A Brief History of John Baldessari - The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes. Narrated by Tom Waits.
“I will not make any more boring art.”
Brilliant. (via: @hellofromcath)
The original “Moving Portrait.”
a bit late but R.I.P. Hillman Curtis. HILLMAN (by Hillman Curtis)
(Reblogged from jmyint)
Yemen: From the streets of Sanaa
More TheStar.com.
The Dance of Life: The Kitchen
Restaurant kitchens are physical places, where grace is a key ingredient to success. Here’s a look at the cooks’ moves at CityZen, in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Southwest, where chef Eric Ziebold adds elegant efficiency to the menu.
Inside the New York Times ‘Lively Morgue’ (by Tumblr)
Print archives that were once the heart of many newspapers have gone the way of the floppy disk. But at the New York Times, home to the Lively Morgue tumblr, the technology that has threatened to kill the morgue may also save it.
In Love and Loss
Michael French has frontotemporal dementia, for which there is no cure or treatment. As his condition deteriorated, his wife, Ruth, had to move him to a nursing home, where she spends most days.
by Béatrice de Géa, Nick Harbaugh, Soo-Jeong Kang and Nancy Donaldson
(Source: The New York Times)
love = love (by Mimi Schiffman)
Twelve-year-old Isak Atkins-Pearcy loves Legos, doughnuts, and fighting for what he believes in. He’s been fighting alongside his parents and with his junior high GSA to defeat North Carolina’s proposed constitutional amendment which will be decided in the May 8th primary.
Sentenced to Basketball (by Catherine Spangler, Ruth Fremson and Becky Lebowitz)
Carroll Academy, a school operated by a Tennessee juvenile court, uses sports to help teenagers stay out of trouble.
Full interactive by Jacky Myint.
Good Night, Ryan
A filmmaker explores the fate of Specialist Ryan Yurchison, who returned from Iraq with P.T.S.D. and, after seeking help at the local V.A. hospital, died of a drug overdose in a possible suicide.
