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panamaplaylists.com

Panama playlists

The real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists.

theverge.com

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

sabrinas.space

The peculiar case of Japanese web design

While the nation is known abroad for minimalist lifestyles, their websites are oddly maximalist.

benn.substack.com

Everyone is crazy now

This is not a precise theory, but man, what do we do even if the outline is true?

calv.info

Reflections on OpenAI

What working at OpenAI actually feels like, explained by someone who just decided to leave the company.

doc.cc

The secret of good metaphors

Some metaphors might be models yet to emerge, offering glimpses of new ways to structure our understanding.

nightingaledvs.com

A garden of sleep

Tracking the emotional distance between two bedtimes—an experimental dataviz project.

restroomarchive.jakewelch.design

The restroom archive

Capturing the humorous, chaotic, and often scary nature of these uniquely private publicly accessible spaces.

armedangels.com

Wikipedia collection

A collaboration with German fashion label Armedangels to spell out the importance of equality, freedom, and peace.

mythcloud.eu

MythCloud: the stories that shape us

Traditional and contemporary dimensions of shared mythologies.

theringer.com

The 100 best sports moments of the quarter century

The highs, the lows, the adversity, the buildup, the release, the heartbreak, the triumph.

internetphonebook.net

Internet phone book

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web.

theguardian.com

Chongqing, the world’s largest city, in pictures

The largest city in the world is as big as Austria, but few people have ever heard of it.

system-magazine.com

System magazine

System explores with style and substance the dialogues at the heart of the global fashion industry.

amuseumfornow.com

Who is being excluded by museums’ adoption of digital tech?

A Museum for Now is a new place for thought, discussion and ideas about what a museum should be — and needs to be.

youtube.com

Where do you put the camera?

If there’s one question that every filmmaker asks themselves, it’s this one.

danmall.com

Scenes need to do more than one thing

Screenwriter Markus McFeely dropped this gem in the director’s commentary of Avengers: Infinity War.

subwaystories.nyc

Subway stories

A beautiful and interactive visualization of the MTA’s subway ridership data. Created for the 2024 MTA Open Data Challenge.

garden.bradwoods.io

Browser adaptation

Stories are often adapted from their original medium to a different one. This note explores the opportunity the browser offers.

wallpaper.com

The starriest design collaborations of 2024

Design collabs went stellar as Snoop Dogg & Dr Dre served up Gin & Juice with Ini Archibong—and more.