For years now, photographer Fujio Kito has been documenting cement playground equipment in Japan, often capturing them at ...

For years now, photographer Fujio Kito has been documenting cement playground equipment in Japan, often capturing them at night, lit up in captivating ways. When you buy through links on kottke.org, I ...

The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson’s personal archives, which the filmmaker has built up ...

Over at the Atlantic, Alan Taylor has collected a bunch of photos showing just how hard China is pushing on solar energy. As ...

Twenty years! It’s been twenty years since Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm was released. To celebrate, the band stopped by the NPR office’s for a Tiny Desk Concert.

Twenty years! It’s been twenty years since Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm was released. To celebrate, the band stopped by the NPR office’s for a Tiny Desk Concert. Big thanks to Arcustech for ...

Wanting to get away from manufactured perfection, artist Wang Mansheng makes his own paint brushes. Manufactured things are, yo ...

Wanting to get away from manufactured perfection, artist Wang Mansheng makes his own paint brushes. Big thanks to Arcustech for hosting the site and offering amazing tech support.

This is great: a proposed “poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts”.

Photos From the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition Here are some of the winners, finalists, and nominees from the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition and their ...

I am only a couple of chapters into James McBride’s Deacon King Kong (loving it!) and in the first chapter, there’s a ...

The Cheese Was Free I am only a couple of chapters into James McBride’s Deacon King Kong (loving it!) and in the first chapter, there’s a relatively short passage about some cheese, Jesus’s Cheese, ...