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Stranger Things Have Happened And Nobody Knew Anything
The county sheriff with a flashlight and no theory has become streaming’s most reliable employee. A look at how jurisdiction horror took over the…
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Share your thoughts on “Pigeon Kings of Brooklyn”
A 94-minute documentary about the men who race, lure and ransom birds from Brooklyn rooftops. It is also a film about who still gets…
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Akihabara has Never Been This Exposed to the World Previously
Cheap transistors built the district and anime built its second life. Now the crowd photographing Chuo-dori is the product. Shop owners under the tracks…
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Closer Look on E-Sports Shows the Weird Results
A Malmo lab put 46 competitors, a 3,000fps camera and 12,000 logged clicks against the received wisdom of esports. The panel came out fine.…
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Travelling Around the World in Less Than 80 Days
No aircraft, three oceans, one bad stick-and-poke per crossing. Nadia Ferreiro reached home in Vigo on day 76 and says the hard part was…
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16 Amazing Photos Taken at Just the Right Moment
The photograph that looks like a one-in-a-million accident usually took 140 mornings and a tide table. On fog, burst mode, and the machines now…
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete and Sidewalks
Maya Okonjo has photographed the same twelve blocks of East Vernon every month for six years. Her free zine is now the only visual…
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There is Something Mysterious About NYC
The city’s strangeness is infrastructural, not supernatural: a hundred miles of live steam, a sound installation with no plaque, and a century of paperwork…
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The Classic Hanamura Cherry Tree in Japan
A four-hundred-year-old weeping cherry draws forty thousand visitors to a village of eighteen hundred. Keeping it standing takes eleven cedar crutches, a roped boardwalk…
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Gods Will be Watching and why RPG’s are so Addictive
Deconstructeam’s cruel little survival puzzle keeps the pressure of a role-playing game and deletes the rewards. What is left explains why the genre grips…
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