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How design could heal the fractured relationship between people and police and other key takeaways from the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

It’s safe to say that architecture and Chicago’s history are inextricably linked. The city was the stomping grounds of Bauhaus great Mies van der Rohe. Frank Lloyd Wright had his home and studio in Oak Park. Louis Sullivan built some of the world’s first skyscrapers there. Postmodern pioneer Stanley Tigerman and contemporary impresario Jeanne Gang are based in the city. And for the next three months, Chicago is host to the first architecture biennial in North America.

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If these don’t make you believe in God, they’ll at least make you believe in godly design.

New Yorkers quite famously never look up. Photographer Richard Silver wanted to give them a reason to, so he started taking pictures of ceilings. But not just any pictures, and not just any ceilings: Silver’s specialty is taking glorious, vertical panoramas of the architecturally magnificent ceilings of New York cathedrals.

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And while it may be, shouldn’t we have the privilege of feeling unique once in a while?

In 2004, the Beastie Boys handed out 50 cameras to fans attending a concert at Madison Square Garden. It was touted as a democratizing media coup. But the culminating product has gone down in history as a fairly mediocre documentary that, as Laura Sinagra put it for the Village Voice, “plays like a hype victory lap rather than a boundary-smashing study of fan curiosity or pathology.”

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After 60 were killed this year, officials decided enough’s enough.

Ponies that live in southwest England can sometimes get in the way. Now they’ll be painted with glow-in-the-dark blue paint to stop cars running them down at night. The paint will be used as an alternative to reflective collars, which proved less than effective because they get snagged on gorse bushes and yanked off the ponies’ necks.

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Emoji reactions, already a popular Slack feature, are probably the closest Facebook will get to a “dislike” button.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that the social network was working on a “dislike” button of sorts, a feature that its user base has requested for years. The goal, Zuckerberg said, was not to encourage negative feedback, but to give Facebook users an “empathetic” alternative to the “like” button. “Not every moment is a good moment,” he said at the time. “If you share something that’s sad like a refugee crisis that touches you or a family member passes away, it may not be comfortable to like that post… I do think it’s important to give people more options than liking it.”

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The $649 Osmo can take smooth 4K video no matter how you hold it or how you move it.

Look out GoPro, DJI’s getting into the handheld camera business.

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Amazon invites Etsy sellers to join its new arts-and-crafts marketplace, Amazon Handmade.

Amazon is moving ahead with its plans to compete with online artisanal goods marketplace Etsy. Amazon Handmade, the company’s upcoming arts-and-crafts site, has reportedly been emailing Etsy vendors to invite them to sell their products on the new marketplace. According to the Wall Street Journal‘s Greg Bensinger, the invitations did not include launch dates or information on pricing and fees.

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MUBI is exclusively showing Anderson’s new film Junun—here’s how they did it and why you’ll be seeing more from MUBI soon.

“This is the biggest, most significant thing we’ve ever done in eight and a half years.”

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