art Artist Jeff Koons explains his massive and wonderful Play-Doh sculpture David Pescovitz

art Fantastic Azerbaijan rug woven to look like it's melting David Pescovitz

activism How to be a guerrilla theatre activist David Pescovitz

fantasy Watch this Tolkien expert's master class on every race in Middle Earth Andrea James

fonts Goldman Sachs releases its own font, forbids criticism of Goldman Sachs with it Rob Beschizza

Technology Elon Musk says Tesla 'Battery Day' and shareholder meeting on September 15 Xeni Jardin

music This is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "symphony of social justice" David Pescovitz

videogames Talking Adventure Games with Dave Gilbert Jeffery Klaehn

poetry Beat poet Michael McClure, RIP David Pescovitz

books The best 250 adventure novels of the 20th century Mark Frauenfelder

literature Get lost in one of 50 contemporary books over 500 pages long Gareth Branwyn

Reviews Recommended reading: The Forgery of Venus, by Michael Gruber Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants 88 Names: Matt Ruff's MMORPG heist novel is "Snow Crash meets the King and I" Cory Doctorow

books All of Me is Illustrated celebrates the Ray Bradbury Centennial with a 21st Century take on "The Illustrated Man" Matt Maranian

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

art Art in the age of artifice Ferdinando Buscema

music The 27-song playlist that Lou Reed made just before he died Gareth Branwyn

movies You can now buy a replica Bill & Ted's time machine telephone booth David Pescovitz

mass surveillance Garnet Hertz's "Experiments in Surveillance Capitalism: Device for Calling the Department of Homeland Security" Gareth Branwyn

Old school The 1970s called and they want their proto-McMansions back! Cory Doctorow