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Matt Johnson. Ryan Kasper-Cook. Tom BetGeorge. These three kings deal not in frankincense and myrrh but in dubstep and mirth. They’re the vanguard behind the viral phenomenon of maximalist, Vegasified Christmas houses, spangled with lights flashing in time to everything from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to Slipknot. BetGeorge’s 2016 homage to Harry Potter, for example, featured […]

Beauty, to borrow a cliché, is in the eye of the beholder. But what if your beholder’s eyes could be hacked? What if yours could? In Reality+, they can be. The short film—from Revenge writer-director Coralie Fargeat—imagines a future where people can buy an implant that allows them to live in an alternative reality where […]

On a sunless morning last month, online chatter was especially restless. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC had just unveiled new presidential portraits and reactions, on Twitter and across group texts, spilled over into a fervor. The artists Kehinde Wiley, known for his august renderings of black men that challenge conceptions of power […]

With access to more tutorials, audiences, and distribution channels than ever before, today’s kids can achieve stardom before graduating high school. How to … … Publish a Hit Book Millions of young scribes are publishing serialized fiction on social apps like Wattpad and Radish, as well as text-style chat fiction cousins Hooked, Yarn, and Tap. […]

Click:小型工作室 Last week, tragically, was bookended with two high-profile suicides, making this tweet all the more crucial. And the losses of both designer Kate Spade and chef/TV host Anthony Bourdain were just part of a very busy week that included Samantha Bee apologizing for her Ivanka Trump statements, former Senate Intelligence Committee security director James […]

Star Wars fans met Snoke in The Force Awakens—kinda sorta. The withered baddie was just a fuzzy projection tele-conspiring with his First Order goons. But in December’s sequel, The Last Jedi, the Supreme Leader gets his close-up. “Snoke’s face is no longer a soapy, gelatinous hologram,” says Industrial Light & Magic creative director Ben Morris. […]

Fans of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One have been waiting on a film adaptation of the book since it hit shelves in 2011. Actually, considering the film rights to Cline’s story were sold to Warner Bros. before anyone had flipped a single page, some folks have been anticipating the movie a lot longer than they […]

The morning John Kennedy was set to testify last December, he woke up at 1:30 am, in an unfamiliar hotel room in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, adrenaline coursing through his veins. He'd never gone to court before for anything serious, much less taken the stand. Some time after sunrise, he headed to the courthouse, dressed in a […]

The internet loves to tear things to shreds. So to absolutely no one's surprise, it jumped on Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony—a serious event in which the CEO of one of the world's richest companies is answering to the federal government for mistakes like user-data breaches and enabling Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election—like a […]

Lately, in considering the erosion of America, the image that first comes to mind is Mariah Carey's now-iconic "I don’t know her" GIF. The gleeful shake of Carey's head. The subtle mischief of her utterance. The animation frames our current moment with dead-on precision. In fairness, from its earliest days, America has never looked like […]