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kottke.org (Feed)
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“The plot of this movie aged extremely well.” A remake of The...
“The plot of this movie aged extremely well.” A remake of The Running Man directed by Edgar Wright? Yes, please. Here’s the trailer. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Living Colour’s Tiny Desk Concert
Living Colour recently visited the NPR Music office for a Tiny Desk Concert. Cult of Personality might be an all-time top 10 song for me — I vividly remember their 1989 appearance on Saturday Night Live.1 They still got it! I probably saw their performance on Arsenio as wel…
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Slice of Life
Slice of Life (trailer) is a feature-length documentary about the American Dream through the lens of former Pizza Huts that have been transformed into everything from bars to churches to candy stores to cannabis dispensaries. A woman who runs an LGBTQ+ church out of a former P…
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John Nichols remembers his colleague & friend, the legendary journalist Bill Moyers....
John Nichols remembers his colleague & friend, the legendary journalist Bill Moyers. “I can’t help but think that Bill Moyers was the best president we never had.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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“[Showing] people they are not alone in caring about an issue” is...
“[Showing] people they are not alone in caring about an issue” is an important and overlooked function of protest. “Silence begets silence, which begets further misunderstanding about what a society actually collectively believes or wants.” 💬 Join the d…
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“When I was in high school, my friends and I had a...
“When I was in high school, my friends and I had a game we used to play at the mall: we would go into the Apple store and try to make it to the back wall of the store, touch it, and exit out the front without an Apple staff person talking to us.” 💬 Join the…
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Interconnected (Feed)
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Is there a Karman line for AI consciousness?
Susan Schneider, philosopher and director of the Center for the Future of Mind, AI & Society, recently highlighted the risk of ethical confusion: "prematurely assuming a chatbot is conscious could lead to all sorts of problems." The problem is that chatbots are great mimics……
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ImillaSkate: The Cholita Skaters of Bolivia
ImillaSkate is a Bolivian female skate collective whose members dress in traditional cholita clothing. This is a great short documentary about the group, the challenges they face, and the change & joy they’re trying to bring to their communities. Some people in my generatio…
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Busting the Top 5 Myths About the Big Bang. “Even asking this...
Busting the Top 5 Myths About the Big Bang. “Even asking this question relies on a misconception: a misconception that the Big Bang was like an explosion. As we’ve just covered, the Universe didn’t explode; it simply expanded.” 💬 Join the discussion on…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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4 Best Fujifilm Cameras For Street Photography (X-Series)
Fujifilm creates some of the smallest cameras, powered with amazing film emulations, great lenses, and quick autofocus. However, narrowing down the best cameras from a vast portfolio can be challenging, and that's why you have us to the ob. Today, we look at a few offerings from…
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The Internet Archive estimates the Wayback Machine will hit a lifetime total...
The Internet Archive estimates the Wayback Machine will hit a lifetime total of 1 trillion archived web pages later this year in October. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Now that summer is in full swing, you might need this Comprehensive...
Now that summer is in full swing, you might need this Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things, so you can tell harmless bumblebees (you can pet them!) from “asshole” yellow jackets. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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“He Painted Bugs Like Jewels”
In a collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Evan Puschak made a video about 16th-century Dutch artist (and all-around polymath) Joris Hoefnagel, who painted some of the first dedicated and detailed images of insects in the world. His paintings were so accurate that if…
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Trying to cut back on social media? The methaphone is a phone-shaped...
Trying to cut back on social media? The methaphone is a phone-shaped slab of clear acrylic that you can carry instead of your phone to “help you manage cravings and withdrawal symptoms”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers. “We want our...
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers. “We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”
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When Are We Getting the New Canon Tilt-Shift Lens?
One of Canon's most popular lenses has been its tilt-shift technology. The company has continued to innovate this series over the years, showcasing some exceptional changes. But while the company offered multiple extraordinary lenses over the years, we haven't seen many options…
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“The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live...
