Percussionist Larnell Lewis explains drumming (on a drum set) and drum patterns in 13 levels of difficulty. From WIRED’s frequently good “levels” series of videos.

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Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a complex web in the lobby of Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum. From the artist statement:

Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972, Osaka) is a Berlin-based artist whose installations, sculpture, and performance art invoke psychogeographic spaces of memory, emotions, and the cyclical nature of life and death. Using red, black, or white yarn as a base material, Shiota often creates meticulously webbed environments that span the length of entire galleries and mimic organic forms such as cobwebs, veins, and fractals.

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In video from the CHI Geneva, an equestrian competitions, riders, coachers, and trainers respond to watching horses jump. Via Kottke

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In a CD package, the print was smaller, sometimes too small to read, but at least it was there. Streaming has almost no text. Yes, one can look it up online, but I still think something is being lost. In jazz, it is of vi…

“They are propping up our fossil fuel industry, and that’s exactly what we want.” Investigating US bitcoin miners’ emissions.

↩︎ The New York Times
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“Bees are self-aware, they’re sentient. Bees may even have a primitive form of subjective experiences.”

↩︎ The Guardian

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A fascinating explanation of how the original Wilhelm Scream recording session was restored.

↩︎ The Freesound Blog

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“Part of me feels like I should become fluent in K?eti as quickly as possible.” A dad teaches ChatGPT his son’s invented language.

↩︎ Ryszard Szopa
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Dolphins’ fins include so many scars from boats and aquatic life that they’re used by researchers to identify individual dolphins.

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