A bikepacking adventure around the South Alps of New Zealand.
For your weekend homebound wanderlust: A bikepacking adventure around New Zealand's Te Waipounamu South Alps.
Cecilia Reeve's animated video for "Blue" by South Korean musician Nijuu
Your weekly soothe: "Blue" by South Korean musician Nijuu, animated by artist Cecilia Reeve. Via It's Nice That
An autonomous nasal swab robot
Behold: an autonomous nasal swab robot developed by a Taiwanese medtech startup. “The worst case scenario would be the swab being pushed through a sinus wall into the eye or brain.”
The only known duet recorded by Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson
Carina del Valle Schorske pays tribute in The Believer to the only known duet recorded by Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson, who grew up together in Detroit. The duet ends before I’m ready to let it go, a spiraling falsetto line falling from his lips, then hers, then his.
Song of the moment no. 2: "Butoh Baby" by Oliver Coates.
Song of the moment no. 2: "Butoh Baby" by Oliver Coates.
Song of the moment no. 1: "14" by Water From Your Eyes.
Song of the moment no. 1: "14" by Water From Your Eyes.
A reenactment of the finale of ?2001: A Space Odyssey" during home quarantine.
A reenactment of the finale of 2001: A Space Odyssey during home quarantine—side by side with the original.
A brief film about "the Fayum Portraits"
Produced for a 1988 exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a brief film about "the Fayum Portraits," Egyptian funerary paintings from the region of Fayum that were made amid the fall of Rome. Via aeon
"I used various noise algorithms to generate...changes of the seasons."
Watch: "I used various noise algorithms to generate mountains, clouds, mists, textures, and changes of the seasons."
The magical thinking behind QAnon
A new video by Kirby Ferguson traces the magical thinking behind QAnon and other conspiracy theories that are racking up millions of views online and slowly trickling into Congress. It requires a little familiarity with some of the stories, but frighteningly not much. Via kottke