Watch more about today's electronic music artists: bit.ly/15Vz8v For over half a decade, Vice Magazine's Electric Independence column has told he world what some weirdly-named guy in our London office thinks about electronic music. Now, through the magic of "video cameras," we've brought those beloved words to vibrant, three-dimensional life! Hosted by a hulking Australian sound nerd, each episode of EI will delve into the stultifying minutia of all the weird technological gizmos and thing-boxes your favorite electro artists use to squorch out their squeeps. â¨â¨You're welcome, gearheads! We're sorry, rest of of you!
Vice Scandinavia correspondent Ivar Berglin travels to the front lines of the Vodka/Wodka Wars â and discovers that the tortured history of Russian-Polish relations can be saved in a bottle. Watch more Ivar and the Vice Guide to Travel at www.vbs.tv
On this episode of Hi-Shredability we are doing something a bit different. Yes it's still all about the surf. But this isn't about some famous surfer we've all heard of. No, this episode is about kids contributing to the culture and helping to shape the next generation of surf. VBS rides and surfs with Cycle Zombies Rat and Turkey â a couple of dudes raised on skating, surfing and riding bikes. But there is more to this surf/bike/punk collective than their Never Never Land names. We take the camera out and follow these kids around for a day-in-the-life SoCal doc about the kids just doing it for the love.
SEE MORE ON VBS TV: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/motherboard/the-electrophobes Electromagnetic Hyper-Sensitivity is the umbrella term for a host of weird medical conditions supposedly brought on by an allergy to the electric fields emitted by all the electronic gadgets and dealies we surround ourselves with. A lot of doctors think that it's bullshit, but a lot of EHS sufferers think that they're bullshit. We think... well, we're really not sure what we think. So we went to Britain to chat up a couple of doctors on different sides of the debate and visit a woman whose EHS is so severe it's basically turned her into the bubble boy of the new millennium, just with electromagnetic radiation taking the place of germs. We thought about bringing one of those little electric joy buzzers to shake her hand with, but ultimately decided it was far too cruel/couldn't find one in time. SEE MORE AT: www.delllounge.com
EPICLY LATER'D VOLUME 1 DVD OUT DECEMBER 9th......Fred is one of the baddest dudes on the East Coast. I am such a fan. I saw him once in 1994 and took the above photo: a backside 180 nose grind at Love Park. This might be the first photo I ever took of a pro, though he probably wasn't pro yet. Anyway, Fred is awesome, and back in 1994 the Philly scene really brought something fresh to street skating. It wasn't about doing the most tech tricks in a school yard, it was about skating fast down sketchy streets, skating switch, and doing wallrides and pole-jams. It was a tremendous breath of fresh air.Though I am actually older than Fred I think of him as this legendary veteran pro. I like how in this episode he hides the beer from his grandma. Even though he is one of the most notorious piles in skateboarding he's still kind of a grandmama's boy. WATCH MORE ON VBS TV
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WATCH THE SERIES ON VBS.TV: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/rule-britannia/the-deer-hunter VBS heads into the Amazon on a hunt for its most hallucinogenic tree frogs.
EPICLY LATER'D VOLUME DVD OUT DECEMBER 9 ......... Andrew Reynolds can pretty much make anything look cool, including OCD. He has the best style on a skateboard and can jump down the most enormous sets of stairs without looking like total flailer, which can be kind of rare.
WATCH MORE SKATE SURF SNOW VIDEOS ON VBS! Skate Europe is more like a TransEuropean miniseries tour, starting with Britain. We went to the UK to meet with a healthy cross-section of English skateboarding.
TO WATCH THE REST OF THE INTERVIEW: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=20985306001 Steven Malkmus submits to Ian's tender interrogation in this edition of Soft Focus. Getting started, Ian asks what it's like to be raised on the faux-Mississippi Delta. Steven talks about his flirtations with New Wave and Heavy Metal, and how he found his musical path in the grotesque early days of hardcore. Ian gives a brief history lesson and Steven talks about his cigarettes getting soggy simply from being in Virginia.
WATCH MOTHERBOARD - CURTIS ROADS ON VBS.TV http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=22660968001 There are two divergent streams in 20th century electronic music: The one most people are familiar with starts out with goofballs like Jean-Jacques Perrey and Vangelis noodling around on synthesizers and eventually devolves into Kaja Googoo. Curtis Roads is part of the other path, the one that follows insane geniuses like Stockhausen and Morton Subotnik and uses whatever-period-it-happens-to-be's state-of-the-art computer technology to produce compositions that completely defy conventional music logic and sometimes sound more like a freaked-out ATM than tunes you put on and listen to. See exclusive footage at www.delllounge.com
A crucial assist. School of Surf follows the surfers competing in the 2008 season from beginning to end, documenting all their relationships, family pressures, hilarious teen riffing, wipe-outs, and good rides like some sort of creepy old man.
