Doug Aitken’s Patterns & Repetitions: James Murphy

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

In a recent installment of artist Doug Aitken’s video series (bringing conversations on “nothing less than the future of art itself” to the NYT), LCD Soundsystem James Murphy keeps it down-to-earth, opening up about the mundane sounds like refrigerator hums and snowbanks that inspire his music.

The Power of Babble

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

Deb Roy of MIT, has been videotaping the last three years of his son’s life. In an effort to better understand how humans learn language and how to improve the ways we can teach it to machines, Roy has logged over 120,000 hours of footage from cameras placed all over his home. Wired talked to Roy about how the project has helped learning about speech …

Any Color You Like (Pyramid IV)

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

Multidisciplinary artist Dev Harlan combines a foam and plaster sculpture with 3D video-mapping to fully-engaging psychedelic effect.