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Fashion

Spending Money and Stalking Kanye West at the Maison Martin Margiela for H&M Launch Party

They threw the party in a really old nine-story building, and filled it with fashionable mannequins that were engulfed in a heavy, white jizzum-like goop. Kanye West was there too, and I think he had makeup on. All around, it was a pretty weird/good...
Susie G
10.26.12
Music

Hear The Oldest Known Recording Of Voice And Music, From 1878

It’s a little scratchy, but at least you might recognize the nursery rhyme.
Abdullah Saeed
10.26.12
Features

One Track Mind: Vocals Only

Does Linkin Park's "Numb" sound better without the instrumentals? Unsurprisingly, it does not.
Mish Way
10.26.12
Film

[Exclusive] The Premiere Of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Short Film Naran Ja

Featuring the L.A Dance Project, with choreography by Benjamin Millepied, and produced by The Amoveo Company.
Kathleen Flood
10.26.12
video

Naran Ja (One Act Orange Dance) by Alejandro G. Iñárritu

After being invited by Benjamin Millepied to a rehearsal for the L.A Dance Project's premiere performance, Oscar-nominated...
The Creators Project
10.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Humans Built a Frankenstorm Factory, and Now We've Got to Live in It

Last year, for the first time, I found myself purchasing a stock of non-perishable foods, assembling a "go-bag," and taping up the windows of my Brooklyn apartment. All, of course, in preparation of a hurricane that looked like it was going to smash...
Brian Merchant
10.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Maybe We're All Cannibals, Genetically Speaking

The "cannibalism" internet hole is full of all kinds of awful shit. Surprise. Most of it probably won't actually give much insight into this week's awful cannibalism story however, that of NYPD officer "Gilberto Valle":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/2...
Michael Byrne
10.26.12
News

Road Trip: Finding Marion Barry

On Monday former VICE managing editor and recently appointed cultural news editor of the Daily Beast Michael Moynihan and I headed to Washington, DC to see what our nation's great capital had to say on the day of the third presidential debate.
Rocco Castoro
10.26.12
Motherboard Blog

"We Turned Science Fiction Into Reality": The Military's Drone-Mounted Microwave Guns

Good news for everybody out there who's been paralyzed by fear of a robot takeover in the not too distant future. You know that last resort weapon in _The Matrix_, the one that Keanu Reeves or whoever activates when those stingray-looking robots are...
Adam Clark Estes
10.26.12
Girl News

Girlsplaining

So, I read all of the questions you sent through Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and email for this special “Girlsplaining” (a.k.a. Q&A) edition of Girl News, deleted the redundant or annoying questions (and the overlong, nonsense questions, like, are you...
Kate Carraway
10.26.12
Weekly Music Round-Up

Weekly Music Round-Up: Kanye West's Next Album, Axl Rose Isn't A Trainwreck, And Justin Timberlake Hates The Homeless

We paid attention to music news this week so you didn't have to.
Drew Millard
10.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Science Is Giving Bee-Like Robots Bee-Like Brains

The word "drone" comes, in part, from bees, so it's really only fitting that researchers are developing aerial drones that are the size of bees. To make them so small, researchers "at Harvard":http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu/ have had to figure out...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.26.12
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