A couple of weeks ago, I hiked into a remote patch of the Mojave Desert hoping to experience a newly installed piece of experimental art. Instead, I met a pool guy named Robert. To be fair, I’d been ...

On a hot summer day, Trent Theiler loves nothing more than going to his apartment’s rooftop with a cold beverage and lowering himself into the pool. Or, at least the parts of him that fit in it.

Swimming pool scenes are surprisingly common in movies. Or maybe it’s not that surprising, given that Hollywood is, after all, in California, where chlorinated water looks impossibly blue and shimmery ...