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Sofia-based sculptor Eugene Laguten works in bronze and brass to capture what dance makes temporary -- the gesture, the balance, the body reaching into space.
Meet Vignê, the Lagos-based singer-songwriter blending Afrocentric rhythms, R&B and soul into her own creative universe. Her EP Etherea is out now, and her single Water hit #1 on The Playlist’s Jazz, Blues & Soul chart.
Fantasy author Adrian Rowen on world-building, revision, and what it actually takes to turn years of imagination into a finished debut novel, with an excerpt from The Aegis War.
Writer and artist cesi explores thangka painting -- mineral pigment, gold line, slow measure -- and how the process of making a sacred Tibetan scroll trains the attention of the maker.
Francisco Monteiro Jr. talks craft, risk, and making psychologically charged short films in Brazil, from the decade-delayed Estalos to the raw, unrehearsed Georgia.
The finale of Clay Boone's October horror serial. A dead boy's journal, a priest who won't say the quiet part out loud, and a TAC officer who finally understands what's been watching him all year.
Minnesota creator Josh Liljenquist (Joshlilj) talks simple questions, real moments, brand partnerships that don’t take over, and why the people he films have just as much to give as he does.
Finn Jennen spent 87 days in San Francisco and came back with a question: what if making technology fun and exciting is one of the most important things we can do for the future?
Director Christine Weatherup is terrified of spiders. So naturally she made a horror comedy short about one. Here’s the behind-the-scenes story of Bathroom Spider, from CG spider design to prop spiders left behind in the writer’s apartment.
Rocky Johnson on creating a hand-drawn settlement map and leather bracelet from his horror series Children of Lamentation, and why his family built them with him.