To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band, Talking Heads have released a new music video for their iconic 1977 single, ...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson is now doing visual versions of her daily newsletter on YouTube. Yesterday’s video explai ...

Ok, having been all over the western Mediterranean for the past two weeks, I’m back. *sigh* Here, without comment or context ...

I’m in Rome with my family to celebrate a milestone. We went to the Borghese Gallery this morning and I got to see my fa ...

Hey, folks. I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be away from the site for a couple of weeks for a family vacation. No guest editor or anything…just going off the air for a much needed rest ...

I love this gorgeous woodblock print from Hasui Kawase, View of Azalea Garden from Mt. Fuji. Hasui was a significant influence on Studio Ghibli & Hayao Miyazaki. After all, the influence of Kawase on ...

These are owls in towels. That’s it, that’s the post. Nothing in the animal kingdom emotes better than an owl. (thx, david) ...

Derek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the internet, so I won’t ...

Whoa, look at the interior of this new Japanese restaurant in NYC called Shirokuro — all of the surfaces (floors, chairs, walls, counters, etc.) are painted to look like a 2-dimensional drawing. From ...

A group of three students at Purdue University have shattered the world record for the fastest Rubik’s Cube solve by robot — their bot solved the cube in just 0.103 seconds (103 milliseconds). As a ...

In 1987, Wendell Berry wrote an essay called Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer. In it, he outlined his standards for adopting new technology in his work. The new tool should be cheaper than the one ...

This video feels like a throwback to a simpler time on YouTube: 331 film clips edited together to recreate Eminem’s Lose Yourself. A particularly well-done example of a time-worn genre. I lol’d at ...