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Getting Fresh with Wilbert

Getting Fresh with Wilbert - Old School Ed Hardy Pimpin' Swag

Look at all those singles... That's how I used to ball out—in an Ed Hardy tee with some True Religion jeans and pocket full of Washingtons. Like you, I wasn't born stylin'. My mother's womb wasn't laced in Margiela. It took me years to get fresh!
Wilbert L. Cooper
7.27.12
The Photo Issue 2012

Binocular Disparity

These photos hail from Simone Bergantini's "American Standard Remix" series. Simone created these images after buying a box of negatives from a junk store and overlapping two images of two different people to make a completely new picture.
Simone Bergantini
7.27.12
Features

Have The Antlers Gone Seapunk??

'Undersea' marks a new creative direction for the heartstring-tugging trio.
Suze Olbrich
7.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Tweeting Bomb Threats Isn't Such a Big Deal After All

Paul Chambers off the hook after winning a U.K. High Court appeal against a 2010 conviction for — get this — tweeting. To be fair to the establishment, the tweet was in pretty bad taste. After showing up at the Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire on...
Adam Estes
7.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Music Is Louder and More Boring Than Ever, Says Math

How hard did that headline blow your mind? Imagine: music really is crappier now; you're not just turning more snobby. It's louder, not just because you're playing it louder because technology is making it much easier and cheaper to give yourself...
Michael Byrne
7.27.12
News

Spoiler Alert: Pictures from the Olympics Opening Ceremony Rehearsal

Being a long-time armchair sports fan, I volunteered to work unpaid on the London 2012 team. It was the Games’ official slogan—“Inspire a Generation”—that convinced me. "I am that generation," I thought to myself. "So this must be my time!"
Paul Crane
7.27.12
Motherboard Blog

The Latest Trend at Facebook: Mediocrity

Sometimes it seems like everybody on Wall Street wants Facebook to fail as a public company. After the company's meteoric rise from a dorm room vanity project to a $104 billion company in just eight years, it seemed like nothing could stop Facebook...
Adam Estes
7.27.12
Stuff

Fuck Fuzzy Elitism

When will these body-hair evangelists, citing feminism as their cause (so blasphemous!), realize that being a fascist about fuzz doesn't make them Valerie Solanas? It makes them insecure screaming tyrants.
Lucy Grace
Eve Willis
7.27.12
Stuff

I Was a Corporate Tobacco Peddler

You know that reoccurring dream you get where you feel so heavy and you’re trying to move or run but you’re not getting anywhere? And you scream for help, but your voice doesn’t make a sound? And everything is dark? That’s what it was like working at...
Angelina Fanous
7.27.12
Music

The 1980s Live On With This 3D Printed Cassette Mixtape

The Makerbot MixTape will have you pining for the days when recording music off the radio was as pirate as it got.
Kevin Holmes
7.27.12
Stuff

Writer-Detective Greg Palast Really Hates the Rich

He wants to kill them, but he can't, so he exposes them.
Simon Childs
7.27.12
Music

Shuffle and Splooge - Playlist #13

My mother said to me that I would get in trouble. She saw the garbage bags of empty beer cans I hid in my closet, and the hickies on my chest when I wore a bathing suit.
Sophie Saint Thomas
7.27.12
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