Wanting to get away from manufactured perfection, artist Wang Mansheng makes his own paint brushes. Manufactured things are, yo ...

Wanting to get away from manufactured perfection, artist Wang Mansheng makes his own paint brushes. Big thanks to Arcustech for hosting the site and offering amazing tech support.

Here are some of the winners, finalists, and nominees from the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition and ...

If you somehow missed Deacon King Kong — it was on every 2020 best of list — you can get it at Bookshop (paperback & ebook), Amazon (paperback & ebook), and Libro (audiobook, read by the ...

If you somehow missed Deacon King Kong — it was on every 2020 best of list — you can get it at Bookshop (paperback & ebook), Amazon (paperback & ebook), and Libro (audiobook, read by the ...

The cheese was free. It came like clockwork for years, every first Saturday of the month, arriving like magic in the wee hours in Hot Sausage’s boiler room in the basement of Building 17. Ten crates ...

I am only a couple of chapters into James McBride’s Deacon King Kong (loving it!) and in the first chapter, there’s a ...

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an ...

Ah, this is awesome: Great Art Explained is one of my favorite YouTube channels and there’s a book version coming out in the ...

Yesterday, the NY Times published an article about Donald Trump’s threat to take away citizenship from a US-born citizen: ...

In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen tho ...

This is a unique look at the history of the world from 1925 to 2025, told through the lens of movies whose plots take place ...