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    Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 – Where’s my Floppy Disc?

    Add some flare to your silly hipster outfit!

  • Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library

    Memoirs of a Geisha

    If you are going to shape America’s future, let them know it’s okay to do a pirate impression once in a while.

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    Middle Earth II

    In the second installment of his series, Kip Sikora shows us more of the facets that make Ecuador.

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    Retrospect

    So. It’s been a good year! At least we think so. As it’s only appropriate, we’ve decided to remind you of our favorite stories of 2011.

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    21st Century Vikings

    “A friend’s a friend who knows what being a friend is talking to a friend.” – Ween

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Music

Dist by the Hype, Man

An Interview with Das Racist by Austin Valley Hip hop conveys all sorts of life’s truths – truths that run the gamut from “More money, more problems,” to “Hey shorty, it’s your birthday,” to the general observation that one in three people are assholes. Das Racist, of Brooklyn, NY, champions as an absurdist hip hop [...]

Toast is not white bread.

by S. Ray Do you know any thugs that have bled for six days without even dying?  Well you’re lookin’ at her, bitch. -From Heavy Flow by Toast Since the word underground went mainstream, we all know rappers.   And that’s a good thing.  Verse is verse, it’s healthy to write it, read it, or bounce [...]

Finding Sound #3

by Craig Muderlak, Western Editor of Transience I tensioned piano strings across a room with wine bottles strung on them. The wine bottles worked to tune the strings by sliding them along the strings.  I made handmade paper sculptures that were attached to the wine bottles and worked as amplifying apparatus.  The strings were played [...]