An Infinite Staircase
Clever, very clever indeed, this piece of art, on display at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
From Weekly Filet #138, in November 2013.
🔗
Art
A collection of some of the best links from around the web, manually curated.
Great links like these, every Friday in your inbox
All #BanksyNY, Seven Days Later
A nice roundup of the first seven days of street artist Banksy working his way through New York City. The «The Musical» mashups are brilliant.
From Weekly Filet #132, in October 2013.
🔗
The New Yorker
«The New Yorker» is being redesigned. Time to look back at all (yes, all) the covers of the iconic magazine, starting from February 21, 1925.
From Weekly Filet #129, in September 2013.
🔗
New York Fashion Week
Welcome to the wonderful world of cinemagraphs: still images with some minimal movement added to them, gifs where most of the frame is frozen, whichever way you’d like to put it. Cinemagraphs lift gifs out of the trashy LOLiverse into a more artistic form that is in fact closer to photography than video. Cinemagraphs.com has some fascinating examples from the New York Fashion Week, Buzzfeed has a more diverse collection. More sure to have a look at both.
From Weekly Filet #120, in July 2013.
🔗
Times Haiku
They make me smile everyday: Algorithmically generated Haikus from NYT articles. My current favourite: «The key insight was / recognizing that these were / all types of pasta.»
From Weekly Filet #109, in April 2013.
🔗
Raumzeichnungen
Wow. Three-dimensional drawings that look like explosions, made with black duct tape.
From Weekly Filet #107, in April 2013.
🔗
Best of Photorealism
Some of these images (yes, not photographs) are outrageously good.
From Weekly Filet #93, in November 2012.
🔗
Self-portraits done to a different drug every day
Don’t do this at home: 45 self-portraits in 45 days, all painted on a different drug.
From Weekly Filet #81, in August 2012.
🔗
A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000
The Public Domain Review has a series of wonderful illustrations from around 1900, imagining the then future year 2000. As you will see, people hoped for aerial firemen, underwater fish-riding races and whale buses. While the illustrations are fun to look at, you can’t help but admit that most of them are not too far off on a conceptual level. What can be learnt from that: When we try to imagine the future, we tend to extrapolate current technology and underestimate major disruptions. But then again, heck, they even saw batman coming, fighting his kins in cars.
From Weekly Filet #76, in July 2012.
🔗
Make sense of what matters, today and for the future.
Every Friday, carefully curated recommendations on what to read, watch and listen to. Trusted by thousands of curious minds, since 2011.Undecided? Learn more | Peek inside
Collections
Immerse yourself in a particular topic, with some of the best links from around the web, handpicked.
Making Sense of the Climate Crisis
32 recommended links
Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence
24 recommended links
Stories, too good to put down
16 recommended links
The Stuff Our Modern World Runs On
9 recommended links
The Art of Thinking (Differently)
18 recommended links
Bingeworthy Podcasts & Episodes
27 recommended links
Great Reads That Aged Well
20 recommended links