...around convergence events in the media, such as the release of the Apple Watch, a Buzzfeed feature on the phobia, and a growing presence on reddit. Searching #trypophobia throws up...
...on the ground, to perform real acts. To manufacture reality with imaginary materials: that is the prerogative of artists and writers. And toward this outlet from her dilemma she gradually...
...upon her. As ever, Caitlin Constantine's take on this is razor-sharp: "It’s absolutely valid to ask why Jones, who did not medal in Beijing, is considered so much more marketable...
...of any particular other person. One is simply emotionally competent, in the abstract. Thus online dating preconceives any potential intimacy as generic. But in reality, intimacy reveals itself in unpredictable...
...dinosaurs in 1925's The Lost World, first tested the method of Claymation by animating a boxing match in 1915. O'Brien used to be a professional boxer himself and, years later,...
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Day One 1. Now that I have no other place to go, I’ll go into my grandmother’s fingers, wrap myself with her blanket,...
...from the bright flash become a cloud, become a “thick tree with a dense plume.” Despite her desire to protect, neither Selah, the woman who webs her hands, nor her...
...a deep connection with the machines, commodities, concepts, and spaces that curse us, a collusion with enemy materials against their social forms. It involves tuning ourselves to their histories and...
...we were experiencing. The rope was 2000 pound test professional rigging rope. The weak point was the rebar we were using as ground anchors. The half-inch steel rods, cut into...
...reckoning with the mushroom cloud as an image, lots of storytellers imagining different nuclear scenarios. Atomic language had all these cultural deployments. The drone moment that we live in is...
...state-operated sites into the Bay of Biscay. Yet before the officers on the ship could even finish their mission, radioactive materials from the improperly sealed containers began to surface in...
...always been deeply contested. Most famously, the English enclosure acts passed mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries uprooted a long tradition of shared and common lands and turned them...
...takeover by Yahoo. They never replied to my request for an explanation.) I used to frequently hear from men who stumbled upon the site after searching some combination of the...