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The Creators Project: Paris 2012

Monumenta 2012: 1024 architecture & Daniel Buren
Each year, Monumenta invites an internationally renowned artist to conceive a site-specific installation for the great nave of the <a href="http://www.grandpalais.fr/visite/en/" target=_blank...
The Creators Project
9.17.12
Borderlands 2

Big Guns in the Badlands - Part 2
Will raises the stakes and tests his aim on some exploding targets. After a slew of massive explosions (including a test run of a homemade cannon), he finally graduates to the mother of all machine guns—the .50 caliber M2 Browning.
Will Kiersky
9.17.12
Motherboard Blog

At the Institute for Interstellar Studies, Researchers Unite to Conquer Deep Space
For six decades, warring factions of space nerds have toiled away on various plans for heading out into deep space to explore the stars.
Chris Hatherill
9.17.12
Noisey

Who is your country's favourite artist, and why?
Clive Martin
9.16.12
Motherboard Blog

"Is Facebook Changing Our Identity?" (Singularity Content Within)
Posed by the newest video in the PBS Idea Channel series (above), it's a good question. Facebook has almost a billion users, storing on the site some 250 million photos daily. archiving a past (of sorts) along a neat timeline. In an idealized world, we...
Michael Byrne
9.16.12
Motherboard Blog

Lower Dens' Jana Hunter Writes Cyborg Music for Techno Fear: Interview
Electronic rock has never felt so much like cyborg rock as on Lower Dens' new record, _Nootropics_. It's an aesthetic as much as a concept, a delicate and subtle mingling of synthesized or processed or programmed sounds with a rock scheme nodding...
Michael Byrne
9.16.12
Motherboard Blog

The NYPD Gives Us Another Great Reason To Update Our Facebook Privacy Settings
NYPD police commissioner Ray Kelly issued a five-page memo last week, giving officers permission to created fake Facebook profiles to assist with electronic probes. Officers will be able to register their alias with the department and obtain a laptop...
Michael Arria
9.16.12
Photo

Salafists in Sidon: Not as Bad as You Think
In Sidon, a coastal Lebanese city south of Beirut, a crowd of several hundred people gathered on Thursday night to protest "Innocence of Muslims"--the film created by right-wing zealots and a soft-core porn director that has sparked violent protests...
Jeff Neumann
9.16.12
Sports

Raiders Games Are Like Bad, Unsafe Indie Shows
This past Monday's game between the Chargers and Raiders was like going to a Lightning Bolt show in 2003 or trying to find a death-crust gig in East Bed-Stuy. Gnarly and awesome, and the indie-sports nexus.
Ben Johnson
9.16.12
News

Craig Unger Wrote a Book About Karl Rove
'Vanity Fair' contributing editor Craig Unger just published a book with Scribner's on Rove's consolidation of influence in the GOP called 'Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove's Secret Kingdom of Power.' I met Craig by chance at the DNC, and we hit it off when...
Ray LeMoine
9.16.12
Stuff

I Interviewed a German Record Store Owner About America
There are very few places where kindness to your fellow man or woman exists anymore. As I walked around Hannover on a blue-skied sunny morning, I discovered the excellent Rockers Records and chatted with the owner Chris over a coffee to find out what's...
John Liam Policastro
9.16.12
Music

Hydra Head Records Tricked Me into Liking Nu Metal
Earlier this week Hydra Head Records announced they were going out of business… kinda. I got sad—not because I was a huge fan of beard metal—because Hydra Head was a well-run label that spared no expense on their releases, supported their artists, and...
Anthony Pappalardo
9.16.12
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