Videodrome

Videodrome

  • A Music Video for the Internet: Spirit Guide's 'Holo C'

    "Holo C" (directed by CGI shaman Theo Anthony) preserves the coiled energy of a trance build in amber—a tactile synth riff slips through a frictionless environment while Martine's falsetto rides a fluid quasi-dembow groove.

  • Neil Armstrong: The Ohio Years

    _Awooooooooooo_. Also: Lorne Michaels is apparently having some serious _Kids In the Hall_ flashbacks lately. h4. Connections: * "Soooo Cute: Stop-Motion Film Marcel the Shell With Shoes On":http://motherboard.vice.com/2010/8/28/soooo-cute...

  • Don't Even Think About Stealing Oman's Moon Rocks

    How's this for a treasure hunt? Deep in the heart of the deserts of Oman, scientists and prospectors are on the hunt for meteorites worth millions of dollars. It's a hell of a job wandering through the desert in search of specific rocks amidst a sea of...

  • Enjoy This Lost Episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: "The Meat Planet"

    Oceans of liquid meat. An atmosphere of corrosive flatulence. Lovely, melted pork in vast amounts.

  • The International Space Station Passed over Stormy Africa with a Video Camera

    Isn't it wonderful that astronauts these days seem to always have a camera handy? This particular pass was taken over central Africa, from southeast Niger to the South Indian Ocean, southeast of Madagascar. Not only does it come complete with lightning...

  • India is the Next Frontier in E-Wastelands

    We all know "China is host to a number of e-waste dumping grounds":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/5/31/your-old-laptops-are-killing-people-in-china--2, but it isn't alone. India is also being crushed under millions of tons of electronic garbage. Some...

  • City Life Dulls Your Fear of Animals, and That's Hurting You

    From a Times "piece":http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/05/weekinreview/nov-28-dec-4-a-natural-longing-for-nature.html about "The Biophilia Hypothesis" by Edward O. Wilson, who coined the term biophilia, and Stephen R. Kellert: bq.. According to the...

  • Brett Domino: "Last Christmas"

    George Michael's classic doesn't have anything to do with Christmas but is probably "the most covered":http://www.last-christmas.com Christmas song of the 1980s. This version is by Brett Domino, who appeared in "our documentary":http://www.motherboard...

  • "Japan's Killer Quake" is the Finest Reporting on 2011's Most Violent Upheaval

    The combination earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that hit Japan earlier this year is surely one of the biggest stories of 2011. That's especially true in the tech world, with the combined disasters having a massive impact on both the technology...

  • The Spectacular Parade of Missiles that Introduced Kim Jong-un to North Korea

    Last October, the Hermit Kingdom allowed international media to watch its largest ever military parade - part of the campaign to establish Kim Jong-il's youngest son as the leader-in-waiting. Here's how the AP described the parade: bq.. Thousands of...

  • The CIA's Secret Early Christmas Present to Iran

    America's falling drone syndrome continues to spread, most recently over Iran, which claims to have brought a stealth UAV down through hacking. That's what insurgents said they "did to US drones":http://motherboard.vice.com/2009/12/17/the-26-insurgent...

  • How to Defuse a WWII Bomb

    The video above documents a process that's become common in Germany: getting rid of the thousands of unexploded munitions left over from World War II bombing raids by Allied forces. Once discovered - as one was this past week in the German city of...