French Cyclists Create Record-Breaking GPS Drawing of a 637-Mile-Long Dinosaur

Photo: razvanphoto/Depositphotos (Not a photo of the actual event.)

Four French cyclists have claimed the Guinness World Record for the largest GPS drawing by a bicycle team. Their winning piece: a 1,025 km-long (637-mile-long) depiction of a velociraptor that took 43 hours and 47 minutes to complete. The dinosaur's body was drawn over the course of six days, encompassing several French counties, including Cher, Saone-et-Loire, Indre, Nievre, Creuse, Puy-de-dome, and Allier.

The group chose a velociraptor as their inspiration because it includes velo in the name, which means bicycle in French. It required a year of planning to figure out the route that would bring the dinosaur to life, and they finally began their record-breaking ride in November 2022. Guinness announced their record in March 2023.

Dinosaurs are proof that such strong species can quickly become extinct, Maxime Brugre, one of the cyclists, says. We are the main culprits of this environmental crisis, but also its main victims. As such, the future is in our hands and cycling is one of the best ways to contribute to change. He and the team describe themselves as triathletes and daily commuters who emphasize the benefits of using bicycles over cars. They shared their dinosaur creation with the fitness app Strava and have received thousands of likes by others in the cycling community.

Four French cyclists win largest GPS drawing by a bicyclist team by creating a 1,025 km-long (approximately 637-mile-long) dinosaur.

Bemuse. All images David Popa, shared with permission

After a decade of living in Finland, David Popa has established a fruitful creative collaboration that would be impossible in his native New York City. The artist frequently works on land and sea, particularly the fractured ice floes of the Baltic, to render large-scale portraits and figurative murals that draw connections between the ephemerality of human life and the environment. Whether depicting his wife or newborn child in intimate renderings, he highlights the inevitability of change as time passes, seasons transition, and the climate warms.

Popas use of such unconventional canvases emerged from a desire for adventure and child-like play, when he put on a drysuit, climbed onto his paddleboard, and ventured out to a frozen mass. These spaces were so mysterious and so interesting, the artist says. I derived an enormous amount of inspiration from going out into these ethereal spots. After taking some drone photos of the areas, he began working, spraying the contours of a cheek or lip onto the icy matter.

Interview Was passiert, wenn Graffiti und NFT aufeinandertreffen? Es entsteht etwas vllig Neues. Der deutsche Knstler RAWS gehrt zu den Pionieren, wenn es um das Thema Urban Art im Metaverse geht. Warum Street Art und das Web 3.0 mehr gemeinsam haben als man denkt und wie es ist, das weltweit erste Three Stripes Artwork gemeinsam mit einer Big Brand auf die Blockchain zu bringen, darber und ber die Kunst von RAWS haben wir mit dem Berliner im Interview gesprochen. _______________________ Du kommt ursprnglich vom Graffiti und arbeitest seit vielen Jahren erfolgreich als Knstler, der vor allem auf Leinwnden und Hauswnden malt. Wie bist du im Bereich der digitalen Kunst und im Crypto Space gelandet? Ehrlicherweise erstmalig durchs Investieren. Beim letzten Hypecycle Anfang 2021 von Bitcoin und Co habe ich Geld investiert und mich in dem Zusammenhang mehr mit dem Thema Blockchain auseinandergesetzt. In dem Zuge kamen auch NFTs in mein Visier und ich hab mir ein Damien Hirst The currency NFT gekauft. Dieses knnte ich mit einem 16x Faktor weiterverkaufen, was mich extrem erstaunt hat und mir das finanzielle Potenzial vom NFT Trading gezeigt hat. ber die Zeit habe ich dann natrlich begriffen, dass das ein Glcksgriff war und ...

Der Beitrag Mit der Blockchain gibt es ein komplett neues Spielfeld fr Knstler erschien zuerst auf URBANSHIT.

