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I just discovered a new site that reviews films; graphic novels and books and I really like it. I found out about some cool new graphic novels I hadn't heard of, and I've heard of most of them. The site is by an Australian but not, to the best of my knowledge, by anyone who I know.
posted by carriage pulled by cassowaries at 11:25 PM PST - 8 comments

How long has it been since we had a Flash Friday?
The Mellow Mushroom is a chain of pizza restaurants based and primarily set in the U.S. state of Georgia. What else is owned and operated in Georgia? Homestar Runner! Back in 2001 these two semiagrarian planets shared an orbit for a time: the Brothers Chaps made a website for Mellow Mushroom that will look and sound very familiar to fans of Strong Bad and friends. The site changed design in 2007, but the Chaps' version is still hosted on the company's website, and although Flash is dead, if you install the Ruffle browser extension you can see the site largely as it existed back when it was active. More information is on the Homestar Runner Wiki. [more inside]
posted by JHarris at 2:41 PM PST - 25 comments

SolarProphet is a youtube creator who's recently been on a kick of "[song] but every lyric is an AI generated image". A fun example of human creativity with AI images. ("Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" is possibly my favourite.) SLYTChannel.
posted by Shark Hat at 1:18 PM PST - 26 comments

The utterly delightful site dedicated to classifying plastic bread tags is an article by Annie Rauwerda about The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group [previously], or horg.com (horg.org is squatted upon), where John Daniel classifies occlupanids, or plastic bread tags, with biological rigor, taxonomizing the 208 types into 17 families, as well as discussing pseudo-occlupanids.
posted by Kattullus at 12:19 PM PST - 27 comments

And if the camera were to pull back to show me lying on my bed on this July day in 2022, you would see beside me a copy of Industry Of Magic & Light by David Keenan. And a copy of Love And Let Die by John Higgs... This letter to you, dear reader, is not a commentary on these books, let alone any sort of review. This letter to you is my response to them lying on my bed while my body is being battered by the Covid. From Corrugated Iron: Bill Drummond On David Keenan, John Higgs And The 1960s
posted by chavenet at 12:13 PM PST - 2 comments

Diversity and creativity in LGBTQ+ young adult books is thriving. Authors told The 19th why that’s important and recommended some of their favorites.
posted by Etrigan at 10:43 AM PST - 29 comments

A list of things people blamed on jazz (SLTwitter)
posted by vverse23 at 10:38 AM PST - 84 comments

Street life is what makes the places we live feel alive. From grand avenues and shopping strips to pedestrianised backstreets and leafy squares, these streets are manageable microcosms of the world’s most exciting cities – each one chock-full of independent businesses, creative humans and everything else that makes urban life brilliant. Ready to take a stroll? TimeOut asked more than 20,000 people the question: what’s the coolest street in your city?
posted by Laura in Canada at 8:28 AM PST - 83 comments

Every A24 Movie, Ranked (Nate Jones for Vulture) [more inside]
posted by box at 6:03 AM PST - 49 comments

French artist Vaskange uses infinitely zooming images to tell stories: the story of a robot, or his holidays, or a dream . The animations (made with the app "Endless paper") are reminiscent of work like 3 Secondes by fellow Frenchman Marc-Antoine Mathieu. Look out for the reflections!
posted by rongorongo at 5:32 AM PST - 6 comments

The 10-minute pilot episode of the 1994 Live-Action US version of Sailor Moon [more inside]
posted by one for the books at 12:52 AM PST - 7 comments