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Interview with demoscener 0b5vr
An interview with Japanese demoscene creator 0b5vr about live-coded visuals, tiny size-limited demos, shaders and the cu…
Introducing ColorMe
A post introducing ColorMe, a tool that visualizes the CSS Color Function so you can see how color values behave as you…
Introduction of Photography in Iran
A Smithsonian essay on how photography arrived at the Qajar court in Iran, illustrated with glass plate negatives by Ant…
Ironic Sans: #DearInventor
David Friedman's Ironic Sans post collecting playful invention ideas like pre-pixelated clothes for reality TV, from a b…
Irving Harper: Works in Paper
A photo-heavy look at the private paper sculptures of modernist designer Irving Harper, hundreds of intricate masks, ani…
Ishii Shigeo - Protest Art in 1950s Japan
Part of MIT Visualizing Cultures, an illustrated essay on Ishii Shigeo, whose woodcuts and paintings captured postwar pr…
Japanese American Internment: Ansel Adams Photos
A history-teaching resource that walks through Ansel Adams's photographs of the Manzanar internment camp and how to read…
Jeff VanderMeer: Southern Reach and the New Weird
An interview with author Jeff VanderMeer about his creative process, the Southern Reach trilogy and the uncanny, touchin…
John Giorno (2012)
A long 2012 interview with poet and performer John Giorno about Dial-A-Poem, Giorno Poetry Systems, sound poetry, Burrou…
Kakizome: The Japanese New Year Resolution
A personal essay on kakizome, the Japanese New Year tradition of writing a resolution in calligraphy, with family memori…
Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines
A long read on whether neural networks, microbes and blockchain could save a thousand-year-old South Indian silk loom tr…
Kappe Residence, Pacific Palisades
A photo-led post on the Kappe Residence in Pacific Palisades, a Los Angeles house the Los Angeles Times once named among…
Kezurou-kai #39
Report from a Japanese handplaning contest in Itoigawa, where woodworkers shave translucent ribbons of wood with traditi…
Kid Pix - The Early Years
Craig Hickman tells the story of creating Kid Pix, the beloved children's painting program, from a rough prototype for h…
Knitty
A pioneering free online knitting magazine offering original patterns, technique articles, and opinionated essays since…
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Jason Kottke's long-running curated blog highlighting interesting finds across art, science, technology, and culture sin…
Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance
An essay on the Kowloon Walled City paired with Greg Girard's photographs, examining how the legendary dense Hong Kong e…
Kuba Belt
The Minneapolis Institute of Art takes a close look at a royal Kuba belt from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, deco…
Language of Flowers
A Biodiversity Heritage Library post on the 19th-century language of flowers craze, when floral dictionaries gave women…
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Learning from Building Failures: Civic Tower of Pavia
A case study of the sudden 1989 collapse of the 11th-century Civic Tower of Pavia, part of a University of Texas project…
LEGO Macintosh Classic with e-paper display
A maker write-up of a tiny Wi-Fi LEGO Macintosh Classic powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero, with a real e-paper screen showi…
Liquid Glass in the Browser
An illustrated tutorial with live demos that recreates Apple's Liquid Glass refraction effect in the browser using SVG d…
live laugh blog: non-AI images
Net artist Jenn Schiffer rounds up websites where you can find real, free, human-made photos and illustrations to use on…
L-systems
An illustrated explainer of Lindenmayer systems, the string-rewriting rules that grow branching plants and fractals, wit…
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