Take a Look at the Massive Art Installations of Coachella 2023

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2023 installation view of Kumkum Fernando, The Messengers, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy of Coachella

In preparation for the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, artists from around the world were selected to transform the desert landscape. This year's edition features the massive sculptural works by Kumkum Fernando, Vincent Leroy, Gven zel, and Maggie West, which permeate the skyline with architectural shapes, bright colors, and opalescent details. From towering robotic figures to larger-than-life flora, these eye-catching pieces envelop the festival with vibrancy and creativity.

While Coachella is commonly known for its musical aspect, art plays a major role in setting the atmosphere and enhancing the experience of the festival. In selecting projects from around the world, our intention is to bring together artists, architects, and designers whose practices invite participation, inclusion, and transformation, says curatorial advisor Raffi Lehrer. We strive to create a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural program that reflects our audience and the many performing artists that grace the stages of the festival. The resulting works will become iconspart of the identity of this year's show. These installations act simultaneously as way-finding markers, points of congregation, and most importantly, accessible entry points for show-goers to experience art.

Each year, the festival has grown artistically, attracting talented creatives to dis...

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Do you remember Maxwell the Cat?

It was a meme from back in 2017 that was a big hitand is now making a comeback, thanks in part to an auto body shop in Florida.

A Fort Lauderdale business called Clancys Auto Body Shop has been quite popular on social media lately because of good ol Maxwell.

The first TikTok post from Clancys read, Guys I lied on my resume and got a job doing the social media of this body shop, please blow this up so I dont get fired and on top of that text was Maxwell the Cat bouncing over the shopand it blew up.

@clancysautobody Job market is tough rn #bodyshoplife #shoplife #autobody unicouniuni Im Uni....

When you ask someone their favorite movie (of any genre), favorite book, favorite song, most people will hem and haw. The reason is that there are just so many good ones to choose from, I think.

In this case, though, these people have put themselves on the spot and put one in the top slot take a read and see whether or not you agree.

Ok they couldnt use just one.

Blazing Saddles

The Producers

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Basically, any Mel Brooks movie will have me laughing til I cry. Hes going to be sorely missed when he passes away.

All the way to 11.

Scrolled forever but couldnt find This is Spinal Tap. That one goes to 11 every time.

Funny forever.

Tommy Boy. The duo of Farley and Spade is phenomenal

Laughs for days.

I watched Best in Show for the first time 2 weeks ago. I was on a flight back home and could not stop laughing.

Good stuff.

Not before or since.

I dont think Ive ever gone to a theater and laughed at anything harder than Super Troopers.

Insanely quotable.

Airplane! One of the greatest spoof movies of all time.

Airplane? What is it?

Its a large metal tube that flies through the air, but thats not important right now.

I had to quit quoting Airplane! at work because I have a lot of younger coworkers and nobody recognized I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue as a movie reference. I may have given some people the wrong impression.

The king of the cast.

Clu...

When a creative materials copyright lapses, it enters the public domain, which means it is no longer subject to trademarks, patents, or intellectual property rights. No individual, company, author, or artist owns it, and it belongs to the public. If this is the case, why is some public domain footage so expensive? This is the question at the core of Richard Miseks short film A History of the World According to Getting Images in which he explores how historically significant footage from newsreels, government agencies, and pioneers of film are held captive behind paywalls.

Beyond the history contained within the images, Misek examines footage itself and what happens after its captured. He focuses on Getty Images, the worlds largest commercial archive, challenging its control over public footage, which it only makes available through steep licensing fees. In the case of The Miles Brothers iconic short film A Trip Down Market Street, which captures downtown San Francisco just days before the devastating 1906 earthquake, the film was digitized in 2016 by the Prelinger Archive and made available for free, while Getty charges hundreds or thousands of dollars for the rights to use the footage, depending on its intended use.

Misek parses the unequal power dynamics inherent within capturing life and major events, in addition to the barriers to accessing that footage today. Newsreel cameras document power, but what strikes me most from my exploration of the Getty Archive, is how much the act of filming itself is an expression of power, Misek narrates. He points out that footage shot by the government, like the first...

