Erin makes a lot of transactions. Her pursuit to unlock information is at least mostly for good, not evil. She currently resides in Brooklyn as a Producer at Vice Media.
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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Free the Network - 30 Minute Documentary about the Battle to Control the Internet

Free the Network – 30 Minute Documentary about the Battle to Control the Internet

The doc that I have been working on since September 20th (3 days into the Occupation) is live!!! Available on MOTHERBOARD & VICE & CNN (excerpt) What a wild ride. Here is the text for the piece: You’re on the Internet. What does that mean? Most likely, it means one of a handful of telecommunications providers is middlemanning your information from...
Free the Network - Trailer

Free the Network – Trailer

For the past 6 months my colleague Brian Anderson and I have been making a film about Technology. Part occupy, part open source, and all Motherboard we are finally about finished with it. Master Editor (Chris O’Coin) whipped up this trailer for us to send out. The film premieres March 22 in NYC. You can read Brian’s...
M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video)

M.I.A. – Bad Girls (Official Video)

While she may have stunk up the #Superbowl with her careless birdflipping this song rocks and hard. Noisey (VICE‘s music channel) premiered the video. THUGGISH JAM & GO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE
Long Live A$AP (New Video: WASSUP)

Long Live A$AP (New Video: WASSUP)

Harlem rap sensation A.$.A.P Rocky teamed up with VICE to create a video inspired by Scarface, Belly, Enter The Dragon, The Warriors and Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. The result is a video that follows A.$.A.P Rocky through a dreamy fantasy world filled with 40s, Ferari’s, homies and hoards of cash. Helping out this...
The Cute Show: Dog Grooming Expo

The Cute Show: Dog Grooming Expo

Imagine a merry band of freaks, well freakish freaks, you there? Yes, you are at the Dog Grooming expo in Hersey, Pennsylvania. Cue the 6:30 alarm. My VICE compatriots and I left our cushy, somewhat shabby digs in favor of higher and weirder ground. After 2+ hours of driving we arrived at the Hersey site....
The Internet Is My Favorite

The Internet Is My Favorite

As Seen On Google Earth (via 9 Eyes)
Penny and the Quarters - You and Me

Penny and the Quarters – You and Me

Penny and the Quarters -
Elephant Trailer with Chad VanGallen "1000 Pound Eyelids"

Elephant Trailer with Chad VanGallen “1000 Pound Eyelids”

My favorite song and film synched together. Perfection.  
Picnic Table - The Kickstarter Campaign

Picnic Table – The Kickstarter Campaign

Greetings! I am currently co-producing a short film entitled “PICNIC TABLE.” I am in charge of makin’ some dollar bills for the film and I decided that doing a Kickstarter would be the best best. The film is super indie/quirky/weirdo land and I am in love with it. I’m posting this on my website to...
✞ Motherboard Meets Werner Herzog ✞

✞ Motherboard Meets Werner Herzog ✞

Originally written for Motherboard by Alex Pasternack. Motherboard Meets Werner Herzog (Video) Werner Herzog only has half an hour. He’s busy with many projects, including a new art installation, and he receives many requests. But he’s also keenly attentive to the value of each moment, to the brief glimpse into someone else’s mind and soul that...
Motherboard.TV (We take this very seriously)

Motherboard.TV (We take this very seriously)

Can you believe this is the same man that made: Herman Cain: The Smoking Ad (Also Known as America-FuckYeah!) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWGS3ajA_8]
Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street? Inside the NYPD's Lost and Found

Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street? Inside the NYPD’s Lost and Found

MBD-Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street_(audio) Written by Brian A. Anderson and Erin Lee Carr for Motherboard.tv If you’re looking to recover any personal effects swept up early Tuesday morning in the NYPD raid on Zuccotti Park, epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, there’s only one place that may have what you’re looking for....