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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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Watch Bonnaroo from Your Computer
Bonnaroo. It’s hot, so you’re sweaty and so are the hundreds of people around you.
That’s not to imply that the Manchester, Tennesse festival is no good. In fact it features some of the best acts of the year—it just happens to (inconveniently) be outside. That is, until now. Just as with 2012’s Coachella, all the Bonnaroo Music Festival acts are streaming on Youtube. All sets are streaming, so no black outs and, with multiple tabs, no need to choose between conflicting sets.
The streaming begins tomorrow 6/8 at 12:30 (CT) with Steven Bernstein’s MTO Plays Sly, and it can all be viewed at Bonnaroo’s special steaming page on Youtube. The full schedule is below, so you can time your weekend just right to catch St. Vincent, Radiohead, and Temper Trap to name only a few.
6/8 Friday:
12:30 – Steven Bernstein’s MTO Plays Sly
1:00 – The Soul Rebels
1:45 – tUnE-yArDs
2:00 – The Infamous Stringdusters
2:45 – The Lonely Forest
3:00 – Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
3:15 – Two Door Cinema Club
4:00 – Laura Marling
4:30 – NEEDTOBREATHE
5:00 – The Avett Brothers
5:30 – Fitz and the Tantrums
6:30 – Little Dragon
6:30 – Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
6:45 – Alabama Shakes
7:45 – Kendrick Lamar
7:45 – St. Vincent
8:45 – Foster the People
9:00 – Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A
10:00 – Radiohead
6/9 Saturday:
12:30 – Darondo
1:00 – Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires
1:30 – Umphrey’s McGee
2:00 – Das Racist
2:30 – Sam Bush Band
3:00 – The Temper Trap
3:30 – Battles
4:00 – Punch Brothers
4:45 – Blind Pilot
5:30 – Dawes
6:00 – Flogging Molly
7:00 – Santigold
7:00 – Mogwai
8:30 – Childish Gambino
8:30 – Dispatch
10:00 – Red Hot Chili Peppers
6/10 Sunday:
12:30 – Delta Spirit
1:00 – Gary Clark Jr.
1:15 – ALO
2:00 – Here We Go Magic
2:00 – Grouplove
3:00 – Trampled By Turtles
3:00 – City and Colour
3:30 – The Antlers
4:00 – Kathleen Edwards
4:30 – Kenny Rogers
5:00 – Ben Folds Five
5:45 – Bon Iver
6:30 – The Shins
7:15 – Young the Giant
8:00 – Phish
8:00 – fun.
9:15 – The Civil Wars