kottke.org Oct 03, 2025
Instead of hiding rips and tears, the visible mending movem…
Instead of hiding rips and tears, the visible mending movement turns them into art. “Born from the Japanese art o…
kottke.org Oct 03, 2025
Old Masters, New Media
In a five part series called “emoji-nation”, Ukrainian Nastya Ptichek mixes the work of well-known painters…
kottke.org Oct 03, 2025
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in...
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years. “All those hard cases doing hard time melt like…
Richa Soni:The beautiful & lovely journey of my ✍️ ‼️ Oct 03, 2025
A Safety Pin!
A safety pin is useful and helpful in emergency situations. It mends clothes that are torn too. Usually all elders have…
kottke.org Oct 02, 2025
A Chronology of All 113 Prints of Hokusai’s The Great…
A few years ago, a researcher looked at every surviving print of Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa that she…
kottke.org Oct 02, 2025
Are you ok? In a recent video, Hank Green tells his brother…
Are you ok? In a recent video, Hank Green tells his brother John: I’ve Not Been Doing Well. Lots of what Green sa…
kottke.org Oct 02, 2025
Quentin Blake: How I Draw
Illustrator Quentin Blake, who is most widely known for his energetic drawings for Roald Dahl’s books, generous…
kottke.org Oct 02, 2025
The official number of exoplanets tracked by NASA has reach…
The official number of exoplanets tracked by NASA has reached 6000. Astronomers have found “planets covered in la…
kottke.org Oct 02, 2025
Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, t…
Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679. I had no idea Strad…
kottke.org Oct 02, 2025
A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. The …
A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. The company says the machine is less painful and the tattoos loo…
kottke.org Oct 02, 2025
Have I Earned It?
Craig Mod is off on another of his long walks of Japan and is writing a pop-up newsletter (subscribe!) along the way. I…
kottke.org Oct 02, 2025
A new kind of bone glue that “mimics how oysters stic…
A new kind of bone glue that “mimics how oysters stick to underwater surfaces” can bond bone fragments toge…
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