In Aryo Toh Djojo's new exhibition Unseen Realities, the Los Angeles-based artist invites us to bear witness to extraordinary phenomena and unknown (unknowable) experiences. The show runs until March 30 at Stems Gallery in Paris.

"Unseen Realities, Toh Djojo's augural solo exhibition at Stems, Paris, offers a glimpse into an ambiguous galaxy, possessing an eternal suspension between an ephemeral immediacy, congruent to the technical application of acrylic with the device of an airbrush, and the aesthetic effect of vague dissociation it produces in relation to the otherworldly he takes as subject matter." — Read the rest

A ten-foot tall steel monolith mysteriously appeared on a hillside in Hay-on-Wye, Wales over the weekend. You might recall that in 2020, other similar monoliths manifested and then vanished in Utah, Turkey, Romania, the UK, and elsewhere around the world. This one caught the attention of Richard Haynes who on Saturday was out for a run in the area. — Read the rest

In a trend that seems to be catching on recently, Xenoblade Chronicles developer Monolith Soft has upped its employee salaries by 22%. Game companies across the industry, including the likes of Konami and Sega, have been doing the same thing of late. — Read the rest

Check out this photo tour of the "Monolith of Lake Mead," which is a formerly sunken speedboat that is now sticking straight up out of the dry lakebed along the shoreline of Lake Mead, near Boulder City, Nevada. According to KKTV, Lake Mead water levels are lower than they have ever been since the lake was filled over 80 years ago. — Read the rest

On Friday, a farmer in Turkey's Snliurfa province noticed a large metal monolith in a field near Göbekli Tepe, home to the world's oldest megaliths. This was the first mystery monolith discovery of the year. The new monument had the following inscription in the Turki Goktuk alphabet: "Look at the sky, you will see the moon." — Read the rest

The monolithic silliness continues with this gingerbread monocookie(?) appearing in San Francisco on Christmas morning.

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Our friends at surrealist clothier and art collective Imaginary Foundation celebrate "2020's most important global art event" with this limited edition monolith sculpture for your desktop. The handmade, stainless steel objet d'weird is 1" x 5" and signed by the Foundations' director. — Read the rest

A rash of mysterious monoliths have recently begun to surface all around the world, in what's either an actual alien invasion straight out of a comic book, or an ultimately disappointing viral marketing campaign for something dumb that's yet to be announced. — Read the rest

Yesterday we posted about a mysterious monolith that had popped up on a hillside in Romania, which had followed the discovery and disappearance of a similar monolith in Utah. But since our post, the Romanian monolith has disappeared, with only a small indentation in the ground as a reminder of its short-lived existence. — Read the rest

Ross Bernards wrote on his Instagram page that he witnessed the Utah monolith being removed by a group of men he surmised were locals. The 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque monolith, discovered in the desert only last week, vanished days later. — Read the rest

Last week, a shiny 12-foot monolith was discovered in Utah. Then, over the weekend, it mysteriously vanished.

Now a similar monolith has appeared on a hillside in Romania, standing where an ancient Dacian fortress used to be. This monolith looks almost exactly like the one in Utah, except it has scribbles scratched across its surface. — Read the rest

There is no word on who installed the ~12ft monolith found in the Utah desert, but it's silver instead of space gray and I presume that it runs Adobe Creative Suite just fine under emulation.

In an interview with local news channel KSLTV, the helicopter pilot, Bret Hutchings, said: "That's been about the strangest thing that I've come across out there in all my years of flying."

Director Stanley Kubrick wanted a transparent monolith for 2001: A Space Odyssey. He asked a UK plastics company to cast one from clear acrylic, but he didn't like the way it looked in a screen test. Instead, he used a monolith made of wood and painted black. — Read the rest

Brown Girl Magazine recently featured the work of my friend Tasneem Nanji, whose photographs of Muslim women in London and New York illuminate the lives of individuals consistently portrayed as one-dimensional "others" in media. — Read the rest

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum recently acquired a mass of personal archives that belonged to science fiction pioneer, futurist, and inventor Arthur C Clarke, co-writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey and creator of so much more. Bruce Sterling took a peek:

Sony's announced its marvels for 2011, including striking minimialist TV sets with gorilla glass and fancy internet TV features, a new ultraportable laptop, and plenty of cameras.

BoingBoing reader Jason Rohrer created an app called Monolith, which "munges" together two arbitrarily-selected binary files (called a Basis file and an Element file) to produce a Mono binary file (with a .mono extension). Jason says the resulting Mono file will not be statistically related to either file, hence becoming an interesting tool for exploring the boundaries of digital copyright (what is the copyright status of the resulting .mono — Read the rest

The early 2000s were, apparently, a Wild West for theme park developers. Disney, Universal and dozens of smaller, less monolithic companies were throwing money and manpower at any concept that could conceivably have a ride made out of it. Green Lantern rollercoaster that broke people's bones? — Read the rest

'Katzenbalgen' is a sculpture of feisty felines in Berlin. This playful sculpture was created by students from the University of Art in Brunswick who wanted to pay tribute to the cats that have roamed their city streets throughout the years. — Read the rest

Mike Masnick reports on a depressingly frequent story: Google wiping a customer's account, destroying their data, with no human support to appeal to and only vague and evasive messages to account for the decisionmaking. "Talk to the white monolith," Masnick writes. — Read the rest