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I Went to High School with Iman Shumpert of the Knicks and Now I'm Writing About his Rap Career
For a while, it was the only way I'd learn about what my former classmates were up to, until a bunch of them started getting Internet Famous. Or Regular Famous because they started playing for the Knicks and rapping.
Gabriel Herrera
2.5.13
Art

A Water-Powered Robot Graffiti Artist
Takahiro Yamaguchi and So Kanno’s Senseless Drawing Bot #2 randomly spray paints walls.
Kevin Holmes
2.5.13
the newtown sessions

The Newtown Sessions - Tashaki Miyaki
A live, in-studio session with these psyched-out LA noise-rockers.
Newtown Radio
2.5.13
New music

Premiere: Homeshake - Don't Try
Mac Demarco's guitarist has a brand new band called Homeshake, and we're premiering their video for "Don't Try." It's full of porny Thai ladies.
Gregory Pike
2.5.13
nasa

NASA Is Resurrecting the Most Powerful Rocket Engine Ever Built
A team of engineers at NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, are now dissecting the old engines to learn their secrets.
Amy Shira Teitel
2.5.13
Art

Catfishing Vs. Performance Art: What Manti Te'o And Spencer Pratt Have In Common
Netprov artists enlist Spencer Pratt’s Twitter account to promote their interactive literature.
Megan Youngblood
2.5.13
Stuff

The Golden Age of the Cockroach
The cockroach was a cultural muse of the 20th century, but it's curiously absent in the 21st. We’re looking at a generation of artists that didn’t grow up with roaches, that don’t live with them, that don’t relate to them, that don’t even know where to...
John Reed
2.5.13
Motherboard Blog

Facebook's Doing Face Recognition Again and This Time America Doesn't Seem to Mind
It's been over three years since Facebook poked America in the eye with a new photo tagging feature that took advantage of some very scary technology.
Adam Clark Estes
2.5.13
The Music Video Project

Belvedere's Music Video Project Kicks Off with This New Video for Zeds Dead's "Demons," Directed by Benjamin Millepied
When you think of meteoric electro acts, you probably don't consider A-list French ballerinos to rank on the list of potential collaborators.
2.5.13
Features

The Kid Mero Vs. The Black Veil Bride Army
HE DEFINITELY ORDERS NINJA STARS FROM THE BACK OF MAXIM OR SOME SHIT AND THROW THEM SHITS AT THE TREE IN HIS BACKYARD WILL HE SAYS SHIT LIKE "SHINJOKU! YOU WILL NEVER DEFEAT MY KAMEHA CHIN SHUKU!!" *AWKWARD JUMP KICK*
The Kid Mero
2.5.13
Drugs

Chug Mescaline in this Chip-Tune Short
It's Tuesday goddamn morning, you're staring at a screen, your eyes burn, and that coffee isn't working. Maybe this will help?
Brian Anderson
2.5.13
Motherboard Blog

China's Self-Sustaining Man Is Cyberpunk in Real Life
Mr. Chen's resourcefulness and self-sustaining lifestyle is a model of inspiration and a testament to China's own burgeoning entrepreneurial identity.
ALEC LIU
2.5.13
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