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The Story of Karl Welzein, According to @Dadboner Creator Mike Burns

The Story of Karl Welzein, According to @Dadboner Creator Mike Burns

For some reason or another I have always held a great amount of respect for Michigan. Somehow, that led to me following Karl Welzein of Grand Blanc, WI, née @dadboner, just to get my Rust Belt kicks. His tweets–like “Starbucks acts like they’re so fancy. You sell hot black water and muffins. Calm...
Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement

Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement

  Being a 3D-printing novice, I was once somewhat skeptical of the promise behind what’s being billed as a truly game-changing technology. I saw Makerbot CEO Bre Pettis on the cover of Wired in late September, and while the novelty of the process incited wonder in my inner 10-year-old, I...
The Gut-Wrenching Saga of Shoenice

The Gut-Wrenching Saga of Shoenice

This was made for the VICE Original Youtube Series My Life Online. Original Text by Dan Stuckey. _ Bottles of cleaning fluid and painter’s caulk usually have their own fair share of fatal warning stickers, which is why I’ve never been to the ER for an eating-related stunt. But that...
That Time Where I Searched for UFOs in the San Luis Valley

That Time Where I Searched for UFOs in the San Luis Valley

So yeah, I do love my job sometimes. Please check out the latest installment of SPACED OUT: UFO HUNTING IN COLORADO – Motherboard Text via @ocoin I once saw a UFO. It was a fairly standard experience. The craft was cigar shaped, silver, and it slid silently across a clear...
The Man who Hunts Spy Satellites

The Man who Hunts Spy Satellites

The Paris episode of Spaced Out is out. See my original text here: Thierry Legault is not your average amateur astronomer, inviting the kids over and pointing a dinky backyard telescope at the Big Dipper. He’s a renowned astrophotographer, painstakingly chronicling the orbits of planets, distant galaxies, spaceships, and—to the...
The Taxidermy Babe

The Taxidermy Babe

The Taxidermy Babe – VICE YOUTUBE – Fringes I have never been much for hunting. It seemed a bit too callous to go to the woods just to trap a living, breathing animal, especially for art. And then I met Divya. Divya is an artist, designer and taxidermist living in...
The Space Composer - the Week in Photos

The Space Composer – the Week in Photos

Synopsis: Meet Robert Alexander. Alexander has a background in media arts but now works for a NASA research group that studies the eccentricities of our closest star. As a composer, he has created grand orchestral pieces from solar data. He is using some of that knowledge to explore data analysis...
The Silent Dish - The Tale of the Doomed Green Bank Telescope

The Silent Dish – The Tale of the Doomed Green Bank Telescope

In final installment of Spaced Out: The Silent Dish, Motherboard travels to remote West Virginia to get the scoop on the fate of the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope. Watch Motherboard’s season finale of Spaced Out: The Silent Dish here: Located within the National...
First Animal to Survive in Space

First Animal to Survive in Space

Watch my ep of Spaced Out! Mike Shaw is a quiet unassuming man in love with the wilderness. He also knows far more about tardigrades then almost anyone. These microscopic creatures, whose name comes from the German for “slow walker,” and who are sometimes called “water bears,” after their bear-like...
Justin Warner Makes a Salad for the Apocalypse

Justin Warner Makes a Salad for the Apocalypse

My good pal @yeatons made this as a pilot for his very kickass show – HOT PLATES Check out the video here: Copy by Sean Yeaton. Justin Warner may be a Food Network Star now, but he’s been getting the attention of New York’s trendy (if capricious) tastebuds from his...
Experimental Music with Dan Deacon

Experimental Music with Dan Deacon

Here is the pilot ep for the series I am producing – Experimental Music with Dan Deacon It was 3pm when we got word that Dan Deacon wanted to hang out with Motherboard. We’d just finished shooting giant telescopes in West Virginia (shhh spoilers!) but we knew it would be...
Picnic Table

Picnic Table

Summary : Roe takes a job at a small Insurance Company in a town he has never been to before. As early as his first day he starts to recognize that this town is weighed down by an eerie coating of revenge, denial and delusion. Although an outsider, Roe finds...
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The Story of Karl Welzein, According to @Dadboner Creator Mike Burns

The Story of Karl Welzein, According to @Dadboner Creator Mike Burns

For some reason or another I have always held a great amount of respect for Michigan. Somehow, that led to me following Karl Welzein of Grand Blanc, WI, née @dadboner, just to get my Rust Belt kicks. His tweets–like “Starbucks acts like they’re so fancy. You sell hot black water and muffins. Calm down.” and “Never understood why...
CLICK. PRINT. GUN. TRAILER

CLICK. PRINT. GUN. TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkXG1nsh-FA Cody R Wilson has figured out how to print a semi-automatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he’s putting all the information online so that others will join him.  
3D GUNS / COMING SOON

3D GUNS / COMING SOON

Watch a preview, hand made by subject Cody Wilson here:  
New Spaced Out: The Space Composer

New Spaced Out: The Space Composer

I am not someone who has a background in science. While it always intrigued me it was not something that ever came innately. Working at Motherboard has helped me redefine the somewhat nebulous notion of science and what application it has in real life. In producing the second season of Spaced Out, it seemed important...
All Around Losing (A New VICE Series)

All Around Losing (A New VICE Series)

Produced by my good friend Samantha Shannon, enjoy episode 001.    We pulled our most awkward editor away from his computer and threw him into an experimental electronic band. The results were priceless. – In the inaugural episode of All Around Losing, Harry gets sprayed with moth poop, swallows glowing balls, and dresses in chainmail—all...
Tardigrades Strike Back (with a little help from Mike Shaw)

Tardigrades Strike Back (with a little help from Mike Shaw)

“The First Animal to Survive in Space” struck a chord with the internet. Often, we here at Motherboard are not ever sure of why something pieces sail into the stratosphere while others remain cast away like an old teddy bear prize at Coney Island. With 9 million views and counting and over 20,000 comments Motherboard...
SURFING DOGS!

SURFING DOGS!

We all love dogs. But here at The Cute Show, we REALLY love dogs. When you add in the fact that these dogs can surf… well, our cold little VICE hearts just about broke during this shoot. So please enjoy one of the most talent-filled episodes of the Really-Fucking-Cute Show, “Surfing Dogs!” Shot on site...
Nigerian Pygmy Goats!

Nigerian Pygmy Goats!

Rehoboth, Massachusetts is just a hop, skip, and jump away from NYC so we when we heard that our pal’s family farm had just acquired three baby pygmy goats (easily one of the top ten cutest animals of all time), we set out to meet them ASAP. The goats, named Morning, Noon, and Night, were...
The Cute Show - Sugargliders!

The Cute Show – Sugargliders!

While tech and “the internet” is totally my jam the role of producer of a certain show has fallen to me. This show is called “THE CUTE SHOW” and it comprises 3 – 5 minutes of #cuteporn. Here is a new episode, to be honest I think the host is wayyyy cuter then the animals...
Daily Truths

Daily Truths

“…as our area of knowledge grows, so does the perimeter of our ignorance.” via @neil degrasse tyson.
Women Who Are Actually Funny - BIG DEAL

Women Who Are Actually Funny – BIG DEAL

It’s not everyday that a link gets sent your way that makes your crack up and shriek like hyena amongst your aggro coworkers, but luckily today was that day. For laughs a-plenty check out this vid. via Laura Willcox / Emily Axford Big Deal from Captain Hippo on Vimeo. For more visit Captain Hippo
Free the Network - Full Vid

Free the Network – Full Vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx93WJPCCGs I thought it was time to put the whole vid on this site. More videos coming soon!