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Montreal-based indie-folk one-man-band Coatseller released his new album Sun last week, after documenting his recording process on his "Once Upon a Synth" YouTube channel over the last month.
posted by ob1quixote at 9:30 PM PST - 4 comments

Beaver and Steve is an absurdist webcomic about a beaver named Beaver and a... dinosaur... lizard... thing named Steve. Also, it was last updated in 2008, but there's almost 350 strips to read.
posted by moonmilk at 8:02 PM PST - 7 comments

For the first time ever, physicists have managed to take a photo of a strong form of quantum entanglement In a paper published today (July 13, 2019 ) in the journal Science Advances, a team of physicists from the University of Glasgow describe how they have made Einstein's spookiness visible in an image for the first time.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 7:03 PM PST - 24 comments

One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
posted by slater at 6:36 PM PST - 18 comments

After Hitler came to power in 1933, Charlotte Beradt, a Berlin-based journalist, began to awaken night after night bathed in perspiration, teeth clenched in terror. On one of these nights, after dreaming of being hunted “from pillar to post” by storm troopers, a new thought arrived: what if she wasn’t the only one? What if the things that appeared in her nightmares were also being visited upon other people? This startling thought set in motion the seeds of a research project. Beradt quietly began to query people about their dream-life, documenting the nocturnal visions the regime had induced as "new and explicit proof of the dictatorship." [more inside]
posted by ragtag at 5:59 PM PST - 10 comments

People Share Their Secret Anonymously One of the projects from the YouTube Channel of Thoraya Maronesy, who asks personal questions to complete strangers. Their answers are filled with laughter and tears, sorrows, strength and joy. [more inside]
posted by Glinn at 4:15 PM PST - 7 comments

Ever found yourself wondering about the first flavors of Jell-O? Or which flavors you could have used to make a gelatin salad in 1965? No? Mid-Century Menu's creator has long been bothered by these and other Jell-O-related questions, and has, at last, assembled The Timeline of Jell-O Flavors From 1897 to 1997. [more inside]
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:05 PM PST - 23 comments

Nóra Békés is a graphic designer born in Hungary who currently resides in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on both typography and the (re-)interpretation of archives over time. She explores a wide range of topics in her art, including the internet, borders, globalized identity, and repetition and craft. [more inside]
posted by sockermom at 4:04 PM PST - 1 comments

Teens Taking AP Exams Are Battling For Their Right To Meme
posted by the man of twists and turns at 3:05 PM PST - 36 comments

As Ebony’s archive goes up for sale, a look back at the lush ’70s style of the founder. Meanwhile, the funky 1970s Ebony test kitchen - where Ebony editor Charlotte L. Lyons tried out recipes for the magazine’s “A Date with a Dish” column - is moving out of storage to be featured in an upcoming exhibit from New York’s Museum of Food and Drink. Former Ebony Magazine Food Editors share their Ebony Test Kitchen stories. [more inside]
posted by nightrecordings at 2:09 PM PST - 4 comments

Every song for nearly 40 years by Pet Shop Boys has analysis and interpretation by Wayne Studer, Ph.D. The front page is a bit opaque, so try "Click Here To Go To..." at the top of the page for a menu.
posted by hippybear at 1:35 PM PST - 17 comments

How To Drink is "a show about making drinks and how to drink them". Featuring classic cocktails like the Moscow Mule, cocktails from TV, books, and movies like the Dude's White Russian, and inspired by them, like the Game of Thrones-inspired Prince That Was Promised. Featuring also rants and raves about 80s movies, wry tasting note commentary, and a devotion to making the most delicious possible version of any drink. [more inside]
posted by capricorn at 12:56 PM PST - 12 comments