 
In 1978, a wonderfully weird album was released under the name the Happy Dragon-Band. The Detroit outfit wasnt really a band, but a project steered by a local wizard. The Happy Dragon-Band is an astonishing, art-damaged LP thats languished in obscurity for decadesbut it has...

Most of us love a solid jolt of caffeine to get our day going, but how much is too much?

Well, it seems like a Panera Bread customer might have answered that question for all of us

A woman named Sarah shared a video on TikTok where she called out Paneras Charged Lemonade drinks that contain over 100 grams of sugar and 390 milligrams of caffeineFYI, thats more sugar and caffeine per fluid ounce than a Monster Energy drink.

In her video, Sarah talks about how she didnt realize how harmful the Charged Lemonade drinks were until her husband, who is a Type 1 diabetic, told her about whats actually in the drink.

Sarah said she drank four or five of them while working at a Panera store because refills were free and it wasnt a very pleasant experience.

@sarahebaus @Panera Bread this drink should come with a warning because its delicious and will lead to my cardiac arrest #panerabread #mangoyuzucitrus #remotework original sound sara...

Interviewing for jobs can be intimidating and nerve-wrackingso a lot of folks out there can use all the help they can get.

And a tech sales career consultant shared a video on TikTok where she talked about how she gave her best interview by answering a common question in a different way during her interview.

Check out how she turned the tables in her interview and see what you think.

@techsalesgal I am a genius, that is all #interview #interviews #interviewtips #sales #salestok #salestips #salesinterview #tech...

Spoiler alert: The death of Logan Roy the weekend before last marked the end of an era. Or at the very least, it was notable for occasioning, in the Los Angeles Times, perhaps the first newspaper obituary of a fictional character. Roy was the mogul-patriarch at the center of the hit black comedy-drama Succession, which is now approaching the end of its fourth and final season on HBO. Brian Coxs performance in that role had much to do with the success of Succession, so to speak, not least because he clearly understood that, for all its of-the-moment references, the series narrative is deeply rooted in concepts like dynasty and empire, which themselves extend way back to antiquity.

Antiquity happens to be the subject of two videos Cox narrated, just before the premiere of Succession, for the Youtube channel Arzamas. Ancient Greece in 18 Minutes and Ancient Rome in 20 Minutes deliver just what their titles promise, brief but clear and well-informed primers on the classical civilizations that modern Westerners have long thought of as the precursors to their own.

If youre looking for one more reason to dislike Elon Musk, never fear I dont think were going to run out of them anytime soon.

That said, Im not sure anyone had aiding and abetting Brazilian criminals on their BINGO card, either.

Musks satellite-powered internet Starlink allows people all over the world even in remote spots access to the internet, which sounds like a good thing.

Amazon rainforest is under threat from SpaceXs Starlink system used by illegal miners.

Learn how Starlink is providing remote high-speed internet, making it easier for illegal miners to coordinate, pay without detection and evade law enforcement.

Blue Headline (@blue_headline) March 19, 2023

Until you realize that also brings internet access to places like illegal Brazilian mining operations in the Amazon.

We know because during a recent raid, environmental officials reported finding a Starlink terminal up and running next to an illegal mining pit.

The First Command of the Capital is the criminal organization running the area, and they appear to be experts officials have seized at least seven similar terminals from other busted operations.

And thats just happened recently.

Our houses are filled with products. Some of the we think well use every day and others we actually do use every day, but either way, wouldnt it be amazing if we could get even more bang for our buck?

These folks say youve definitely got a few things hanging out that you should be using in more ways than one and heres what and how!

The sticky stuff.

Any kind of cooking oil will easily get pine sap off of your hands. Just use it like soap.

Its cheap, too.

Use salt as an abrasive and absorber when cleaning. I spray my stove top with a general household cleaner then sprinkle salt liberally over the top. It gets grease out easily.

For liquid stains like wine, I pour salt over the stain to soak up excess liquid then come through with hydrogen peroxide. Finally I get absorbent towels and dab clean it.

If youve got kids, you know.

Any cooking oil is a great way to remove the residue from stickers.

