Thursday, October 29

A daily field guide to visual culture

Since 2009

The village of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas on Tristan da Cunha, a scatter of small houses on a green coastal plateau between steep slopes and the open South Atlantic

Travel

The Hardest Places on Earth to Reach

Twelve remote places you can still get to, exactly how to do it, and seven more on the far side of the map that are closed for now.

Oct 2911 min read

Sketch of a 1970s style boxed Halloween costume called The Data Center, with a cellophane window showing a server rack costume and a plastic vent mask, a starburst reading Hums All Night, a 99 cent sticker and the line Child Size, Hum Not Included

Design

The Scariest Halloween Costume of 2026 Is an AI Data Center

Cardboard, grey paint, two fans and a very large water bottle. How to build 2026's scariest costume, hum…

Oct 295 min read

Prue, the young heroine of LAIKA's stop-motion film Wildwood, rides on the back of The General, a giant golden eagle puppet with hand-laid feathers, against a sunset sky

Animation

Inside Wildwood, the Stop-Motion Epic LAIKA Built Out of Portland

Fifteen years in the making, LAIKA's Wildwood rebuilds Portland by hand, from a half-scale Pittock Mansion to an…

Oct 2111 min read

Latest

New on Moss & Fog

Sculpture

Fredrik Raddum Ties His Sculptures in Knots

Fredrik Raddum ties his painted figures in knots. His new Copenhagen show, Arme og Ben, finds the joke hiding between Danish and Norwegian.

Oct 292 min read

The low wooden Ofuro spa pavilion at Snow Peak Campfield in Long Beach, Washington, seen across a still pond through a stand of thin alder trees

Architecture

Snow Peak Makes You Leave the Car

Snow Peak's first American campground keeps cars at the gate, puts Kengo Kuma's living boxes in the trees and saves…

Oct 285 min read

Illustration

One Long Day, Drawn by Paweł Jońca

Tea with a teddy bear, a robot at lunch and hearts hidden in plain sight. Sixteen pictures by Polish illustrator…

Oct 287 min read

A wall of tall, fluted rhyolite spires rises above green oaks under a deep blue sky at Chiricahua National Park, Arizona

Nature

The Land of Standing-Up Rocks, America’s Newest National Park

Chiricahua, a canyon country of balanced rocks and rhyolite spires in southeastern Arizona, just became America's 64th national park.

Oct 273 min read

Space

Inside Thunderbird, the Space Station With No Floor

Exploring the Thunderbird expandable space station, designed by OMI and Max Space.

Oct 263 min read

Pull up a chair

The most delicious corners of our archive, from a croissant that swallowed a cookie to the Negroni and its century behind the bar. Come hungry!

Food & Drink

Browse seventeen years by color

Pick a color and we pull the stories where it fills the frame.

Red Orange Gold Green Teal Blue Violet Pink Brown Night Fog

Photography

Around now, years ago

Favorites we ran at this time of year, one from each year, still worth your time.

Dramatic rippling headquarters for charity designed by zaha hadid architects

2025

Architecture

The guides, our long reads

Where seventeen years of stories are gathered into one place each.

Or wander by subject in the Atlas, by feel in the Senses, or by color further up.

The Shop · Curated Objects

Objects Worth Keeping

Twelve things with a maker behind them, chosen the way we choose what runs on the site: because someone got it exactly right.

Giant Sequoia Pinecones, Set of Three $12

Mossy Walls Room and Body Spray $20

Luna Moth Pin $9.50 ~~$13~~

Thick Lines Tree Souvenir Patch $8.50

Pocket Terrarium, Self Sustaining Miniature Ecosystem $11

Cabin Porn $40

Minty Hot Cocoa Tin, Milk Chocolate Mint $17.25

The Outdoors Oracle $29.95

Sapele Balance Stones, Set of Five $79

Field Studies Vol. III: The Rare Ones (Set of Four Printable Art Prints) $6

Max Dinnerware, Bowls (Set of 6) $51 ~~$60~~

Sold out Rare Trees $40

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