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Inappropriate Dressing and Undressing

Who knows, maybe Funny Van Money will start a new trend of suburban al fresco stripping that will sweep the nation. It would certainly liven up living in the goddamn crabgrass.
Bruce LaBruce
8.29.12
Tech

What's My Face Is Yours: A Chat With Artist Megan May Daalder

Inside the Mirrorbox, a hands-on piece that uses two-way mirrors and a lighting sequence to give two participants the temporary sensation of embodying another identity.
Claire Evans
8.29.12
A Living Diary of a Dying Industry

Grumpy Record Store Clerk

A Living Diary of a Dying Industry is a new column about people who still manage to earn a (perhaps not always decent) wage in the business of music.
A. Wolfe
8.29.12
Film

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Visual Effects Artist Matthias Müller

Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Julie Le Baron
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

The World of Prosthetic Art Is Marvelous

Prostheses are a lot of things — practical, functional, useful — but pretty they are not. Your standard prosthetic leg is typically nothing more than flesh-colored hunk of plastic designed, if anything, to be ignored or overlooked. But a handful of...
Adam Estes
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

Inside the Empathy Machine: Going Face-in-Face with Megan May Daalder

Megan May Daalder is a young artist in Los Angeles who is responsible for the Mirrorbox, a hands-on piece that uses two-way mirrors and a lighting sequence to allow two participants to momentarily blend their faces together in a genuinely arresting...
Claire L. Evans
8.29.12
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GETME! Pre-Carnival Warm Up at Birthdays

There were parties before the Notting Hill Carnival, you know.
Yusuf Laher
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

How Technology Makes Patents Irrelevant: An IP Lawyer Discusses Apple v. Samsung

Samsung is a copycat, the jury ruled, after just three days of deliberation, awarding Apple over a billion dollars in damages. For the inventor of the iPhone, it was a convincing victory. In their eyes, it took Samsung just three months to steal...
ALEC LIU
8.29.12
Fashion

Are You a Heterosexual Male Diva?

I saw the term HMD floating around Twitter the other day and this time it didn't mean "hold my dick," it meant "heterosexual male diva." Let me explain: HMDs are basically straight men who care about stuff that guy-guys don't give a shit about.
Donald Crunk
8.29.12
Question Of The Day

What Song Would You Play to Aliens?

We can't play Will.i.am, he looks like a steampunk clown.
Phoebe Hurst, Rosie Parry
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch In Horror As Dumb Humans Accidentally Set an Endangered Orangutan On Fire

I've got a real soft spot for orangutans because they're orange and hairy and thus look kind of like me. The Bornean orangutans, one of two orangutan species, calls "Borneo":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo, an island off the coast of Indonesia...
Derek Mead
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

World of Warcraft Is No Longer Available In Iran, Thanks to U.S. Sanctions

The latest casualty of Iranian sanctions: The world's most famous MMORPG.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
8.29.12
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