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Behold Your New Giant Mirrored Bean God
Here's an exclusive look at photographer Zak Arctander's new series, 'Flesh Made Steel,' which explores how goofy people look when visiting 'Cloud Gate,' the Anish Kapoor sculpture in Chicago's Millenium Park.
Zak Arctander
10.3.12
Stuff

Bisexuals and the Mythical "Get-Out-of-Monogamy-Free" Card
Moral of the story is, life is complicated. Just fuck whomever and don't be a stupid dick. Wait, no, the point is, bisexuals are attracted to a wider variety of people than heterosexuals, but that doesn't (always) mean that they have to have both at...
Kelly McClure
10.3.12
Stuff

RIP Men: An Obituary for a Gender
Reader, make sure you're sitting down. Please. I have some terrible news to break to you. The rumors have been circling for some time now, but this is no Twitter hoax. Earlier this week, the gender of Men passed away in a tragic bicycle accident.
Clive Martin
10.3.12
New music

Stream Tony Castles' New Track
It's called "Medium," it's got soul, and it makes all these indie wusses hiding behind fake synths and aquatic echo look stupid.
Benjamin Shapiro
10.3.12
Schoolgirl Diaries

Things Got YOLO at My School Disco
We all got sent home early and STDs.
Berlinder Shepherd
10.3.12
Art

Jason Akira Somma Turns Video Signals Into Dancers (And Vice Versa)
A rundown of Somma’s current performance/holographic/video exhibition “Phosphene Variations,” currently on view at Location One gallery in Manhattan.
Kathleen Flood
10.3.12
Motherboard Blog

This House Will Be Made Entirely Out of Trash and You Will Want To Live In It
Nobody has yet built a house entirely of garbage — or even recycled materials — that anyone would really want to live in. So Brighton-based architect Duncan Baker-Brown is about to do it. He’s going to build a modern, nicely-designed home completely...
Brian Merchant
10.3.12
Ojo, mucho ojo

The Grisly Dead People Pictures of Fernando Brito
These days, there's no shortage of grisly images coming out of Mexico thanks to the brutal and ever-present War on Drugs. But Brito’s work stands out because he seems to treat the cadavers as one with the landscape. There is a certain sense of...
Bernardo Loyola
10.3.12
Chunklet to Go Go

Vinyl and Ebay: A Fascinating Relationship
Ok, so why did you open and handle the record with your big, fluid-gorged sausage fingers? Why can I see the record in your picture? Because you needed to check the color? Check this color, hoss (helps to visualize an extended middle digit right now).
Andrew Earles
10.3.12
Stuff

Happy Science Is the Laziest Cult Ever
Last Saturday I had an appointment with the Parisian branch of Happy Science, a syncretic Japanese sect that appears to be made up of the most contradictory, gross, bizarre ideas the world has ever mustered up.
Sylla Saint-Guily
10.3.12
Art

The City As Alien Artifact: A Living Patchwork Of Systems And Processes [Q&A]
Keiichi Matsuda’s Prism recently took up residence at London’s V&A and now it’s textural data feeds live on online.
Kevin Holmes
10.3.12
Motherboard Blog

The Clunky Little Ball That Caused Mass Hysteria
This October 4th marks the 55th anniversary of the Soviet Union launching Sputnik, history’s first artificial satellite. It was a momentous occasion, to be sure. But at the time, the Soviet and U.S. responses couldn’t have been more different: While...
Amy Teitel
10.3.12
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