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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Listening to Ethan Hawke talk about his career for 30 minutes is a treat. He starts with Explorers (which I loved as a kid) ...

Flashbak has a collection of photos that offer an inside look at NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center as it looked ...

Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud. “The other reason I want to be open about all of this is that I don’t like the idea of there being any stigma attached to having Parkinson’s disease or, for that ...

A few weeks ago, I shared the following image on Instagram: It’s a scale for measuring how people visualize objects in their heads. I’m between 4 & 5, which means I have a condition called aphantasia.

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