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Marc Heiden
@marcheiden.bsky.social
Chicago
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Whether a ramshackle residence is built impossibly tall or seems to be both upside-down and right-side-up at the same time, we’re drawn into Simon Laveuve's strange yet alluring world.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/simo...
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Even for wuxia, this is one of the wildest subtitle translation choices I’ve ever seen
August 30, 2023 at 5:08 AM
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pitching my comic idea to DC: aquaman's new archnemesis is called Man Ray. no, not a half human half manta ray monster. Man Ray, the surrealist painter and photographer. he just challenges aquaman's preconceptions about formalism
May 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Columbus Drive, Chicago
May 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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April 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
March 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There’s a house down the street that hasn’t taken their 12-foot skeleton down yet, which has to mean they have big plans for Christmas.
November 24, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Election Day canvass in Wisconsin. LFG!
November 5, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I voted in Chicago today. Don’t be put off by the long line behind me.
October 22, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Egg salad sandwiches in Japan. (If you know, you know.) soranews24.com/2024/10/03/j...
Japan’s amazing egg sandwiches sold from self-serve roadside fridges have an inspiring backstory
The Overflowing Egg Sandwich filled our stomach and our heart.
soranews24.com
October 11, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Loved this article. The compassion and ingenuity here are inspiring. www.404media.co/right-to-rep...
‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.
www.404media.co
September 7, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Block Club Chicago has a nice piece about Bob Newhart’s famously bizarre commute home. newsletter.blockclubchi.org/index.php?ac...
Remembering Bob Newhart's Bizarre Commute Home To Edgewater
ALSO: Texas Gov. Vows To...
newsletter.blockclubchi.org
July 18, 2024 at 9:43 PM
“At its height in the 1990s, Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong contained 1,255,000 people per square kilometer, making it the densest city in the world… Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of the urban phenomenon to preserve its memory.” www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...
A Rare Cross-Section Illustration Reveals the Infamous Happenings of Kowloon Walled City — Colossal
The rare panorama peers into the compact neighborhood, glimpsing narrow dance halls and entire factories tucked inside cramped quarters.
www.thisiscolossal.com
July 9, 2024 at 9:19 PM
If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone but dont explain it
June 29, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Is Noam Chomsky dead or alive? Let’s ask these chimps.
June 18, 2024 at 10:55 PM
0. Me
1. Jim Lovell
2. Wernher von Braun
3. Hitler
Taking this prompt from Twitter because I think it's fun: How many handshakes does it take for you to get to Hitler?

0. me
1. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
2. Elizabeth II
3. Edward VIII
4. Hitler
May 10, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Some happy lil skeletons, by Jason Limon (via www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/jaso...)
May 3, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Donkey Kong mural
Concord, New Hampshire
March 23, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Yukio Hideshima, "Masks"
March 20, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Based on my experience this is the expression most Irish people have when a British person talks to them.
March 11, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Iconic “please hold my Godzilla” moment at the Oscars tonight.
March 11, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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i had to look up this Vonnegut quote for my newsletter, and it was from this 1995 Inc. piece asking Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Clancy about tech and the future. Vonnegut looks like a genius now and Clancy looks like a complete fucking moron
archive.ph/LZPil
January 4, 2024 at 9:24 PM
If you see this, post a bridge.
December 5, 2023 at 9:09 PM