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taken from real

Hiki Reedy makes art in every medium. Her real subject is who gets to change a thing and call it their own.

Pascale Arahia · Sep 20, 2026

editor's note

borrowed time

Who made this first, and who got the credit for it later.

Pascale Arahia · Aug 24, 2026

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24 gramos de café

How to develop black and white film with instant coffee, washing soda and vitamin C.

Diego Osuna Rodríguez · Aug 23, 2026

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death of the snapshot

The photographs that pierce us are the ones nobody meant to take. Our phones are now built so that those photographs never happen.

Pascale Arahia · Aug 23, 2026

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nobody knew your name

Three American rap scenes built their music for listeners who already knew the references.

Pascale Arahia · Aug 23, 2026

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the long practice

Ed Templeton on the week as it actually runs, and whose opinion still counts.

Pascale Arahia · Aug 23, 2026

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the shore remembers

Pīngao built the dunes of Aotearoa. A grass shipped in from Europe undid most of that work inside a century.

Pascale Arahia · Aug 23, 2026

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the underground was a position

Thrasher's outlaw politics were a sales strategy, and the man who wrote them manufactured axles.

Pascale Arahia · Aug 23, 2026

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the oracle's playlist, vol. 02

Twelve tracks for the hour between leaving and arriving, when you are still deciding what you want.

Pascale Arahia · Aug 22, 2026

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the second city

I wasn't leaving San Francisco. I was coming back.

Pascale Arahia · Aug 22, 2026

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ankle height

On The Tired Video, and the most honest thing skateboarding has made about getting old.

Pascale Arahia · Aug 20, 2026

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