I'm a sucker for overly busy design, so long as there's some kind of throughline to the aesthetic. A living room has full license to have the appearance of complete… Read the rest of the article: Nest, the late 90's mag dedicated to maximalist interiors

Fritz the elephant, once a remarkable specimen of the Proboscidea family, stands forever unmoving in the covered stable beside a garden in Tours, France. The provincial grounds don't have an elephant… Read the rest of the article: The sad, strange story of a taxidermied elephant

On occasion, I'll look up from hour three of mindless scrolling and begin cursing the gods of technology for allowing me to become so helplessly glued to social media. I… Read the rest of the article: Solar storm halts farming equipment during planting season

According to musical lore, metal and churches get along like a house on fire. Or a church on fire if you're a black metal musician from Scandinavia. Devilish antics of disturbed youth… Read the rest of the article: This is the most Metal church of all time

It takes years and years of practice and refinement to really nail a simple brush drawing. The trick is in minimal, controlled marks and it's waaaay harder than it looks.… Read the rest of the article: The wonderful watercolors and ink drawings of John J Muth

Typically, computer stuff in film and tv looks like and is a whole bunch of gobbledygook. Getting someone to successfully look really cool while they're typing on the computer is… Read the rest of the article: What The Terminator's on-screen vision code really means

If you've a penchant for craning your neck all the way up to revel at gigantic manmade wonders from an unnatural angle, visiting Manhattan is probably on at the top… Read the rest of the article: The oldest skyscrapers in the world

Citing safety concerns, USC made the decision to cancel Asna Tabassum's speech at the school's graduation ceremony on May 10. The school didn't elaborate on what the safety concerns were,… Read the rest of the article: USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum speaks out after school cancels her speech

Shane Patrick White has an excellent video detailing the process of inking an original panel of comic book art on his channel. Watching any level of artistic mastery is always… Read the rest of the article: Hypnotic and insightful video of old school comic book inking

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum might sound like a jumble of disparate words picked out of a hat, and that is likely how the band got it's name, but they're also the… Read the rest of the article: Cult weirdo musical act Sleepytime Gorilla Museum has reopened their doors

Why, Florida, why?? Some confounding, inhumane legislation was just signed over in that phallic-shaped state in the nether regions of the US that we call Florida. Why Natalie, you say,… Read the rest of the article: DeSantis bans heat protections for outdoor workers

Employees at Google's offices in New York and Sunnyvale staged a sit-in in protest of Project Nimbus on Tuesday. Nimbus is a government contract between Google and Amazon and the… Read the rest of the article: Google employees arrested and fired after sit-in protest

Since the war began in earnest last year, YouTube's taken a full offensive against third party ad blocking software. Now, mobile users can look forward to seeing signage like "The… Read the rest of the article: News from the AdBlock v. YouTube warfront

 "We're not closing." Arizona abortion clinic Camelback Family Planning is angling to stay open to provide options for patients in the Phoenix area despite the state's across the board ban… Read the rest of the article: Arizona abortion clinic to stay open despite looming ban

Remember that kid's book series Animorphs? With the really cheesy covers? Kids turning into hawks and starfish from the deepest depths of the uncanny valley? The little flipbooks in the… Read the rest of the article: Grandville's early surrealist French illustrations

Para Todos was a Brazilian magazine dedicated to arts and culture, initially founded as a film journal in 1918. The bold covers that you see here were illustrated by José… Read the rest of the article: The wonderful art deco covers of Para Todos magazine

We've seen the wave of states that have fallen to regressive, draconian age verification laws of late. In a surprising turn of events, Arizona, the home of much controversial legislation,… Read the rest of the article: Arizona vetoes internet age verification bill

Some people really think techno is rotting their kid's minds. Other people think sludge metal is corrupting the youth or something. Chechnya's new BPM limitations appease two birds with one… Read the rest of the article: Chechnya bans fast and slow music, including Russian nat'l anthem

And 355,000,000 pounds of butter. Technically, the USDA owns just 300 million pounds of the cheese and is storing the remaining billion or so for a friend. Cave networks in… Read the rest of the article: The USDA has 1.5 billion pounds of cheese stashed in caves in Missouri

Elephants trudging around Checkpoint Charlie, stomping through Brandendberg Gate, hosing themselves down with water from the Spree river. Sounds whimsical! Like something from a magical realism novel! But realistically, if… Read the rest of the article: Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to roam free in Germany