by tokumaru shūgo , stop-motion animation by kijek/adamski .

with the powerlines and streetlike aspect, this looks like a desert village. in fact, it is a view of sector 8 of the purna kumbh mela si...

midday, on the triveni road, we met a sadhu who invited us to lunch at his akhara. under a tarpaulin stretched across branches, we were ha...

the 37signals blog sometimes throws up real gems. this is a long promotional video for the polaroid SX-70 SLR folding camera , beautifully ...

the kumbh mela is a recurring hindu pilgrimage featuring many lights, a complicated social ordering, and many tens of millions of people try...

an early morning arrival on a heathrow-delhi flights offers serene vistas of the craggy, snow-covered peaks of the himalayas. indira gandh...

this quite remarkable performance by enra is certainly worth watching.

the same wine—a 2008 serine (thought to be a syrah relative) from nuclear physicist-turned-winemaker éric texier (brézème, domaine de perg...

this food item contains absolutely no shellfish.

on the way to DCA, we stopped at the hirshhorn (a pile of nested toruses inside a big cylinder, by the unfortunately named gordon bunsha...

to celebrate the arbitrarily anthropocentric turning of the year, i brought bagels and bialys south from kossar's to DC, there to join w...

I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to [participate in] ‘problem creation’ … You kno...

perhaps due to its emanations of tropical and spirituous vapours, this fruitcake-containing box was lavished with doggy affections by the p...

just lying around the media lab.

a chilly, grey-day visit to  lafayette park .

at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormousl...

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanit...

i have been buried beneath a pile of paper for days, but emerged briefly for a cup of coffee last friday morning. on the table for show and...

the cynic says this email from patagonia is a cunning form of marketing misdirection. i have resisted all of cyber monday's blandishme...

update: an official karaoke version! it is imperative that you watch this instructive informational video which incidentally demonstrates t...

i made two of these on my last day at the ranch , using some apparently nearly pure copper sheet retrieved from the garbage can in the meta...

just north of st. marks, to be precise. someone took some trouble here and did not succumb to the false allure of uniform spacing.

this summarises most of my feelings about cars and bicycles, though it leaves out the grim frustrations of parking in crowded cities, moto...

Few people are interested in things, except the mechanics who like engines. They are more interested in themselves and humanity, and theori...

carl b. oxley III at the eastern market recycling station.

though the streets were overrun with orange, kettle korn, people in bad costumes, and fake cobwebs, jaho on the waterfront was empty and ...

[from the archive] R&D in high-end cuisine looks a lot like R&D anywhere else, but some of its frustrations are domain-specifi...

a 17-hour, 9.1 mile loop, with detours due to poor navigation. in order: everyman on west broadway, chambers street, some nyc city agencies,...

edge.org interviews daniel lieberman . of particular note: ... there's a reversal of class today. Now, it's only the very wealthy...