Articles
September / October 2008
Class Action
More and more teachers are quitting public schools. In their own words, seven of them explain why
July / August 2008
Beautiful Messes
A travel guide to man-made disasters
June 27, 2008
Wired News: Summer Test — Tents
June 27, 2008
Wired News: Summer Test — Expedition Packs
June 2008
Pump Up the Ham
Pressure cookers reviewed
May 17, 2008
Wired News: Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum
A designer’s collection of ass-kicking toys
April 2008
Acid Trip
Vitriolic artists use a vat of the sulfuric stuff to harness sonoluminescence
March 2008
Home Improvements
Online art galleries peddle original works at the right price
February 2008
February 2008
January 2007
Space Oddity
Disenchanted artist Scott Listfield lands an astronaut in every painting
November 2008
Avian Spacecraft
After traveling all the way from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, Gail Simpson and Aristotle Georgiades’s giant sculpture Others got stuck in a tree
August 2008
Shock and Awesome
Whether it’s with saws running in the floor or cement sacks tumbling from the sky, Czech artist Kristof Kintera likes to make the patrons of his art a little nervous
August 2008
Stylish Change
When sculptor Stacey Lee Webber decided to pay tribute to hard work, she invested many long hours of painstaking, repetitive labor. They paid off… by being long, painstaking, and repetitive. And by producing a life-size set of tools out of pennies
May 2008
Auto Erotic
After five ratchet-welding years, Liz Cohen has created a lawnmower that becomes an El Camino
April 2008
Fin Art
Fish fanatic Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard is hooked on the drama of the diorama
February 2008
Beautiful Beans
Gooey and good for you, the easiest way to score the Japanese trend-food natto is to make it yourself
November 2007
Killer Crochet
The monstrously ironic sculptures of Patricia Waller
July 2007
Get a Rise Out of Sourdough
The yeasty way to a truly good loaf
January 2007
Power Flower
Towering, 80-foot art cranes make for big, breathtaking, bicycle-eating burningman toys
November 2006
The Secret Life of Death Clouds
Artist Matt Jones steers a giant, inflatable orca through a stand of cacti and survives
November 2007
Nôze: Jazz-Loving Technoids
Is pure fun a genre?
September 2007
Quio: Missunderstood
Ina Rotter likes to be taken “unseriously”
April 2007
Tigrics: Hungarian Heart
Problem child Róbert Bereznyei loves music’s ridiculousness factor
October 2006
Jan Jelinek: Sowing Wild Oats
A master of the sequencer finds a new passion in improvisation
June / July 2006
Black Dice: Blood & Guts
Eric Copeland talks about 130 pages of the most psychedelic noise you’ve ever seen