Idk if this is recommended but if you get scratches on wood furniture Ive always taken a matching washable marker, colored over the scratch, and then wiped it with a damp cloth (to effectively stain the wood back to match).

Dish soap is so handy.

Scuba diver here. Instead of using those expensive defogger gels and sprays on your mask, smear a bunch of dish soap in it, rinse once or twice, and your mask will never fog during the dive.

You can also use this method to keep your windshield from fogging. Smear a bunch of dish soap on a towel, then rub it all over the inside of your windshield. Take another damp towel and rub the soap off until your wind sh...

In Things Unstable, Seung-taek Lees aptly titled exhibition here, everyday objects and materials dont behave as they should. In one work, stones are made to appear weightless, suspended by a web of

Not all job interviews are exactly the same, but once youve been through enough of them, you realize they do have a lot of similarities. And one thing that always seems to come up is your biggest weakness.

I think they want to know that youre able to self-reflect, and maybe also that you can see ways to improve, but either way, it can be a chore to come up with exactly the right answer.

Dont worry anymore, though, because these people have some great suggestions for how to answer it next time.

Hard to spin.

They have been for engineering interviews and its well known that you work on 1/10 of a project, so I thought it was fitting and then leads into discussing what roles exactly that I was applying for.

My biggest weakness is actually organization, but I dont like spinning that one because I seriously doubt Ill improve in that category more than I have so far.

Tongue in cheek.

What is your greatest weakness? Ummmm probably that I have no strengths

Im not sure thats a weakness.

im bad at interviews. I guess I dont do them very often. I have typically stayed at previous jobs for a long time

Come with a solution.

When I was graduating college I got interview tips from my dad who was heavily involved in the hiring process at his company for his department. His advice on this one, which Ive used ever since and has gone great, was:

The whole say a weakness thats actually a positive has been done to death and is such common knowledge that its no longer a clever trick and is now seen as avoi...

New York States Board of Regents has voted to officially ban school districts statewide from using Native imagery and reductive names for school mascots and sports teams. Affected schools have until the end of the academic year to show concerted efforts to re-brand and must comply with the ban by June 30, 2025.

Last November, the State Education Department issued a letter indicating that the state would be prioritizing and enforcing this decision by 2023. Apparently, the state has been trying to phase out the use of such names and imagery since 2001, but dozens of school districts, including 11 high schools on Long Island, have yet to comply.

While many, but not all, schools with team names such as Indians, Redmen, and Tomahawks have already voted to adopt new names themselves or retire their mascots, some are still using ambiguous terms such as Braves and Warriors with accompanying side-profile caricatures of Indigenous men with feathered war bonnets, red skin tones, and aggressive expressions.

Indian mascots and stereotypes present a misleading image of Indian people and feed the historic myths that have been used to whitewash a history of oppression, the National Congress of American Indians stated on its...

<figure><img alt="" class= "attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" height="540" src= "https://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/hispanicsociety_action_419.jpg?fit=720%2C540&quality=100&ssl=1" width="720"></figure> <p>Striking workers of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, an Upper Manhattan institution dedicated to Portuguese and Spanish art, staged an action outside the Upper East Side home of Board Chair Philippe de Montebello today, April 19. The small group of around 20 employees went on strike on March 27 and has not been paid since.

The Hispanic Societys professional workforce (curators, conservators, librarians,...</p>

Some may know of artist and actor David Choe from Netflixs new dark comedy Beef (2023), released earlier this month, and others may remember him for becoming a multimillionaire after accepting stock in lieu of monetary payments from Facebook for a commissioned mural in their Palo Alto headquarters in 2005. Both of those achievements are currently in the background as a segment of a 2014 podcast has resurfaced in which Choe describes sexually violating a masseuse at a massage parlor.

In the episode of the DVDASA podcast, which he used to co-host with adult film star Asa Akira, Choe recounts forcing a masseuse named Rose to perform oral sex on him after he began masturbating during the massage. Between laughs, Akira called him out immediately and said that he was a rapist after Choe stated that it was the thrill of possibly going to jail that aroused him, to which he responded, Yeah, a successful rapist.

