[books] “You were a girl who wanted to choose your own adventures. Which is to say, you were a girl who never had adventures. You always followed the rules. But, when you ate an entire sleeve of graham crackers and sank into the couch with a Choose Your Own Adventure book, you got to imagine that you were getting into trouble in outer space, or in the future, or under the sea. You got to make choices every few pages: Do you ask the ghost about her intentions, or run away? Do you rebel against the alien overlords, or blindly obey them?”
It could’ve been me writing this article, except that it’s Leslie Jamison, another child of the 80’s, writing for the New Yorker. Yum!!
[art] Sebastian Wahl makes these gorgeous acrylic pours with collage and epoxy menageries to active the sparkly tingly neural pleasure of your eyeballs.
[art] I’m cheating by sending you another of his. Sorry/not sorry.
[storylines] Wikipedia has never looked so yummy as through the skillful lens of good visual designers at Histograhy.io. They’ve represented the articles along a timeline so you can peruse history with a mouseover.
[music] Royskopp brings their latest album of chill grooves with a gorgeous visualizer.
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“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
—Nikola Tesla