Hello and welcome to the gail.com FAQ. “The happy accident of mistakenly logging onto gail.com. Gail knows you were trying to go to gmail but typed “gail.com” instead, and she’s fine with it. Reading her FAQ and seeing the morals and levity that have guided Gail through the strange evolution of her website — from online CV to artifact memorializing her victory over corporate maraudeurs — is a much needed reprieve from the general sinkhole the internet has become. Which made me curious: is Gail’s page a statement? A finger in the eye of a stilted, capitalist system? Or someone simply wanting to exist freely on the web?” [via: The Outline]
posted by Fizz at 12:56 PM PST - 25 comments

StarCraft: Cartooned (trailer) is now live at Blizzard's online store as an official add-on to 2017's StarCraft Remastered. It redraws every single piece of art in the classic RTS game to look and animate like a children's cartoon, without otherwise changing the core gameplay (Ars Technica). Specifically, StarCraft: Cartooned looks like a Carbot Animations cartoon (fandom wiki)—because the YouTube channel in question, operated by Canadian artist and animator Jonathan Burton, was tapped to create Blizzard's first full cosmetic overhaul mod (gameplay with commentary) for a retail game (following his unofficial mod [fandom]), in the style of his StarCrafts cartoons (YT playlist).
posted by filthy light thief at 12:50 PM PST - 8 comments

What is happening in Sudan and Algeria is not a repetition of Arab springs, but a wave that learns from the lessons and mistakes of the past.
posted by Ahmad Khani at 12:28 PM PST - 3 comments

Today is the 15th anniversary of the release of the band They Might Be Giants' 10th studio album, The Spine, which was released alongside the EP The Spine Surfs Alone. The first track off The Spine, Experimental Film, had a music video featuring Homestar Runner.
posted by Caduceus at 12:20 PM PST - 6 comments

12 Shark Facts that May Surprise You . 50 Shocking Facts about Sharks. 100 Shark Facts. (Amazing shark facts you haven't heard a million times)
posted by dinty_moore at 11:36 AM PST - 9 comments

The same tech that's used to create deepfake photos is now being used in videos, like this one featuring Keanu Reeves. How the tech works (with Tom Cruise).
posted by Foci for Analysis at 10:37 AM PST - 13 comments

Is economic growth compatible with ecological sustainability? A new report from the European Environmental Bureau finds that efforts to decouple economic growth from environmental harm, known as ‘green growth’, have not succeeded and are unlikely to succeed in their aim. [more inside]
posted by Caractacus at 9:35 AM PST - 15 comments

The secret language of trees (animation.) "Learn how trees are able to communicate with each other through a vast root system and symbiotic fungi, called mycorrhizae: Most of the forest lives in the shadow of the giants that make up the highest canopy. These are the oldest trees, with hundreds of children and grandchildren. They check in with their neighbors, share food, supplies and wisdom gained over their lives, all while rooted in place. How do they do this? Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard explore the vast root system and intricate communication of trees." [more inside]
posted by homunculus at 9:15 AM PST - 13 comments

Sudan’s street protests have inspired another revolution—in art. Sudanese visual artists have taken a high-profile position in the protest movement producing paintings, murals and graphic art that document this radical period in the country’s history. ~ via
posted by Mrs Potato at 8:17 AM PST - 5 comments

On Friday Khruangbin released their latest record Hasta El Cielo, a dub/remix version of their 2018 release Con Todo El Mundo. The trio from Houston, Texas, draws from a wide range of influences including (but not limited to) Thai funk, gospel, surf rock, psychedelic rock, classic soul, and other music from around the world. The result is "dreamy, instrumental music." [more inside]
posted by jzb at 7:13 AM PST - 8 comments

In 1990, the BBC approached Kevin Godley to make a short film to cap off a concert - something "featuring musicians from various cultures singing and playing together". Godley had a different idea - an hour-long video based on some "chain tapes." He'd record a couple basic demo tracks and then sending them around the world for different artists to riff on and add to the track before sending it on. The result, the hour-long film One World One Voice, is simultaneously a window into global music circa 1990, an appeal to environmental awareness and global unity, a collection of fascinating mashups, and the thing that Kevin Godley says is "the most significant piece of work I've done". [more inside]
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:51 AM PST - 7 comments