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Day Jobs

Day Jobs - Sleepies

Philosophy PhDs to cleaning camper crap and everything in between.
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
8.15.12
Motherboard Blog

The Mr. Bigs of Wildlife Smuggling Can't Be Stopped

Officials in Thailand say that wildlife trafficking simply can’t be stopped, all because people can’t live without ivory necklaces and rhino horn erection pills.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
8.15.12
World Peace Update

World Peace Update

While the rest of you have spent the last couple of weeks or so salivating over Usain Bolt's extensive limbs and laughing at London Mayor Boris Johnson's hairdo, I've been researching the ways in which the Olympic spirit has once again failed us. We're...
Henry Langston
8.15.12
Benh Zeitlin + Court 13

Making Of Beasts of the Southern Wild: Part I

Benh Zeiltin and his small film crew, Court 13, believe in making films that take them on terrific adventures and push them to life's limits. For their critically-acclaimed, breakout feature <a href="http://www.beastsofthesouthernwild.com/" target...
The Creators Project
8.15.12
Benh Zeitlin + Court 13

Making The Beasts In Beasts Of The Southern Wild: Benh Zeitlin And Ray Tintori Reveal Their Secrets

Benh Zeitlin wanted his Beasts to be living and breathing creatures. He enlisted Ray Tintori to help him make that crazy vision a reality.
The Creators Project Staff
8.15.12
Music

Tanlines, AraabMUZIK, And Emicida Blow The Roof Off The Creators Project: São Paulo 2012

An unusual mix of artists come together to rock the stage at our Brazil event.
The Creators Project Staff
8.15.12
Motherboard Blog

What the Mars Rover Landing Looked Like To Someone Who Actually Built It

NASA's done a fine job of documenting its big Martian landing last week - that little YouTube "robot copyright hiccup":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dmca-takedown notwithstanding. But one of NASA JPL's engineers...
ALEX PASTERNACK
8.15.12
Music

We Went to a Weird Bloc Party After Party

The party itself, however, demonstrated everything that can be stupid and lame about New York, this sort of forced sense of insider-dom and exclusion when in actuality nobody gives even seven-tenths of a shit.
Drew Millard
8.15.12
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard TV: Making Slime With Dan Deacon

It was 3pm when we got word that Dan Deacon wanted to hang out with Motherboard. We knew it would be worth it to make the 5 hour trek to Baltimore to check in on Deacon, whose new album “America” launches August 26/27.
Erin Lee Carr
8.15.12
Comics!

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-in #68

Hello art-o-philes, I turned 29 last week. I celebrated by playing pinball and drawing a jam comic about sea punk with Matthew Caron. I also finally gave back Gary Panter's ten favorite comics that I'd borrowed for two years.
Nick Gazin
8.15.12
Fashion

Dani Read Designed "Blade Runner"-Inspired Lingerie

In her new collection, “The Replicant,” Dani draws from sci-fi staples like "Blade Runner" and the fiction of Philip K. Dick. Each piece has been named after a science fiction character and is really really sexy.
Kelly Bourdet
8.15.12
Question Of The Day

Question of the Day - Chicks Before Dicks?

Do those with two X chromosomes really have more loyalty to members of their own sex than their Y-chromosomed counterparts? Would you choose your girls over a little rump of man meat? Or would you get stitches for your bitches?
VICE Staff
Sheree Millington
8.15.12
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