The Raven – Lou Reed adapts Edgar Allan Poe in a graphic novel...
The Raven– Lou Reed adapts Edgar Allan Poe in a graphic novel “meant to be heard in the mind,” illustrated by legendary Italian cartoonist and artist Lorenzo Mattotti
View Article"We can navigate these difficulties of love — and enhance its joys — by...
“We can navigate these difficulties of love — and enhance its joys — by grasping the significance of two great tragedies in the history of the emotions. The first is that we have lost knowledge of the...
View Article"A lot of our ideas about what we can do at different ages and what age means...
“A lot of our ideas about what we can do at different ages and what age means are so arbitrary — as arbitrary as sexual stereotypes. I think that the young-old polarization and the male-female...
View ArticleThese gorgeous 1871s illustrations for Jules Verne’s...
These gorgeous 1871s illustrations for Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by artist Alphonse de Neuville are hauntingly reminiscent of Edward Gorey’s illustrations for H. G. Wells’s...
View ArticleI feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play. Tupac Shakur...
I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play.Tupac Shakur on life and death – another fantastic animated interview by Blank on Blank, who gave us David Foster Wallace on ambition, Janis Joplin on...
View ArticleLegendary cartoonist Ralph Steadman’s inkblot dog drawings
Legendary cartoonist Ralph Steadman’s inkblot dog drawings
View ArticleThe Junk Drawer Project – another iteration of the concept of...
The Junk Drawer Project– another iteration of the concept of capturing people’s personalities through their possessions, previously applied to household belongings, favorite items, and teenage girls’...
View Article"[Jürgen Aschoff’s] experiments in a disused Munich bunker in the 1960s were...
“[Jürgen Aschoff’s] experiments in a disused Munich bunker in the 1960s were the first to reveal the body’s independent sleep-wake cycle in its naked state. For several weeks, Aschoff’s subjects lived...
View ArticleMind-bender of the day: Two massive black holes entwined in a...
Mind-bender of the day: Two massive black holes entwined in a gravitational tango, captured by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The suspected black hole merger, named WISE...
View ArticleYou won’t find this in The Cloud Collector’s...
You won’t find this in The Cloud Collector’s Handbook: Rare atmospheric event envelops the Grand Canyon in a sea of clouds. See more photos and a timelapse on Colossal.
View Article"The kind of thinking that makes a distinction between thought and feeling is...
“The kind of thinking that makes a distinction between thought and feeling is just one of those forms of demagogy that causes lots of trouble for people by making them suspicious of things that they...
View ArticleThe art of Rube Goldberg, who, like Dr. Seuss, also illustrated...
The art of Rube Goldberg, who, like Dr. Seuss, also illustrated government propaganda.
View Article"The results: The brain stimulation “resulted in a modest (around three...
“The results: The brain stimulation “resulted in a modest (around three percent) but statistically significant increase of aesthetic appreciation of representational images (both artworks and...
View Article"Since fruits propagate by seeds, their progeny doesn’t grow far from the...
“Since fruits propagate by seeds, their progeny doesn’t grow far from the tree, as the proverb goes; their only chance of spreading their seeds across the land, then, are the animals who eat the fruit,...
View ArticleStriking visual explanation of climate change from the...
Striking visual explanation of climate change from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the UN Foundation(via Flowing Data)
View ArticleA British teacher’s cabinet of toys confiscated from...
A British teacher’s cabinet of toys confiscated from London schoolchildren from 150 different schools over the course of 30 years – girls (top) and boys (bottom).
View ArticleThe Pink and Blue Projects – Korean visual artist JeongMee Yoon...
The Pink and Blue Projects– Korean visual artist JeongMee Yoon explores the genderization of color.
View Article"I always feel: when one person is indebted to another for something very...
“I always feel: when one person is indebted to another for something very special, that indebtedness should remain a secret between just the two of them.” - For Rilke’s birthday, his exquisite love...
View Article"One of the most important things I believe is to get the very best work that...
“One of the most important things I believe is to get the very best work that people are doing so you do not make the mistake … of printing 2nd rate stuff by 1st rate writers. … [Paying writers] is the...
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