New Pursuit of Wonder book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D4VSD88
This video is a short story about a hyper-intelligent boy named Simon and his journey through the most volatile time in human history. Compelled by traumatic childhood events, Simon decides he will be the one who finds the edge of universe and the source of everything.
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September 4, 2024
Art Craft
Jackie Andres
An African Survey.” All images © Barbara Wildenboer
While heavy, hardcover reference books often embody prestige and historical value, the comprehensive volumes also carry an air of intellectual overload. Filled from cover to cover with extensive and complex concepts, the tomes beckon the Paradox of Knowledge, which states that the more we learn, the more we realize how little we actually know.
This vexing liminal space between the known and unknown is a driving force for Barbara Wildenboer’s work. The Cape Town-based artist (previously) sources secondhand books that span a wide range of languages, worldviews, and subjects such as philosophy, art, history, music, biology, archaeology, and more. Fascinated by linguistics and systems of writing, Wildenboer aims to decode the ways that we assign meaning to symbols. […]
“Genesis”
“After Beethoven”
“On the Philosophy of History”
More: Sliced Slivers Emanate from Barbara Wildenboer’s Altered Books — Colossal
Croissants are the most popular food from France. But in a cuisine so well known for its complicated dishes, why is a small pastry the thing that France and the world is obsessed with?
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Credits:
Producer – Matthew Li
Production Assistant – Mana Chuabang
Script Supervisor – Russ Medcalf
Special thanks:
Louis Govier
Yusef Iqbal
Alex Longthorne
Yeevonne Lim
Dylan Payne
Brandon Goddard
Music from Musicbed
Bakeries I went to:
-Du Pain et des Idées
-Sain Boulangerie
-Poilâne
-Société de Boulangerie de Rennes
-La Maison d’Isabelle
Timestamps:
0:00 – Why do the French love croissants
1:14 – Where croissants are really from
1:58 – Du Pain et des Idées
2:38 – How croissants took over France
4:13 – Straight croissants vs curved croissants
5:16 – Pain au chocolat
7:26 – Pain aux raisins
8:28 – I get it now
9:00 – Bastille Day in Paris
9:39 – France’s bakery crisis
10:49 – An ode to Paris
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