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Talking With America’s Best Art Forger And The Man Who Tracked Him Down
Mark Landis is a small, soft-spoken, 59-year old man living in small-town Mississippi. For three decades, he used plain old coloured pencils, magic markers, and acrylic paints to replicate — like, exactly, uncannily replicate — masterworks by everyone from Picasso to Walt Disney while hunched over an unmade bed in his cluttered apartment, watching old…
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I Worked In A Car That’s Longer Than My Studio And Pricier Than A House
I work from home. My home is a small apartment in San Francisco in a building that’s been around since 1917, and my “office” is a butt’s-width section of a used IKEA sofa I bought off Craigslist a few years back. I recently had the opportunity to spend a workday rolling around town in a…
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Apple Just Made It Easier To Delete That Free U2 Album It Gave You
Hell hath no fury like an iTunes user with a free U2 album. For all the haters who despise the very concept of Songs of Innocence casually rubbing up against their curated iTunes collection, Apple just published a very quick one-click fix to rid your life of the Irish menace forever.
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14 Underground Structures That Expose The World Beneath Our Feet
From filthy punk clubs to pristine public transport, there’s a heck of a lot going on under our cities. Underground: The Spectacle of the Invisible at Zurich’s Museum of Design goes deep into the different types of urban infrastructure that have been built up down below, and the different reasons that being subterranean just makes…