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Russian Parallel Cinema

For 60 years, Russian film was dominated by the state-approved imagery of Socialist Realism: stark scenes of the proletariat; working, farming and soldiering. Making movies outside this milieu meant risking life and limb at the hands of the KGB. When...
Shane Smith
4.12.11
Motherboard Blog

396 Years Ago Today, the Church Told Galileo To Step Off

In the early 1600s, Galileo was not a very awesome guy in the eyes of the all-powerful Catholic Church. His theory--or the theory he supported--that the Earth revolved around the Sun, and not the other way around, directly went against the holy...
Michael Byrne
4.12.11
Motherboard Blog

Fukashima Is Chernobyl

On the International Nuclear Event Scale, a Level 7 nuclear accident - a la Chernobyl, the worst in history - involves “widespread health and environmental effects” and the “external release of a significant fraction of the reactor core inventory...
ALEX PASTERNACK
4.12.11
Motherboard Blog

A Button To Press When Something is Really Neat, Nifty, Rad, et al

When pressed, this cross-platform USB controller - created using the Teensy USB microcontroller - types in a random synonym for the word "awesome" so you don't have to.* Radical. With the right programming, perhaps this could somehow become an...
Videodrome
4.12.11
Motherboard Blog

The History of the Universe, From the Big Bang to the Internet

Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set...
Videodrome
4.12.11
Hey Ron!

Hey Ron! - All Night With Hey Ron!

Ron Hemphill
4.12.11
Art

Deconstructing Jonathan Glazer and J. Spaceman's Coachella Installation: Meet Undisclosable

Our exclusive interview with the architects behind the “alien cathedral” that will house this physical manifestation of Spiritualized’s “Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space.”
Julia Kaganskiy
4.12.11
Art

Data Visualize Your State Using Twitter [Instructables How-To]

See what kinds of Tweets are coming from where… and the emotions behind them.
Kathleen Flood
4.12.11
Vice Blog

KERN IN TORONTO

Toronto is constantly getting shit on for being the prude-ier of it's big city counter-parts and with the recent announcement of Kern shooting in Montreal, well maybe it's just spring fever or city rivalry but you whined and we listened - once again...
VICE Staff
4.12.11
Art

Receptive Gaming: Q&A With Child of Eden Designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi

The revered game designer traverses the margins between game, art, and music in his abstract shoot ’em ups.
Kevin Holmes
4.12.11
News

NEW KIDS ON THE BLACK BLOC

Chris Low
4.12.11
Music

Creating "Alien Architecture" With Light And Sound

Installation Bbass uses graphic projection and sound to turn a grand auditorium into an abstract space.
Kevin Holmes
4.12.11
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