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
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
Arab arts and political radicals in London this weekend
And there are cool Arab arts of all sorts in London this summer
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
Chikashi Miyamoto on bespoke suits and biking for children
Riding from London to Edinburgh to support the UK children’s charity The Place2Be