Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Redesigning the Pride Flag, searching space, making the marijuana industry non-profit and more

1. A Pride Flag Incorporating LGBTQ+ People of Color First unfurled at a Pride Month launch celebration in Philadelphia, a new rainbow flag aims to recognize the POC members of the LGBTQ+ community. Part of the “More Color More Pride” campaign, the flag calls to attention—and embraces—the diversity within the already marginalized queer world. A testament to intersectionality, the pride flag’s value lies in its …

Hubble’s New Galactic Finds

10,000 times more luminous than our Milky Way, a series of the universe’s “brightest infrared galaxies” have been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Using a natural phenomenon called gravitation lensing, the galactic imagery has been magnified to “reveal a tangled web of misshapen objects punctuated by exotic patterns, such as rings and arcs,” according to NASA. What’s even more curious about the shapes: speculating …

Tom Sachs’ Space Camp

NYC's Governor's Island is transformed into an art-installation-meets-obstacle-course to celebrate the NikeCraft Mars Yard 2.0

Part film screening, part art installation and part obstacle course, Space Camp is a true marriage of art and fitness. Presented as a look into the routines that members of Tom Sachs‘ studio go through on a regular basis, the experience is set in a warehouse on Governor’s Island in NYC. After watching “The Hero’s Journey,” a new film by Sachs and Van Neistat, guests …