Karen Walker Visible

Veggie kiosks, time warp photography, news from space and more in our look at the web this week

While many products tout the fact that they are made by marginalized artisans overseas, the harsh truth is that the customer will likely never see or interact with them. For her spring eyewear collection, prominent New Zealand fashion designer Karen Walker worked with the United Nations’ ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative (whose motto is “NOT CHARITY, JUST WORK”) to create a new campaign that acknowledges and …

Space News

Veggie kiosks, time warp photography, news from space and more in our look at the web this week

Two new space discoveries are changing the way scientists, physicists, astronomers and other experts will come to perceive the universe. First, tiny pockets of water were found hiding in flakes of interplanetary dust particles—literal stardust—which increases the possibility that humans aren’t on our own. Second, dark matter—an invisible type that has only been hypothesized—may have been spotted for the first time. Like the lyric from …

Mysteries of the Unseen World

See beyond the limits of human vision with this 3D film from National Geographic, which makes its NY premiere at the American Museum of Natural History

The current René Magritte exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (which concludes on 12 January), titled “The Mystery of the Ordinary,” showcased surrealist paintings by the Belgian artist that challenged the way the viewer would perceive the “ordinary.” In a similar—and more contemporary—vein, “Mysteries of the Unseen World” is a film that takes the seemingly ordinary and applies advanced imagining technologies to …