The "Lost Tapes of the 27 Club" project uses Google's AI program Magenta to imagine later music from some of the famous musicians who died at 27—Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Amy Winehouse (heard above). From Rolling Stone: O’Connor and his team
"Slow" is among the great My Bloody Valentine tracks that didn't make it to Spotify in North America.
We're nearly two years late to this, but that didn't make it any less fun to watch. See also: locking yourself in your bathroom for 48 hours to prove that you can be an astronaut.
A brief deep dive into the cat filter that became a lawyer's screen during a court hearing, all because of an old setting on Dell computers.
"Mars House," designed by Toronto artist Krista Kim, is the first NFT-backed digital house to be sold (for over half a million dollars). In related news, Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger sold a collection of "impossible" virtual furniture last month for about $450,000 at auction.
A lengthy appreciation of anime's craft and cinematic capabilities. Via Open Culture.
A pretty remarkable stop sign, as reported by Futility Closet: When a truck ignores repeated alerts that it’s too tall to enter the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, an automated system projects a giant stop sign onto a curtain of water at the tunnel entrance. This presents the boldest possible message
An enjoyable short film about the curious world of animals, probably more suited for you than your children. (Pity the wizard bunny.)
Often regarded as too slick and overproduced, the Clash's 1985 album Cut the Crap has been "rebooted" by Gerald Manns, who injected new life into the songs by mixing in portions of bootleg performances—and in some cases playing the instruments himself: To get a better
A trippy visualization of the internet's evolution. A key to the colors: white is the web's backbone, blue is North America, red is Asia Pacific, yellow is Africa, green is Europe. Dominant network names are located in the lower-left corner.
