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Dead Man Laughing. Comedy, family, class (British) and death intertwine in this essay by Zadie Smith. [more inside]
posted by lalochezia at 9:11 PM PST - 7 comments

Garry Marshall, creator of classic television (Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley); director of well-loved movies (Overboard, Beaches, Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries); character actor (A League of Their Own, Soapdish, Louie); brother to Penny Marshall; and Hector Elizondo superfan, has died at age 81.
posted by sallybrown at 9:05 PM PST - 63 comments

Jens Juul, a photographer based in Copenhagen, Denmark, recently won the 2016 Magnum Photography Award in the Portrait category for his his work Six Degrees of Copenhagen (some photos nsfw). In an interview, he explains that Six Degrees of Copenhagen is about breaking boundaries. [more inside]
posted by sockermom at 5:01 PM PST - 4 comments

ABC (potentially NSFW, due to CGI butts) by Alan Warburton (previously), as inspired by the work of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland (kinda previously)
posted by a lungful of dragon at 4:42 PM PST - 5 comments

One man's journey to discover what the MLB would be like if every single player on every single team was Mets pitcher Bartolo Colón.
posted by burgerrr at 4:28 PM PST - 16 comments

Canadian artist Rae Spoon has released their newest music video, I Hear Them Calling [more inside]
posted by mrjohnmuller at 3:46 PM PST - 13 comments

A reddit user posed the question, “Satan opens up Heck, a lighter version of Hell. What kinds of tortures are in it?” Here are a few of the responses. [more inside]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:34 PM PST - 216 comments

Can a Woman’s Voice Ever Be Right? "From the Roman Forum to the 2016 campaign trail, anxiety over what women sound like is part of our cultural DNA."
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:21 PM PST - 25 comments

Unmasking the Bunkers disguised as Quaint Swiss Villas [more inside]
posted by Michele in California at 1:54 PM PST - 37 comments

Some ambitious Futurama fans have come together to create the unexpected and the incredible, a live action Futurama movie, Fan-O-Rama. Here's the trailer.
posted by Atreides at 1:43 PM PST - 32 comments

Batman: The Telltale Series [YouTube] [Trailer]
posted by Fizz at 12:37 PM PST - 23 comments

The stretch of Eyre Highway between Balladonia and Caiguna is the longest straight road in Australia. This video compresses a run down the "90 Mile Straight" into five hypnotic minutes. [more inside]
posted by Iridic at 12:27 PM PST - 22 comments

Live Coverage of the Republican National Convention: Day 2. "The stated theme of Tuesday’s slate is “Make America Work Again” — a potential challenge of tone for speakers eager to sully Mrs. Clinton on a topic as sober as job creation, a night after blistering attacks on her foreign policy." [more inside]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 11:43 AM PST - 1451 comments

An ordinary day on the seaside in Karwia, Poland took a turn toward the mythological with the dramatic appearance of a dark boar from the sea foam. (sl YouTube)
posted by palindromic at 11:36 AM PST - 24 comments

Finley was hired by JPL in 1958, eight months before Congress and President Eisenhower officially created the American space agency. Over her 58-year career there is hardly a NASA mission her work has not touched. She was there for the launch of the first American satellite, worked in mission control during the early lunar missions, plotted a route for the Voyagers on their grand tour of the solar system, cheered as balloons loaded with scientific instruments bobbed in the Venusian winds, and landed Mars rovers on the red planet. Over the course of her long and varied career, she has overcome obstacles that few women working today can contemplate.

Yet in 2004, NASA demoted her because she doesn't have a bachelor's degree.

The Woman Who Helped Us Hear Juno (Popular Science)
posted by hippybear at 10:05 AM PST - 47 comments

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again! The Nac Mac Feegle are coming to Hollywood. Hide your ships!
posted by Deeleybopper at 8:24 AM PST - 68 comments

A New Yorker profile by Rachel Aviv: Martha Nussbaum’s far-reaching ideas illuminate the often ignored elements of human life—aging, inequality, and emotion.
posted by listen, lady at 8:21 AM PST - 8 comments

Performance duo DarkMatter on being LOL killjoys and drag as politics. (SL Guernica Mag). A great interview with trans South Asian performance artists Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, aka DarkMatter. DarkMatter's performances include It Gets Bougie, The Story They Never Told Us, White Fetish, Padma & Parvati Patil, and When Brown Looks in the Mirror and Comes Out White (all YT links). “I hear white men have huge—” “—Empires” [more inside]
posted by spamandkimchi at 4:03 AM PST - 22 comments