Every camera, microphone and piece of gear behind an NBA NBC playoff broadcast in 2026
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• Grace Ebert
Marin Majic uses marble dust to accentuate and define light, creating a twinkling effect with otherwise matte stone.
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From The Mandalorian and Grogu, an extended loop of Shakari, a synth-y track from composer Ludwig Göransson. See also Niamos from Andor (composed by Nicholas Britell).
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"A conversation about finding community in the aquatic."
Not a surprise but nice to have the data: the Federal Reserve calculated that inflation would be much lower without Trump’s stupid tariffs.
NBA Camera people are incredible
On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun. Incredibly nerdy and fun: does it require more power to eject a person from the solar system or launch them into the Sun?
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack."
The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’. “The energy required to deceive is unsustainable. Reality is relentless. The tyrant who chooses to fight it is doomed.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
tv.apple.com/us/sporting-event/mls-wrap-up/umc.cse.3a198p24hrehwhonbhgx2zvhv
I’m not sure if this link works outside the US, but Apple TV’s MLS Wrap-Up show has highlight from the LA Galaxy vs. Houston Dynamo FC match they shot exclusively using iPhone 17 Pros. Follow the link, choose “English”, and then choose “Full Replay” — then skip to 40m:15s or so.
They show one of the professional camera rigs they used, with a long lens attached. I’d say the match footage looks good, but also definitely does not look as good as usual. Impressive for a phone camera, but I’d be a tad annoyed if I were a Galaxy or Dynamo fan and one of my team’s matches was used for a stunt like this.
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"The internet’s favorite animal is facing a dark fate."
Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best option isn’t always the wisest course of action. Better to make a good-enough choice so “a great deal of energy gets freed up for living, instead of being spent on wondering about how to live”.
A museum visit, playing a concert, Kunstakademie Rundgang, and Karneval. (50 photos)
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• Grace Ebert
"Each drawing took between 20 to 40 hours of focused work," the artist writes.
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Full episode on the @complexly channel! Pre-order the Laundry Chair at Yetch.Studio.
There are no lightsabers in The Mandalorian and Grogu, a first for Star Wars films. There are also no Wilhelm screams in the movie, which is weird because I thought I heard snippets of it everywhere (even Mando’s blaster sounded a little Wilhelm-ish).
Have rewatched this after a looong while. And the first time not dubbed. Still so so good and so funny. Every scene is perfect. The cast and their performances, the dialogue… One of my favourite movies of all time.
👍 Recommended!
Let’s the keep the David Attenborough love going: this is a six-hour video featuring 100 of the most iconic moments from the famed naturalist’s work. I got this via Enrique, who rightly asserts that “There’s no such thing as too much David Attenborough.”
See also Three Hours of Unbelievable Moments From Nature, Narrated by David Attenborough.
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