The Top Albums of 2015
Why we like the music we do is a matter of personal history—and in at least one case, a profound experience of hearing David Bowie.
Andrew Womack
Meet the Earthship
Outside Taos, this off-grid community’s 65 homes are made entirely of natural or recyclable materials and collect and produce all their own energy and resources. See also: Photographer Antoine Bruy hitchhiked around Europe’s backcountry, photographing off-the-grid communities struggling to survive apart from society.
Can You Read My Lips?
Rachel Kolb’s short helps others understand the life of a lip reader and the magic of human conversation. See also: Rachel Kolb at TEDxStanford: “Navigating Deafness in a Hearing World”
George Saunders: On Story
George Saunders explains the difference between “Frank was an asshole” and “Frank snapped at the barista who reminded him of his dead wife, who he dearly loved.” See also: “I had read Ayn Rand at a vulnerable moment and I didn’t want to be one of those life-sucking
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Watching a motorized Lego sculpture of Sisyphus pushing a rock would be enough to satisfy our brains. But the detailed frieze work puts this one in a whole new class of mind happiness. See also: A survey of the many names people call various Lego bricks
Black & White in Color
“One of my biggest pet peeves in art is the lazily-desaturated DSLR video,” says filmmaker Julianna Thomas. This video is her “personal response to treating black and white as an editing afterthought.” See more videos by Julianna Thomas
Dreaming of Earth From Space
Astronaut Helen Sharman recounts a dream she has of returning to space and viewing Earth from above once more. From A Place Called Space
Urban Conformation 74:19
Time-lapse tessellations of cities in motion. Directed by Florian Rouzaud Cornabas
Our Machines of Loving Grace
When you’re not doing anything meaningful, why do it yourself? Directed and animated by molistudio
Time Lapse of Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #797”
Sol LeWitt’s instructions for Wall Drawing #797 (1995), “The first drafter has a black marker and makes an irregular horizontal line near the top of the wall. Then the second drafter tries to copy it (without touching it) using a red marker. The third drafter does the same, using