PUT A DONK ON IT: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=12150086001 Since the advent of acid house in the late 80s, British techno music has been in a long, baffling search for some sort of universal lowest common denominator. Breakbeat, digital hardcore, and gabber all made strong efforts in the race for the bottom, but none of them holds a candle to donk. Combining the 150bpm madness of happy hardcore with indecipherable North English rap and then overlaying the whole mess with a single, infuriating "donk" sound, donk may well be the apotheosis of all ridiculous dance music to date. It is also the only local thing going for an entire population of working-class kids with dwindling outside prospects. Check out more music, travel and weirdness on VBS.
WATCH MORE AT: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/motherboard/ Except for lasers, no future technology has fallen as tragically short of society's expectations as virtual reality. While the media promised us a limitless array of holodecks and BCIs and full-body simulations to divert the masses' attention from their own dismal fealty to the corporate-cyborgian over-state, all we ended up with were clunky, 8-bit goggles that ruined your neck and The Sims. Fortunately while the rest of us were griping about blowing $15 for three minutes of geometric-induced nausea at Dave & Busters, a pair of Russian brothers were holed up in their lab actually doing something about the situation. The Virtusphere is glorious result of their decades-long attempt to push VR forward. You still have to wear the goggles and headphones, but this time you're in a giant, human-sized hamster ball that rolls in place. Also, they're this close to locking down smell. WATCH MORE AT: http://delllounge.com/
WATCH MORE SKATE SURF SNOW VIDEOS ON VBS! Not really, Skate Europe is more like a TransEuropean miniseries tour, starting with Britain. We went to the UK to meet with a healthy cross-section of English skateboarding. In London, OG The South Bank locals like Winstan Whitter and Ben Jobe were nice enough to talk us about there beloved spot, and in Bristol we had the pleasure of chitchatting with high-ollie-ing champion Danny Wainwright about his home town. We even managed to scrounge up Ben Nordberg and Kris Vile to represent the new guard.
WATCH THE REST OF THE SERIES: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=19261515001 Ray Kurzweil tells us about his vision of the Singuarlityâa point around 2045 when computers will acquire full-blown artificial intelligence and technology will infuse itself with biology. His theories have all sorts of supporters, detractors, and critics, but do you even remember what life was like before three-year-olds had cell phones and you actually had to remember facts instead of relying on the internet? That was only 10 years ago. If Kurzweil is right, we'll have supercomputers more powerful than every human brain on the planet combined within a few decades. Check out more exclusive footage on Dell Lounge: http://delllounge.com/blogs/raykurzweil/archive/2009/04/10/episode-1-two-become-one.aspx
WATCH MORE SKATE SNOW SURF VIDEOS ON VBS!!! - Skate Europe is more like a TransEuropean miniseries tour, starting with Britain. We went to the UK to meet with a healthy cross-section of English skateboarding.
EPICLY LATER'D VOLUME 1 DVD OUT DECEMBER 9TH! I first met Daewon the day I was filming the Alex Olson episode. I saw him and Daniel Castillo from across the Girl skatepark and was kinda fanning out in my head a little bit. Then Alex yells over, "Do an episode on Daewon!" and they all start laughing. I was sure they were making fun of me. But then Daewon flips the script and starts making fun of Alex like, "How are you gonna have an Epicly Later'd? So far it's been all established guys like Hosoi, Gonz, Dustin... dudes that have all paid their dues, and now you?" I couldn't believe that Daewon even watched the show. It was mind blowing.
SEE MORE: http://www.vbs.tv/shows/toxic/garbage-island/ For years we’ve been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. For all the breathless accounts of the mess and its impact on the area’s sealife, however, no one seemed to have a picture of the buildup. In order to sate our own curiosity, VBS joined the crew of a research vessel studying the trash and sailed out into one of the most remote spots of open water in the world, the North Pacific Gyre, in search of this mythical garbage island. What we discovered once we got there was an ecological disaster beyond any of our expectations and possibly the single worst thing human beings have done to the planet and ourselves. Hope you’re into cancer and sex-reversal! www.VBS.tv
Watch Parts 2 and 3 on VBS.tv: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=13585914001 For the inaugural edition of Motherboard, VBS journeys to the enchanted realm of Austin, Texas to visit Richard Garriott, aka Lord British. In the early 80s, Garriott used the pile of money he'd amassed as a high-school student selling ziplock-baggied copies of his home-programmed computer role-playing games to start up Origin Systems, the company responsible for Ultima installments III through IX and pretty much single-handedly shaping the world of video RPGs as we (the nerds) know it.
Part 2 - http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bctid=1428636457&bccl=MTIxMzg3NTEzMF9fRVRD AA Bronson shows us around his “School for Young Shamans” show in New York and discusses his participation in the Toronto-born General Idea collective, from its founding at the end of the sixties to its early-90s demise from AIDS. He then describes his work as a “healer” over the past 15 years, most notably in the field of butt massage. wwww.VBS.tv
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