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Three Novels that Stuck with Chad Harbach

Chatting with the author of “The Brightness” about the books that influenced him and the one he recommends reading next.

The New Yorker · EN

The Socializing That’s Replacing Friend Time

More Americans are hanging out with family—by choice, but also by necessity.

The Atlantic · EN

What It Takes to Unfence the West

"Can virtual fencing transform ranching in the region?"

Longreads · EN

If Fritz Lang’s Iconic Film Metropolis Had a Kraftwerk Soundtrack

The case of the copyright history of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis is as convoluted as the history of its film print. Lang’s vision and his original almost-three-hour cut were doomed to censorship right from the start. The Nazis took out its more socialist scenes. It’s been edited, colorized, put back together and restored. […]

Open Culture · EN

A New Search Engine Lets You Explore 4 Million Works of Art & Historical Photographs from Museums and Libraries Around the World

We live in an age when you can describe practically anything you want to see in words, then see it almost immediately. Nobody will ever have laid eyes upon that particular sight before — and quite possibly, nobody ever will again. There we have both the upside and the downside of artificial intelligence-powered image generation. […]

Open Culture · EN

Baby heaven

As a psychologist, I’ve long pondered what counts as ‘delusional’. A revelation at home made it personal - by Ryan McKay Read on Psyche

Psyche · EN

BOT

A collection of six original artworks, digitally hand-drawn and intended for archival-quality art reproductions. The title establishes a poetic dialogue between the botanical realm and the contemporary digital pulse. Paper: Litho Archiv Matt Warm 230gsm Edition: Limited run of 10 prints per size Dimension: 70 x 100 cm (available dimensions: 50 x 70 cm and 70 x 100 cm) Authenticity: Hand-signed and numbered on the front

Behance Featured · EN

The Nikon ZR’s First Major Firmware Update Improves Video Quality and Adds More Control

Nikon has unveiled more details about the Nikon ZR's first major firmware update. Firmware 2.00, slated to arrive before the end of the year, brings major improvements to Nikon's popular video-first camera. [ Read More ]

PetaPixel · EN

Photographer Risks It All to Capture Extreme Images Around the World

A photographer’s relentless pursuit of extraordinary images takes him from remote landscapes to some of the world’s most dangerous places. [ Read More ]

PetaPixel · EN

Lomography Launches Gold-Plated Point-and-Shoot Film Camera

The Lomography MC-A 35mm point-and-shoot camera is celebrating its first birthday in style with a pair of new limited-edition designs, including one plated with real gold. [ Read More ]

PetaPixel · EN

The Nikon ZR is Set to Get Its First Major Update With Support for RED Color Science

Ever since it was first announced, hopes for the Nikon ZR have been sky-high. Seen as the love child of Nikon’s acquisition of RED Digital Cinema, the Nikon ZR has always boasted killer specs and features, and it remains at a competitive price point. However, for a camera that promises the best of two companies’ technologies, there’s been room to grow. And Nikon is aiming to level up the ZR with its first major firmware update. Let’s take a look at what’s new with the Nikon ZR with firmware version 2.00. Nikon ZR Firmware Update 2.00 The big news in this first major firmware update for the Nik

Nofilmschool · EN

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on Loss and the Meaning of Life

"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other."

Brain Pickings · EN

See You Thursday

I’m taking the day off from the site today — feeling crispy from a little too much work lately. Besides, everyone’s gonna be too busy huffing US midterm election results to pay any attention to anything else. In the meantime, you can spend some time with my poorly timed Election Day post celebrating 10 years of the KDO membership program that gets into all the stuff I’ve been busy working on around here. ]]> Tags: kottke.org

Kottke · EN

The new Palace flagship in London is a cathedral to skate culture

Designed by Seoul-based designer Steve Oh, the new Palace skateboards flagship in London's Soho is a community-building space and an opportunity to display the history of the brand

