The artist Ai Weiwei at Tate Modern: It turns out that each seed is in fact a unique porcelain replica, hand-painted in Jingdezhen and fired at 1,300 degrees. S...
Our society and economy would be much, much better off if debaters, especially on television, were able to call each others’ bluff with the simple use of ...
Reading Michael Heilemann’s celebrated investigation of how the character of Chewbacca was crafted, it struck me that movies are multi-player text-based v...
An example of a Banksy intervention (graffiti!) that introduces a new meaning by changing the visual interpretation of a physical space.
Galata by Konstantin Grcic for Marsotto Edizioni
corner #2 by ron gilad LA tall table by Faktura
AutoSummarize by Jason Huff: “The top 100 most downloaded copyright free books summarized using Microsoft Word 2008’s AutoSummarize 10-sentence function a...
I’m struck by the impact that The Thick of It has made on me. In the last two days, I’ve come across two real life stories of political ineptitude t...
Liu Bolin Camoflague Fred Lebain A Spring in New York Felice Varini Gillian Brown, constructed photographs Georges Rousse Active camouflage & Perspective
A map of the most and least remote places on Earth. (via MeFi)
Peter Hessler‘s essay “Chinese Barbizon” in the The New Yorker is fantastic: gentle characterizations, arresting ideas, fascinating details. It dovetails ...
Jen Stark Noriko Ambe Charles Clary