These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• The Valve — A Lit­er­ary Organ | Dis­ney Ago­nistes: Night on Bald Mountain

  Make no mis­take, that’s what Dis­ney was deal­ing with in that car­ni­val of ani­mal dancers, appear­ance and real­ity. That’s one of the major themes in car­toons. It is cen­tral, for exam­ple, in that most aus­tere of car­toon premises, the Road­run­ner and Coy­ote car­toons of Chuck Jones. To deny it of Dis­ney in the film he planned as a show­case for this new medium, a film in which, among other things, he showed the ori­gins of life on earth and the death of the dinosaurs, to deny a cen­tral inter­est in the play of appear­ance and real­ity is to be deeply and per­haps will­fully mis­taken about the nature of the medium in which Dis­ney so delib­er­ately and bril­liantly worked.
  
  literary-​​criticism Walt-​​Disney Fan­ta­sia film-​​criticism sym­bol­ism doesn’t-anybody-else-remember-the-symbolists?

• Nathan Allan, Mas­ters of Glass — Core77

  Col­lec­tively, Nathan Allan Glass Stu­dios Inc. is an artist, and glass is their can­vas. The Canada-​​based com­pany pro­duces glass in dozens of unique tex­tures, and the company’s focus on R&D aims to retain an inno­v­a­tive and com­pet­i­tive edge by com­ing up with sur­faces that oth­ers cannot.
  
  interior-​​design industrial-​​design fin­ishes tes­se­la­tions

• Clever Dol­phins Use Shells to Catch Fish | Wired Sci­ence | Wired​.com

  Also unknown is how conch­ing emerged: as a lucky dis­cov­ery, per­haps, or in flashes of insight from crea­tures whose intel­li­gence may rival our own but hap­pen to lack fin­gers and hands. Because Shark Bay’s dol­phins are very ter­ri­to­r­ial, how­ever, and conch­ing has been wit­nessed in dis­parate loca­tions on its east and west sides, the researchers believe conch­ing was dis­cov­ered sev­eral times inde­pen­dently. If, as with spong­ing, conch­ing is taught pri­mar­ily by females to other females, then conch­ing could have been an inven­tion of sin­gle moth­ers try­ing to feed their fam­i­lies. That it’s being wit­nessed with more fre­quency sug­gests Shark Bay’s dol­phins are learn­ing about it. Per­haps those four who watched Con were tak­ing a lesson.
  
  nature biol­ogy human-​​equals-​​hubris