Wallpaper* · EN

Winter nights just got interesting – step inside Amsterdam’s Gashouder and join the party

Gashouder, a former ‘temple to techno’, matures into a dynamic city concert hall, retaining its 19th-century architecture and experimental character with an immersive interior by Inside Outside

Wallpaper* · EN

The new Fender x Loog Precision Bass offers ultra-compact access to the low end

Toy or tonic? Loog is a children’s instrument brand that doesn’t skimp on quality. The company’s latest tie-in with Fender includes a tiny Telecaster and its first foray into bass

Wallpaper* · EN

A Modern Seattle Floating Home Takes Coastal Living to New Heights

This Lake Union residence combines Nantucket-inspired interiors with the engineering required to live directly on the water

Design Milk · EN

Two Movements, One Striking Watch From Louis Erard × Vianney Halter

The Futur Antérieur brings Vianney Halter's signature porthole design to a new limited-edition watch, pairing two automatic movements with an unexpectedly slim case

Design Milk · EN

One Place for Every Project, from First Call to Renewal

Every project in our company lived in a different place: a spreadsheet here, an email thread there, a memory somewhere else. I designed one system that tells the whole story, from the first sales call to the renewal. The problem Projects passed through many hands: sales, tendering, delivery, audits, certificates . Each team kept its own notes, so nobody could say where a project stood or whether it was making money. The ask was simple: one place to follow a project from start to finish, and see its profit or loss. Two things made it tricky. First, this is a system for records, not for control

Muzli · EN

Why Good Graphic Design Is More Than Making Things Look Beautiful

Decoding the Hidden Architecture of Design If a design looks beautiful but communicates the wrong message, has it succeeded? The research below suggests it hasn’t, because the job of good graphic design is to get something understood and acted on correctly. Beauty helps with that job. It doesn’t replace it. Graphic design works less like decoration and more like a language: it arranges signals so that people know what something is, what matters in it and what to do next. The evidence comes from places where the cost of getting that wrong is easy to measure. Looks are the first word, not the wh

Muzli · EN

What Is AI Slop in Design? 7 Signs and How to Fix Each One

Merriam-Webster picked “slop” as its 2025 word of the year. Here is how to keep it out of your screens. Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

Muzli · EN

Why Revolut built a second app & when your fintech should too?

Split your product when a new mindset arrives, not when a new feature does. That rule explains Revolut X, Coinbase’s U-turns, and why we kept banking inside walllet. Revolut’s main app already does a lot. Cards, savings, stocks, crypto, travel. Then in 2024 it built a second product, just for crypto traders. Coinbase went the other way. It folded its pro trading app into the main app, turned its wallet into an everything app, and has spent 2026 walking both decisions back. I had the same question on my desk this year. walllet started as a self-custodial crypto wallet. Then we added a bank acco

Muzli · EN

Product design with AI: “AI sucks” is the dip where most people give up

TLDR: I hear some people say “AI sucks” after one bad result and others say “’It’s easy just use AI” for everything, and I think both expect a magic button. The bad result is often the dip: the moment before you’ve learned to work with it, not proof that it doesn’t work. “AI sucks,” or “just use AI” I hear it a lot. Someone tries AI once or twice, it doesn’t give them what they wanted, and the verdict comes quickly. ‘This sucks.’ I hear the opposite just as often. ‘You can just get AI to do it’, for almost anything. Sometimes half joking: “Just let Claude do it for you, it’s easy.” They sound

Muzli · EN

The Work of Keeping a Public Building Public: The Drill Hall in Johannesburg

What happens to a building after the architecture is finished? For buildings intended to serve the public, their continued life depends on more than the physical conditions of their construction. It involves the activities that take place within them, the relationships they allow to develop, the people who occupy and shape them , and the institutional structures responsible for their upkeep. Yet these conditions are not always secured through the act of building itself. They are continually negotiated, often through forms of work that remain outside the conventional understanding of architectu

ArchDaily · EN