Days after the segment went live, Choe wrote a statement defending himself on the podcasts webpage on April 18, 2014 in which he alleges that the story he told was totally fake. I never thought Id wake up one late afternoon and hear myself called a rapist, Choe wrote. Choe went on to say that the podcast is not a representation of [his] reality and called it art that sometimes offends people, commenting that all rapists should be raped and murdered. In a 2021 profile in the ...

Shortly after I went to see the exhibition Maia Ruth Lee: The skin of the earth is seamless at Tina Kim Gallery (April 6May 6, 2023), the poet and translator Soje sent me this poem by the Korean poet Kim Eon Hee, which they had translated as:

Trunk

This leather trunk

So tough, so bloated, so heavy

Unzip it and it
Gapes open, its entire body a maw

Comes returned to sender
After being refused 

Stuffed with a chopped-up memory wrapped in plastic, it

Stinks, so
Freakish

Reading the translation transported me back to Lees exhibition, which consists of paintings, sculptures, and a video, The Letter (2023). What connects these works is Lees experience of migration, living in the diaspora, rootlessness, and traveling between the three cultures in which she has lived for extended periods: South Korea, where she was born and went to art school, a small Sherpa village in the Himalayas, where she spent her childhood and adolescence, and different parts of the Un...

Artist Uses AI to Visualize a Clear Guitar Embedded With Flowers and People Want It IRL

AI-generated art is a controversial topic, but its undeniable that it can produce incredible imagery. Mieke Haase is a creative showcasing the possibilities of artificially generated art. Theyve generated a striking image of a clear guitar thats filled with colorful blooms. The glass-like surface features florals that look suspended in the clear material. Its reminiscent of resin art, although its completely forged with text prompts by Haase.

There are some AI-generated pieces that look like they could never exist in real life, but Haases art is something that could be real. It looks so real, in fact, that people in the comments of a viral Instagram post asked where they could buy it, not realizing it was the work of machine learning. Other folks knew it was AI but offered ways in which to craft it IRL. It would be playable, one commenter offered, if it were resin instead. You should make another out of resin! Id buy it.

Whatever your opinion of AI art might be, its undeniable that the images it conjures are imaginative and could be the starting point for something to exist in the real world. If Haases generated piece is any indication, it has inspired the people whose timeline it came across.

Artist Mieke Haase generated an AI art image of a clear guitar with flowers embedded inside. It became a viral post on Instagram with people wishing it was realand some not realizing it was the work of AI.

For all the art that addresses protest and activism, it is surprisingly rare to come across a work that is as succinct and conceptually together as Jordan Corine Cruzs Face Each Other, Burn Together. The object, installed at Haul Gallery, is a police barricade cast entirely of red wax with long wicks embedded at each end. As the wicks burn, the barricade structure slowly breaks down and falls apart. It is a simple yet powerful gesture against what the artist calls the language of enforcement. 

References to Catholicism are embedded in her use of votive prayer candles as the source material for her sculpture. Implicit in the object...

ANNA CASSEL: THE SAGA OF THE ROSE. EDITED BY KURT ALMQVIST AND DANIEL BIRNBAUM. Bokfrlaget Stolpe, 2023. 182 pages. ANNA CASSEL: THE SAGA OF THE ROSE, a sumptuously designed book by the same

German photographer Boris Eldagsen, who won the Creative category of the prestigious Sony World Photography Award, has refused the prize on the grounds that he used an artificial intelligence image

What Researchers Long Thought Was Just an Agate Crystal Is Actually a Dinosaur Egg Fossil

Agate crystals apparently grew inside a titanosaur egg. (Photo: Natural History Museum)

A beautiful pink and white agate crystal has sat in the archives of London's Natural History Museum since 1883. In 2018, a minerals curator named Robin Hansen selected the pretty stone to display at the institution. Several months later, Hansen encountered a similar agate, which a dealer informed him was in fact an agatized dinosaur egg. Realizing what he might have discovered, Hansen and museum staff have since confirmed the rock is in fact a dinosaur egg which has filled with agate crystal over the course of millions of years.

