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Shot By Kern

Los Angeles

In part 2 of Kern's sojourn to Los Angeles, we head to the American Apparel factory.
VICE Staff
7.31.12
Stuff

What is ASMR? That Good Tingly Feeling No One Can Explain

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a tingling feeling on your scalp and brain that slowly moves down your neck and spine. Many find these triggers pleasurable and relaxing, but, what does ASMR mean, and why do people like it so much?
Harry Cheadle
7.31.12
Motherboard Blog

The Fine Art of Keeping the World's Weird Films Alive: An Interview with Archivist Rick Prelinger

Rick Prelinger is an archivist rockstar. In the DIY spirit, he created his acclaimed Prelinger Library from scratch -- by touring the world in search of its rare and beautiful advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films. In 2002, after...
Katie Bennett
7.31.12
Music

Playlist: Appeasing the Angry Feral Cat That Stalks Your Fire Escape and Wants Your Blood

We’ve amassed a compilation of songs to soothe the soul of the feral cat beast the size of a healthy adult beagle that stalks you on your fire escape.
S.B. Kasulke
7.31.12
Motherboard Blog

There Are Only 3,200 Tigers Left

No one should be surprised that the world’s species most threatened by poaching have seen huge population declines in the last century. Elephants, for example, have been absolutely clobbered, with only 300,000 African elephants now left after numbering...
Derek Mead
7.31.12
News

Do We Really Want the Tom Daley Twitter Dick to End Up in Prison?

Yesterday, Tom Daley, that twinky British kid with a preternatural ability to fall into water gracefully, failed to get an Olympic medal. Most of England realized that you can't win all the time, and set about consoling him because Tom was, presumably...
Alex Miller
7.31.12
Motherboard Blog

This New App Looks Like a Concierge, But Acts Like a Stalker

Whether you like it or not, your smartphone knows where you are and can probably guess what you're doing at all times. You wouldn't necessarily know it, though, because all of the data lives in the background, accessible to apps that might need it but...
Adam Estes
7.31.12
FIGHTLAND

What It Means to Be a Big Mouth in MMA

Who has time to worry about explaining to SportsCenter why they’re going to fight? Figuring out how to fight is hard enough. Only Chael Sonnen could find the energy to master both combat and marketing. Anderson Silva, meanwhile, just wants to fight...
Josh Rosenblatt
7.31.12
Motherboard Blog

Animal Collective's New Radio Station Is Killer

Since the May release of their 7" ‘Honeycomb’/‘Gotham,’ Animal Collective have been back in circulation on our itunes. But there are only so many times you can play two songs, and that’s why we’re excited about last night’s launch of Animal Collective...
Katie Bennett
7.31.12
Art

Google Street View's Days Get Numbered With An ASCII Art Version

It’s just like entering the Matrix.
Kevin Holmes
7.31.12
Question Of The Day

You Just Self-Immolated, What Was it Over?

We asked some people in the street.
Sheree Millington
7.31.12
The Photo Issue 2012

Soho

Anders Petersen was born in 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1966, he studied at Christer Strömholm's School of Photography in Stockholm. A year later, he began photographing the Café Lehmitz in Hamburg, which launched his photography career.
Anders Petersen
7.31.12
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