It’s been a while since I’ve done a world pool post, partly because the news has just been so depressing. And yes, I’ve got depressing stuff (also useful/interesting), but I’m going to save it for later and start 2019 with happier content.
Art + Design + Writing
Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver died on January 17th. I loved her writing. Rather than an obituary, have something written when she was alive.
What Mary Oliver’s Critics Don’t Understand
Nature […] with its endless cycles of death and rebirth, fascinated her. Walking in the woods, she developed a method that has become the hallmark of her poetry, taking notice simply of whatever happens to present itself. Like Rumi, another of her models, Oliver seeks to combine the spiritual life with the concrete: an encounter with a deer, the kisses of a lover, even a deformed and stillborn kitten. “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work,” she writes.
Art
Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle, Remedios Varo, 1961
“Sometimes the city lands right on top of you.”
Friendly tower cranes, grinning street signs, and other adventures in augmented reality
Photography
Interview: Photographer Spends 10 Years Capturing the Visual Symphony of Waves
Just cool
Frozen in time: the miraculous gold rush movies buried under the Yukon ice
Just for fun
Why you’re tying your shoelaces all wrong
