I don’t even know what this is — classical pop? surrealist orchestral? — but it goes hard and is kind of fantastic. Wow. A ...

Berghain by Rosalía is available to stream or buy on many of the usual platforms.

Berghain by Rosalía is available to stream or buy on many of the usual platforms.

Papers is a 3-minute animated short film made by Yoshinao Satoh from what must be thousands of newspaper scans. The animation set to Different Trains by Steve Reich & Kronos Quartet. I love this style ...

Papers is a 3-minute animated short film made by Yoshinao Satoh from what must be thousands of newspaper scans. The animation set to Different Trains by Steve Reich & Kronos Quartet. I love this style ...

I began at the end. The Chōishi-michi pilgrimage route is an amazing 12-mile trail that winds its way up through the forest from ...

Courtesy of login.jp (“archiving the Japanese experience through music”), a jazz jungle mix by Takuya Nakamura, play ...

Hey folks. I’m going off the grid for a few days. Call it a spiritual retreat of sorts. I’ll be back soon; be well i ...

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A Blinking Map of the World’s Lighthouses Courtesy of Geodienst, this is a map of the world’s lighthouses. Where the data is available (and you can see it’s quite sparse for some areas of the world), ...

This is incredible: artist Kara Walker took a statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that had stood in Charlottesvill ...

I’m totally charmed by these snaps of some of the best sumo wrestlers in the world touring London. The athletes w ...