While I was looking around the show, a dealer showed me an agatized dinosaur egg, which was spherical, had a thin rind, and dark agate in the middle, Hansen said in a statement. That was the lightbulb moment when I thought: Hang on a minute, that looks a lot like the one we've just put on display in the Museum!' Museum paleontologists Professor Paul Barrett and Dr. Susannah Maidment took a look. They noted that the rock had an external texture that resembled that of a dinosaur egg. It was also the size (15 cm / 5.9 inches across) and spherical shape of a titanosaur egg. Titanosaurs were a group of four-legged, long-necked dinosaurs who roamed across the world in the Cretaceous period.

Further tests with CT scans were unhelpful due to the dense rock material. However, pressed into the surface are marks indicating the object lay nex...

KWAME BRATHWAITE WAS FAMILY! He taught me about the possibilities of photography and what it means to document everyday life in Harlem. The last time I saw Kwame was at Melbas Restaurant on a Sunday

Listen, as adults, we all know that teenagers dont actually care what we have to say. When we were teenagers, we didnt care what the grownups around us had to say, either, because they didnt understand us or our lives thankyouverymuch.

On the other side of it, you realize that even though things in the world have changed quite a lot, the fact is that people have changed very little which means theres plenty of advice that still sticks.

So, if youre willing to hear it, these pieces of advice could belong in your back pocket.

Learn new skills.

If you dont have a passion, learn new skills. You might find your passion or something youre good at.

Its a whole sentence.

Its ok to say no to anyone.

Dont let anyone in your life guilt trip you into doing something you dont want to do or are uncomfortable with

Just indifferent.

When you get to driving you need to realize that the laws of physics apply to you. They arent out to get you, theyre just indifferent.

Slow the f**k down and dont horse around, youre driving a very heavy machine at speeds we did not evolve to deal with. Be safe.

Exactly as lame.

Its exactly as lame to not do something you want to do because its too mainstream or popular as it is to do something only because its cool and the cool kids are doing it.

Start the work now.

Dont put off dealing with mental health issues. Developing unhealthy coping mechanisms for emotional issues will fuck you up big time down the road....

John Tain has been announced as the curator of Lahore Biennale 03, which will open February 9, 2024. This iteration of the biennial will explore themes of ecology and sustainable futures. Speaking at

Opening Reception: April 22, 58pm, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York

Participating Artists: Ashleigh Abbott, Aliya Al-Adwani, Bel Andrade, Katie Chin, Fiel Guhit, Lisa Hennig-Olsen, Molly Bliss Kiefer, Summer McCroskey, Luke McCusker, Ash Moniz, Hali Nelson, Evelina Nolin, Henrik Nordahl, Libby Paloma, Nat Peterson, Gino Romero, Pauline Rossignol, Shay Salehi, Fahmy Shahin, Michelle Silva, Chelsea Steinberg-Gay, Richard Valentn, Yifei Wang, Boya Ye, Noah Zhou, Shining Zhu, Xianfan Zhu

In Matter As Fallen Light on view from April 23 through May 7 at the Sheila Johnson Design Center in Manhattans Union Square neighborhood the 27 practices of this years graduating cohort defy a single rubric, yet together manifest more than the sum of their parts. Returning to their studios and each others company as the pandemics restrictions receded, many approach space and presence, whether physical or virtual, with new...

Calling Out Across the Distance (2023), oil on canvas, 60 x 68 inches. All images Samantha Keely Smith, shared with permission

In vibrant oil paintings evocative of roiling oceans or atmospheric vistas, Samantha Keely Smith relies on confident, swift strokes to guide the composition. Hovering between abstraction and depictions of landscapes (previously), tonal contrasts and complementary colors emphasize dramatic movements suggestive of crashing waves or storms. All of my work explores the idea that the line between our conscious and unconscious (experiences) is often blurry and that occasionally we are able the straddle both sides at once, she tells Colossal.

