Opium has tapped conceptual artist Johnathon Keats to create the front cover for the infinity issue of their magazine. His idea, to write the longest story in the history of humankind. The catch? It’s only nine words long.
Using a a double layer of black ink that masks each word in incrementally darker shades, Keats has conceived of a simple process that will gradually reveal his magnum opus over the course of 1,000 years. The ink is designed to break down as it is exposed to ultraviolet light and if Keats’ calculations are correct this will occur at a rate of one word [...]

What’s the best way to sort, wade through and make sense of the oceans of digital media that’s stored on our hard drives? Inspired by musician Bill Drummond’s experiment of only listening to music starting with B for a year, Russell Davies is testing out the same filtering strategy on a compressed scale. In order to deeply engage with new music, and learn to pay attention in a new way, Davies is only listening to music starting with the same letter of the alphabet, one letter a week.
He explains:
I find that unless I trick myself into paying attention to music [...]