SEE MORE - http://www.vbs.tv/practicespace I can remember being about 14 years old and imagining my life as an adult. I’d live in a huge New York loft, work from home in some sort of artistic realm, be in a successful band, and, if that weren’t enough, I’d throw shows out of my own personal venue. Imagine my surprise and disappointment when I visited the practice space of A Place to Bury Strangers and realized that my dream was completely attainable, except I wasn’t the one living it. These guys have so much going on, and are doing it all unbelievably well. Their loft is set up like the chocolate factory of the music world. In one room there’s a recording studio, in the next was the workshop where Death by Audio creates its mutant pedals, turn another corner and you’ve stepped into a fully functioning venue where some of the best bands to pass through Brooklyn have performed. And the best part is, at the end of the day, all you have to do is walk a few feet and there’s your bed! These ...
The teams to beat...raged out! 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.
WATCH THE ENTIRE SERIES - http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=1740131486 In the late 80s, a bunch of skaters who were bored in the wintertime inadvertently made snowboarding what it is today. They filmed each other not with any sort of historic legacy in mind, but just because that’s what you do when you’re a bunch of dudes who ride around on a piece of fiberglass in the snow all day. Then people saw these videos and started to realize the potential for tricks and big air on a snowboard, and everything else took off from there. For whatever reason, most snowboarders have never embraced their forerunners with the same enthusiasm as skaters and surfers. That’s why I decided to make this show—as a way of giving credit to the people who took snowboarding from a fringe hobby to something people get paid stupid amounts of money to do. Or at least that’ll be the first few episodes. We’ll see where it goes from there.
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
EPISODES START MONDAY MARCH 16TH ON VBS http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=1221 If there is anybody working in the field of robotics whose success we are equally amazed by and terrified of, it is Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai. While his colleagues are taking their cues from the more "sophisticated" side of sci-fi like Phillip K. Dick and THX-1138, Sankai has thrown out any pretense of goodwill, naming his company after the fictional cyborg firm responsible for the Terminator and trying to develop his own version of the exoskeleton from Aliens (which he's named HAL, no less). And yet for all the red flags, Professor Sankai's CyberDyne seems poised to contribute more to humanity than any of its competitors. Their HAL (or Hybrid Assistive Limb) exoskeleton has the ability to augment the wearer's strength by 80% and could drastically improve the lives and mobility of the elderly and disabled. Really, thanks to Sankai, we could be living on the cusp of a brighter and much awesomer world in which the lines ...
SERIES START ON 6/1 ON VBS TV In this edition of Motherboard, VBS tours Electroboutique, the electronics production company cum roving cyber-art kiosk of Russia's leading non-pornographic artist, Alexei Shulgin. Shulgin hasn't been hip to the internet from its very beginning, but he's definitely been onboard since at least the Compuserve days. In the early 90s, he was one of the first artsy types to adopt the then-brand-new World Wide Web as a medium, creating web pages filled with maddening arrays of random-seeming pictures and text blocks and hidden links to games and secret files and similarly weird and frustrating link pages, as well as helping curate the work of his net-art contemporaries. Shulgin was also the organizer of the world's first international exhibition of people's computer desktops. These days his work has shifted slightly offline and into creating weird electronic fantasy objects such as the Super-IBR Real Virtuality goggles, which you wear to help make your actual-reality look ...
âSchool of Surfâ 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. Look for it on VBS this September.
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Motherboard Meets Dr. Robert White - Monkey Head Transplant
WATCH THE ENTIRE SERIES ON VBSTV http://www.vbs.tv/motherboard Robert J. White is the groundbreaking surgeon who in the mid-1970s--against all odds--pioneered the monkey head transplant, forever changing the face of monkey ownership as we know it. Wait, what's that? Your monkey still has its original head? Wow. Get with the program, chief. But Dr. White's work isn't merely limited to lopping the heads of macaques. He's also performed head transplants on dogs. Even more also, however, he's spent the past half a century exploring the way the brain functions and trying to figure out a way to preserve neurological consciousness when the rest of the body craps out. He is pretty much our favorite real-life mad scientist, and may know more about the rough mechanics of the nervous system than anybody else in his field, AND he was the Pope's personal adviser on bioethics. The Pope! So we decided to visit him at the suburban McDonalds he works out of to pick his brain about picking other people's brains. And monke...
