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Mark Schaefer - Belonging to The Brand
youtube.comlaughter
I’ve been doing improv comedy for the last twelve years. Over that time I’ve realized there are at least two types of laughter you hear from the audience. One is a response to something clever or smart, like ‘ha ha I see what you did there, very nice.’ It’s a shallow sort of laugh and one that comes mainly from the mind.
The other - my... See more
I’ve been doing improv comedy for the last twelve years. Over that time I’ve realized there are at least two types of laughter you hear from the audience. One is a response to something clever or smart, like ‘ha ha I see what you did there, very nice.’ It’s a shallow sort of laugh and one that comes mainly from the mind.
The other - my... See more
That space—where you look up from writing and don’t know where to go or what to do next, where you sit at a red light, wait at the post office? Something lives in that space that’s being hurt and displaced by calling in the “elsewhere” of messages, news cycles, TikToks, and so on. A relationship to something as yet unknown and under formation is... See more
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
Art
Side projects as the key to the good life By Marty Bell • 31 Jul 2025
When I was 13, I created a chat room for teenagers to talk about art and photography (the tagline was, if I remember, “The future of art but we don’t give a fuck”). I think that was the first self-made project I put out into the world, and it taught me one of the most important
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From The Lily comics archives: Why are adult friendships so hard to make (and keep)?
“It can be really difficult to find someone who vibes with you,” writes cartoonist @kagwheeler. Plus, she continues, “We may not have the same opportunities to make new friends that were available to us in school or at that terrible... See more
instagram.comTo Hell with Culture (2014) - a film about Herbert Read, art and anarchism
youtu.beDon't Ask Me What I Mean and Film, Music & Poetry
A good poem is like a crystal - hard, compact, sparkling (but with light not wit!) and somewhere a hidden law of construction. Herbert Read
Could We Ever Really Build a Dyson Sphere?
This megastructure for gathering solar energy would fill any conceivable future energy desires. But can it ever truly exist?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a11098/dyson-sphere/
Physics and