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In case you need, like I do, some reminders on How to Weather the Storm. “You have opportunity after opportunity to create something lovely for yourself or others.”

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From an excerpt of his new book, It’s Only Drowning (Amazon), David Litt writes about the frustrating and humiliating experience of learning how to surf at the age of 35. Yet I didn’t quit. I returned to the dog beach twice more the week of my first solo session, and four m...

A recent trend in book cover design: “It tends to lay blaringly bright type in a sans-serif font atop a painting, usually a few centuries old but not always.” See My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.

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Noah Kalina on the observer’s paradox: “I’ve come to the unfortunate realization that I can’t experience anything anymore without thinking about how I’ll document it.” 🎯🎯🎯

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Graphic artist Chris Ware has created a set of 20 stamps for the US Postal Service’s 250th anniversary in his iconic style.

The pane of 20 interconnected stamps show a bird’s-eye view of a mail carrier’s route through a bustling town. Laid out in 4 rows of 5, the stamps depict the story through the 4 seasons from top-left to bottom-right. The artwork also contains numerous icons representing the Postal Service.

The stamps will be available in July but you can pre-order them now from the USPS Store. (thx, caroline)

Tags: Chris Ware · design · stamps · USPS

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Little Simz is a rapper from England who put out her first album in 2015. She’s won the Mercury Prize, a Brit Award, and three MOBO awards. She also starred in the Netflix series Top Boy. Her most recent album is called Lotus. It came out in June 2025, and it followed a pretty tumultuous time in her career. For this episode, I got to talk to Little Simz about one of the songs from that album, called "Free," along with Miles Clinton James, who produced the track. 

Thanks to Sonos for their support of the podcast. Check out sonos.com.

For more, visit songexploder.net/little-simz.

From Scientific American, a set of charts of vaccination recommendations for children and adults backed by science. (Since our “government” won’t do it…so fun to live in the DIY public health era.)

Star Wars Lofi, chill music from a galaxy far, far away to work & study to. Available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, and vinyl.

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Stephen Hackett: Our 14-day national nightmare is over. As of Developer Beta 2, the Finder icon in macOS Tahoe has been updated to reflect 30 years of tradition: I’m going to strongly disagree here. The Tahoe beta 2 Finder icon is slightly better, but seeing it this...

Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books Major USA legal news for the AI industry today. Judge William Alsup released a "summary judgement" (a legal decision that results in some parts of a case skipping a trial) in a laws...

Koyannistocksi is a shot-by-shot remake of the trailer for Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi using only stock footage.

A testament to Reggio’s influence on contemporary motion photography, and the appropriation of his aesthetic by others for commercial means.

(via @waxpancake)

[This is a vintage post originally from Apr 2016.]

Tags: Godfrey Reggio · Koyaanisqatsi · movies · remix · timeless posts · trailers · video

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Stop Making New Oreos. Not sure what the best part of this video is — maybe the Bluetooth Oreos? (My friend the other day: “Look, PB&J Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.” Clerk: “They taste awful.”)

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Copaganda and Me. “The police are the good guys, or so I thought as a kid growing up in the suburbs in the 1980s and 1990s when just about everything I knew about policing came from what I watched on television.”

Like many others, I became a little obsessed with Andor over the past few months. I was lukewarm on the first season when it came out, but a pre-s02 rewatch completely changed my tune — I think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen on television. Season 2 was almost as ...

The Public Domain Cinematic Universe. Beloved characters like Mickey Mouse, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Popeye have entered the public domain. So far, the adaptations have been awful.

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On not being an asshole. “There’s real societal value to self censorship. Watching your words and how they might affect people around you is a pro-social exercise that should be encouraged in every facet of modern life.”

Super Mario Clouds for 10 Minutes. Marc Weidenbaum got Cory Arcangel’s just-the-clouds version of Super Mario Bros. (featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial) to run on a modern portable gaming device. Looks great!

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From iyO’s home page: The iyo one is a revolutionary new kind of computer without a screen. it can run apps just like your smartphone. The key difference is you talk to it through a natural language interface. Like I wrote yesterday, I’d never heard of iyO before. But ...