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Motherboard Meets Walter Day - Official Video Gaming Referee
WATCH THE REST OF THE SERIES ON: www.vbs.tv/motherboard The world of competitive gaming is hardly a recent phenomenon. From the minute Donkey Kong stomped apart his first ladder, there have been hordes of individuals (most of the them male) clambering over one another for alpha dog status; using theoretical mathematics to game the system, disputing the authenticity of their nemeses high-score videos, and generally taking video games about a million times more seriously than most of us considered possible. Walter Day has spent the last three decades enabling this insane behavior. In 1981 he opened Twin Galaxies, a video arcade in small-town Iowa that morphed overnight into the center of the gaming universe and the official hall of records for games from Frogger all the way up to Wii Fitness. But serving as referee and scorekeeper to the world's gamers is only a sideline to Walter's real interest: Transcendental Meditation as taught by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Watch more on: www.delllounge.com
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
PART 2 - http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1389983290 THE CUTE SHOWCAT CHAMPIONS! Part 1 of 2 The 2007 CFA finals at Madison Square Gardens in New York. What does CFA stand for? Why, Cat Fanciers Association of course. From Host Amy Kellner: We went to the CFA-IAMS Cat Championship at Madsion Square Garden and yes, it was a dream come true. Ironically, I am allergic to cats, and my nose was pretty much sealed shut after five minutes of being there—but wow, was it worth it. Wall-to-wall beautiful cats and the crazy people who love them as far as the eye could see… This is like the biggest thing that’s ever happened to The Cute Show and it’s going to be a two-parter. Here is part one of the excitement, and keep your eyes peeled for a special cameo from a member of one of my all-time favorite bands! Cute Show’s got cool cred, man! xo amy www.VBS.tv
SEE MORE: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1509866021 San Francisco graffiti legend Barry "Twist" McGee sits down with Art Talk! for a very special interview done in classic McGee Style. Barry animated the interview and changed up the voices. You know how graffiti heads, not exactly known for being public faces. But check it out, its art meets interview 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.
SEE MORE GAMING VIDEOS: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=17845881001 Stephen Lea Sheppard is responsible for not one, but two of the central figures in the latter-day pantheon of nerds: Harris the dungeon master from Freaks and Geeks, and Heisenbergen-syndrome-afflicted adolescent Dudley in The Royal Tennenbaums. He's also Vice magazine's chief video game reviewer, a job he was offered when we realized that neither of these characters differed in any substantive way from his actual real-life personality. The Gaming Hour is a series of short video reviews of current and upcoming video games shot in Lea's bedroom in suburban Vancouver. It will feature the most detailed analyses of video games anyone has ever heard. http://delllounge.com/blogs/thegaminghour/archive/2009/03/30/episode-1-meet-stephen-lea-sheppard.aspx
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 Motherboard on VBS.tv: http://www.vbs.tv/motherboard Though none other than Judah Friedlander has declared it impossible for androids to cross the Valley of the Uncanny, the creations of Tatsuya Matsui's Flower Robotics just might be the first to make it. The trick is, instead of straining himself against the limitations of technology to invent a robot that flawlessly mimics an ultraintelligent, grown-up human like his peers, Matsui threw in the perfection towel and said "You know what? If the best we can do right now is a robot with the artificial learning skills of a toddler, why not make something that looks and acts like a robotic toddler?" (except it was probably in Japanese). Watch more Motherboard on - www.delllounge.com
See more - http://www.vbs.tv/toxic/ The Toxic Series is a VBS.tv original series that travels across the globe to cover environmental issues previously overlooked or misrepresented by other news organizations. We consider the comprehensive effects of environmental injustice that are often ignored including economic conditions, social impacts, and corporate politics that play a huge role in understanding the ecological story. By focusing our stories around a human element, we create a window of empathetic understanding beyond numbers and facts.
SEE MORE - http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=144820 ***** VBS.tv has a three part interview up now with rapper Rick Ross. In the interview Ross endorses Obama for president as well as endorsing Obam's right to cheat on his wife on the road, cause a man is a man. He also says people should lighten about HGH, that home runs save baseball, that Roger Clemens is a hero, and Andy Pettitte is no friend for ratting Clemens out. Oh and Rick Ross likes fish sandwiches.
SEE MORE AT http://www.vbs.tv/hishredability ***** The Pipemasters started back in the ’70s with a card table on the beach, six guys in the water, and a $1,000 first prize. Tiny as it was, there was media, drama, and skepticism right from the start. Corky told Jerry the contest wasn’t going on because the waves sucked. So Jerry (hands down the best guy) went home. They ran the event anyway, and Jerry ended up watching it live on Wide World of Sports. The Banzai Pipeline is one of the most intense waves in the world. And, as it is the last contest of the World Championship Tour’s season, a lot of people’s careers are made and broken right here. From world-title decisions to who qualifies for next season’s tour—a lot of shit can go down here on the beach.
COLLECTOR'S EDITION DVD OUT TODAY - http://www.heavymetalinbaghdad.com/buy.html Having spent the past five years covering the band and helping its members find safe refuge, we'd like to imagine Acrassicauda need no introduction. For those of you who weren't around during the Heavy Metal In Baghdad days, however, Acrassicauda is Iraq's first and greatest metal band.
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