“The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he’s building a 19th pool…”
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This Light Adds the Beauty Your Photos Need
If LED lights had a TTL system built in to be used with a camera, then I think it would be an absolute game changer. I imagined myself saying that to the head of Harlowe lighting and also imaging why it's needed. And nowhere is it needed any more than with the Harlowe Mini 20W l…
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The 4 Sony Cameras That Must Get an Update in 2025
Sony has reportedly registered three new cameras in May and June this year. So far, there are no specific indications about which models they will be or when they will be announced. However, this information has made us think about the four devices that Sony has not updated for…
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Tamron 16-30mm f2.8 G2 Review: G Master for Less Money?
One of the great things that Tamron has done which I've always loved is make affordable lenses that are insanely reliable and often very unique. Not only are the focal lengths a bit non-conforming, but they're also pretty darn useful for the price point. As a Sony shooter since…
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Tamron’s New Ultra-Wide Lens is a Dream for Budget Shooters
Tamron is the only company whose lenses fit like a glove on Nikon's mirrorless mount. This was not the case earlier, when Nikon had launched its first set of mirrorless cameras. In a way, both companies have chosen to grow together, each bringing out their best qualities. It now…
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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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Irish odyssey
I’ve been taking some time off after UX London. That was a big project I was working towards all year and it went great, so I think I’ve earned a reward for myself. My reward is to head off to Ireland to immerse myself in the language and music. A week at an Irish language…
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Great Art Explained: Jackson Pollock
The fantastic art history YouTube channel Great Art Explained has a great two-episode series on Jackson Pollock. In Part One of my film I look at how, post World War Two, the art scene shifted from Paris to New York. How America was searching for “The Great American paint…
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A decade-plus in the making and now on Kickstarter: a book of...
A decade-plus in the making and now on Kickstarter: a book of Pooja Saxena’s photography of signs and lettering found on the streets of cities all over India. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Large Hadron Couture Collider
Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick Knight, takes place in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, which is maybe the most sci-fi looking thing on Earth. (via susannah breslin)…
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Leica 0-Series Makes History Again, Fetches $8 Million at Auction
Owning a Leica camera is equivalent to buying your first Porsche or Ferrari. But getting a limited edition is no easier than working with a Rolls-Royce. That's because the device is engineered to perfection, an item of luxury, a legacy and a tradition. So, imagine what it must f…
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I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something...
I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened. “Within a week, I’d raised $6,000. Within a month, $10,000.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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The Music of Pixar’s Elio, Created by a Choir of Wooden Dolls
Ok so this is weird and delightful. Swedish electronics company Teenage Engineering makes a collection of singing wooden dolls called the Choir. The dolls are basically speakers but with some autonomy and personality…and they can work together: what you see are eight wooden d…
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Could Should Might Don’t. “This isn’t a book filled with predictions and...
Could Should Might Don’t. “This isn’t a book filled with predictions and prophecies, and it makes no assertions about what the future will hold. It’s a book which unpacks how we think about the future.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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The 3 Best Canon Cameras for Street Photography
Street photography is a genre that requires a camera that is not just compact but also offers an exceptional autofocus, battery life, and resolution. This combination can make things a bit challenging for some and often leave one feeling lost. With Canon having the largest marke…
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Retraction Watch: a blog that tracks corrected and retracted scientific papers....
Retraction Watch: a blog that tracks corrected and retracted scientific papers. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Project Hail Mary, Official Trailer
I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make a better movie than a book and after watching the trailer, I’m excited to see this next summer. Ryan Gosling stars and Phil Lord & Christopher Mil…
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AI could be conscious tomorrow and we wouldn’t care
Historian Dr Francis Young on extraterrestrial life and its imagined implications (Bluesky): One of the most darkly funny scientistic pieties is the idea that the discovery of intelligent life beyond Earth would ‘humble’ humanity - given that in the late c19th and early c…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Left: text field, right: button. Obviously #Patreon #Affordance
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Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The...
Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The first novel about superintelligence is actually a work of horror SF, a cautionary tale about the dangers of knowing too much.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years...
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years 1937–2001, the collection should especially appeal to those with an avant-garde or musicological bent.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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