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Art

What Kind Of Art Does An Avatar Make? Q&A With LaTurbo Avedon

This mysterious avatar promotes her digital artworks using social-media platforms and is gearing up to take them IRL.
Benoit Palop
5.24.13
VICE News

Triple Hate

'Triple Hate' is a four-part documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, the Crips, Ulysses S. Grant, racism, and the specter of history.
Rocco Castoro
5.24.13
Motherboard Blog

This Sexed-Up NSFW Guide to Building a PC Is Simply the Worst

Thanks, MSI, for ruining my day.
Derek Mead
5.24.13
News

Is War Brewing in Niger?

The uranium-mining town of Arlit, Niger, is at the center of a potential conflict between American and French forces and the West African terrorists who want to expel the armies from the country for good. Understandably, all of this conflict is very...
Sophia Tewa
5.24.13
Interviews

Meet Little Pain, the Leader of the Sad Rap Revolution

Little Pain makes beautiful music where he brags about how sad he is. But is there a difference between being Sad and genuine sadness? We interviewed him to find out.
Drew Millard
5.24.13
Premieres

Listen to W-H-I-T-E's New Record, 'III'

W-H-I-T-E is an electronic pop project from LA's Cory Thomas Hanson. He's a Cal Arts grad that knows exactly what he's doing, and in a world of electronic musicians who don't know a Korg SV-1 73 B from a Korg Ms-20 semi-modular synth, W-H-I-T-E is a bless
Noisey Staff
5.24.13
Motherboard Blog

You (And Your Fledgling Space Company) Can Now Lease a NASA Launch Pad

As space goes commercial, the biggest goal for NASA right now is to get more people flying for less money.
Derek Mead
5.24.13
The Creators Project

Turning CCTV Footage into Art

We're constantly being spied on by closed-circuit television cameras, those electronic eyes peering down at us and monitoring everything we do. But as Orwellian as it all seems, this invasion of privacy and erosion of our civil liberties can serve as a...
The Creators Project
5.24.13
Motherboard Blog

The Free Internet's Newest Threat Is a Secret Treaty Being Negotiated by a Dozen Countries

It's enough to make you miss the SOPA days.
Derek Mead
5.24.13
Motherboard Blog

Seeing Faces on Google Earth

It's not just humans who can experience pareidolia—seeing images of faces or other forms in the randomness that surrounds us. We can program machines to do it too.
Kevin Holmes
5.24.13
Meet the Nieratkos

Jeff Grosso Has a Beautiful Mind

Is Jeff Grosso the last vestige of free speech in skateboarding? We don't know, but we like the way he talks about drugs.
Chris Nieratko
5.24.13
Stuff

Carlos Rafael and His Fish Are the American Dream

I'm sitting with Carlos Rafael in "Carlos Seafood," an unremarkable looking seafood supply warehouse in an industrial park near the waterfront of New Bedford, a fishing port in southern Massachusetts that for 12 consecutive years has reported the most...
Danny McDonald
5.24.13
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