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Catching a Break: In Defense of Icebergs
Of all the inanimate, would-be wonders of the natural world, there are phenomena repeatedly doled short shrift.
Take icebergs. Folks are constantly salting on the poor brutes. _Scumbag icebergs sink titanic cruise ships_. (Actually, lax crow's...
Brian Anderson
4.11.12
Design

SuperUber Creates Real-Life Interactive Experiences Through Gaming
Russ Rive discusses OctoCloud, SuperUber’s latest interactive gaming installation, exhibited at our San Francisco event.
The Creators Project Staff
4.11.12
Question Of The Day

What Will You Do When David Bowie Dies?
How will you cope?
VICE Staff
4.11.12
The Creators Project: San Francisco 2012

SuperUber's OctoCloud at Fort Mason 2012
Creator, electronic engineer, and founder of Brazilian design and technology studio SuperUber, Russ Rive discusses OctoCloud, an interactive, eight-person slingshot...
The Creators Project
4.11.12
Fashion

Deadly Fashion Braces Are Big in Thailand
Vanity braces are pretty nice until they give you a thyroid infection that leads to fatal heart failure.
Stephanie Malik
4.11.12
Motherboard Blog

The Outrage over Christwire's Fake News Shows How We Expect Racism Online
Now that at least a _few_ people realize that the Onion is satire, brilliant evangelical-posing site Christwire.org has stepped up to get the Internet all worked up. (The site's tagline, "Conservative values for an unsaved world," is particularly...
Derek Mead
4.11.12
From Sea to Shining Sea

Bulls on Parade
A bull-rider will never really "beat" a bull.
Conor Creighton, Photos: Kendall Waldman
4.11.12
New music

Smoke DZA's New Track, "Havin' Thangs"
It features Big K.R.I.T., Cashius Green, and a hilarious write up from DZA's manager.
VICE Staff
4.11.12
Music

Scoring The Bizarre World Of Micro Empire With Dark Electro [Q&A]
Radium Audio discuss why electronic beats are a great accompaniment to warring microbes.
Kevin Holmes
4.11.12
Art

Constructing Moving Images Of The Cosmos Using CGI
Matthias Müller’s stellar depictions of objects in space.
Romain Thomas
4.11.12
Motherboard Blog

MBTV: Felix Thorn Builds Stunning Musical Sculptures out of Trash
Kinetic, psychotropic visual soundscapes. Give me a second to catch my breath, but that's the best description I can come up with for what musician/sculptor "Felix Thorn":http://www.felixsmachines.com/home/ does. It seems that ever since someone...
Derek Mead
4.11.12
News

The Social Conservative Crack-Up
What once looked like a solid block of principled consistency now looks like an Etch-a-Sketch that was stolen, stripped, and left for dead in a dumpster behind the neighborhood Chik-Fil-A.
James Poulos
4.11.12
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