Smiths recent work has evolved into a looser, more freeform style that has taught her the value of experimentation or going with the flow. Most importantly, I have given myself permission to completely fail occasionally and not feel bad about it, she says. I will sometimes pull a canvas off the stretcher and throw it away. In the past, I would fight to the bitter end to try to save something that just wasnt working, which was ultimately a waste of my time and effort.

New Harry Potter TV Series Ordered at Max Will Adapt One Book per Season

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When a book is adapted into a movie, a lot of the world-building is left in the cutting room due to a limited runtime. In an epic fantasy series like Harry Potter, the time constraints and plot choices meant that a lot the elements that made the Wizarding World so appealing in its books were left out of the films. Could a different format make room for a new way to tell the story? A new project at Max is looking into turning the Harry Potter saga into a decade-long TV series, dedicating one season to each of the seven books.

We are delighted to give audiences the opportunity to discover Hogwarts in a whole new way, said Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content. He described the endeavor, which will feature a completely new cast, as a faithful adaptation of the beloved Harry Potter book series. This new Max Original series will dive deep into each of the iconic books that fans have continued to enjoy for all of these years.

The announcement was met with mixed reactions. While some appreciated a chance to see the book lore expanded, the general response among the Harry Potter fandom was cold, to say the least. We don't need [a] Harry Potter reboot, said one Twitter user praising the original stars of the films. Others added, Literally no one asked for this. Another person critiqued Bloys' own words, saying, Faithful'? Because the beloved, wildly successful and fan-adored movies weren't? To many fans, the films still feel pretty recent, as the last movie of the franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,...

THIS MONTH, a year to the day since the release of their debut album, the trio of Fred Moten (poet), Brandon Lpez (bassist), and Gerald Cleaver (drummer) came to London for a weekend residency at

LOS ANGELES Between 2011 and 2013, thieves committed a rash of burglaries at 12 high schools in the Los Angeles region, stealing tubas from band rooms across the southland. This curious anecdote provides the title for artist Alison ODaniels recent film The Tuba Thieves. Although it features re-enactments of the thefts, the film does not focus solely on the incidents; instead, it weaves these scenes together with other loosely related narratives into a patchwork dealing with loss, grief, communication, community, challenging shifts in perspective, and the different ways we experience the world through sound, vision, and touch.

When she was three, ODaniel was diagnosed with 60% binaural hearing loss and identifies as d/Deaf (the lowercase d representing the physical condition of deafness, and the uppercase D denoting cultural deafness or a connection to the Deaf community). She uses hearing aids but grew up in a hearing family and only learned American Sign Language (ASL) as an adult. Although she can pass as a hearing person you might not realize she is deaf by looking at or talking to her she still faces everyday challenges that hearing people might take for granted.

Theres just always a messiness in my life thats from catching up, compensating, trying to figure things out The relentlessness of ableism, its constant on literally a daily basis, she told Hyperallergic. When Im missing things in conversations and filling in gaps, its super exhausting.

ODaniel says she had two goals when she began making the film a decade ago. One was to recreate this sense of perceptual instability and compensation...

Spanish Athlete Emerges From Cave After 500 Days of Living Underground

Spanish athlete Beatriz Flamini's solo challenge was studied by scientists.

Her 500 days in an underground cave meant she had no idea what was happening in the world. https://t.co/HaqFCMo5V2

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Most people who emerge from caves these days are either enthusiastic spelunkers or people in need of rescue. However, one Spanish extreme athlete purposely chose to descend below the earth and remain in a cave all alone, cut off from the world, in the name of scientific research. After 500 days underground, 50-year-old Beatriz Flamini emerged on Friday, April 14, 2023, back into the light. Her long stay in the cave was a remarkable feat and has generated interesting data and opportunities for research on what such extended isolation can do to the human body and mind.

