juan atkins, co-founder of techno music, dies at 64
The Detroit producer and DJ pioneered the genre as a solo artist and member of the Belleville Three, Cybotron, and Borderland
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inside the making of the sagrada família, barcelona’s 144-year megaproject
To get a sense of Sagrada Família's popularity with YouTubers, you have only to take a look at the related Open Culture posts linked below. As will hardly escape your attention, most subjects that consistently draw the attention of the GoPro class are not nineteenth-century Catholic churches.
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the vibrant color wheels designed by goethe, newton & other theorists of color (1665–1810)
Maybe it’s the cloistered headiness of Rene Descartes, or the rigorous austerity of Isaac Newton; maybe it’s all the leathern breeches, gray waistcoats, sallow faces, and powdered wigs… but we tend not to associate Enlightenment Europe with an explosion of color theory.
openculture.com
a humorously dated 1998 spencer gifts employee training video for halloween
Found Footage Festival shared a clip from a humorously dated 1998 Spencer Gifts training video on displaying new Halloween masks, from "Scream" to "South Park".
laughingsquid.com
Elon Musk’s Ties to Texas Republicans Go Much Deeper Than the Midterms
As Election Day approaches, the billionaire’s longstanding relationships with GOP leaders in Texas are under scrutiny.
wired.com
a 3d animated history of london from founding to present day
Christian Ivan of City 3D Timelapse told London's long history as a 3D animated story, from its Roman founding through to the present day.
laughingsquid.com
a soviet animation of stephen king’s short story “battleground” (1986)
Stephen King has that rare, and spectacularly profitable, skill to suck you into his world and compel you to flip to the next page. And when you’re hooked, his words have the uncanny ability to simply unfold like a movie in your head.
openculture.com
hear how clare torry’s vocals on pink floyd’s “the great gig in…
But I’ve always thought of “The Great Gig in the Sky” as the album’s true center, a swirling, swinging, soulful prog-rock masterpiece, carried to stratospheric heights by British singer Clare Torry.
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when a cat co-authored a paper in a leading physics journal (1975)
Back in 1975, Jack H. Hetherington, a physics professor at Michigan State University, wrote a research paper on low–temperature physics for the respected scientific journal Physical Review Letters.
openculture.com
Roger Dubuis Gives Its Knights of the Round Table Watch a Samurai Spin
The new watch features 12 miniature gold helmets, each taking 3 days to make
design-milk.com
✚ Getting to know a dataset
This week, I walk through my own thinking as I poke at fresh data.
flowingdata.com
B+N Industries Builds Its Modular Systems to Keep Evolving After Installation
Across System 1224, Sorbetti 2.0, and Muro, B+N Industries designs modular frameworks that expand, reconfigure, and take on new roles years after they first go up.
design-milk.com
david byrne’s new book explores the strange afterlife of good ideas: from…
David Byrne will always be most widely known as the co-founder and frontman of Talking Heads. That may count among the greatest possible achievements for any artist — to the minds of many an Open Culture reader, at least — but it must occasionally frustrate the man himself.
openculture.com
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in 1704, isaac newton predicted that the world will end in 2060
We have become quite used to pronouncements of doom, from scientists predicting the sixth mass extinction due to the measurable effects of climate change, and from religionists declaring the apocalypse due to a surfeit of sin.
openculture.com
the lesbian bar mask mandate implosion
Plus an historic delivery platform settlement, the US-Canada trade war heats up,, and more.
bonappetit.com
how reframing villains as heroes reflects shifting cultural narratives about power and morality
Jananie K. Velu, host of the PBS series "Plotlines", examines how reframing classic villains as heroes reflects shifting social values and ideas about power and morality.
laughingsquid.com
ryoji ikeda’s largest-ever solo exhibition in korea opens on jeju island
The exhibition features three new works and two new versions making their world premieres.
hypebeast.com
sea otters repeatedly smash open oysters and clams to enjoy the tasty treats inside
During Sea Otter Awareness Week at the Oregon Zoo, Juno, Lincoln, and Uni Sushi smashed fresh oysters and clams against hard surfaces to open their shells.
laughingsquid.com
Japan requests revision to UN-supported map
The United Nations voted to support the Equal Area map projection, which more accurately shows the size of Africa than the Mercator projection. However, Japan has requested a revision, because the …
flowingdata.com
how reading changes the way your brain works
Reading is unnatural. This will hardly come as a surprise to any child trying to put off his homework for just one more hour of watching other kids play Minecraft.
openculture.com
The $300 Sony Headphones Everyone Wanted Are Actually Back
Anyone who has priced out a decent pair of noise-cancelling headphones this year has felt the sticker shock. Sony's own flagship, the WH-1000XM6, launches at $449.99, and its wilder sibling, the 1000X The ColleXion, sits even higher. Bose isn't cheaper. Sennheiser isn't cheaper. The whole category has quietly drifted toward the idea that "premium" now
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milton glaser’s 10 rules for life & work: the celebrated designer dispenses…
Milton Glaser mused less than a minute into the above video. The late Milton Glaser’s many contributions to pop culture—the I ❤ NY logo, the psychedelic portrait of a rainbow-haired Bob Dylan, DC Comics’ classic bullet logo—conferred undeniable authority.
openculture.com
what is creator day?
Creator Day is a special 24-hour event where itch.io waives its platform fee on all sales across the site. During Creator Day, creators receive 100% of sales (after taxes and payment processor fees) i...
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Kiyo Takeda: The Architect Making Tokyo Green Again
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a touching documentary about new york city’s last wood column factory closing…
Joshua Charrow visits Thomas Lupo at American Wood Column Corp., New York City’s last remaining wood column factory, is closing after 110 years.
laughingsquid.com
why ai companies are buying—and then destroying—old books
We've long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn't sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn't been written by humans, but generated by artificial intelligence.
openculture.com
why americans stopped reading books
The kids can't read. Such has been the implication, even the declaration, made by a wave of articles in recent years.
openculture.com
rating how people walk on new york city sidewalks
Cameron Roh hilariously rated people walking on New York City sidewalks from 1 to 10 based on their speed, placement, and ability to navigate.
laughingsquid.com
the art of splendor solis, the most glorious illuminated alchemical manuscript of them all
When it was published in the United States in 1998, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
openculture.com
artists imagine life after earth in 'cataclysm of binary star systems'
Creating otherworldly works that answer: "what happens when the world we know is no longer sustainable?"
hypebeast.com
the women of the bauhaus: see hip, avant-garde photographs of female students…
Take a look at photos of Bush Tetras -- a three-girl-one-guy No Wave/Post-Punk band from the early 1980s downtown Manhattan scene. Now, look at the photograph above, 'Marcel Breuer and His Harem,' by Bauhaus photographer Erich Consemüller, taken sometime around 1927.
openculture.com
the secret history of the antichrist
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has spoken publicly on a variety of issues from contrarian entrepreneurship to technical stagnation to geopolitical struggle.
openculture.com
jenkem mix 165: pavement
Often credited as pioneering the “slacker” sound we all know and love, we’re delighted to bring you Pavement’s very own mix.
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