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Boys Noize: A Must-See DJ Set At Coachella 2011

Over the next two weeks we’ll be bringing you exclusive details and teasers on this year’s unmissable Coachella acts and installations.
The Creators Project Staff
4.5.11
Motherboard Blog

Ever Wonder How an LCD Screen Works?

Wonder no more. Bill Hammack, AKA the "Engineer Guy":http://www.engineerguy.com/ puts an LCD monitor back together to show us how it works.
ALEC LIU
4.5.11
1024 architecture

Creators Of The Present: A Q&A With 1024 Architecture

Pierre Schneider and François Wunschel from 1024 architecture analyze their Make The Line Dance performance and tell us about their current and future projects.
Morgan Poyau
4.5.11
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The Sakawa Boys: Inside the Bizarre Criminal World of Ghana’s Cyber-Juju Email Scam Gangs

While Nigeria's 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what's going on in Ghana.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
4.5.11
Music

Transforming Perfection: Quayola's Geometric Digital Artscapes

The visual artist talks about the processes and techniques behind his captivating digital art.
Kevin Holmes
4.5.11
Music

Dancing In The Light: A New Audiovisual Performance

Minoru Fujimoto uses LED lights as an integral part of his choreographed dance routines.
Kevin Holmes
4.5.11
Design

Turn Gaga-esque Shades Into 3D Glasses [Instructables How-To]

These home-crafted super specs will have you viewing 3D in style!
Kathleen Flood
4.5.11
Motherboard Blog

Science: Tests Are a Big Waste of Time

Tests like the SATs and the NFL Combine, in which participants know they are being tested and so apply extra focus, effort and preparation to perform at their fullest, are "spectacularly bad" ways of testing real-world success. Jonah Lehrer, who knows...
ALEX PASTERNACK
4.5.11
Design

Budget Climb: Video Game Visualizes American Tax Dollar Spending

A trio of designers have created a very taxing Kinect-based video game to make sense of our dollars and cents.
Kevin Holmes
4.5.11
Motherboard Blog

Photos from the End of Civilization

At least, according to artist Gerry Judah, who does a remarkable job of depicting modern cities in the throes of decay. Judah constructs miniature clusters of buildings that form cities, and initially, they're fully intact; that is, before the artist...
Brian Merchant
4.5.11
Motherboard Blog

Eric Whitacre's 2,000 Person YouTube Choir

Composer Eric Whitacre created his first virtual choir in 2009, 185 voices from around the world singing his composition "Lux Aurumque" via YouTube videos of themselves edited together into one gorgeous piece. He calls it his "virtual choir...
Michael Byrne
4.5.11
Motherboard Blog

Hack This: Do Right With Your Old, Dead Electronics

h4. "Hack This":http://motherboard.tv/search/posts?keyword=hack+this&commit=Search is Motherboard's weekly guide to doing technology better. There are grown-ass adults in the world that don't know what to do with dead batteries. I've met them; I've...
Michael Byrne
4.5.11
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