Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Mas...
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Aerial Foodscapes
Dec 12, 2024 · Aerial Foodscapes. For his book Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World’s Food (), George Steinmetz travelled the world with his drone, spending “a decade documenting food production in more than 36 countries on 6 continents, 24 US states, and 5 oceans”.. In striking aerial images, he captures the massive scale of 21st-century agriculture that has sculpted 40 percent of the ...
Director Steven Soderbergh’s annual list of everything he wa...
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Then Comes The Body
Dec 17, 2024 · Then Comes The Body is a great short documentary from Jacob Krupnick about a Nigerian man who taught himself how to dance ballet from watching YouTube tutorials, the ballet school he started in Lagos, and the students who are branching out into the rest of the world. There’s no ballet here in Nigeria.
Fun little word game: Alphaguess. “Guess the word of the day...
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Two More Tiny Desks
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Ta-Nehisi Coates & Jon Stewart: Understanding the Humiliation of …
Oct 3, 2024 · I guess I'll be alone here in positing an opposing view. I find Coates' proudly uninformed ('I spent 10 days in Palestine being taken around by activists and from that I learned everything one needs to know'), "everything is black and white, simple", comically one-sided historical storytelling on the conflict in the Middle East fairly offensive and very much anti-Semitic.
They Thought They Were Free - kottke.org
Dec 18, 2024 · They Thought They Were Free. First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 is a book by Milton Mayer for which he interviewed ten ordinary Germans about their experiences living in Nazi Germany.From the synopsis: “These ten men were not men of distinction,” Mayer noted, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis.
Single Line Mazes
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The Design of Classic Doctor Who Title Cards. While designing a one-off t-shirt for a holiday gift, I stumbled across this amazing page on the Doctor Who Wiki about the design of the show’s title cards.It’s a pretty thorough resource and includes the typefaces used for the titles — like Grotesque, Eurostile, Futura, Della Robbia, and OPTI Formula One.