Morning Gathering

A few things to start the day. (And seeing if this format fits.) The Hood Internet’s Whitney/Chromeo mashup, “When the Night Knows”; Venus photoshopped thinner; the woolly mammoth caught on tape that’s actually a bear with a fish in its mouth is now a woolly mammoth again with the power to disappear (why is no one else riveted by this?); the rerelease of ghost-story game Dear Esther; and outfits that transition from winter to spring.

Plus, above is David “Relationshapes” Rees, demonstrating his artisanal pencil-sharpening (shapening?) expertise in Brooklyn. Did you know he has a new book out? It’s called How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants, and it ends with a nice and unexpected section on wines that taste like pencils.

(Video by Gothamist.)