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Interview with Japan's legendary artist, who has been painting polka dots ever since she started as an artist.
In this video, she talks about one of her works, a light installation depicting her cosmic vision.
Yayoi Kusama was the most important contemporary artist living in Japan.
In this video, she talks about her life, how her parents were against her becoming an artist, and how she decided to go to New York because she wanted to compete with the best artists.
She also describes her working process and how she is always surprised by the result.
Interview by Christian Lund, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, London, February 2012.
In his 1995 novel set in 2055, the great sci-fi writer described the standard accessory of the mid-21st century: the notepad.*
Features:
• Voice controlled, it provides information the same way — by voice — along with a hi-res 3D color screen to illustrate things as needed.
• Built into the notepad are Sisyphus, a knowledge mining program; Witness, which lets an individual's eyes and ears channel their real-time inputs into an essentially infinite memory as a record; and Hermes, communications software which serves as a control point for information in and out.
• All input is automatically uploaded via satellite so that nothing is ever lost; losing one's notepad is thus no big deal, as you can go into any dealer (they're everywhere), buy a new one, and in a few seconds download your life via satellite, ready to go on from where you were.
I think I'm gonna read it again, just thinking about this.
Since it first appeared in 1998, Google Search has become so embedded into everyday life that it's become a verb ("Google it").
I haven't used it for at least a month and won't be in the future.
That's because AI is now markedly better for everyday queries and boy is it fast: it's rare to wait even a minute for a detailed answer like that above.
In the past I would've been visiting website after website looking for the particular song — David Bowie's "Modern Love" — that Perplexity Pro spit out in about 30 seconds.
In Brussels' iconic Grand-Place, a summer tradition literally blossoms in monumental style. The city's Flower Carpet event, which this year celebrated its 24th edition, celebrates art, community, and diplomacy in the heart of Belgium's capital, which is also the hub of the European Union. From August 13 to 16, the event marked 160 years of friendship between the nation and Japan, inviting artist Hiro Sugiyama to design a city square-sized composition, which he conceived as a tribute to ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Titled "Neo Hokusai," the monumental arrangement comprised more than 750,000 fresh dahlias, covering nearly 14,000 square feet. Framed with ornate patterns, the reimagining of the famous woodblock print "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa," from Hokusai's series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (1830-1832), glows in bright magenta, vermilion, and yellow. Flowers covered about 80 percent of the entire design.
Dahlias aren't the only species artists have chosen for the carpet in the past, although the 2024 edition also incorporated the voluminous blossoms. In 2018, a design highlighting the central Mexican region of Guanajuato grew out of one million begonias and was captured in an aerial timelapse by Joerg Daiber.
This year, the dahlias were sourced in partnership with Bloemencorso Loenhout, a giant flower parade that has been running for three quarters of a century in the northern city of Loenhout. This year, that event kicks off on September 12.
I happened on the declaration in the headline while browsing around in bookofjoe's statistics pages.
I must be crazy 'cause it made me really happy!
I have no idea what a blog follower is or how you become one but clearly I'm not alone — I mean, there are over 8 billion people not in the least interested.
FunFacts: After I moved boj here from Typepad on October 1, 2025, I averaged 300-500 pageviews/day for a few months. Since then the numbers have steadily increased, such that for the past two weeks I've been getting around 2,000/day. I find that a pleasant surprise, since boj on Typepad for the years before it went defunct on Sepember 30 of last year was averaging 500 pageviews/day.
Once upon a time in blog supremacy days (2010-2012) 15,000 pageviews/day was the average, with occasional peaks up to 100,000 when a major website would pick up something I'd posted.
The legendary French director said in an interview that the difference in how people perceived movies and television resulted from the placement of the screen.
Godard noted that we generally look down at the TV screen (remember, this was back in the day, when screens were much smaller) and up at a movie screen.
He believed the supplication-like nature of looking up created a sense of worship, making us more likely to imbue what we see with greater meaning and force.
Gazing down at the TV screen did the opposite, making us spectators rather than participants.
With the advent of large flat screens, it's now possible to come closer to the cinema experience by placing the screen up rather than at eye level or lower.
This 2007 23-minute-long film features Brit Marling in her first role.
I stumbled on it last week while compiling a list of movies I really liked, a number of which feature her, including "Another Earth" (2011), "Sound of My Voice" (2012), and "I Origins" (2014).
Like her subsequent full-length films cited above, "The Recordist" tilts the world such that an unlikely but possible premise gets introduced into the mix of events and drives them.
Watch it free, the way we like it.
N.B. I'm not sleeping on her fantastic "The OA" — two seasons on Netflix, in 2016 and 2019, popular and acclamied, then abruptly cancelled as Netflix decided to move on to something new.
These occupy a liminal space in my array of writing implements and accessories: I only learned of their existence a month or so ago and immediately took a flutter.
Turns out these 4" x 6" notepads are very useful for any number of things and their killer app is that they have a double life as real Post-its.
I stick them all over the place, wherever/whenever I want to remind myself of something that I'd rather not add to a lengthy to-do list.
As David Bowie said in the lead-in to "Modern Love": "Get things done."
In the video above you will note how the "expert" unrolls the elastic bandage.
Look closely.
Now watch below as a real expert demonstrates the correct way to unroll and apply the bandage.
