That is Genius

The Cincinnati Daguerreotypes of 1848

Exploring in high detail an America that was newly industrializing and soon to war with itself

Goodbye, Earthlings

Kim Jong-il departs for some distant galaxy of coiffed hairdos and Politburo-issue safari suits

Paula Scher on the spirit of typeface

PBS has an evangelical video for those who still look through type without noticing it


Back flips off the destroyed infrastructure in Gaza

Bringing the daredevil leaps of parkour to the bombed-out buildings of the Gaza Strip

Video of the Egyptian army running over civilians with APCs

But the Egyptian army rules the country, so it is the protesters who face military trials

There’s a soixante-huitard feel to these Occupy protests

Will Zuccotti Park be the Blvd Saint-Michel of our era? These posters suggest a similar spirit


Gavin Russom plays Le Poisson Rouge

He designs and builds his own synthesizers and you can see what he’s up to this Wednesday

Beware, dictatorship can return

Voting is the answer, says this campaign in Tunisia

Robert Clark’s extraordinary photos of Peru

They are beautiful but also temporally confusing in unexpected ways


Syria jumps the shark

Syrian TV says Al Jazeera is building movie sets of Syrian cities to film fake rebel victories

Where were you on September 11th?

Mapping where I stood on that day, and where others stood around the world at the same moment

The people we are assassinating in Pakistan

Osama bin Laden’s death was big news but this site tracks the quiet killings


The Libya my family knew in the 1960s

These archival videos make Libya look more modern than it was but many who knew it then loved it

Where tourists and locals go in Cairo

Genius mash-up map uses Flickr photos to reveal insiders’ favorite areas in cities around the world

Hipstamatic at war

Who knew this iPhone app was wasted on Williamsburg but is at its best in Kabul


Arab arts and political radicals in London this weekend

And there are cool Arab arts of all sorts in London this summer

A typeface for dyslexics

Can the distortion of letters actually improve legibility?

What is this photograph showing?

It is chilling once you figure it out


Again

Famine has returned to East Africa but we only noticed now

Why we will miss this grimy little bar

Mars Bar was a vestige of the East Village in the 1980s: the area cleaned up but the bar never did

Moviebarcodes reveal the mood of a film at a glance

And who knew Stanley Kubrick used color the way Walt Disney did?


A German photographer captures cathode-ray decays

I can even feel the static electricity surge when an old TV was turned off

The CIA history in Syria

Americans might forget but the Syrians surely remember

Chikashi Miyamoto on bespoke suits and biking for children

Riding from London to Edinburgh to support the UK children’s charity The Place2Be