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High above the streets of NYC, Brazilian ballet dancer Ingrid Silva performs wearing a custom paper sculpture.
Revealing the rooftop of Renzo Piano’s New York Times Building for the first time, director Jacob Krupnick captures Brazilian ballet dancer Ingrid Silva against the Manhattan skyline at sunrise for short film Above. Dancing to music by Nils Frahm and wearing a custom paper sculpture by French artist Pauline Loctin, Silva moves between HVAC utilities humming 800 feet above the city, in an unseen space with an unexpected elegance.
Tags: ballet · dance · Ingrid Silva · Jacob Krupnick · video
From Danielle Coffyn, a poem called If Adam Picked the Apple. Here’s the first bit of it:
If Adam Picked the Apple
There would be a parade,
a celebration,
a holiday to commemorate
the day he sought enlightenment.
We would not speak of
temptation by the devil, rather,
we would laud Adam’s curiosity,
his desire for adventure
and knowing.
You can read the rest of the poem here and preorder her poetry collection of the same name.
BTW, the hilarious painting is The Rebuke of Adam and Eve (1626) by Domenichino. That Adam, what a wanker.
Tags: art · Danielle Coffyn · Domenichino · poetry · religion
Here’s how foods that were a part of WWII soldiers’ rations (like M&Ms, Nescafé, and Spam) made their way into American homes after the war. And a cheap, post-war glut of powdered cheese resulted in the invention of Cheetos.
“Polls are not votes. The candidates are not deadlocked. There is no ahead or behind, even ‘with 72% of precincts reporting’ on election night. The way elections work is they’re 0-0 all the way up until the votes are counted and then someone wins.”
“Things look a little different around Lumon.” The official teaser trailer for season two of Severance reveals a liiiiittle bit more about the upcoming season but not much. January 17, 2025 can’t come soon enough!
“How you love, how you give, and how you suffer is just about the sum of who you are.” Maria Popova reflects on 18 years of her excellent website, The Marginalian. Learning to carry one’s vulnerability is one hell of a reframing.
On the logistics of building a space telescope powerful enough “to examine the features of nearby exoplanets with the same detail we can naturally see on the Moon”.
New children’s picture book from the excellent Jessica Hische: My First Book of Fancy Letters, “a delightful spin on the traditional alphabet book, featuring creatively hand-lettered words from A to Z”.
Before Google, reference librarians answered questions via telephone. “We learned not merely how to find information but how to think about finding information. Don’t take anything for granted; don’t trust your memory; look for the context…”
This Icelandic hotel offers a unique a valuable service: an aurora wake-up call. “When the northern lights appear in the night sky, they’ll wake you to make sure don’t miss a once-in-a-lifetime viewing experience.”
“‘I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,’ Trump said in a private conversation in the White House, according to two people who heard him say this. ‘People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.’”
I love this: a carpenter fires his nail gun in time to the music of a band practicing or performing next door. Music, artistry, and playfulness is everywhere.
Oh boy, a new book from one of my favorite designers: Kelli Anderson’s Alphabet in Motion, a pop-up book that explains how typography works. Watch the video…this book is bonkers. Instant pre-order for me.
