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• World's oldest tree still growing near the Norwegian-Swedish border | Science Norway

• Taliban founder's Toyota Corolla dug up after spending 21 years buried | AutoBlog

• Secret Van Gogh self-portrait discovered by X-ray of another painting | The Washington Post

• On Bill Watterson’s Refusal To License Calvin and Hobbes | THE [LEGAL] ARTIST

• A Vampire-Hunting Kit Purportedly From the 19th Century Sells for $20,000 in the U.K., Exploding Its Meager $2,800 Estimate | ArtNet

• A mysterious cult that predates Stonehenge | BBC Travel

• 'A truce with the trees’: Rebecca Solnit on the wonders of a 300-year old violin | The Guardian

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• A useful primer: GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

• "The ’Virtual Ink’ series is an homage to the ritual of traditional Chinese painting techniques re-imagined in the digital. From this foundation, the practice of mark-making becomes a wellspring of inspiration in developing artistic tools of tomorrow, in the creation of sculptural line-work that communicates the uncertainty, fluidity and temporality of form." | Sougwen Chung

• Dystopian ‘Collaged’ Figurines by Hiroki Tsukuda Depict The Darkest Hour | Spoon & Tamago

• "The fleshy tones and poses are so nearly real —yet so obviously not—that it’s difficult to accept the images have been developed without direct human input. But perhaps most astonishing are the interview answers above; the AI machine interviews itself, revealing among other truths that it would like Gun and Roses played at its funeral...": The debut issue of PLAYBOT, a porn mag created by AI for AI. | magculture

• Newly identified waterlily species is world’s largest | The Guardian

• Not a huge fan of the "intense focus Hemingwriter"-type thing, but I'm sort of in love with the Flowo | Yanko Design

• A Ramen Shop in Japan Inspired by Old, Pixelated Video Games | Design Milk

• Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei (1776–79) | Public Domain Review

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• Devouring this site: Unseen64: Cancelled Video Games & Their Lost Media

• The Leather Scrap Kimono by Tomoe Shinohara is Inspired by Hazy Mountains | Spoon & Tamago

• Just finished SEA OF TRANQUILITY. It's a work of magic. This is a fantastic profile of one of my favorite writers working today: The Rewriting of Emily St. John Mandel | The New Yorker

• Writer Sarah Manguso on learning to direct your creative energy | The Creative Independent

• because you never know when it could come in handy: How to make edible slime with just two ingredients | SoraNews24

• Fascinated by both Oulipo and Constrained writing: a recognition that this is something I've long practiced in my creative work, from my music days through today.

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• Plants grow in lunar soil for first time | Inhabitat

• Sharon Van Etten: ‘I don’t share 99% of my music: sometimes it’s too dark’ | The Guardian

• Alexander in the Bathysphere | The Public Domain Review

• 🎵"You're all I need..." 🎵 Lego built a $170 Transformers Optimus Prime that actually transforms | The Verge

• No, wait; I also need this one: LEGO Ideas Auto Repair Garage 1930s Achieves 10,000 Supporters | The Brick Fan

• How Much Time We Spend Alone and With Others | FlowingData

• Filippo Balbi’s *Testa Anatomica* (1854) | The Public Domain Review

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• These scholars argue America should be broken up into 13 regions | Fast Company

• Why creators leave comics for video games (and what brings them back) | Comics Beat

• Film: The Far Outsider: SHAITANI DRACULA | Acidemic

• US arrests Japanese yakuza leader over alleged missiles-for-heroin plot | The Guardian

• Rebekah Del Rio on Llorando, Mulholland Drive, David Lynch | IndieWire

• Writer Jordan Kisner on following your curiosity | The Creative Independent

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• Scepticism is a way of life that allows democracy to flourish | Aeon Essays

• Mир / Mir | a closer listen

• Éliane Radigue’s Music Without End | Bandcamp Daily

• The one and only Elizabeth Joan Kelly is back with two releases this week: a new Orca, Attack! cassingle and a track on Jonas Geiger Ohlin’s MUSIC FOR CLEAN WATER compilation.

