Ok, you know this is going to be a good one: De La Soul plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

Hello, good afternoon! As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a bunch of new stuff for KDO in the pipeline. I’ve been focused ...

A new book by Rebecca Solnit came out yesterday; it’s called The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change ( Amazon ). The synopsis: Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the ...

A new book by Rebecca Solnit came out yesterday; it’s called The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change (Amazon). The synopsis: Rebecc ...

The Library of Congress houses an online collection of 48 color photographs of Rome taken in the 1890s. The prints were created using the photochrom pro ...

This video traces the history of Apple’s HyperCard from Vannevar Bush’s idea of the Memex to the Mother of All Demos to the ...

Last week, Nine Inch Nails released an album of remixes and unreleased session music from their Tron: Ares score called Tron ...

This video traces the history of Apple’s HyperCard from Vannevar Bush’s idea of the Memex to the Mother of All Demos to the Xerox PARC Alto to Bill Atkinson, the inventor of HyperCard, who said: Big ...

HyperCard is a software erector set. It lets people put things together without having to know how to solder. When you buy through links on kottke.org, I may earn an affiliate commission. Thanks for ...

As part of the the Takashi Murakami show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the artist is collaborating with Louis Vuitton to station street vendors — who typically sell counterfeit merchandise — outside ...

Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis, currently on display in LA, Takashi Murakami painted his own version of Claude Monet’s Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son. The painting is paired ...

The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together: cracked ...