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Iris van Herpen's Latest Collection Looks Like Aliens Invaded Versailles

Or at least, that's our prediction, if this crazy video for "Voltage," directed by Geoffrey Lillemon and Joost Korngold, is any indication.
Kathleen Flood
1.21.13
Music Video Premieres

Here Is Viceroy's New Video, "Dream Of Bombay," Featuring Chela

Viceroy, the electro project started by Austen Afridi, is responsible for some of the best remixes we've heard in the past few years, in part because he doesn't pander to "hot buzz bands" or flavors of the week. So today, when he sent us over his new vide
Benjamin Shapiro
1.21.13
Stuff

Let’s Face It

Writers are not generally celebrities, but I did have one delirious fan. He kept me on the telephone for hours every night, during a period when I was snorting heroin to cure my insomnia.
Gary Indiana
1.21.13
Motherboard Blog

Six Complex Scientific Concepts Explained in Preschool-Level English

Armed with a novel text editor and a new blog, scientists explain everything from quantum mechanics to climate change in language that a six year-old can understand.
Brian Merchant
1.21.13
Motherboard Blog

CIA Drones Have Free Rein in Pakistan for the Next Year

It's almost comical, the hand-wringing and head-butting that went into what's ultimately a non-decision, or at the least a long punt. And it doesn't help that the guy who designed Obama's new drone "playbook" doesn't have to adhere to it.
Brian Anderson
1.21.13
News

Taking the Pulse of Winnipeg: Canada's Murder Capital

How the brutal daylight murder of a young woman in Winnipeg is making some people think twice about repping the city’s Murder Capital badge.
Morgan Modjeski
1.21.13
Motherboard Blog

If Apple's 4.8-Inch iPhone Is Called the iPhone Math, I'll Eat Paste

Multiple screen sizes are probably coming, but don't expect them to be named after school subjects.
Derek Mead
1.21.13
Music

Nicki Minaj Plus a Gay Bear Equals Chicago's The Big Dipper

The Big Dipper is a hairy, filthy-mouthed queer rapper out of Chicago who has a theater background, and way better style than you. It's intimidating at the very least, and amazing at the most.
B. David Zarley
1.21.13
Sittin' Sidewayz... With Skinny Friedman

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dubstep

I'm not talking about EDM, I'm talking about a bunch of people collaborating across state lines, country borders and unseen genre boundaries that only exist to people who like to sulk because the wrong people like their favorite music.
Skinny Friedman
1.21.13
Motherboard Blog

The Manatee Nebula Is a Space Cow Born of a Dead Star

A rambunctious microquasar made this manatee grow to 700 light years across.
Derek Mead
1.21.13
Neither Big nor Easy

How the Super Bowl Screws New Orleans

For the pleasure of the assholes who will flood New Orleans for the Super Bowl, the city's working overtime and even dissing Mardi Gras, its oldest tradition and most reliable financial benefactor. Per usual, what the New Orleans government won't do...
Michael Patrick Welch
1.21.13
Features

Why Did Lupe Fiasco Trash Obama... At an Obama Inauguration Party?

Is he a political soldier? Or did he just perform a half hour of unlistenable social commentary? Either way, the increasingly irrelevant rapper got booted at an Obama inauguration rally, potentially for overusing the word "sheeple."
Ryan Bassil
1.21.13
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