Celebrating John Ashbery in an early TV profile
The great, unpredictable poet John Ashbery has died at 90. Here's an episode he appeared in with Kennth Koch in the '60s series USA: Poetry. He shows up at 16:17; outtakes here.
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In Japan the woods are full of Bach
We wish you a safe holiday weekend, full of peace wherever you find it. Perhaps this 2011 Japanese advertisement where a wooden ball plays Bach in the forest.
Nevada's clown motel for sale
For sale: a vast collection of horrible, awful, nightmarish things—600 clowns—plus a couple rooms favored by truckers in Nevada. FYI, the owner's only looking for buyers who will preserve the place's character.
Unendurable line
This is wonderful: A moving line graphs the motion of everyday objects.
A simple trick to hear what your voice sounds like to others.
A simple trick from a vocal coach to hear what your voice sounds like to others.
Assembling a 33,600-piece jigsaw puzzle over the course of nine months
Assembling a 33,600-piece jigsaw puzzle over the course of nine months.
Before and after video footage of the Houston floods
Video comparisons of Houston before and after Harvey shows the flooding is worse than water: In many places, it's a river.
You will be ready for the next eclipse
A pair of photography enthusiasts created a small lens that attaches to a blackout blind, turning any room into a camera obscura.
David Bowie's television commercials are a cultural history of the past 50 years
From a flower child's ice-cream pitch to an austere, bedroom-eyes sake ad to a celebrity-heavy XFM spot, David Bowie's appearances in television commercials astutely picked up on the trends of their times.
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)