I cannot tell you how or why, but at some point a few years back I discovered that Instagram Stories not only allows you unlimited emojis, it ALSO allows you to enlarge them to an apparently infinite degree. And so, may I present: FAMOUS PAINTINGS RECREATED USING ONLY EMOJIS! All on one page: Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son. Klimt's The Kiss, Wood's American Gothic, Michaelangelo's The Creation of Adam and more, all moulded from shaded yellow spheres.

Although the artist's enthusiasm wanes towards the end, especially for writing the blurbs ("only to give up and slap a couple boat emojis on it because that shit's hard"), much of the history of art is here. All in emojis.

From the author-artist's substack.

Many thanks to Tehhund, curator and creator of the internet's most fascinating and bizarre phrases and things for drawing this to my attention.

I don't know why YouTube is serving me all these concerts right now, but I'm not complaining. Here's Soundgarden - Hyde Park - Hard Rock Calling 7-13-2012 - Pro Shot (HQ) Full Show [1h54m], arguably the band at the height of their career after taking a break and reforming. This concert is shortly before the release of their final album King Animal.

SETLIST: 01 Searching With My Good Eye Closed 02 Spoonman 03 Gun 04 Jesus Christ Pose 05 Black Hole Sun 06 Outshined 07 Hunted Down 08 Drawing Flies 09 Blow Up the Outside World 10 Fell on Black Days 11 Ugly Truth 12 My Wave 13 The Day I Tried to Live 14 Beyond the Wheel 15 Let Me Drown 16 Pretty Noose 17 Superunknown 18 4th of July Encore 19 Rusty Cage 20 Slaves & Bulldozers/(In My Time of Dying)

I was playing TimeGuessr the other day (a game where you try to ID a random photo in time and space -- thanks, Klipspringer!). Often you can tell the city from context, but not necessarily where in the city, so I try to drop a pin right in the middle to up my odds. But this made me wonder -- how does *Google Maps* pinpoint where a city is, exactly? They have to put the label somewhere. You'd think it would be the exact center, or maybe city hall, but it seems to vary -- in New York it's City Hall, but in London it's Charing Cross. Rome is the Piazza Venezia, Cairo is Tahrir Square, and Tokyo is Tokyo Station. My own hometown isn't city hall, or even the football stadium (roll tide), but literally the main entrance to an Embassy Suites, which is nice-looking but not exactly the crossroads of the city. So if you're comfortable sharing the city you're from (or in, or would like to be), where does Google think it really is? Does that place seem like a good, representative choice, or would you pick elsewhere? If you closed your eyes and wished yourself to the "heart" of your favorite city, where would you end up and why? Discuss these geographical quandaries and more in your weekly Free Thread!

(To see what I'm getting at above, just search Google Maps for the name of a city, find the label for it on the map, then zoom in on the label to see what point of interest it's pinned to. Sometimes the label disappears when you get too close, so you have to eyeball it a bit, but if you're on desktop it will zoom towards wherever your cursor is, which helps. Interestingly, Bing Maps and Apple Maps have their own ideas of where a city is -- Bing says Rome is outside the Colosseum, while Apple says Tokyo is in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office -- so feel free to check alternatives if you don't like Google's answer.)