Some spectacular strutting during the Wagah/Attari border ceremony
Some spectacular strutting during a Wagah/Attari border ceremony at the India-Pakistan border. The footage is from October 2020. Things kick off around the eight-minute mark.
What it's like to be the only white member of Soul Glo
TJ Stevenson shows what it's like to be the only white member of Soul Glo—apparently it's a lot like being a white jazz drummer around J.K. Simmons? From the forthcoming album Diaspora Problems. If you enjoy, here's some good footage of the
Day in the life of a snowmobile taxi driver
A brief report on the snowmobile life—including a snowmobile taxi driver—of a former cow town turned ski town.
A Black elevation map
The Black Elevation Map is "an immersive digital experience that reimagines the American landscape by visualizing the heights of The Culture as elevation." From the founders: We want this project to help Black travelers see the country in a way that prioritizes and celebrates the contributions of folks
Tennis and the veneer of etiquette
Tennis has a reputation as a polite sport. Not so, at least when it comes to allowing its umpires to be abused. Tennis is a traditional sport. Tennis is an old fashioned sport. But bizarrely tennis has failed miserably to uphold the more productive and human elements of this self-
Director Ivan Reitman's little-known first film.
Many thanks to Open Culture for opening our eyes to director Ivan Reitman's (RIP) first movie. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1946—his mother an Auschwitz survivor and his father an underground resistance fighter—Reitman moved to Canada as a young child, where he eventually attended McMaster University. And
How insulated glass changed architecture
Contemporary big-city architecture wouldn't exist without insulated glass: a seven-minute explainer.
"I have to worry about where I go with my birds."
A good short documentary about falconry, rodeo, and racism in the Western US.
A long-lost 1994 Godspeed You! Black Emperor cassette may have just surfaced online.
A long-lost Godspeed You! Black Emperor cassette originally released in 1994 and limited to only 33 copies may have just surfaced online.
A passenger-level view of what it was like to ride the Wuppertal Schwebebahn
A passenger-level view of what it was like to ride the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, the world's oldest elevated electric train, in 1902. The train still runs today. Via The Prepared