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Shepard Fairey retroperspective

In Los Angeles, there is a retrospective of Shephard Fairey’s 30 year career as a poster and street artist.

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  • Shepard Fairey retroperspective

    In Los Angeles, there is a retrospective of Shephard Fairey’s 30 year career as a poster and street artist.

  • Teens develop affordable housing portal

    Two teens created an affordable housing portal for New York City. First, he taught himself to code. “I basically spent the first two months of summer in my room, learning from YouTube and A.I.,” said Beckett, 17. “Those are my teachers.” In July, after countless bleary-eyed hours on bedroom computers, he and Derrick Webster Jr.,…

  • Tiktok baby formula experiment

    A Tiktoker ran an informal experiment, calling various churches, asking for baby formula as if they were a single mother in need. Most churches were not helpful. “People online often react strongly because we expect faith institutions to embody their values in every interaction. When someone calls a church and hears ‘we can’t help,’ it…

  • Amazing color picker

    If you have ever programmed anything for the web, you’ll know that trying to find the right color and then coding it can be one of those annoying, trivial tasks. Different prefer have different trade-offs. The Internet offers plenty of different color pickers, however, here’s a very cool all in one with different approaches for…

  • Sarah Jessica Parker shares her experience as a Booker Prize judge

    Sarah Jessica Parker shares her experience as a Booker Prize judge. As someone who reads a lot, this part is validating. For me as a reader, the idea of not finishing a book, I just really, really struggle with. But with the Booker, you sort of have to adopt a brutality, because if you’re on…

  • 100 years ago, an all-Black team beat the KKK on a baseball diamond

    100 years ago, an all-Black team beat the KKK on a baseball diamond. The Monrovians’ game against the KKK might have been set in motion by an open invitation that the Black team had announced in the Wichita Eagle three weeks earlier, saying they were “open for games with any team in Kansas,” according to…

  • The glitch art of Younguk Yi

    Trippy glitch art by Younguk Yi.

  • El Salvador has a fireball festival

    Vice explored El Salvador’s fireball festival, an homage to its active volcano.

  • Smoking on screen with Cigfluencers

    While, it never went away completely, smoking in movies and television shows is making a comeback. Combined with social media “Cigfluencers”, GenZ appears to be romanticizing cigarette smoking. Dua’s photos became the first post on “Cigfluencers,” which is dedicated to showcasing stars — in archival photos and current snapshots — with cigarettes in hand. Not…

  • A roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air

    A roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air. Researchers at the University of Sydney and commercial start-up Dewpoint Innovations have created a nano-engineered polymer coating that not only reflects up to 97% of the sun’s rays, but also passively collects water. In tests, it was able to keep indoors up…