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Music

Rock Out Using An Ancient Animation Technique With A Modern Spin

Design and animation studio Sehsucht creates a unique zoetrope to put on a show.
Emily Dubovoy
11.16.12
Weekly Music Round-Up

Weekly Music Round-Up: Rihanna Got Everybody Drunk, Robert Deniro Vs. Jay-Z, And Everyone Is High

We paid attention to music news this week so you didn't have to.
Drew Millard
11.16.12
Girl News

The Girls’ Guide to Winter: Gettin’ Cozytime-Cozykins from November to Eternity Featuring Cuddle-Ups and Boy Talk Around a Mythic Raging Fire

That it gets dark at noon or w/e is of less consequence when you think about winter as a Laplandian fairytale (Lapland is like Narnia but without all the stuff) instead of something brutalist and immovable and boring.
Kate Carraway
11.16.12
Stuff

Why Not Let All the States Secede From the US?

Why not let Utah become a Mormon theocracy and allow Alabama to teach the Bible instead of science? Meanwhile, the other states could legalize marijuana, improve the social safety net, and provide free contraception to everyone without interference...
Harry Cheadle
11.16.12
Stuff

Windsor, Ontario Actually Is Earth's Rectum

Windsor is not only very similar to a huge butthole, it's also destined to give everyone that lives there some flavour of cancer.
Kara Crabb
11.16.12
Tech

The Chatroulette Alarm Clock

Budist.ru, a Russian wake-up call service, is probably the only network that's actually social. As I found out, I fucking suck at waking Russians.
Derek Mead
11.16.12
Divine Fits

The Birth Of Divine Fits

How Britt Daniel of Spoon and Dan Boeckner of Handsome Furs came together to create something amazing.
Abdullah Saeed
11.16.12
Motherboard Blog

This Is What Mexico's Cartel Land-Grab Saga Looks Like

Thanks to a new data visualization project by a guy at Harvard, the epic, rapid-fire turfs wars that have shaped Mexico’s narco saga just got a lot clearer.
Brian Anderson
11.16.12
Photo

Singing a Sad Song with Photographs

Bryan Schutmaat’s new photographic series, 'Grays the Mountain Sends,' depicts desolate regions and isolated communities of the western United States with a keen eye and a genuine spirit. Serious stuff, dudes.
Christian Storm
11.16.12
video

Meet Supergroup Divine Fits

Divine Fits is a veritable supergroup composed of members from Spoon, Wolf Parade, and New Bomb Turks who came together in 2012 to form a project unlike any of their previous work.
The Creators Project
11.16.12
Schoolgirl Diaries

I Think I Might Have Actually Learned Something at School This Week

I'm not quite sure what, though.
Berlinder Shepherd
11.16.12
Features

Boys Will Be Girls & Girls Will Be Boys: Our 10 Favorite Androgynous Voices

A new gender of genderless is out to seduce and confuse you.
Xavier Aaronson
11.16.12
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