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Hanging Out with Chicago's Scrap Metal Collectors

Scrappers suck on the industrial teat of the city and possess a sixth sense for anything metal and shiny. They're a bit like Magneto, except many of them have drug addictions that make them value heroin over their own teeth.
Sam Clements
1.8.13
New music

David Bowie Is Back

After a decade long break, no big deal.
Noisey Staff
1.8.13
New music

Steve Adamyk Band is Extra Canadian in Their New Video for "Katacombs"

Just smoking, drinking cheap beer, throwin' around nature and shit.
Mish Way
Noisey Staff
1.7.13
Music

Original Creators: Experimental Sound Pioneer Yasunao Tone

We take a look at some iconic artists from numerous disciplines who have left an enduring and indelible mark on today’s creators.
Abdullah Saeed
1.7.13
Music

ESG Don't Appreciate Your Sample Credits

In the early 1980s, three sisters from the South Bronx were given instruments by their mum in an attempt to keep them off the streets. The sisters formed ESG, and have spent the past 34 years creating post-punk tinged dub and hip-hop. This month they...
Jimi Kritzler
1.7.13
Motherboard Blog

An Idiot's Guide to Investing in Solar Power

Now anybody—seriously, anybody—can invest in solar power.
Brian Merchant
1.7.13
Motherboard Blog

'Her Ghost' Is What La Jetée Looks Like in the Future

The piece re-edits all of the stills and sounds from the original to present a refracted rework of La Jetée, this time told from the perspective of the mysterious woman whose history and identity are never truly revealed.
Kareem Ghezawi
1.7.13
Motherboard Blog

The Inevitable Crapness of 2013

An Internet Of Things is in fact a wonderful idea. A world where devices report, learn, remember and aid. But it's also a world spawning a desperate "entrepreneurial" class born of stern austerity and sociopolitical upheaval.
Warren Ellis
1.7.13
Sports

MMA Is the Future of Fighting in Philadelphia

Jimmy Binns knows boxing. As a well-off kid from the Philly suburbs, he used to get the starch knocked out of him at a gym on Passyunk Avenue until his worried dad convinced the Pennsylvania boxing commissioner to write Jimmy a letter asking him to...
Stefan Kamph
1.7.13
Sports

Robert Griffin III, Teenaged Runaway

Robert Griffin III is a suburban teenage girl wandering around the city at dusk with no bra. He is too naïve to be scared. He believes in himself too much. This can’t end well, The gap in knowledge is too great. The lessons won’t stick if they come any...
Ben Johnson
1.7.13
News

A Mercy Killing in Kabul

Fifteen days ago, I saw the guy my cousin hired to kill my father. He was in a garden in Kabul. I was carrying a gun and I was walking down the street and I shot him and I killed him. A friend had offered me two, three guns to kill the guy but I only...
J. Malcolm Garcia
1.7.13
Art

Sterling Crispin Weaves Virtual Algorithmic Landscapes

Plein Air 001 (Entropy, Terror, and the Sublime within a Cyberspace Landscape) explores the infinite fragility of cyberspace.
Kathleen Flood
1.7.13
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