Adora Svitak is a child genius. Not one of those “I’m also a little bit insane” child geniuses like this kid, but one of those straight and narrow child prodigy types. The precocious little 12-year-old learned to read at three, published her first novel at seven, and has even been declared “the most clever child in the world”. Following this natural upward progression, Adora is now the host of VBS’s brand spanking new Motherboard series. Read more »
Go over to VBS today to see the new film about Cai Guo-Qiang, the Chinese-born contemporary artist obsessed with gunpowder. You may know Mr. Guo-Qiang as the dude behind that “Footprints of History” fireworks display during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summer Olympics. He’s also widely known for his mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 2008. The work featured in this piece, “Tree with Yellow Blossoms”, which is a singed tree fashioned out of gunpowder and paper, was created as part of the Livestrong Stages Global Art Exhibition, an effort to raise funds and awareness for cancer research.“It’s a dialogue with the gunpowder and the sheet of paper. It is like flirting,” says Cai. Go here to check out Cai Quo-Qiang, some gunpowder and some paper getting it on.
Why would you wait for some company to create a satellite-feed surveillance pack when you know they're just going to slap their logo all over it and make the battery a piece of shit. Just build the damn thing yourself and get to blogging every single second of every single day ever.
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These three seem unapproachable but what if: You get your friend to pretend to be a stranger and bother them like a drunk idiot until you go, “Hey buddy, I think it’s time to get lost.” Then you do this arm-grab thing where you kind of lead him away and even kick him in the ass as he leaves. Then you can go back to them laughing and start some conversation like, “What’s with idiots like that, huh? Did he really think you were going to be totally into his drunken, slurring bullshit?” And so on. (The next time you do it he gets to be the hero. It’s called Pussy Hustling.)
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