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ImagineHearthlands
Jon Batiste is as multidimensional as musicians come — from second-line parades in New Orleans to scoring Pixar's Soul. Hearing Green Day's 'Holiday' for the first time (though he faintly recalls it from an elevator), he crafts an impromptu piano accompaniment, blending jazz sensibilities
Hey friends, The air feels thick with ugly questions right now. About the world, about the future, about each other. I may have breathed a few
Move meUnfolding Realm
Iulia Bochis is a Romanian illustrator whose art is inspired by the magic of life and the human spark of love and creativity. Her illustrated affirmations are a calming salve for your scrolling habit — gentle, tender images that might be exactly what your feed needs right now.
Make senseUnfolding Realm
A perspective on productivity that shifts away from rigid, task-oriented approaches toward cultivating 'desire paths' that honour both process and purpose. Rather than 'grit it out' or 'wait for inspiration,' River Kenna proposes a 'soul-making' productivity that treats creativity as an ap
Surprise meEntangled Vale
A fun, spiky challenge to our relationship with time and efficiency. Rory Sutherland's killer example: what if the brief for High Speed 2 had gone to Disney instead of engineering firms? 'They'd have said: the right question is how do we make the journey between London and Manchester so en
WonderSoma Isles
Terroir is the deep, unrepeatable alchemy between a place's soil, climate and culture that shapes what grows there into something unmistakably of that place. Usually associated with wine and coffee, but does it apply to food? The Food Chain looks at the science, speaking with a honey exper
Move meMaker's Forge
In a world that is so loud, a little shrew searches for Hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city. A four-minute animated film written, directed and scored by Kate Bush for a charity supporting children in war zones. If you're out there helplessly hoping and somewhat numb to your
Hey friends, The other day, a contact I don’t often speak to told me, “You seem more confident about Grokkist lately. You’ve gone from
Surprise meEntangled Vale
'Complaining about the work ethic of the next generation is a time-worn tradition.' Anne Helen Petersen argues that the critique of younger generations is really a sublimated critique of a generation's own parenting: no one wants to admit that the decisions they made produced the workers t
ImagineMaker's Forge
A surreal stop-motion short about 'the existence of dreams that have lost their dreamers' — deserted dream worlds that become physically real and drift through the cosmos as space-time bubbles, observed and archived for study. Like Wallace & Gromit's Grand Day Out as made by the Brothers Q
WonderMaker's Forge
Twenty Thousand Hertz explores the stories behind the world's most recognisable sounds — the Netflix 'tudum,' subway announcements, the 8-bit music of Zelda. In this episode, the Apple design team pulls back the curtain on their sound-design philosophy, from the evolution of the classic 'T
WonderSoma Isles
Can someone be held responsible for a crime committed under a genuinely-held but mistaken belief? In 1800s London, a bricklayer in his white work clothes was mistaken for a ghost said to be terrorising Hammersmith — and shot dead by a resident determined to stop the hauntings. The shooter'