• UKRAINIAN FIELD NOTES | a closer listen

• Volodymyr Zelensky on why Ukraine must defeat Putin | The Economist

• Michael Corleone and the Economics of ‘The Godfather’ | Foreign Policy

• An Introduction to Japan’s Visceral Cyberpunk Cinema in Five Cult Films | AnOther

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• Rear Window board game, based on the classic film, sounds amazing | Polygon

• Covering Ishiguro | {feuilleton}

• These Desk Lamps Were Once E-Scooters Found in the Malmö Canals | Design Milk

• LEGO Ideas The Orient Express, A Legendary Train Achieves 10,000 Supporters | The Brick Fan

• Often feel caught in a glitch – though Caillard's works are far more beautiful than my glitch-face: Glitches Distort Art Historical Figures in Abstracted Marble Sculptures by Léo Caillard | Colossal

• I kind of want a new guitar now: Hot Wheels and Fender create line of diecast model-inspired guitars | Autoblog

• While I'm generally loath to recommend any of the current Substackian throng of comics writers newsletters (though I subscribe - free - to a number of them to see what they're doing with the form) as the quality ranges anywhere from moderately interesting to borderline unreadable, Jeff Lemire's Tales from the Farm is, nonetheless, an outlier: it's consistently fantastic, one of the rare ones that I genuinely look forward to. In the latest, he provides a great look at how he writes and draws so many books – and I also learned that I've been mispronouncing his last name oops.

• Spectra #1 | magCulture

• Ukrainian Artist Maria Prymachenko’s Fantastical Visions Have Captivated the World—Here Are 3 Key Insights Into Her Life and Work | Artnet News

• Rent-a-stranger: This Japanese man makes a living showing up and doing nothing | The Washington Post

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• An essential daily read: Kyiv - The War Diary of Yevgenia Belorusets | isolarii

• 'Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes | Politico

• Very Abstract Pixel Art | kottke

• Curiosity | zineopolis

• ‘Metropolis’ TV Adaptation From Sam Esmail Lands Series Order At Apple | Deadline

• After Years of Painstaking Research, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna Says Its ‘Salvator Mundi’ May Be a Genuine Titian | artnet

• Lego Jeep of 120,000 pieces crumbles as builder sits in it | Autoblog

• 10 Groundbreaking True Crime Books | Publisher's Weekly

• The Danger of Dark Triad Leaders | Psychology Today

• Valery Gergiev and the Nightmare of Music Under Putin | The New Yorker

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• Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493) | The Public Domain Review

• Marvel Super Heroes: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book Coming This Fall | Bleeding Cool

• The LEGO Foundation Ready to Donate LEGO MRI Scanners to Hospitals | The Brick Fan

• Old Marvel versus Sherlock Holmes | {feuilleton}

• Ukraine chapters from manga “If There Is Conflict, Call Hatta” released for free online | SoraNews24

• A one-of-a-kind saucepan with David Bowie’s face on it exists – and can be yours for $600 | Dangerous Minds

• I wrote the book on pandemic psychology. Post-Covid will take some getting used to | The Guardian

• Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of 80s Home Computers | MacRumors

• Police baffled by bizarre guard rail crime theft crime spree in Japan (via SoraNews24).

• Spiral #2 | magculture

• Streamlined Watches Designed to Slow Down Time | The Slowdown

• 8 Ways to Embrace Solitude | Psychology Today

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• Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: *Composition* (1905 edition) (via The Public Domain Review).

• Unused Polaroids of John Lennon Taken by Andy Warhol for the Album Cover of ‘Imagine’ (1971) (via Vintage Everyday).

• Quinones's DREAMLAND is essential: Bestselling Author Sam Quinones on the Transforming Drug Landscape in America (via The Daily Yonder).

• Patton Oswalt Vs ComiXology And The App Update (via Bleeding Cool).

• Ford Broncos piling up again in a Michigan holding lot (via Autoblog).

• ‘It’s the end of a big adventure’: Cillian Murphy bids farewell to Peaky Blinders (via The Guardian).

• Tetris Waffle Iron (via The Awesomer).