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A Soft-Core Apple Retrospective

There's something very innocent about this video. Maybe it's the bed sheet backdrop or the ragtime soundtrack, but it seems very wholesome. And it's really cool to watch the development of a product I use every day of the week. It is also...
MARTIN CONNELLY
10.25.11
Music

Trilogy Are Having a Big Halloween Party this Weekend

Knife Party are playing.
Noisey
10.25.11
The Creators Project New York 2011

New York Event 2011 Overview

This year we hosted an unforgettable art and technology festival in DUMBO, Brooklyn on October 15 &16th.
The Creators Project
10.25.11
Motherboard Blog

New Independent Analysis Confirms Global Warming Is Totally For Reals Happening, OK?

I know it, you know it, _dogs_ know it -- the planet is heating up. Three big projects from NASA, NOAA, and a collaboration between Britain's Met Office and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, all confirm that...
Michael Byrne
10.25.11
Music

Dive Into The Japanese IDM Scene With This Frenzied Video Project

These mind-bending visuals are the best way to illustrative a rather glitchy electronica track.
Guillaume Medina
10.25.11
Art

Star In Your Own Generative Comic

You always wanted to be a superhero, right?
Kevin Holmes
10.25.11
Motherboard Blog

Videos: Bad Lip Reading Is Part Dada, Part Mama

An amusing video editing gig b-side and some YouTube success has led to a new, very timely kind of political cartoon, one that makes some sense out of the babel of the political carnival by giving politicians words that aren't exactly theirs. That's...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.25.11
Art

Interactive Piece Base 8 Explores The Spaces Between Hands And Fingers

Old (Pepper’s ghost) and new (openFrameworks) team up to give virtual life to negative space.
Kevin Holmes
10.25.11
Motherboard Blog

Steve Jobs Wanted Computers to Be Made By Perfect Robots, Not Underpaid Chinese Workers

When he ran NeXT Computer, Steve Jobs decided that his machines were too precious to be handled by slow, accident-prone, whiny humans. Only the machines really knew how to handle the machines. To assemble one of his sleek $9,995 NeXT workstations...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.25.11
News

Quango - Whip It!

Europe-loathing Tory boys have been getting bogwashed hard this week.
Gavin Haynes
10.25.11
Motherboard Blog

Kids With Smartphones: A Horror Movie Script For the Consumer Singularity

Whether it's an iPad or an Apple IIe, generations raised on computers always seem to exhibit a fascinating, unquestioning acceptance of the computer's role in their lives. Even when they can't adequately articulate it, there is some sense that children...
LOGIC CIRCUIT
10.25.11
Photo

Chad States Shoots Strangers Having Sex in the Forest

Somehow he's gotten away with putting all their pictures in a book.
Milene Larsson
10.25.11
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