Drawing with shadows
Artist Guy Larsen uses the shadows from a crumpled sheet of paper to inspire a set of illustrations. (via This Is Colossal)
The definitive sound of the '80s were gated-reverb drums
From "In the Air Tonight" to "Kiss" to, well, this week, the definitive sound of the '80s were gated-reverb drums. From Vox's Estelle Caswell, a history of the happy accident that begat the effect, all the wonderful ways it's been
Is the curtain closing on showtime?
Arrested 14 times while performing, "showtime" dancer Michael Brundage made it into an Intel video. While he put himself through a year of Brooklyn College on tips, he says gentrification is quashing artistry and erasing a viable job market. "We need to decriminalize it. Because while they
Chuck E. Cheese is phasing out its terrifying animatronic bands
In honor of the news that Chuck E. Cheese is phasing out its animatronic bands—a move that will spark outrage only among those too old (or therapied) to remember the terror of being in the same room with a giant robot rat—here's one of Showbiz Pizza&
READY: The chord that shouldn't work.
"You shouldn't be able to have a major seven and a dominant seven working together in the same chord," but this jazzy, melodic grouping—B/G7—totally slaps.
Ravens prefer tools to treats.
When it comes to planning, ravens are on par with apes and four-year old children, according to a paper published this July in Science.
Trump's own words used to address the deadly Unite the Right rally.
What might have been said by the man who's quick to criticize Gold Star families, Kristen Stewart, the cast of Hamilton, Diet Coke, etc.
How your brain protects you against hallucinations
For any friends of yours planning to drop acid at a bachelor/ette party this weekend: A study finds that hallucinations occur when your brain's internal fact-checking system fails—a finding that may someday help clinicians predict cases of schizophrenia.
Meet some Germans who swim to work
The swimming commuter in this video is fricking delightful. And an even better Monday morning treat is this brief Rebecca Schuman essay where we discovered our swimmer, plus other Germans who doggy-paddle to work; Schuman's thoughts on the awfulness of traveling to the office; and "a
Geese are horrible but John Oliver is great
You probably missed this one, but here, John Oliver makes the succinct, convincing case—in a rare moment of Oliver aligning himself with Vladimir Putin—that geese are nothing more than "asshole ducks who got really into CrossFit." Some people may not know that Oliver, pre-HBO stardom,