When Flamini chose to go into the cave on Saturday, November 20, 2021, she was well prepared with a support team in place. At the time of her descent into the 230-foot-deep cave near Granada, the world was a very different place. Her native Spain still had a mask mandate due to COVID-19. Queen Elizabeth II still sat on the throne of England. Roe v. Wade was still law of the land in the United States. Russia had not yet re-escalated the war in the Ukraine. Former President Trump had not yet been indicted. However, as all these things happened, Flamini learned nothing of it. She had given strict instructions to her team to not communicate, even in the case of a family death. If its no communication its no communication regardless of the circumstances. The people who know me knew and respected that, she told NBC.

She took two GoPro cameras down into the cave to record herself. Psychologists, researchers, cave specialists, and physical trainers examined how isolation and spatial disorientation affected her notions of time, her brain patterns, and her sleep. Supplies were lowered down, waste removed in reverse. Flamini reports going through 60 books and 220 gallons of water during that time. On day 65, I stopped counting and lost perception of time, she noted. There were emotional times, but she remained focused on coherence and the treats of avocados and fresh eggs lowered down. Surprisingly, she reports she did not talk to herself out loud, but rather...

Weve seen proof on Reddit (and in the real world) of how hard it is to successfully blend families with children. That is true, I think, whether a family of origin broke up due to death or divorce, although each scenario can present its own issues.

OP lost his mother when he was 9 and gained a stepmother and stepsister in addition to his two younger biological siblings two years later, at 11. His father and stepmother have had two much-younger children of their own at this point.

My mom and dad had me (17m), my sister (14f) and brother (13m) together. Mom died 8 years ago.

Dad remarried 6 years ago and it was not easy for the three of us. Dads wife, Rose, has a daughter whos like 11 now.

They also have a 4 and 2 year old together.

After their father remarried, his younger siblings were still grieving their mother and so was he. In order to help keep her memory alive, or for them to have something to remember at all, he bought a scrapbook and they started saving photos and stories and memories of their mother.

About a week after their wedding, my siblings snuck into my room in the middle of the night, sad about dad being married and the changes that had happened. They asked if I felt like mom really gone now and I said yeah.

I asked them if theyd like for us to have something just for us, no new family involved, where we could remember mom and talk about that stuff. They said yes.

So I raised the money to buy a pretty nice scrapbook and about once a month my siblings would sneak into my room at night and wed put photos in and write memories we had and Id share the stories I remembered of mom, since as the oldest I remembered her best and remembered the stories about her Id heard.

We never added Ro...

New Film Follows Endangered Rhinos and Explores How Technology Can Bring the Species Back

Five years ago, the last male northern white rhinoSudanpassed away. With his death, the fate of the species seemed sealed. There are only two females still living, so how could the endangered species possibly find a way to survive? The answer may be technology. Thanks to the work of a consortium of scientists known as BioRescue, there is still hope that the northern white rhino can make a comeback. Using in-vitro fertilization and stem-cell science, BioRescue has created 24 viable embryos using the eggs of the last two females alive and the frozen sperm of deceased male northern white rhinos.

Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale has been following the story closely, starting with the day in 2009 that Sudan made his way from a zoo in the Czech Republic back to Kenya. She was also there for his last breath, with her photographs bringing international attention to this wildlife crisis. Since 2018, when Sudan passed, she's been actively working with BioRescue to make a miracle happen.

In her new short film, Remembering Sudan, Vitale traces the plight of the northern white rhino. Using the voice of the people who know the rhinos besttheir caretakersit's an incredible look at loss and hope. The film highlights the work of Zacharia Mutai, a keeper at northern Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where Sudan lived. Mutai shares his connections to these animals and his memories of Sudan. As head rhino keeper, he has an intimate bond with these animals and gave comfort to Sudan in his last moments.

Now, he's also a witness to a new possibility for the species thanks to advanced technology. Vitale's film pushes us to mourn the loss of these animals, while also allowing us to marvel at the innovations that could give them a chance to survive. If BioRescue is able to successfully implant the embryos in female southern white rhinos, who will act as surrogates, it could change what we know about extinction. And it could mean a different fate for the more than 14,000 endangered species on our planet today.

Remembering Sud...