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  • Outerspace

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    Omar Salazar is a pro skater from San Francisco who is really into outerspace, going fast and crazy stories. He just happens to be one of our favorite stuntwood riders…

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  • Art Talk

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    In Art Talk! VBS storms the brains and studios of our favorite makers of beautiful and awesome things. It’s fine arts coverage at its most invasive.

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  • Spike Spends Sa...

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    Cinematic wunderguy Spike Jonze ends his week by hanging out all day with someone special. Who will it be next Saturday? Will it be you?

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  • Soft Focus

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    On Soft Focus, Ian Svenonius tenderly interrogates musicians whom we revere and admire. Shot on location in the venerable Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

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  • Close Up!

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    After having an especially bad vibe news day we decided to go out and find people all over the world that are actually doing things that make us happy. We met up with …

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  • Motherboard

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  • Soft Focus Seas...

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    Ian Svenonius returns to America for another round of conversational jiu-jitsu with some of the shining lights of the US musical underground.

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  • Soft Focus UK

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    Ian Svenonius takes his inquisitive mind to the UK, the nation responsible for bringing us mod, ska, skiffle, punk, techno, goth, glam, skinheads, racist skinheads, …

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  • Practice Space

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    In Practice Space we invade the dark caves where bands hone their craft and ask them probing questions about their art and other stuff.

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  • Music World

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    VBS spans the globe on an endless quest for good tunes, and the weird and sordid scenes that surround them.

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  • VBS Meets

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    VBS in conversation with a few of our favorite luminaries.

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  • Bangs

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    Lance Bangs is one of our favorite filmmakers. “Bangs” is his series of short documentaries about all kinds of stuff, mainly concerning the follies and foibles of the …

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  • Practice Space ...

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    At long last, VBS embarks on another round of raiding our favorite bands’ private sanctums and observing their music at its most intimate and rehearsal-y.

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  • Trixie and the ...

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    The psychedelic life and times of a puppet band, brought to you by the voices, hands, and felt of New Orleans’ Quintron and Miss Pussycat.

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  • Soft Focus at ATP

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    Ian Svenonius heads out to the Catskills to challenge, probe, and enlighten our favorite artists at this year’s ATP New York Festival.

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  • VBS Music Specials

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    You know what’s great? Music. Here are a bunch of awesome musical things we shot that didn’t fit in with any of our other series. You know, stuff like concerts and junk.

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  • VBS VS.

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    VBS challenges our favorite bands to a wide variety of sports that we’re secretly really good at. (Shhhh!) The winners drink for free.

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  • Sublime Frequen...

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    Musical dispatches from around the globe filmed and curated by former Sun City Girl Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies record label.

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  • Createurs du Fu...

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    Intimate portraits of the most talented creative minds in French culture, exploring the space where creativity meets technology.

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