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Art

Exploring Chaos And Order: Q&A With Kinetic Sculptor Balint Bolygo

Using fundamental forces and mechanics, Bolygo interprets the interplay between chaotic and ordered systems.
Kevin Holmes
2.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Happy Birthday, J Dilla

Thirty-eight years ago today, James Yancey, better known as super producer J Dilla, was born. 5 years and 362 days ago, he died of apparent cardiac arrest, just three days after the release of _Donuts_ on his 32nd birthday. Dilla made his name as an...
Derek Mead
2.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Scorpions are Aerodynamically Tuned to Beat the Desert

You may think of scorpions in terms of their offensive weapons - that is, the badass stinger of your wildest nightmares – but they’re also evolved in the defense department too. "New research":http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la203942r, published...
SAM MCDOUGLE
2.7.12
Stuff

The Brutality Report - Stupid People What Don't Know They're Stupid

Stupid people are more complex than we give them credit for because the less they know, the less they don't know what they don't know.
Sam McPheeters
2.7.12
Music

Theory: Nicki Minaj Is Actually Jay-Z Sped Up

Based on this evidence I would have to say that my theory is correct.
Jamie Lee Taete
2.7.12
Music

Victorian Space Children Perform Surgery In Miike Snow's "Paddling Out"

Director Andrea Nilsson teams up with Miike Snow for a bizarre sic-fi adventure.
Abdullah Saeed
2.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Video: The Field Elaborates On His Looping State of Mind

Looping and the sublime, subtle joys of repetition in electronic music will never go away but, in the meantime, we'll have to deal with a lot more electrocore/wobblecore bullshit from producers like you-know-who-ex. The Field's Axel Willner, however...
Michael Byrne
2.7.12
Music

Fletcher Pratt Is Building A Nightmare Machine

This Winnepeg noisenik’s work runs the gamut from chopped and skrewed hip-hop to harsh noise and drone.
Jesse Locke
2.7.12
Film

Reed And Rader's Amazing Pizza Machine Makes Us Really Hungry

Please feed the model.
Kathleen Flood
2.7.12
Motherboard Blog

If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language

Us Americans tend to spend more, save less, and carry more than a few extra pounds as compared to the rest of the world. We're not alone; the Greeks, for one, have similar traits. Meanwhile, folks like the Germans are fitter, thriftier, and save more...
Derek Mead
2.7.12
Noisey Blog

I Used Anagrams To Prove That Lana Del Rey Is A Terrorist

I'm Unravelling The LDR Conspiracy - I'll Be Robert Langdon, You Be Nicolas Cage.
Sasha Hecht
2.7.12
Sports

Canadians Don’t Get Hardcore, Americans Don’t Get Hockey

For an American sports fan, the worst day in his life is when he realizes that he might as well be Honduran for all he knows about hockey.
Matthew LaForge
2.7.12
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