Long story short (which I learned on the first day of my orthopedic surgery rotation in my third year of med school): unroll the material away from your body as is demonstrated in the lower video.
Lagniappe: the correct technique is faster and yields a more professional appearance.
In recent years my daily pageviews averaged 300-500/day, down from the halcyon days of 2010-2012 when 15,000 daily views was the norm.
When Typepad shut down on September 30, 2025, and I shifted boj over to Blogger starting the next day, there was an initial spike of interest followed by a reversion to the longtime norm up until the end of July, when a steady increase in views started and has continued to the point that for the past 10 days there've been an average of 2,000 pageviews daily (above).
ALPR stands for "Automatic License Plate Recognition."
As Flock cameras rapidly proliferate throughout the U.S. now, some 20 years later — sometimes destroyed soon after installation —Sgt. Stewart's prediction has been borne out.
Development began in August 2018 with Chris McKay as producer and Jon and Josh Silberman writing the screenplay. Green was hired to direct in December 2019, and Burch, Slater, and Gunn joined the following year. Cena, Forte and Condor were cast in early 2022. Live-action filming took place in New Mexico from March to May 2022. The film was produced by Warner Animation Group, Keylight Pictures, and Gunn's production company Troll Court Entertainment.
Warner Brothers Discovery initially shelved Coyote vs. Acme in November 2023 to obtain a tax write-off, but later reversed its decision and allowed the filmmakers to seek other distributors following public backlash. After several unsuccessful negotiations with various distributors, Ketchup Entertainment acquired the rights for $50 million in March 2025, after previously doing so with the North American distribution rights to Warner Bros. Animation's The Day The Earth Blew Up (2024).
Coyote vs. Acme was screened at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25, 2026, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on August 28, 2026.
As soon as I read the rave review in the Wall Street Journal last month I took a flutter on it.
OMG, to someone like me who's been fascinated by the Roman Empire since I was first exposed to it in Miss Shaw's Latin 1 at Washington High School, which consisted of reading Julius Caesar's magnificent "The Gallic Wars" in their original Latin, this book is pure heaven.
Unlike Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," all six fat volumes of which I read 10-15 years ago after shying away from its immenseness for decades (full disclosure: I loved the first four volumes but it was a real trudge through the last two [you can too, right here!]), the current treatment is a lavishly illustrated 305-page oversized tome which is beautifully written and organized such that I can't wait for each day's session with it.
‘I Feel Motherly Towards Them’: The Nature Reserve Manager Sharing Her Office With A Wasp Nest
Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was to get rid of the wasps entering her converted shipping container in Norfolk. Now she enjoys their constant hum.
“They just built the nest inside my door,” she says. “My first thought was: ‘Oh no, I have to get rid of that now.’ But then I realised: ‘Wait, why? Why do I have to do that?’”
Two months on, Rothney is in a co-working arrangement with the nest, which is now more than a metre tall and swallows an entire bookshelf of ring binders. It has papered the inside of her office in what she calls “lovely layers of colours”, with thousands of chewed wood pulp cells stacked like the world’s strangest filing system.
Rather than evict her new colleagues, Rothney adapted. She opened the window to give the wasps a clear flight path. “I just stroll past like I’m a browsing cow, calmly going about my day,” she says. “The wasps were fine with me being there. The longer I was there, the more I felt relaxed being alongside them.”
The queen lays eggs continuously, while worker wasps forage and bring food back to feed the larvae. That, in turn, exudes a sugary liquid that the adult workers drink. Rothney describes a low purring sound rising off the nest, which she believes comes from thousands of wings beating to keep the colony cool. “It’s almost like the colony in itself is a living organism,” she says.
She says she isn’t worried about being stung – “it wouldn’t be a whole lot worse than mosquito bites” – and her advice for anyone less enthusiastic than her is: “Insects learn that certain individuals won’t harm them. Just keep calm, they will sense that and won’t feel threatened.”
Rothney traces her convictions about wildlife back to an ecology field trip at university, and to what she describes as “a kind of poetry and beauty in understanding the intricate relationships between everything”. She says she has become increasingly frustrated by how easily the label “pest” becomes a green light for extermination. “It’s fair enough if people don’t like wasps,” she says, “but we need to move away from things just being killed out of convenience. We cause a lot of damage with that approach.”
She is quick to defend the wasps which interfere with picnics every August, too. By late summer, the larvae stop producing their sugary secretion, leaving the adult workers suddenly cut off from their main food source, she says. “The poor things are starving. It’s not a battle between them and me. They’re desperate. Let’s provide them with that sugar and maybe draw them away from someone’s real ale in the evening.
“All I want is for people to be more tolerant of wasps, and of nature generally. I’m proud to be working where I am, and it’s our 100th anniversary this year – so maybe the wasps are celebrating too!”
As the weather turns this autumn, Rothney says, the queen will stop laying, the males and worker wasps will die off, and next year’s queens will leave to hibernate alone. By winter, the nest will be empty.
“It’ll be sad when they leave. I do feel motherly towards them,” she says. “It’ll be odd when they’re gone, because even the noise itself is amazing.”
And when the nest is empty? “I’m going to try to take it apart very carefully when they leave so I can see what it looks like inside.”
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