The visual material presented here comes from an early phase of House of Fire, an installation created by Studio Paradigma Ariadné for the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennale—long before the…

For Round 27 of our writing group, in August of 2009, we decided to write short stories that were somehow based on dreams that we'd had. Well, I'd recently dreamed of a giant ant-like alien that was…

boringkate:Hey! Is it okay if I use your body for my evil experiments?

Zimoun (interviewed in Neural #35) is an established artist who has inflected his very personal interpretation of kinetic art using large numbers of small moving parts, mostly driven by motors, in a…

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com When I’m deep in a manuscript, every word feels precious. That closeness is what makes the writing possible in the first place, but it’s…

“Quê Mẹ” (Motherland) is a portmanteau of “Quê Hương” (Homeland) and “Lòng Mẹ” (Mother Heart). Written by Y Vân, “Lòng Mẹ” is a beloved anthem for Vietnamese mothers. Every Vietnamese person knows…

It's hard to write a whole book. So for now at least, I've turned the prologue of my book into a short video. I hope you enjoy it.

Red Threads (我很爱你 / I love you very much)digital video/machinima, color, sound, 12 min, 2022, ChinaCreated by Yuchi MaYuchi Ma’s Red…

I think I made the mistake of listening to Dia’s 2025 Steve McQueen Bass Symposium while driving, instead of watching it. Now as I scrub back through to find various salient points again, I…

Wow, you're right, those are cool!

I attended a cyanotype workshop today at a local nonprofit gallery/community space. Having no previous experience with creating cyanotypes , I didn't know what to expect in terms of process or level…

a novelette by Michael Kwolek

The difference in poetry that makes a difference

It turns out we're not crazy after all. Heatsinks are beautiful, and artist Kristian Kragelund agrees. This artwork uses discarded heatsinks to provoke thought on some of our biggest modern…

Feeling the heat, David Black

Modern myths, Hana Choi

I turned some more Hetalia characters into Animal Crossing Villagers! I couldn’t resist drawing Turkey as a literal Turkey (although I couldn’t bring myself to make him completely bald)…

ALTJim Burns’ 1999 hardback cover art for Bios, by Robert Charles Wilson. From a recent paid issue of my art blog newsletter, where I’m documenting my research for my new book on science…

20cm x 15cm (8"x6"), oil on board...

by nick nelson part 23 of ? for previous episode, click here to begin at the beginning, click here bill slowly wended his way home after his interview at the address on the piece of paper given to…

stain our pane in streetlight

My view is that neglecting 24 Sussex reveals a disturbing hesitation around our national symbols. Ultimately, architecture reflects our values, and we shouldn't treat an official residence like a…

I've been sharing my art on social media for over ten years and many people have asked if I can create colouring pages with my floral pattern. I wasn't sure, probably a a control thing in that I like…

Daily Drawing 910

How a 1940s design principle explains a 6 square metre hotel room in Copenhagen

Bax – Nympholept

Harold von Schmidt’s illustrations for Death Comes for the Archbishop were greatly admired when they first appeared in 1927. And they still are as far as I am concerned.   Von Schmidt did…

The Ghost flees dawn: for the King there's no noontime. Hamlet kills himself in his cell when he hears of the...

During my time studying architecture the architect-engineer and Pritzker Prize winner Frei Otto was a full time professor at my alma mater, the University of Stuttgart and his Institute of Institute…

I'm still waiting for my life to resemble the cover of a thirty-five cent thriller hot-headed killer cold-hearted lover silhouettes with nothing going on or taking off the rack spins with lurid…

I’ve talked about artist’s dates many times, so I won’t go on about those, except to say that on Jackie’s birthday we went to the Krannert Art Museum. Jackie particularly…

Fluffy Spuffy sketch dump 💕 mostly practicing my spike and Buffy in preparation for a project I’m working on 👀

Greetings,I have been having a wonderful summer. I hope yours is going well too, or winter, if you're in that part of the world. In Las Cruces, summer starts in April, so it's been warm here for…

The pink sunrise alighted on N's closed eyelids. Though the tide was low and far off, its sound still permeated his dreams in bits and pieces. Slowly and all of a sudden N opened his eyes and was…

Pantone has revised the CIELab values for American Flag Blue. The new values are 49,-39,28. The post Pantone color revision first appeared on the last word.

I was kinda singing in my head while I wrote the lines so it's supposed to sound like a song.

Yesterday a stillborn cyclone scattered strips of hollow gold everywhere I looked. A reminder that there are no seasons in this city. Just one long dissonant song they never play on the radio. Today…

I’ve been slowly working my way through the Valhalla Camp for Artists, and the first big art project was an establishing frame to show the world and the main characters of the…

My big cement head faces left for the election Large Cement head collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Pylon, python. Ready with a wet rag. An impression of me, between sheets, humidly, on glass. My desire is to write the book on you—poised, perfect, candlelit—while you struggle, at my feet, to…

Relief of being somewhere unknownPlace of no pretenseNo face to put onTension giving waySome final sigh dropping expectationInto the slowest, kindest aimless walkEyes panning, absorbingLittle joys

Writer's room technique: How to lead a meeting to break a story as a group.

We handed the shared meal to a screen, then mourned it in a thousand essays. Now a French artist has dragged a hand-painted dining installation into a Berlin club and dared strangers to look up and…

Four paintings each 7"x5"...

Something I started to noticed as I'm trying to learn and improve at animation is just how much animators, from basically every medium are cheaters. At first I always just assume that you have to…

This illustrative logo for a chain of Japanese restaurants caught my eye. It was designed by Egor Zhgun of Art. Lebedev Studio in 2014. The studio’s case study dates back a while but you can catch…

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will…