Reads by Maria Popova

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Reads by Maria Popova

Animation Spotlight: Forget

Balloons, nested dolls, and a man with a cardboard box on his head.

We Got Time: Hand-Illustration Meets In-Camera Animation Magic

What a French invention from 1877 has to do with superb modern animation.

Writing Without Words: Visualizing Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”

Literature as a canvas, a book as a living organism, and rhythm as a texture.

(R)evolutionary Record: The Darwin Song Project

Under house arrest by art and science, or what evolution has to do with independent music.

Photographic Time Machine

How to tear the space-time continuum with your bare hands and a camera lens.

Hyper-Marketing Meets Meta-Art: Tate Tracks

How to lure twentysomethings, or what Basement Jaxx have to do with high art.

Curating Twitter: Three Hand-Picked Must-Follows

Because #followfriday is insufficient, props are to be given, and we like Big Words.

Running The Numbers: Oceanographic Visualization

What 20,500 tuna have to do with your old toothbrush, or how a plastic comb ended up on top of Japan’s most iconic volcano.

The Sale of Manhattan: A Saul Bass Gem Circa 1962

What Saul Bass has to do with George W, or why Manhattan is worth $32 worth of junk jewelry.

Pure Process: Picking the Creative Brain

What coffee, ironing and crying newborns have to do with the birth of an idea.

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Reads by Maria Popova

Balloons, nested dolls, and a man with a cardboard box on his head.

What a French invention from 1877 has to do with superb modern animation.

Literature as a canvas, a book as a living organism, and rhythm as a texture.

Under house arrest by art and science, or what evolution has to do with independent music.

How to tear the space-time continuum with your bare hands and a camera lens.

How to lure twentysomethings, or what Basement Jaxx have to do with high art.

Because #followfriday is insufficient, props are to be given, and we like Big Words.

What 20,500 tuna have to do with your old toothbrush, or how a plastic comb ended up on top of Japan’s most iconic volcano.

What Saul Bass has to do with George W, or why Manhattan is worth $32 worth of junk jewelry.

What coffee, ironing and crying newborns have to do with the birth of an idea.

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