December 2011
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Throughout The Creators Project event series, we’ve been screening ODDSAC, a stunningly haunting visual album created by experimental video artist Danny Perez and Animal Collective. The piece was the result of four years of collaboration between Perez and the band, and its release came at the beginning of a very different year for Animal Collective.
The band took the year off from touring,...
November 2010
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In Part 2 of New Garage Explosion!!, we meander off on all kind of fun tangents with various garage luminaries, with a tip of the hat to the glorious unit of sound that is the vinyl record—especially the ones rare enough for an enthusiast to blow a month’s rent in exchange for one.
Hear bands like the Black Lips, Davila 666, Pierced Arrows, and the Dirtbombs discuss the appeal of using a...
WatchTo find out what American garage rock looks like (and to know what it’s like to be in an independent band) right now, VBS toted a bunch of cameras around the USA and found a scene that was vibrant, loud, eloquent, fucked up, and nearly impossible to define. The musicians, artists, writers, deejays and label owners that we talked to could only be united by a single common thread—their commitment to...
WatchHis incarceration was to be short, however, as the French public soon grew weary of their hard-earned francs going to support this evil woman-eater, and Issei was promptly deported. Herein followed a bizarre and seemingly too convenient set of legal loopholes and psychiatric reports that led doctors in Japan declaring Issei “sane, but evil.” See the rest at VBS.TV: Issei Sagawa — Part 2 -...
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WatchOn the afternoon of June 13, 1981, a Japanese man named Issei Sagawa walked to the Bois de Boulogne, a park on the outskirts of Paris, carrying two suitcases. The contents of those suitcases, to the lament of a nearby jogger, was the dismembered body of a fellow student – a Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt, whom Sagawa had shot three days prior and had spent the days since eating various parts of...
WatchWe just got back from hanging out with a bunch of Navajo cowboy folks from Triple B Association—a bronc & bull riding league catering to the Indian community of the American Southwest. Over the course of a week, we tailed several of the Association’s best and up-and-coming riders from across New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. We take a peek into their incredible lives—from training for,...
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There’s no doubt Daniel Lopatin, the quiet powerhouse behind the psychedelic cosmic synth project Oneohtrix Point Never, has a strong connection with his keyboards. Like his Roland Juno-60, nicknamed “Judy.” She may not be the best in the world, but he talks about her like an old friend, and fortunately for all of us, treats her that way too.
In this episode of Electric Independence,...
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We just got back from hanging out with a bunch of Navajo cowboy folks from Triple B Association—a bronc & bull riding league catering to the Indian community of the American Southwest. Over the course of a week, we tailed several of the Association’s best and up-and-coming riders from across New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. We take a peek into their incredible lives—from training...
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WatchBack in June, we invited South African rave-rap crew Die Antwoord to play their first show in New York City. They are one of our favorite bands and their performance that day was one of the most hectic, intense and amazing shows we had seen in a long time. While we were hanging out with them here, Ninja and Yo-Landi kept talking about a little monster called Tokoloshe, the most feared of all...
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“Powder & Rails” is back on November 18th, 2010, boasting a physique as chiseled and rough-around-the edges as Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse. Season Three will offer more tantalizing interviews with snowboarding’s heroes than any season yet.
Legends like Terje Haakonsen, Jamie Lynn, Jake Burton, Terry Kidwell, Tom Sims, and Mike Ranquet, along with a smattering of friends from previous...
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Back in June, we invited South African rave-rap crew Die Antwoord to play their first show in New York City. They are one of our favorite bands and their performance that day was one of the most hectic, intense and amazing shows we had seen in a long time. While we were hanging out with them here, Ninja and Yo-Landi kept talking about a little monster called Tokoloshe, the most feared of all...
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WatchPicking bunnies for the premiere episode of The Cute Show is basically a throw pillow with, “It’s a no-brainer!” embroidered on it. We scoured New Jersey (a cuter state than you’d think!) for the finest rabbitry we could find and not only did the Golden Sunrise Ranch fit the bunny bill, they upped the cute ante by also raising pygmy goats and miniature horses. Mini horses! Like, teeny tiny horses...
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WatchMeet Sebastian Denz. Three dimensional documentarian.
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WatchSince Harry rocked the party last night, David treats him to a haircut. Afterwards he scares a lot of cute girls away. Meanwhile, David discusses how the road kills relationships with Echo Rush’s bus driver as the crew continue their Chinese sojourn due South. See the rest at VBS.TV: Thumbs Up! Season 3: Episode 9 - Thumbs Up! | VBS.TV
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WatchAntwuan closes this series by explaining the distorted perspective of YouTube and paying homage to his incarcerated brother. See the rest at VBS.TV: Antwuan Dixon Part 4 of 4 - Epicly Later’d Season Two | VBS.TV
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Watch“Black Thoughts,” the third video released from OFF!, includes a cameo by Raymond Pettibon, the painter responsible for penning all of OFF!s album artwork as well as artwork for punk legends Black Flag and Sonic Youth. Pettibon’s images from this video serve as the artwork on OFF!’s 1st EP, which was released as a limited edition 7” and will also be included in the First Four EPs 7”...
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WatchIt wasn’t a political rally, said the comedians, but it wasn’t a joke either. Looking out across the crush of people who swarmed the National Mall in Washington, DC, for “The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s singing, dancing, joking extravaganza, things didn’t look precisely sane. And that was partly the idea. See the rest at VBS.TV: Rally To Restore Sanity -...
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OFF!, the LA-based punk/hardcore quartet formed in 2009 by Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), Mario Rubalcaba (Earthless/Hot Snakes/Rocket From the Crypt) and Steven McDonald (Redd Kross), made videos for each of the 4 songs on their limited edition First EP. The first video is for the ferocious track “Upside Down.” Featuring the Slave skate team and shot at...
