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Naked and Unafraid to Exercise in Virtual Reality

I can without bashfulness say that I have logged hundreds of hours on Beat Saber as naked as the day I was born. It was neither fetish nor high-concept performance art; it grew from simple need. In the spring of 2018, I was trying to keep a VR startup afloat, navigating a never-ending flurry of emails, Slack messages, video calls, and tweets from the confines of my efficiency in San Mateo, California. Though typically an active person, I’d deluded myself into believing that I just didn’t have the time for…

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Britney Spears: where to start in her back catalogue

Our Listeners Digest series continues with the bold and experimental stylings of the pop princess turned showstopping star The album to start with Blackout (2007) Britney Spears sang on the title track of her 2008 album, Circus. The ones that entertain and the ones that observe / Well, baby, Im a put-on-a-show kinda girl. Quite right: her DNA was encoded with the drive to perform, and each successive album Blackout was her fifth took putting on a show to another level, as she grew away from chaste small-town beginnings toward…

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A 22m chair? Eileen Gray, the design genius who scared the pants off Corbusier

Her ravishing interiors shocked Paris, thrilled the avant-garde and gave the world its most expensive chair. But the fast-living aristocrat wasnt just overlooked Le Corbusier actually vandalised her work naked A room fit only for nightmares and insomnia. This was the response of one critic to Eileen Grays radical scheme for a bedroom in 1923, installed at the 14th Salon de la Socit des Artistes Dcorateurs in Paris. The Irish designers daring De Stijl movement, who saw her installation pictured in a journal. I am highly interested and should like…

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Is Coming to Disney+ May 4

Hello, and welcome to a fresh edition of the Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. Today we have a lot of news about changes in Hollywood, and the welcome return of one beloved sitcom. Let's get started. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Is Coming to Disney+ Early Welp, this feels right. Today, Disney announced that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will be coming to Disney+ two months early. On which day? On May the Fourth, of course. Yes, Disney—likely looking to help fans staying home to slow the spread…

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Plz Donate in Exchange for Celebrity Nudes

We’ve reached Peak Horny. Locked inside with nothing to do but let our minds wander, already bored with making bread and bingeing obscene amounts of Netflix, our fingers happily scroll through Instagram. And that’s when you catch sight of him, the Horny Internet’s very own David: Ansel Elgort in the nude. Maybe you pause for a second, thanking his parents for the gift of their DNA. Perhaps you’re a chronic oversharer and immediately drop the link in a group chat. Or it’s possible you’re not phased one bit, plump from…

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Lady Gagas Together at Home Raised $128 Million for Covid-19 Relief

Hello, and welcome to a new edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. This time around we have a few more updates on how the coronavirus is impacting the culture landscape, from Netflix to Comic-Con International. Let's get started. Lady Gaga’s Together at Home Raised $128 Million for Coronavirus Relief Last Saturday, if you weren’t watching the will be canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus. People who purchased badges for this year’s events will receive instructions soon on how to get a refund or transfer their badges to…

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Coronavirus News Fatigue Is Officially Setting In

When confronted with a calamity that demands we stay home the majority of the time, it’s only natural that many of us have resorted to reading the news. WIRED UK. Throughout March, we watched and surfed ceaselessly. The Guardian received 2.17 billion page views, an increase of over 750 million on the previous record set in October 2019. Boris Johnson’s address to the nation on March 23 was one of the most-watched broadcasts in UK television history, with more than 27 million live viewers, rivaling the 1966 World Cup final…

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I’ve never seen Rocky

An underdog fighter wins hearts and respect then gets punched below the belt by the jingoism of Reagans America Ill tell you in one word why I have never watched Rocky: Ronald Reagan. Sure, the film came out in 1976, before he reached the White House, likewise Rocky II. But he was US president in 1982, when Rocky III appeared, my poster of him and Margaret Thatcher in a Gone with the Wind embrace with an atom bomb and another Stallone double-punch of Rocky IV and armed with the weapon…

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Small talk and ready-made sandwiches: things I don’t miss about normal life | Hadley Freeman

Ive been thinking about Nora Ephrons lists, not because Im dying, but because normal life has, for now, died for all of us Ive been reading a lot of breasts werent bigger. (Honestly, Nora, the breast thing? Its overrated.) When Ephron died in 2012, obituarists were spoiled for choice about which of her writings to quote: a pithy line from Heartburn, her novel about her divorce, or an irresistible bit from every journalist who covered her death quoted from I Remember Nothing, which she wrote when she and almost no…

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Kim Wilde: I look miserable, but I was having the time of my life

The singer on pouting like Lauren Bacall, DIY hairdos, gardening in nightwear and discovering the joys of colour This was taken in 1981 or 1982, right at the beginning of my career. All my clothes at that time were secondhand a hangover from being at art college. The top that I wore in the Lauren Bacall I really loved that she didnt smile for the camera. When I first started having my photograph taken, lots of male photographers would say: Come on Kim, give us a smile! and it used…

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Andy Warhol: Take a virtual tour around the Tate Modern exhibition

From silver wigs to immigration forms, let the curators of the Tates Warhol exhibition take you up close and personal with the mythical artist Didnt get a chance to see the Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/apr/06/andy-warhol-take-a-virtual-tour-around-the-tate-modern-exhibition

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‘One big virtual love-in’: how children’s book authors are creating online sanctuaries

Authors are going online in real time to engage children and create a safe place where imaginations are fired The childrens author and illustrator wunderkind live on Instagram. And they are pure magic. Jeffers, in quarantine in Belfast, is reading a story a day, having started with his first ever book How to Catch a Star. According to Jeffers, [This is] for all you folks stuck at home in the coming weeks due to Covid, I will be reading one of my books every weekday, and talking about some of…

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Netflix and Disney to shut down productions due to Covid-19 but Frozen sequel to arrive early to streaming

Disney chief says animated film will provide fun and joy during challenging period while company halts production on live-action movies Walt Disney will fast-track the release of the Frozen sequel to its streaming platform in a bid to spark fun and joy during the coronavirus outbreak, while at the same time joining US streaming giant Netflix in shutting down some of its productions. The company said on Friday that Frozen 2 would be available on its digital streaming platform Disney+ from Sunday in the US, three months earlier than scheduled.…

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Code Orange: Underneath review a thrilling new form of molten metal

The Pittsburgh quintet marry technical mastery with genre-fusing risk in a record of poetry and spectacular potency Despite its reputation as the satanic scourge of curtain-twitching suburbia, metal can be prone to the kind of squabbling you might see at a parish council meeting, with endless taxonomic arguments about whether something is death or thrash or black metal. Such petty bloviating is silenced by Grammy-nominated Pittsburgh quintet Code Orange, whose fourth album throws thrash, hardcore punk, math rock, sludge, metalcore, industrial, screamo, grunge, nu-metal and classic rock into a centrifuge,…

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Is My Dark Vanessa the most controversial novel of the year? Author Kate Elizabeth Russell speaks out

Exploring issues of abuse and consent, Russells novel My Dark Vanessa could not be more timely. She talks about the pressure to write a likeable victim and the line between fiction and memoir When, in 2018, Kate Elizabeth Russells agent presented publishers with her first novel, Kristen Roupenian. After years spent studying in near-penury, having money in the bank feels weird, Russell tells me. She had always told her husband, who works in academia: Ill move wherever you get a job, just dont expect me to bring in money. In…

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