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What Artist Would You Bring Back From The Dead?

We asked people around Brooklyn to weigh-in.
Noisey Staff
9.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Lord of the Rings-Aping Steampunk Walks Under a Waterfall of Lava

Just, this. You're watching a man named Geoff Mackley donning a self-fashioned heatproof proximity suit / "Fire Brigade" breathing apparatus combo and strolling up to an active volcano on Ambrym island. And there he stood for 40 minutes, on the...
Brian Merchant
9.25.12
Design

Wearable Cat Tail And Tail Hat Read Your Mind And Move To Reflect Your Mood

It seems Neurowear want us all to look like cats. LOL.
Kevin Holmes
9.25.12
Yeasayer + Casey Reas

Yeasayer's Fragrant World 2012 Tour: How To Build A Stage

Projectionist Nick Gould triggers and maps the visuals during Yeasayer's live shows.
The Creators Project
9.25.12
tour stories

Bring It on, Bitch

“Well, I’m actually a really big fan of cheerleading (that’s a subject?), would you like to hear a cheer?” I didn’t exactly have a choice, because she proceeded to “cheer” the lyrics to her single. “Isn’t that your song?” I asked. “It sure is! Yay!”
Kathy Iandoli
9.25.12
Aranda/Lasch

Yeasayer, Casey Reas, And Aranda\Lasch Create A Generative Tour Environment

This immersive visual environment becomes another live component in the band’s performance.
Kevin Holmes
9.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Why Counterfeiters Love Election Years

Everybody loves an election year. The campaign volunteers are out and about, wearing matching T-shirts, holding clipboards and sticking lawn signs into the dirt. The TV is buzzing with the latest scooplet about this candidate's silly gaffe or that...
Adam Estes
9.25.12
Motherboard Blog

The One Stat About Tesla's Model S That Means Electric Cars Have Arrived

The electric car has finally arrived. Tesla, eccentric Elon Musk's automotive baby, has finally moved on from stuffing lithe Lotuses full of batteries to create its Roadster and has released the Model S, a super sedan for upper-middle class, middle...
Derek Mead
9.25.12
The Mercy Rule

Picking at Scabs

The scab refs look, in short, like scabs—unqualified people hired to do a job they don't really know how to do at the behest of a management group which doesn't especially value that job, or at least less so than they value the chump change saved by...
David Roth
9.25.12
VICE News

The Mexican Mormon War

We talk to Romney's Mexican relatives about the time a family member was held for ransom by the cartel.
Shane Smith
9.25.12
Music

An Interview with Jack Terricloth of the World/Inferno Friendship Society

The fundamental message of the World/Inferno Friendship Society is Hope. You don’t have to give up your ideals. The average 20-something thinks, “I’ll do this for a few years and then get a real job.” There is a whole alternative culture out there. You...
Al Burian
9.25.12
Popping the Marks

That Muslim Punk Thing, Ten Years Later

Imagine the nastiest, most rebellious things that anyone could say or do with Islam, the kinds of things that supposedly start riots; the fictional Muslim punks of my first book did of them all. It was a sincere and loving blasphemy, I thought. But...
Michael Muhammad Knight
9.25.12
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