazing short takeoff and landing airplane that can, under the
The So-Called “Culture Wars”
Political cartoonist Jen Sorensen recently published this cartoon at The Nib about the harmful mischaracterization of h
Six Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
Interesting class from Ana Marie Cox that sounds like part writing workshop, part therapy. The Third Story Workshop is
The Algorithmic Trick That Can Solve Rubik’s Cubes
Any Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less. The “meet in the middle” algorithmic trick can help a computer pro
Five Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Nebraska state senator Machaela Cavanaugh is 3 weeks into filibustering an anti-trans bill. "If this Legislature collec
The Difficulty of Living in Exponential Time
In a piece about how the pace of improvement in the current crop of AI products is vastly outstripping the ability of s
Great Art Explained: Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Say what you will about The Algorithms, but YouTube’s reliably informs this art history lover of every new episode of
Two Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
Teaser trailer for season two of The Bear. Always interesting to see if the lightning-in-a-bottle of shows like this ca
Kottke 25: One More Chance for Hypertext Tees
In celebration of the site’s 25th anniversary, I’ve turned ordering back on for Kottke Hypertext Tees for the next day
Three Quick Links for Monday Evening
How to Eat Dinner Even Though You Already Watched All Your Shows. Lol, it me. [reductress.com]
The Notre Dame in Paris
How to Draw Fantasy World Maps
I am not a particular fan of fantasy games, but I do like watching people draw and talk about their process, particular
Kottke 25: It’s Membership Time!
Good morning! Tomorrow marks 25 years of blogging here at kottke.org and it’s been more than three months since I retu
Everything Everywhere All at Once!
I loved Everything Everywhere All at Once so much when I saw it in the theater last spring. It caught me in a low momen
Three Quick Links for Sunday Noonish
SpaceX Crew Member Realizes He Fired After Being Locked Out Of Capsule. "Judging by the fact that I have no space shutt
Zeynep Tufekci: Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work
You may have seen the online kerfuffle a few weeks ago about a study that was released recently that indicated that the
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