A Christmas gift from Nick Cave: a full-length stream of the concert film Distant Sky.
A Christmas gift from Nick Cave: a full-length stream of the concert film Distant Sky: Live in Copenhagen.
A video of night skiing without artificial light.
A video of night skiing without artificial light.
We are transfixed by this soothing video of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction.
We are transfixed by Envisioning Chemistry's soothing video of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction. Previously: Time-lapse videos of chemical reactions and salts crystalizing.
Singing Mozart in an MRI shows how overtone singers hit two notes at once.
When German performer Anna-Maria Hefele sings Mozart’s "Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling" ("Longing for Springtime") in an MRI machine, you can see how overtone singers hit two notes at once.
This is a bicycle that walks.
This is a walking bicycle. Have a good day.
Highlights from a pop-up walk in Japan.
Some highlights from Craig Mod's recent "pop-up walk" in Japan. The goal was to illuminate details of Japanese countryside life. And we did, we touched on a bunch of little bits: general farming culture, akiya abandoned homes, abandoned love hotels, the fit and finish of
Explaining the technology that's changing the meaning of a human face.
A good basic primer on how facial recognition technology works, and why privacy in public spaces is disappearing quickly. (In case it ever worries you that your phone can read your face.)
John Waters buys art that scares him in order to overcome his fear.
A nice example from MoMA and the BBC's "The Way I See It" series, in which people explain how they see a painting. John Waters talks about Lee Lozano’s "Untitled" (1963)—an eight-foot painting of a hammer—and the benefits of buying
An animated short about a trip to space, with an exquisite, handcrafted feel by Jason Allen Lee.
An animated short about a trip to space, with an exquisite, handcrafted feel by Jason Allen Lee.
The rise and fall of "big hair."
A public dataset of 37,921 portraits culled from yearbooks from 115 American high schools in 26 states between 1905 and 2013 were used to chart the rise and fall of "big hair." H/t data is plural.