motherboard-videos
MBTV: Bravely Traveling Deep Inside the Heart of Donkness
You remember putting a donk on everything, right? It was "a meme":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58 -- these English dudes in a studio talking about putting a donk on it, and a "donk" was just this sound like a drainpipe being hit with a bat...
Motherboard TV: Electric Independence: JD Samson
I was enjoying a NY Times dispatch from Silicon Valley about Ellen Pao, a junior partner “at the distinguished venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,” who’s brought a sexual discrimination lawsuit against her employer. It’s a key...
Motherboard TV: The Creature Shop Is the Scariest Place in Johannesburg
Last year Motherboard traveled to Johannesburg to check out South Africa's top fright factory, known to those in the horror biz as The Creature Shop.
Motherboard TV: Behind the Scenes of Where the Wild Things Are
On assignment for Motherboard, Vice co-founder Shane Smith traveled to London to meet with Spike Jonze during the production of _Where the Wild Things Are_. It took 300 artists and specialists to develop an innovative and heavily work-intensive way of...
MBTV: Felix Thorn Builds Stunning Musical Sculptures out of Trash
Kinetic, psychotropic visual soundscapes. Give me a second to catch my breath, but that's the best description I can come up with for what musician/sculptor "Felix Thorn":http://www.felixsmachines.com/home/ does. It seems that ever since someone...
MBTV: Electric Independence: John Foxx
English synth legend John Foxx has been making waves ever since he left Ultravox for a solo career in 1979. A stunningly prolific artist, Foxx has continually pushed out precise electronic tracks that show off his deep skill with a synth. That sound...
Motherboard's Upgrade Series: the Internet Box Set
With Motherboard's first season of Upgrade officially in the books, it seems high time to release an Internet box set. With Upgrade, we set out to find some of the most forward-thinking innovators who are solving our environmental problems. From...
The Electrophobes: The People Who Are 'Allergic' to Gadgets
In our modern world, the sky above us and the world around us is like a tapestry woven with countless threads of electromagnetic signals shooting back and forth. Put some rabbit ears on top of your TV and you magically capture programming. The phone in...
Happy Birthday Syncom 3, The First Geostationary Communication Satellite (VIDEO)
Launched on August 19, 1964, the Syncom 3 communication satellite earned its title as the first geostationary communication satellite.
Preview: The Thorium Dream
I'm excited to show you a little of our latest feature documentary, about the growing grassroots movement in the United States behind the element thorium, which its advocates believe could save the world - and the great forces that could keep this...
Motherboard TV: The Creature Shop: The Scariest House in Johannesburg
Motherboard has always been fascinated by the (black) arts, but combine our interest with gore and some awesome puppetry, then set the stage in South Africa and we're really cooking with gas.
Building Airplanes That Fly Themselves, On A Red Bull and Cigarettes Bender (Video)
When it comes to hacking, MIT grads Andrew Meyer and Okie Jon Williams are the genuine article.