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Fleapit: the Movie

It's true that someone at dinner last night lives in the Chelsea Hotel, and for years, as it happens, I regularly visited a friend there who has an enviably spacious apartment on one of the upper floors.
Gary Indiana
6.5.13
Motherboard Blog

Rap Genius Has an Empire, the State In Mind

The revolution will be annotated.
Jordan Teicher
6.5.13
VICE Premiere

A$AP Ant Directed Young Diego's Video for "Young God"

Enjoy the video, but make sure your girlfriend doesn't hear you sing the song's ratchet-ass hook: "She come through, I get the neck and kick her out." But if she does, at least you'll have some dope tunes to listen to while you are spending the night...
VICE Staff
6.5.13
Objectively Correct Lists

The Greatest Simlish Covers of All Time

The world's biggest stars singing sheer gibberish.
Ezra Marcus
6.5.13
Features

The Revolutionary Politics of Kanye West

Kanye West is the flawed, egomaniacal revolutionary that our culture deserves, and he's here to save us from ourselves.
Drew Millard
6.5.13
Motherboard Blog

High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 2)

Motherboard's doc on the highest of high tech. In Part 2, we visit a former NASA botanist building automated grow tanks, bask in the glory of LED smart-lighting, and brave the Cannabis Cup.
Brian Anderson
6.5.13
Travel

Making Fake Ecstasy with the Meth-Smoking Beach Boys of Indonesia

I got a lesson on how to con Western tourists.
Tony Farfalla
6.5.13
VICE Premiere

Pimp Rapper 100s Dropped a Video for "1999"

It doesn't seem that hard out here for a pimp, at least when you tune into a 100s music video. The Cali-bred MC, who we introduced to you back in October of last year, has sharpened up his dick-wielding, perm-rocking persona with his latest clip for...
Wilbert L. Cooper
6.5.13
Stuff

Filthy Lucre

Artists too have their myths. The lies told to artists mirror the lies told to women. Be good enough, be pretty enough, and that guy or gallery will sweep you off your feet, to the picket-fenced land of generous collectors and two and a half kids. But...
Molly Crabapple
6.5.13
Motherboard Blog

The Adult's Guide to Making an Old Fashioned

Motherboard has partnered with the smart minds at the Stuff You Should Know blog to bring you a weekly column about real life.
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
6.5.13
Motherboard Blog

The Confusing Science of Stoned Driving

With marijuana legalization taking root in two states, and set to spread like a grass fire in the near future, the question of how to effectively determine impairment has never been more urgent, or controversial.
David Bienenstock
6.5.13
Motherboard Blog

The Only Public Transcript of the Bradley Manning Trial Will Be Tapped Out on a Crowd-Funded Typewriter

No audio recorders or video cameras are allowed at the Bradley Manning trial. Just typewriters.
Brian Merchant
6.5.13
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