the-finer-arts
Portrait of a Future City: 100,000 Tiny Cars Going 240 Miles Per Hour
At the LACMA, Chris Burden's "Metropolis II" anticipates an elegant, driverless, noisey future.
Endangered Animals Make Awesome Killer Robots
A chat with the artist whose anti-poaching work highlights the badassery of robots and endangered species.
Does Misery in Literature Really Follow Miserable Economics?
Using big data on literature doesn't do much for data or literature.
What a Bestseller About Vesuvius Does to Your Brain
Turns out even the non-classics have a biological upside.
Ranking the Arts By How Much They Contribute to America’s GDP
A government report on the arts invites a shouting match. Also: video games.
The British Library's Wi-fi Blocked Hamlet, But These 14 Classics Are Way More Violent
The WiFi filter deemed Hamlet too violent for public consumption, but c'mon, there's way more violent literature than that.
Zombies, the Apocalypse, and Alton Brown: The Motherboard Guide to the Bay Area Science Festival
If you're in the SF area and would be down to party like the undead, take a night hike for stargazing, or debate the fantastic ways the world might end, then you'll be over the moon to hear that this week marks the start of the annual Bay Area Science...
This Burlesque Movie by the 'Reefer Madness' Director Is Totally Nuts (NSFW)
an abridgment of a 1938 exploitation film "Sex Madness" and a few words on the burlesque revival.
The Town Hall Presidential Debate in 10 GIFs
With ample space to prance around and puff their chests out, Obama and Romney got into it last night on Strong Island, where things got hot, quick. It was like Candy Crowley was emcee'ing a rap battle or something. We're talking Libya, gun violence...
The Entire VP Debate in Seven GIFs
Last night, if you were watching the Vice Presidential debate, which despite its contenders sitting in chairs, was infinitely more captivating than the standing debate between the two Presidential candidates last week in Colorado. If you weren't live...
Resurrecting Atari's Slyly Subversive TwiLight Screensavers as Digital Art Prehistory
TwiLight was in development from 1991 to 1997 for the Atari TOS (The Operating System operating system), which existed for the old (1985 to 1993) Atari ST home computer. Just this week, one of the screen-saver collection's creators, Dragan Espenschied...
Future Technologies That Will Not Kill You: The Most Mindbending Inventions at Ars Electronica
A solar powered 3D printer, bacteria that transmits AM radio signals, and geese on the moon -- these are just a few glimpses of the future that were on display at this year's Ars Electronica, one of biggest festivals for art and technology in the world...