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MB Mixtape 2011 .05: Wavves, "Poor Lenore"

_No, no, it's not another list. It's a mixtape, the finest in innovative, future-forward sounds assembled by your pals at Motherboard. You get one track a day from now until the end of the year, and then it all comes together into the best document of...
Derek Mead
12.23.11
Music

Creators Remix Roundup: Gang Gang Dance, Florence + the Machine And Emicida

A weird Christmas tune from Gang Gang Dance, Florence gets a Dave Sitek rework and Emicida re-imagined.
Kathleen Flood
12.23.11
Motherboard Blog

2011 Was The Year Videogames Went Outside & Got Physical

Here's a brazen end-of-the-year declaration I'm not afraid to make: 2011 marked the year that videogames came off our screens and liberally encroached on the physical spaces we inhabit. I'm not talking about the living rooms filled with families...
Janus Rose
12.23.11
Film

Hyped: The Week In Links 12/23

Busy week? Here’s some things you may have missed.
Kevin Holmes
12.23.11
Motherboard Blog

Poignant Postmodern Piracy: 20 Years of "Monkey Island 2"

Remembering a 1991 game that embodied millennials' self-obsession.
Abraham Riesman
12.23.11
Music

The Best Laser Mash-up Video Of All Time

Words can hardly describe how much we love lasers. And really, who doesn’t?
Kevin Holmes
12.23.11
Art

Guest Column: Merging Craftsmanship And Computerized Technology With Haptic Intelligentsia

Netherlands-based designer and researcher Joonghan Lee describes how he gets “hands-on” with technology.
Joong Han Lee
12.23.11
Motherboard Blog

How to Create a Santa Who Can Actually Fit in Chimneys

How skinny would Santa Claus have to be to fit down America’s smallest fireplace chimneys?
SAM MCDOUGLE
12.23.11
Music

Dalston Superstars #ChristmasMixtape

Merry Christmas, bitches.
Robbie Party
12.23.11
News

An Obligatory and Pointless Look Back at 2011

Has this year been the annus mirabilis of righteous democrats or a miserable anus full of demo-prats?
Melanie Toynbee, Polly Phillips
12.23.11
Motherboard Blog

Forget Winter, Let's Chill in NASA's Pre-Launch Beach House

Before the astronauts of Space Shuttle Atlantis get suited up to go to space one last time this week, they'll repeat a ritual familiar to every crew before them: kissing their spouses goodbye in private. To do that, they go to the beach house.
ALEX PASTERNACK
12.23.11
Dalston Superstars

Christmas Special

It's Christmas in Dalston, but there's trouble for the gang. Maeve's struggling with her new job, Stefan's low on cash, and Sam and Anna's relationship has gone from bad to worse. Will the wildest Christmas party Dalston's ever seen solve their...
VICE Staff
12.23.11
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