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- Irony In Stone: Ancient Greek Statues Dressed as Modern Hipsters
June 19, 2013 | 9:40 amAfter a day spent wandering around the Louvre in Paris, France, studying the idyllic nude bodies of ancient Greek statues, photographer Léo Caillard got to wondering about the nature of clothing. Each of the statues represented the maximization of human perfection—the human body taken to the extreme. But most people don’t have the ideal Greek [...]
- When in Rome… Make Better Concrete: How An Ancient Mix Beats Today’s Best
June 18, 2013 | 10:40 pmFrom the Hoover Dam and the Burj Khalifa to the Panama Canal, concrete underlies the greatest of modern architectural achievements. But modern concrete, it seems, doesn’t hold a candle to Ancient Rome’s. A little history for you: the Romans were the first to engineer concrete in mass, and it was upon this concrete that they [...]
- Google Wants Balloon Internet for Everybody
June 15, 2013 | 11:06 am“Balloons. That’s right. Balloons,” says the voice of a young girl in a video for Google’s latest endeavor: bringing the world online with massive balloons. The initiative, called Project Loon, comes from Google X, the experimental lab within the company whose sole purpose is to dream up big, borderline insane, ideas. Google X created self-driving [...]
- Watch Researchers Discover a Sunken Egyptian City
June 13, 2013 | 9:36 pmThonis, the legendary port city that served as an entryway to the Egyptian empire, was long considered to be a myth. The tales of its immense power and vast riches conflicted with the evidence of its existence—mainly that there was none. Cities of such grandeur do not typically disappear off the face of the earth. [...]
- “I Am The Nucleus” and Other Bizarre Quotes By Kanye West
June 12, 2013 | 10:06 amKanye West says the darndest things. On his unrelenting quest to become his own species of hip-hop artist, he has established a reputation as irreverent, controversial, and unapologetic. Though he makes time for public grandstanding by claiming a US President “doesn’t care about black people” or interrupting the VMAs, he remains mostly quiet when it [...]
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Coachella from the Comfort of Your Computer
It’s raining, gusting, and freezing in Indio, CA this weekend yet the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival plays on. Despite the inclement weather nearly 100,000 people are flocking to the desert this weekend to listen to headliners Radiohead, the Black Keys, and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, as well as prolific acts like Arctic Monkeys, The Shins, Bon Iver, Pulp, Florence and the Machine, Beirut, At The Drive In, Cat Power and ska legends Madness.
Those who could not afford the $285 passes or make the trek to the coveted festival are in luck. The entirety of the festival is being streamed live on YouTube courtesy of State Farm Insurance.
Yesterday, I watched Explosions in the Sky, The Black Keys, Frank Ocean, Neon Indian, and M83 among others play great sets whilst watching the crowd be drenched in rain and rattled by wind. It’s not the same as being there—just like watching the Super Bowl on TV isn’t the same as being in the stadium—but for our techno driven age, it’s pretty close.
Check out the livestream today to hear The Big Pink, Childish Gambino, We Were Promised Jetpacks, tUnE-yArDS, Destroyer, Manchester Orchestra, Andrew Bird, St. Vincent, The Shins, Bon Iver, SBTRKT, A$AP Rocky and many more.
Watch the livestream and check the schedule.