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Art

Vintage Photos Get A Glitchy Facelift In Distorx

CILER makes old images relevant again using only a scanner.
Bonnie Wertheim
7.31.12
Film

Zoom Into A Particle Of Dust To Find A Parallel Universe In Somewhere

In his animation, Chinese artist Song Liu creates a dark world floating in the ether.
Erica Huang
7.31.12
Stuff

Mind Thoughts... with Michael Ian Black - In Spite of Everything, I Would Still Let You Suck My Dick

When we met that summer night outside the 7-11, I thought you were perfect. Your eyes, glassy and vague. Your hair, mostly shaven. Your lips, smeared with lipstick and Cheetos residue. Even your zits looked good to me that summer night, zits I wished...
Michael Ian Black
7.31.12
Features

Killing Joke Has A Runaway Frontman

The post-punk singer vanishes without a trace right before a major tour.
Lara James
7.31.12
Off Hollywood

Off Hollywood - Steve Wang

I was filed with new hope the minute I walked in the door of Steve Wang's practical effects workshop. No one was hunched over a computer, it reeked of epoxy, and people were working together on a number of elements with their bare hands. Steve is...
Jennifer Juniper Stratford
7.31.12
Music

We Interviewed Swedish Electro Sensation, Alina Devecerski

Considering the way the internet works now, you kind of assume that when something is popular in one place, it's instantly popular everywhere else at the same time.
Luke O'Neil
7.31.12
Features

There's Nothing Sexy About A Sexy Music Video

Stop it. You're embarrassing everyone involved.
Luke O'Neil
7.31.12
Music

Climb Up A Sorbet-Colored Dreamscape With Django Django In Their New Music Video, "Hail Bop"

Check out Django Django’s dreamy new music video, “Hail Bop.”
Christina Lee
7.31.12
Stuff

If You Gaze Into ‘The Hills,’ ‘The Hills’ Gazes Also Into You

During the month of July, MTV aired all six seasons of The Hills, its genre-defining reality show about halter tops, sunglasses, and white people crying. If your response to that is to say it is artificial, that it glorifies immoral infants, that it...
John Saward
7.31.12
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard TV: Liberia's Only Analog Blogger

I couldn't tell you the last time I sat down and read a magazine or newspaper section from front to back, but it's been half a decade at least. Partly it's because a few of my favorite magazines have died, and partly because the job description of an...
Derek Mead
7.31.12
Tech

The Psychology of Bullshitting

The times they are a-changin' for Jonah Lehrer.
Adam Clark Estes
7.31.12
Motherboard Blog

Japan's First Green Party Has Been Launched By (Surprise!) Anti-Nuclear Folks

Japan has a relatively high amount of turnover in its government — just look at how many different prime ministers have led Japan over the last two decades — and its National Diet has a number of political groups represented. But despite that, I’m...
Derek Mead
7.31.12
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