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A Funny/Unusual Moment With André Saraiva

International kingpin of creativity, André Saraiva, tells us about his journey from street art to art galleries, and from sleeping in nightclubs to owning some of the ...
Adri Murguia
8.21.12
Yeasayer + Casey Reas

Yeasayer's Crystalline Stage Environment Debuts On "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" [Video]

A taste of the high-concept artistic experience made for Yeasayer’s live show by Casey Reas, in collaboration with Aranda\Lasch, Yoshi Sodeoka, Asteriskos, and Aaron Meyers.
The Creators Project Staff
8.21.12
Motherboard Blog

Google Doesn't Want to Talk About Bribing Bloggers

The years-long patent litigation trial between Google and Oracle took and unexpected turn in the past few days, after the judge caught wind that the two companies were paying bloggers to do their bidding. This wouldn't be such a big deal — unless you...
Adam Estes
8.21.12
Art

Julian Oliver's Border Bumping Redraws National Borders Using Cell Phone Data

Telecommunications cause anarchy with geographic boundaries.
Kevin Holmes
8.21.12
Stuff

Thank U for Touching Me

Kip went down on me while Christopher kissed my breasts. The feeling of having two men touch me at the same time was pleasurable but tainted by the worry that afterwards they would think less of me. It was interesting to me, the way that two men could...
Marie Calloway
8.21.12
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard TV: Cai Guo-Qiang Makes Art By Blowing Shit Up

Jack the Dripper was my favorite artist as a kid, and why wouldn't he be? Could there be anything cooler to a youngster wearing neon Taz shirts than a guy who became a legend for making a huge mess? (I still like Pollock as a grown-up, but now I'd have...
Derek Mead
8.21.12
Stuff

Interns: Don't Bother Uniting, You Have No Chains to Lose

Interns are naïve whelps who are rising up off their swivel chairs, shaking off their imaginary shackles, and demanding what is not rightfully theirs: a workingman’s wage. And I wish they’d just shut up.
Brendan O’Neill
8.21.12
Motherboard Blog

Facebook's Stock Is Nowhere Near Bottom

Break out a fresh bottle of schadenfreude, because the once untouchable and invaluable Facebook stock is on a fast slide towards a rocky bottom. The trouble started last Thursday — well, some would argue that it really started the day of Facebook's...
Adam Estes
8.21.12
Music

We Saw This: Black Bananas

There’s a trick to getting jazzed about Black Bananas: listen to it for what it is instead of what it’s not. Black Bananas aren’t RTX just like RTX wasn’t Royal Trux.
BEVERLY HAMES
8.21.12
Fashion

Western People Appropriate the Shit Out of Everything

You know what's cool? Disrespecting someone by wearing their cherished, centuries-old culture as a fashion accessory. With that in mind, here are a few ways in which Western culture has made a complete ass of itself by re-appropriating cultures and...
Lore Oxford
8.21.12
Motherboard Blog

How Five Times Three Equals a Hacking Revolution

The thing used to protect most of your digital secrets -- credit card numbers, email accounts, bank account information, whatever -- is a peculiar sort of lock and key, a variety of encryption called public key cryptography. In this secrecy scheme, the...
Michael Byrne
8.21.12
Design

Star Wars Speeder Bike IRL: Aerofex Release Footage Of A Working Hoverbike

An aerospace company have created a hoverbike that flies using ducted-fans.
Kevin Holmes
8.21.12
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