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Eric Smillie is a freelance journalist covering art, travel, food, and culture for GOOD, Make, the New York Times, VIA, Wired, and other publications.

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Nerd fights

Seems like everything gets turned into a competition these days. I wrote about four unusual battles royale for the March issue of Wired. Artists hustle before a live audience to draw the best pictures and the winner basks in the light of glory (as in the photo above) at Super Art Fight. Do-it-yourselfers race handmade [...]


Posted
27 January 2011 @ 8pm

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Wired

Built to destroy buildings

Who says insurance isn’t exciting? In this picture, the Institute for Business & Home Safety’s new research center is hard at work, blowing a house to smithereens with 140-mile-per-hour winds generated by 105 5.5-foot fans. I wrote an article in Wired magazine about the facility and the hail bombardments, inundating rain, burning embers and radiant [...]