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Download Vybz Kartel's Single, "My Crew"

The outro says it all: "My crew. We run it, we run it, we runnin' it."
Benjamin Shapiro
8.1.12
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Guto Requena: Cyber-architect

São Paulo-based architect Guto Requena is talking a stand against ugly, standardized buildings. He rejects the definition of "modernity" as minimalistic, all white, and Jetsons-esque, instead designing spaces that can be flexible and multifunctional.
The Creators Project
8.1.12
Music

Here's a New Video from Kindness and Trouble Funk

It's called "That's Alright".
Noisey
8.1.12
Film

The Wizard of Oz Experiment Repeats The Movie 5,829 Times To Create A Pixelated Wall Of Flitting Color

A video installation turns the classic film into a shifting mosaic.
Kevin Holmes
8.1.12
Motherboard Blog

While You Were Complaining about the Olympics, 600 Million Indians Had No Power

So, 10% of the world's population is currently without electricity thanks to the world's largest blackout in one of the world's poorest countries, and some 5% is complaining that it can't watch the Olympics in HD in realtime on satellite TV. Which is...
Brian Merchant
8.1.12
Motherboard Blog

The Navy's Huge New Drone Will Fly from Aircraft Carriers Automatically

When you look at it from the front, the new Navy X-47B sort of stares back like like a 14-ton cyclops from an alien world. The thing is so uncanny that when they shipped it across the country to its testing grounds in Maryland on the back of a truck...
Adam Estes
8.1.12
Motherboard Blog

How NASA Engineered the Enduring Apollo Flags

A lot of thought went into designing the flags Apollo astronauts planted on the Moon.
Amy Shira Teitel
8.1.12
Design

New Software Tool Lets You 3D Print Any Video Game Character Into Fully-Articulated Action Figure

3D print any 3D animation you want into a full assembled toy.
Kevin Holmes
8.1.12
The Photo Issue 2012

Pavor Nocturnus

Olivia Bee's real name is Olivia Bolles. She shoots pretty trippy photographs and she also works in film.
Olivia Bee
8.1.12
Pretty Girl Bullshit

How to Make Your Crush Crush On You

Pretty girls can be sex creeps, too.
Bertie Brandes
8.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Chris Marker Built Time Machines With Film and Put His Brain on CD-ROMs

Chris Marker, who just died at 91 in Paris, played with reality in his documentaries, but he could not be accused of fabulism or plagiarism. He didn't pretend to be accurate or fair. Even his name was fake -- Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve...
ALEX PASTERNACK
8.1.12
Fashion

Lazy Daisies

When the only thing girls can be arsed to do is cover themselves in loose-fitting gear.
Photos: Gabriela Antunes, Styling: Romina Fernandez
8.1.12
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