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Kelli Anderson details how the clever A-to-Z 7-segment display mechanism works on the front of Alphabet in Motion, her new pop-up book about typography.

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Ok, look. I know there’s a loooot going on these days, particularly in these United States, but I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported kottke.org over the years with a paying membership. It’s the 8th anniversary of the membership program, and I’ve wr...

Multidisciplinary artist Helga Stentzel cleverly hangs laundry items on clotheslines to make abstract animal shapes. You can find more of her household surrealism on Instagram. (via colossal) Tags: art · Helga Stentzel 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

From 2017: I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People. “Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society, how to be a good person, and why any of that matters.” 🎯

As a middle-aged man, I would’ve saved loads on therapy if I’d read Baby-Sitters Club books as a kid. “The social taboo which prevented [boys] from reading fiction marketed at girls was infinitely more powerful than anything censorship achieved.”

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Kostya Petrenko makes 80s versions of tech/media company logos as if they’ve been screencapped from CRT displays. I think my favorite of his might be the retro OpenAI logo, which you can see in this reel. See also Medieval Versions of Contemporary Corporate Logos. Tags: design · Kostya Petrenko · logos · remix 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

If you are thinking of protesting by not voting, Bernie Sanders answers this question very well: “I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”

Delimar Vera was kidnapped when she was 10 days old and presumed to have died in a fire. “Then came a chance encounter with her real mother at a birthday party…”

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What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Personal Assistant. “You have to have thick skin. You’re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. You’re working for people who are not used to hearing no.”

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One of the best media endorsements of this election cycle comes from EIC Nilay Patel of The Verge, who absolutely pulls no punches in describing Donald Trump and his by-now very familiar patterns and desires. Trump simply cannot use the tools of democracy to run the country...

Well! In the Yale Review, Chris Ware (one of my favorite cartoonists) writes about Richard Scarry (one of my favorite children’s book authors) and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (one of my favorite books). This year is the 50th anniversary of Scarry’s 1974 Cars and T...

A list of the 20 best art museums in America, including the Wadsworth Atheneum, MoMA, MFA Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the top dog, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Somehow, I missed that the teaser trailer for season two of the excellent The Last of Us premiered almost a month ago. I guess both I and the world have been busy with other things and also keeping tabs on the entire interest and media landscape is just not something that’s possible.

Anyway, I am excited for this season to drop sometime in 2025. The skinny from Wikipedia is:

The second season, based on the 2020 game The Last of Us Part II, follows Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) five years after the events of the first season, and introduces Abby (Kaitlyn Dever).

And that “the season is expected to span seven episodes”.

Tags: HBO · The Last of Us · trailers · TV · video

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Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate. He plans to “delete spending on clean energy, abolish ‘insane’ incentives for Americans to drive electric cars, scrap various environmental rules and unleash a ‘drill, baby, drill’ wave…”

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Oxfam analysis: “Investment emissions are the most significant part of a billionaire’s carbon footprint”, dwarfing jet & yacht emissions. “40% of the billionaire investments are in highly polluting industries: oil, mining, shipping, and cement.”

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Some speculative analysis about how the ever-decreasing projections of global population (now ~9bn in 2054) might impact our climate future — “all else equal, fewer people means less carbon dioxide emissions.”

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When Nirvana played a huge stadium show in Buenos Aires in 1992, an all-“female/queer/trans” band called Calamity Jane opened for them. The crowd pelted the band with objects like coins and rocks, forcing them off-stage and infuriating Kurt Cobain. Instead of refusing to pla...

WHAT?! “In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains.”

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Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years. A leading Chopin scholar: “My jaw dropped I knew I had never seen this before.”

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From 1980 to the present, a timeline map of every earthquake in the world with a magnitude of 5 or above. You can play around with different parameters and data, so you can see where the different tectonic plates are, just see where the biggest earthquakes occurred, or add in volcanic eruptions. You can also draw a cross section and it will show how deep the quakes occurred along that line.

Tags: earthquakes · geology · infoviz · maps · science · volcanoes

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“Timothée Chalamet makes surprise appearance at NYC lookalike contest just as cops break it up.” Greatest city in the world. “‘One Willy Wonka lookalike who was taken into custody,’ an NYPD ​rep said.” Lamest police force in the world.

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New book from John Green: Everything Is Tuberculosis, the story of “the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis”. (Green is signing 100,000 copies of this!)

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In 2020, during the dark days of our first pandemic winter, Dua Lipa played NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert remotely from London, which is still the most popular Tiny Desk of all time (130M views). This week, NPR had Lipa ‘round the office for a proper set, with the singer playing...

The NY Times Editorial Board: “Donald Trump says he will prosecute his enemies, order mass deportations, use soldiers against citizens, play politics with disasters, abandon allies. Believe him.”

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

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Overturning Roe v. Wade resulted in more infant deaths. “Hundreds more babies died than expected in the year and a half after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022.”

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

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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.

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“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.”

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An illustrated and hand-lettered guide to the system of international maritime signal flags that are used to communicate when speaking is difficult (“because of language barriers, distance, etc….”) See also hand flag semaphore and day shapes from the same creator. Tags: design · flags · language 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →