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Art

Meet Zach Lieberman: Artist, Hacker, And Illuminator Of The English Countryside
Lieberman’s Connecting Light installation was designed to subvert the traditional role of walls and borders in society.
Julia Kaganskiy
11.14.12
video

Zach Lieberman: Physical And Digital Tools Converge
Artist Zach Lieberman is one of the key masterminds behind YesYesNo, and an essential figure in the community of artists working at the forefront of media and technology. As one of the founders of <a...
The Creators Project
11.14.12
Features

What You Didn't Know About That Song You Hear on 'American Horror Story' Every Week
Nuns, lesbians, suicide, oh my!
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
11.14.12
Motherboard Blog

How to Make Flying a Drone Less Boring: Get Distracted
You're sitting in an air-conditioned trailer somewhere in Nevada, one hand clutching a joystick, the other tapping out commands on a keyboard. You're a US Air Force (or CIA) Predator drone pilot. You're about two hours into a 12-hour spy- and kill...
Brian Anderson
11.14.12
shorties

All Around Losing - Trailer
We made associate editor Harry Cheadle, the most awkward person we know, try new things, just to find out that he's terrible at all of them. New episodes of 'All Around Losing' start on Tuesday, November 20.
Harry Cheadle
11.14.12
Motherboard Blog

Why an Economist Needs One of These Laser-Powered, Super Resolution Microscopes
Eighty-two years ago, when a young and struggling painter named "Henri Cartier-Bresson":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/22/henri-cartier-bresson-the-father-of-street-photography-would-have-been-104-today--2 first saw Martin Munkacsi's photograph...
Lawrence De Geest
11.14.12
The Mercy Rule

Miami Blues
In some ways, the Miami Marlins are Florida—overleveraged, overbuilt, and cruising blithely towards foreclosure while being ruled by a clownish, childish, tone-deaf, permanent cadre of special-needs elites. Less metaphorically, they’re a fucking bummer.
David Roth
11.14.12
News

Is the Russian Mormon Church an FBI Front?
The Young Guard is the youth wing of President Putin’s ruling United Russia Party. Recently, those crazy kids have started picking on their country's Mormons, claiming they are "foreign agents" paid by the US to brainwash young Russians. They also...
Simon Childs
11.14.12
Motherboard Blog

So Who's Going to Start the Oil War in the Arctic?
So who's it going to be? Who's going to kick off the armed conflict over those precious oil and gas reserves in the Arctic?
Russia? Nah, they're a bunch of crotchety has-beens. Norway? Denmark? Nope—too Scandinavian, too neutral, too peaceful...
Brian Merchant
11.14.12
Reviews

Crystal Castles - 'III'
I GIVE THIS ALBUM 4 PILES OF DUTCH GUTS OUT OF 5. THAT MIGHT BE A POSITIVE REVIEW I'M NOT SURE YET.
The Kid Mero
11.14.12
Motherboard Blog

John McAfee Is Trapped in Paradise
Forget Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks high horse, and Hollywood victim Kim Dotcom and his attempts to rebrand himself as an Internet freedom crusader. This is John McAfee, the perfect anti-hero.
ALEC LIU
11.14.12
Stuff

Just Because You’re Bored Doesn’t Mean You Have to Be a Surrealist
Surrealism is pretty stupid. It’s always just about women with clocks for faces or animals that can use cell phones. It wants you to believe it deserves more attention for pretending everything about the world isn’t just a mess governed by math. Jason...
Blake Butler
11.14.12
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