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Wendy by HWKN

Wendy is a bright blue, spiky beacon of energy currently installed in MoMA PS1's courtyard in Queens, New York. Designed by HWKN architecture firm...
The Creators Project
8.2.12
Music

What Are You Doing Here? Laina Dawes Talks About Being the Odd Black Girl Out in Metal

In her debut book, What Are You Doing Here: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation In Heavy Metal, music journalist and hardcore metal devote Laina Dawes uncovers black woman’s voices and stories of participation in punk and metal.
Mish Way
8.2.12
An Open Letter to

An Open Letter To Taco Bell

Their "Feed The Beat" campaign awards $500 gift cards for bands to use on tour. Where the hell is mine?
Mish Way
8.2.12
Jamie XX

Step Inside Wendy, The Crown Jewel Of This Year's Warm Up At MoMA PS1 [Video]

We take a closer look at the massive, sustainable structure and talk to Lemonade about performing at Warm Up this weekend.
Abdullah Saeed
8.2.12
Motherboard Blog

Mitt Romney, Hater of Big Government, Thanked Big Government For Bringing Us iPods & the Internet

All presidential candidates must be chameleons, of course; big ticket elections are largely a contest to see who can best blend their egomaniacal personas in with the 'average' American zeitgeist. Mitt Romney, angling to fit in with the deeply...
Brian Merchant
8.2.12
Sports

Fantasy Football Draft Prep, Part 1 - Fake Quarterbacks

There are “experts” whose job it is to pretend to know more about the likelihood of certain future football guy-related events than you, but they don't really know. You should palm off that knowledge as your own when you’re talking to your friends...
Ben Johnson
8.2.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch 879 Freedom-Fighting Teddy Bears Parachute Into Belarus

Last week, 879 teddy bears descended upon the rural countryside of Belarus, each adorned with satiric pro-human rights messages like "Teddy Bears are Banned in Belarus." Pandemonium ensued: Two Swedish activists claimed responsibility, saying they'd...
Brian Merchant
8.2.12
Film

The Fourth Dimension Is Playing in Montreal

We have a film currently surfing the festival waves at the moment. It’s called The Fourth Dimension. Out of all the festivals it’s screened at (and there are a lot of them) we’re extremely proud to be showing it at this latest one, the Fantasia...
Vice Beta
8.2.12
Photo

Budapest Is a Paradise

When I asked Budapest based photographers, Ív and Candie, for a few words describing their city to accompany these photos, all I got back was this sentence: "Budapest is buda and pest." Which isn't very informative, but I guess at least it does sort of...
Ív and Candie
8.2.12
Stuff

Are the Batman Killer's Fans Holmies or Trollmies?

They claim to love James Holmes but I think they might just be trolling.
Clive Martin
8.2.12
Music

We Asked Kendrick Lamar if He Was the New 2Pac

Compton native Kendrick Lamar has the hip-hop world by its balls. His indie release, "Section 80," romanced all the stoney-faced rap snobs last year. So, before he gets super famous, I sat down with him to talk about his California state of mind and...
Bwalya Newton
8.2.12
Motherboard Blog

Does the Suit Make the Swimmer? A History of Olympic Swimwear

Casual Olympics watchers will have noticed: The male swimmers are topless again! You can see the ladies’ knees once more! And…they look rather more like Grey aliens than last time. The changes were three years in the making. After a season of off...
JONATHAN LIU
8.2.12
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