3,000 Miles
After moving across the country, Sean Wang documents the first year of his life in New York—alongside his mother's voicemails.
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How to survive a Shanghai tollbooth.
Police shut down more than half of the 2,315 schools in Catalonia designated as polling stations. Tens of thousands are expected to vote in a referendum that’s already been blocked by Spain’s constitutional court. 1/20 Polar bears converge in the hundreds on a bowhead whale carcass
An artist spent months pouring paint over his body.
A video artist spent months pouring metallic and fluorescent paint over his hands, nipples, and lips. This is the result.
What happens when a driver refuses to pay a toll (in jest).
A driver and attendant were locked in prideful stillness for over a minute as both refused to reach any further for the driver's payment. The attendant eventually called for backup; apparently, the driver had been teasing her by yanking the card away whenever she reached for it, leading
A new film about sperm donors is called Thank You for Coming.
In case you, like us, are a fan of Dr. Bronner's products and you enjoyed the documentary about the crazy man himself, here's the trailer for the director Sara Lamm's latest film, Thank You for Coming. As an adult, documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm discovered
How to improvise on a 500-year-old Dutch instrument.
From our new favorite video series, "Music Machine Mondays," in which different old musical contraptions around the Netherlands are featured on film. (Who knew?) In this installation the host improvises on a 500-year-old carillon. Source credit: things magazine.
The White House needs a vagus nerve stimulation.
The situation in Puerto Rico is spiraling into a full-blown health crisis. Nearly half of the population has no drinking water, many have no food, and communication remains spotty. 1/20 With much of Puerto Rico's power grid still offline, the island’s health disaster compounds as
"Eyes became ears, moves music": How John Cage composed by playing chess.
John Cage is famous for his aleatoric music, but the first composer to leave something to chance might actually have been the artist Marcel Duchamp, who published "Erratum Musical" in 1913. Later in life, Duchamp collaborated with Cage on a chess-based composition, the playing of which involved
What color feels like, expressed in piano and circles.
Accompanied by Bach's "Prelude in C Major" from The Well Tempered Clavier, as played by Kwon Soon Hwon, Michal Levy attempts to capture the delicate, combined emotions of his synesthesia in this video animated by Hagai Azaz.
“Here come the Puerto Ricans.”
Florida governor Rick Scott heads to Puerto Rico to coordinate recovery efforts. A "vast" migration of Puerto Ricans to Florida is expected in the months ahead. 1/22 Warned that Puerto Rico may become his Katrina, Trump temporarily waives the Jones Act. 2/22 Hugh Hefner dies at