This category includes posts on music, clothing, things to read, movies to see, and other things on my radar. “Discover” may also contain reviews and random fun and/or notable) things that don’t belong anywhere else.
Graphic designers from around the world have come together to support victims of the Beirut blast with a creative fundraiser. The Li Beirut font is a brand new, fancy typeface of 300 glyphs that includes both Latin and Arabic characters, numbers, and symbols. Here’s a detailed description from the Li Beirut font fundraiser page on…
I am so over the era of zoom calls. But the 2020 Democratic National Convention, all online for the very first time, has been able to work with the format in a compelling way. Last night’s delegate roll call, usually the most boring part of both political conventions, was an unexpected delight. Democratic delegates from…
When we were deep into the lockdown with no end in sight, one of the few things that kept me amused was the Getty Museum Challenge. Launched as a social media call-to-action, the #GettyMuseumChallenge asked participants from around the world to recreate their favorite artworks using only the objects in their homes. The response was…
I am super-impressed by the attention to detail that went into this TikTok user’s homage to Wes Anderson. h/t atticshape
I’ve passed the point where working and schooling from home and staying inside indefinitely is a novelty. There is this malaise and dread and, yes, fear of what is going to come next, even though there are bits of normalcy peeking through. I couldn’t put into words exactly how I was feeling lately. “Terrible,” I…
It’s been more than a year since I’ve written anything on this site. But the awful news about Anthony Bourdain seems like as good a time as any to start again. I hate to think of his ending as sparking my beginning (again). As a friend put it, these countless in memoriam posts are self-serving….
Farewell to the Pioneer Cabin Tree, one of the first California trees that you could drive through.
This is one of the more delightful things I’ve seen on the Internet in a while. I found Sam Barsky, aka Colorknit, via a link on imgur. His dedication to and enthusiasm for his craft is exactly the kind of inspiration I need for coming the year. See more of Sam’s creations, from desert highways…
You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough. Abe had not been dressing up, styling himself, for all these years…