October 2010
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WatchHamilton goes to meet a new bokor deep in the rice fields of Artibonite. To prove his strength, Hamilton takes a large dose of zombie powder and is rewarded with a peak inside a zombie’s shed. See the rest at VBS.TV: Nzambi 5 of 6 - Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia | VBS.TV
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WatchWhile waiting to consult another Bokor, Hamilton recruits Haitian guides to help him fetch the ingredients to create a zombie of his own. See the rest at VBS.TV: VBS.TV
WatchYou may be proud of yourself for being able to camp, even build a fire, perhaps even read a compass. But all your merit patches probably wouldn’t amount to much if, say, you found yourself needing to restart civilization from scratch. See the rest at VBS.TV: Motherboard TV - Immaculate Telegraphy - Motherboard | VBS.TV
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WatchHamilton is granted a meeting with the leader of the Bizangos, a Haitian secret society and beholder of the formula for zombification. Negotiations are made and a local Bokor agrees to create a nzambi—for a price. See the rest at VBS.TV: Nzambi 3 of 6 - Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia | VBS.TV
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WatchHamilton arrives in Port-Au-Prince and checks in to the Adams Family mansion. There he meets his guide Alex, a man who survived fourteen bullets to the face. Together they attend a Vodou ceremony and watch a pig become an ambassador to the gods. See the rest at VBS.TV: Nzambi 2 of 6 - Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia | VBS.TV
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We just got back from hanging out with a bunch of Navajo cowboy folks from Triple B Association—a bronc & bull riding league catering to the Indian community of the American Southwest. Over the course of a week, we tailed several of the Association’s best and up-and-coming riders from across New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. We take a peek into their incredible lives—from training...
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Hamilton goes to speak with Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow, world renowned ethnobotanist and (don’t call him a) Zombieologist.
After being briefed on the history of the Haitian Zombie, Hamilton takes off for Port-Au-Prince on a quest for the secret poison.
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WatchVBS heads to Haiti to hang out with houngans, bokors, mambos, mandingos, and the Pope of Voodoo and learn how to make our own zombie. See the rest at VBS.TV: Nzambi — Trailer - Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia | VBS.TV
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WatchMotel’s in the Phoenix area seem to have such strict rules. See the rest at VBS.TV: VBS.TV
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WatchThe Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only...
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WatchArgentinian born, French filmmaker Gaspar Noe is the most notorious punk rock auteur in cinema today. His first two films, “I Stand Alone” and “Irreversible,” are fucked up punch-in-the-face film experiences that combine dark sex with dark violence. And drugs. Gaspar is, on paper and in practice, the perfect Vice director. A few months ago our friend Harmony Korine called us going on and on about...
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WatchAokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan, the nation with the world’s highest suicide rate. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which two young lovers commit suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives in the Aokigahara Forest at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. Sitting at the base of Mt. Fuji, the forest is so dense that authorities only sweep...
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WatchOn today’s episode of “VBS Meets,” our correspondent Ben Anderson sits down with Jim Frederick, a TIME magazine reporter and the author of Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death. Black Hearts is the story of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne division, a group of soldiers deployed to Iraq’s inauspiciously named “Triangle of Death” in 2005. Locked in a...
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WatchThe Antwuan Dixon Epicly Later’d has finally arrived. I think there is good mix of what really happens when you spend the day with Antwuan. You can either chill by a pool and talk about your favorite skaters or you can head to a major skateboard contest and have the riot squad called in. Aside from all that, Beagle came through with some alternate angles and raw clips of some of Antwuan’s older...
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WatchIvar and Julita meet up with Xawery Zulawski, a young, respected film director whose father was the great Polish director Andrzej Zulawski. While at his campsite, they talk over his controversial new film, hailed as the Polish Trainspotting, a drug fueled narrative with plenty of stylistic twists that tries to capture the essence of Polish mentality. Then to Lodz and its famous film school, where...
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WatchThe franchise that most of the tv-watching world knows as “Jackass”—a crew of loveable, Teflon-coated miscreants consisting of Chris Pontius, Bam Margera, Wee Man, Steve-O, and Johnny Knoxville—began years ago when the group decided to document their gleefully destructive antics on camera. What this episode highlights is that the dudes behind the Jackass cameras—producer Spike Jonze, director Jeff...
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WatchVBS and Shaun White Skateboarding get a guided tour of Chicago, Portland, NYC, and LA by up and coming hometown skaters. See the rest at VBS.TV: Alternate Use Part 2 of 2 - Alternate Use | VBS.TV
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WatchThe franchise that most of the Western world knows as Jackass—a crew of loveable, Teflon-coated miscreants consisting of Chris Pontius, Bam Margera, Wee Man, Steve-O, and Johnny Knoxville—began years ago when the group decided to document their gleefully destructive antics on camera. What this VBS Special highlights is that the crew behind the Jackass cameras—director Jeff Tremaine,...
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WatchIvar and Julita head to Gdansk to meet a hero of the Polish solidarity movement who helped put and end to years of communist rule in 1989. Gdansk was the first stop for Hitler on his way to fucking up the whole of Europe, but the city also saw the start of the fall of communism in its Lenin Shipyard. Edward Szwajkiewicz, an electrician in the shipyard who used his position to disseminate...
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WatchEvery fan knows that soccer anthems are as important to the game as the fans and players. Gerry Marsden (of Gerry & the Pacemakers fame) knows better than anyone- hailing from Liverpool, he is responsible for writing the song that became the best soccer chant ever, “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Although this song is close to many soccer clubs’ hearts, its roots undeniably stem from Liverpool, so...