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collected through the web

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Let Yourself Go - A Desillusion Expedition In Costa Rica.

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Mac DeMarco at Primavera Sound 2013 in Barcelona

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Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, serving 225M customers worldwide. What's next for the company that prides itself on disrupting tradition? Charlie Rose interviews Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos.

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San Soda's top DJing tips on how to be a top DJ

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We used the deep web to find out just how easy it was to buy guns, drugs, and other contraband online.

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A short documentary about two friends skateboarding from Boston to New York. Good trips, times, and people aren't hard to come by.

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BANG! - Low End Theory

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Erik Martin, general manager of Reddit.com, speaks to the 2014 Class of Nieman Fellows. He explains his website's structure and governance, and discusses some of the recent events where it played a major role in breaking news coverage.

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Concert intégral de Rone à l'Olympia (Paris), réalisé le jeudi 31 octobre 2013.

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Camp 14 Total Control Zone

Marc Wiese's documentary about a North Korean labour camp is competent as a film but blistering as an example of human rights advocacy

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Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe

Dirty Hands delivers an intense portrait of David Choe, a young near-schizophrenic street artist that devises numerous criminal schemes that afford him to hitchhike across the globe. David skirts the legal constraints of society to "freely" create his art in the public space. His nonchalant law-breaking style lands him in jail several times leading to his eventual demise in solitary confinement in a Tokyo prison cell. He resurfaces with a radically religious agenda and returns home with hope to overcome his criminal temptations and repair his severed relationships. We see David's unwillingness to grow up, his struggle to make it as an artist and his fight to hold on to his sanity for his life and burgeoning art career.

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On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.

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From Milano to Chianti

A documentary of the 2012 Eroica through the story of three young gentlemen, moving from the chaos and modernity of the city of Milan, to the calm and historical Chianti region.

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In 2012 KCBR's sprayers were busy enhancing Zurich's cityscape and it's rail network. At the end of last year, they dropped a documentary of their endeavors into the mailbox of art publisher Edition Patrick Frey. Just a couple of weeks later, before the paint on the trains had even dried, their book Live Life Like KCBR was published. Over one hundred images and a report by the 'Das Magazin' Journalist Daniel Ryser provide an in-depth insight into the work of what is probably Zurich's most active graffiti crew.

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JR nennt er sich. Er ist Fotograf und Public-Art-Künstler. Seine Galerie steht unter freiem Himmel. Er arbeitet in Vorstädten und Slums, in die sich nicht einmal mehr die Polizei hinein getraut. Die Riesenporträts, die er auf Hausfassaden und Mauern hinterlässt, sorgen weltweit für Aufsehen.

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Fresh Off The Boat - Season 2 Trailer

In Fresh Off the Boat season two, Eddie takes you on a global excursion examining cities in transition. From the abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit to migrant Kyrgyz workers in Moscow to the yurts of the Gobi Desert, we see the wreckage that global capitalism has left behind and get a glimpse of what could be its next meal in the Mongolian steppes. From high-powered meetings with the pandas of Chengdu and pasta with self-proclaimed celebrity gangster Dave Courtney, we ask the people on the ground whether the changes we're seeing and the progress we've been promised are actually helping the every day man in his pursuit of happiness. Of course, this all happens through the lens of food, across a table, on a plate. Fuck with the kid. The premiere episode of Fresh Off the Boat season two will air September 30 on VICE.com.

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A rare look at Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) on the 10th anniversary of seminal album, Rounds. Directed by Dan Wilde, and made entirely from animated stills, this intimate documentary explores the creative process, collaborations, and inspirations behind the last decade of Four Tet's career as he prepares to release the new album Beautiful Rewind (out soon on Text Records).