321POLO! Bike polo has a live-and-let-live aesthetic when it comes to the gear. Like any competitive sport, though, there are a few guidelines that keep scores legit and separate the pros from the newbies.
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Get Off Your High Horse. Bike Polo is Here. Deep in the trenches of Austin, TX, there's a mob of bike fanatics turning the classic bourgeoisie sport of polo into a fresh new urban sport. The big difference is that you don't need a steed and saddle to participate -- you just need a bike.
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For the last ten years, Cory Arcangel has been the rare sort of artist who can work extensively with contemporary technology without losing his creative intuition or being broken by the coldness of his medium. As one of the very few art-world guys who views the raw beauty contained in a YouTube mash-up, we ask him for a run down of his favorite internet videos. We also explore everything from his earliest work to the infamous Mario Clouds, and his treatise on jpeg compression ...
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Ralph Baer reveals the idea behind the Odyssey, the infamous Simon and a few other innovative home gaming machines.
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We travel to New Hampshire to hang out with Ralph Baer, and he talks about his past and how he came to be one of the most important figures in video gaming history.
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RJD2 tweaks a few knobs for us on his vintage synth and shows us the art to circuit bending.
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Hope you brought an appetite. Electric Independence kicks off a conversation with RJD2 in the kitchen, where he whips up a delicious cobbler before showing us his studio.
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Ralph Baer is the great-grandfather of the modern video game. Working for Milton-Bradley, he helped develop the technology that gave us Pong, and, by proxy, every other super-wonky and still-fun early video game you can think of. Ralph takes us back to 1966 when he devised the home console for Sanders Associates, the early 70s when he invented the first light gun and the late 70s when he created a little number by the name of Simon. ... Motherboard "Ralph Baer" Simon Gaming "Gaming Consoles ...
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Director Spike Jonze explains how the team combined animatronic production tactics with new ideas to create the characters in his latest film, "Where the Wild Things Are."
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From the basement studio to the kitchen, RJD2 is about to give us a tour of his home in Philly. Electric Independence visits Philadelphia DJ/producer John "RJ" Krohn, better known as RJD2. RJ takes us for a tour of his multiple drum kits and massive modular synths. Despite the success of his solo material on Def Jux, producing for every independent rapper under the sun, and his recent, poppier work on XL Recordings, RJ insists that he has no "chops". He's a messy 13 year-old experimenter ...
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