No surprise that digital networks are expanding, to a point that locations without wifi or cellular coverage are becoming tough to find. A new app, White Spots, finds them for you. White Spots is a collaborative multimedia project by information designer Richard Vijgen, documentary filmmaker Bregtje van der Haak, and
Quite an enjoyable look at what happens behind the scenes of New York's Metropolitan Opera before the curtain rises on a new ballet. See also: an index of everything that takes place in the video.
Wimbledon, concluding this weekend (go Venus!) to our collective groan of disappointment, is the world's oldest tennis tournament. More new is Björn Borg's underwear company staging a stunt match with a court divided between the US and Mexico—shot in the Tijuana River, the filmmakers only
If it's even possible to immortalize Morrissey more than he already is, here's the trailer for a new biopic, England Is Mine, replete with New York Dolls T-shirt.
A prototype for a battery-free cell phone uses ambient power from radio signals and light.
A short, mildly trippy film of friendship: I Knew Jack O'Neill, by Peter Hamblin, a tribute to the recently deceased inventor of the wet suit.
Your new Twin Peaks sleep aid: An eight-hour loop of "This is the water and this is the well."
Radiohead playing "Karma Police" at Glastonbury in 1997, 2003, and 2017, stitched into a single performance.
Molecular geneticist Jessa Jones teaches people how to do board-level micro-repair on iPads and iPhones—repairs that even Apple won't touch.
TMN will be a little slow and mellow over the next couple days—a little like this video for "Good Night," by young Texas guitarist Hayden Pedigo, whose new album Greetings From Amarillo is a recent office favorite. Expect us back in full swing on Wednesday.
