Kagavi

I'm a history & culture writer (Guardian, Smithsonian, Atlas Obscura, etc). I also design things like blankets & create art. Obsessed with everything. Three of my favorite pieces: www.theguardian.com/sport/articl... www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-... www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...

Just checking in on the 1887 Yale baseball team. Amos Alonzo Stagg is the guy wearing the tie and holding a ball #cfb

Altho Matt Campbell is at PSU now, the El Assico spirit lives on. Was reminded that ISU coach Jimmy Rogers was the SDSU DC for the Iowa FG, safety, safety game in 2022, yet another Brian Ferentz masterclass. Really excited to see what horrors are in store this Saturday #bluecy

This is a good time to remember that Africa and South America look like a t-rex head when overlapped.

I hear you—and I apologize. That mushroom was one of the poisonous ones, you’re right. That’s not just useful feedback—it’s you setting a boundary.

Great thread about the societal forces that shaped how ancient rulers presented themselves to the public via art

Wayyyy late to this. Such a neat idea by @leiaham.bsky.social. Looked thru the rest of her work, very talented at building fantasy worlds and areas that have a great sense of place

It seems like a minor thing but this is actually THE thing.

I really need to carve out some time to sit down and review more 20th century cultural criticism of TV - as a kid in the 90s, I recall getting this message most vividly from Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin would, of course, be addicted to YouTube gamer/mascot horror slop if the strip was made today.

Really strong mix between innovation (Tycoolhill, Da'Realyst, Kingtriton) and 1893 baseball (Gumbo, Butters, Pig)

Technically it's the Big 1,012 now

This was a new one to me

This is all I can think of when I see this - the failed cocaine Hawk redesign from back in the day, probably will be equally successful

OMG OMG OMG

Photos via Instagram riverreachconstruction, which has turned into a cat account.

Perfectionist provincial pigskin practitioner prevents parsimonious preparations, practices pregame patronization, polices players partaking provisions, pays profusely #bluecy

Looking through old football programs and I've always liked this one for the 1944 Army vs Navy game. Need more watercolor #cfb programs please and thank you collectableivy.com/collectible-...

The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is a fun visit. Their new exhibit looks at the influence of psychedelics in art and I love the pictured vase below "Unrecorded Huichol artist, Gourd, Wool yarn, wax, 20th century, 3rd quarter, Mexico, 15.2x20.1 cm"

Never in a million years did I think Brock Purdy would ever be mentioned, even in passing, in these kind of stories #bluecy

Big 8 Sports Soda (1984-1985): A line of cola from the Sports Soda company in Champaign, Illinois, released to celebrate the upcoming college football season for the Big 8 Conference. Eight collectible cans were released, one for each team in the conference. Check this 🧵!

Also want to note the Axon surveillance system is probably worse than Flock, so keep your eye on the ball. Story via @404media.co

Aaron Rodgers is obsessed with his own privacy. His neighbors? Not so much. After moving to a new town, Rodgers used a cutout to secretly fund the local police department’s Flock-style surveillance program. www.foiaball.com/p/aaron-rodg...

I really really loved this thread highlighting all of the work by individual contributors, some people don't promote themselves enough! Learned some new names. So glad they were all able to get together to do this weird little passion project.

Going to end my annual donation if @wikimediafoundation.org continues this. They have a tiny amount of employees relative to the 250,000 volunteer editors that keep it humming. Already emailed executive team Two @404media.co stories: www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa... www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

Doing random #art history research. This is an incredible ancient Chinese painting that is over 17 feet long, must view on a large screen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along_t...

Uwazurike makes an appearance here #bluecy

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

literally do not speak to me about ANYTHING else

Very cool that Science magazine's EIC wrote a story about AI making publishing "slower, worse, and more expensive" then after screwing up story links had to admit he used chatGPT for the story but "only" as a search engine then defended himself in a substack post which he illustrated with AI slop

Good story. Regular season should retain magic if expanded playoffs have clear tiers and consequences. Get rid of conf. title games too. If you're a SEC team and lose 3 or 4 games, your reward is flying to Kalamazoo to play 11-1 Western Michigan in a blizzard vs a warm home game against 8-4 Delaware

Great great great great work here. Using this data, I expanded further on ISU's #bluecy challenges on CF's premium board

This incredible print was created to commemorate the 1909 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which won the World Series for the first time in team history. Two victims = Cubs (2nd place) and NY Giants (3rd) managers LOC has it in a much bigger size: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

With such a key marketing image, all I can see is AI slop. Brush has 11 tines, but AI started grooves with 9 and couldn't keep it consistent. Brush placement at end doen't align, shadows don't match, etc. Just set up a tray of sand outside, 3D print a brush, shoot in miniature, assemble in post ffs

Here's a page from the Castlevania NES game. Especially love the cheap markers look, you know the type that never blended evenly

Before Cousteau, way before @Octonauts, explorer Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez was bringing images of the undersea world to the surface, from his artist’s sketch pad inside a glass and steel diving bell: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/underwater-landscapes-of-eugen-von-ransonnet-villez