the-finer-arts
YouTube Magic Eye
Youtuber greeenpro specializes in optical illusion videos. These are five of his greatest.
Motherboard TV: Cai Guo-Qiang Makes Art By Blowing Shit Up
Jack the Dripper was my favorite artist as a kid, and why wouldn't he be? Could there be anything cooler to a youngster wearing neon Taz shirts than a guy who became a legend for making a huge mess? (I still like Pollock as a grown-up, but now I'd have...
Want to Punch Harder? Be a Black Belt, and Use Your Brain
In "a study":http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_15-8-2012-12-15-31 that has nothing to do with the fact that a third _Kill Bill_ movie is being "made":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86mswvoUAY , British...
How NBC's Olympics Coverage Won Primetime: An Interview with Emmy Award-Winning Director Brad Garfield
For all the grief NBC has received for its coverage this Olympics, London 2012 is looking like it will be a roaring success for the old peacock. Ratings for this go-round are beating ratings from Beijing, which has led the network to predict it might...
Hot Links: Real Names Don't Improve Comments, Labels Rob Musicians, and Only Psychos Don't Use Facebook
Hot Links is Motherboard's weekly roundup of key stories from the weekend that you can't afford to miss.
This Double Bacon Corn Dog Could Be from Rocko's Modern Life
Ahh, county fair season. It's that special time of summer when you skull back a case of whatever beer comes in camo cans, stuff a wad of Skoal in your lip, and wander the puke-soaked sawdust discussing the varying grades of meth with carnies and eating...
Remember When Art Wanted To Blow Up Holography at the New Museum
The first 3D feature movie I saw of the latter-day 3D movie hype-wave was honestly just a couple of weeks ago with _Prometheus_. It was fine -- I hate the goddamn glasses, however -- but didn't feel particularly future-y, or like I was at the precipice...
What 50 Shades of Grey Is Actually Like
Voila, here are 50 shades of Grey, ranging from 20% luminosity to 70% luminosity. I like to think Richard Serra would be proud.
American Dreaming: Watching People Watch the Apollo 11 Launch
After years of lasting political turmoil brought on by the Vietnam War, matched with the heartbreaking assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, America’s "first trip to the moon":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/16/turn-it-up-to-apollo-11-an-hd-remix-of...
Hollywood Demonstrates Why 80 Percent of Lightning Strike Victims Are Male
If you play baseball with The Almighty, you should probably be aware of one niggling little ground rule up front: it's not three strikes and you're out. It's _one_ strike. And that's because the strikes are lightning. Cue "a recent tweet from the...
When the Album Art Is the Album
Remember when an album used to be a tangible object, its cover art an integral part of its aesthetic? Probably not. Today we only read and dream about it, and re-read the passage from "_Just Kids_":http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060936223/ref=pd_lpo...
Too Cloudy for Fireworks? Check Out These Higgs GIFs
It's not easy to visualize the maybe-discovered Higgs boson, especially since we can't see it. Instead we detect its presence by looking at the wreckage of collisions of protons, and finding the two other particles into which the Higgs is "thought to...