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united visual artists

UVA's Pyramid Light Installation Fragment Is A Different Kind Of Desert Mirage
United Visual Artists’ design will be unveiled inside an atrium at the Dubai Mall this March.
Megan Youngblood
1.23.13
Design

How To Catch A Thief Using A Pinhole Camera
Finally, a how-to that’s useless.
Abdullah Saeed
1.22.13
Music

Nosaj Thing Ends The Suspense With The Release Of His Sophomore Album Home
Looking back on some of the great tracks and performances that led to this sound.
Abdullah Saeed
1.22.13
Features

R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" Is Now Ten Years Old
We found the part in R. Kelly's autobiography where he talks about making the song.
Drew Millard
1.22.13
Stuff

The Woman Who Wrestled Bears
Deanna Booher has lived enough for five lives and had just as many aliases. Queen Adrena, Juicy Joy, Matilda The Hun, and Queen Kong are just some of the names she's gone under for her various guises. She's been arrested and jailed, she's wrestled a...
Alex Godfrey
1.22.13
nasa

Here's Half a Century of NASA Climate Change Data in 13 Seconds
This super-short animation, put together with NASA satellite weather data, will scare the crap out of you.
Brian Merchant
1.22.13
New music

Listen to Iggy Pop (as a Pirate) Sing About His Asshole
Or don't. We get it.
Sasha Hecht
1.22.13
Music

We Interviewed Ben Folds on His Way to Play for Obama, You Should See His Sausage Trees
We spoke to Ben Folds while en route to Washington, DC to play the Obama Inauguration festivities on Saturday. Key topics were thick sweaters and sausage trees.
Trent Moorman
1.22.13
Motherboard Blog

Enough with the Hype: Let's Keep It Simple with Wearable Computing
Wearable computing is one of those really exciting technological breakthroughs that hasn't quite happened yet.
Adam Clark Estes
1.22.13
Features

A Bunch of Studio 54 Memorabilia Just Got Sold at Weirdly Low Prices
Why does the Studio 54 guestbook only cost $7,200?
Noisey Staff
1.22.13
how to make stuff

How To Make Stuff… with Jacob Bannon
Jacob Bannon is one of those rare artists who doesn't allow his body of work to be overshadowed by its best-known export. Most people know Bannon as the prime mover behind the virtuosic hardcore group Converge, a band that, eight records in, continues to
Benjamin Shapiro
1.22.13
Music

Space Invaders: Peeking Inside Electronic Media Artist Phillip Stearns' Studio
Phillip Stearns, one of the best-known glitch artists around, is poised to be the next bad-ass art boy—thanks in large part to a Tumblr he started in January 2012 called Year of the Glitch.
Michelle Lhooq
1.22.13
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