Who Cares About Putin When You Have Islam?
The Russian republic of Chechnya has been undergoing an Islamic revival. Having existed under Soviet rule for 70 years before getting caught up in a war with the Russian Federation that lasted almost...
View ArticleKimani Gray and Two Weeks of Struggle in Flatbush, Brooklyn
(Photo via Facebook) “This is about Kimani Gray!” interrupted Fatimah Shakur, the most vocal of a loose network of organizers who have been holding nightly demonstrations in the Flatbush neighborhood...
View ArticleMotherboard: Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement
Being a novice in the 3D-printing world, I was once somewhat skeptical of what it would and could accomplish. I saw Makerbot CEO Bre Pettis on the cover of Wired in late September, and while the...
View ArticleOh, What a Dirty War
If the Terror has one reigning symbol, it is the Ford Falcon. They were seen everywhere—always without license plates, cruising the streets or quietly parked and waiting. Thousands of individuals were...
View ArticlePenetrating Jordan’s Illegal Porn Cinemas
Vintage posters on the steps leading up to the entrance of the Kawakib Cinema in Amman, Jordan. Muttering quietly and nervously to himself, an elderly man squeezes his eyes shut and aims them at the...
View ArticleFire in the Hole
(Photo via Wikimedia Commons) The convoy stops and the lieutenant lowers his binoculars and opens his door and points at four Afghan men standing on a ridge beside a red telephone tower. They look...
View ArticleAnonymous Taught Twitter About the Rohingya Genocide
Photo by no_direction_home Yesterday, for a few hours at least, the plight of a small indigenous people was given center stage on Twitter. The Rohingya people—inhabitants of Burma, known officially as...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: The Incredible Light Art of the Kinetica Art Fair
A 5,000-pixel, shimmering LED sphere, illuminated sculptures built from fluorescent fishing line, sound-reactive glowing fashion, and a projection-mapped "fallen star" sculpture are just a few...
View ArticleHarmony Korine's Spring Breakers: An Interview with Harmony - Part 2
Director Harmony Korine describes how he made Spring Breakers and turned four college girls' quest to extend spring break forever (bitches!) into a hypercolored ecstasy trip through the teenage...
View ArticleHow Does it Feel: LMFF Independent Runway
I don’t go to a lot of fashion shows, but when I turned up at LMFF Independent Runway and got seated in the second row, I was pretty happy. There's much more pressure being in the front row,...
View ArticleThe ATF Isn't Yet Convinced That 3D-Printed Guns Compare to the Real Thing
Around the same time that Cody Wilson took the stage at SXSW to discuss his new for-profit 3D-printing design database earlier this month, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)...
View ArticleWatch This Eerily Erotic and Pretty Fucked-up 'American Ecstasy' Trailer
There isn't too much information available about photographer Jonathan Leder's debut feature-length film, American Ecstasy, besides the fucked-up and strangely sexy shit you saw in the trailer above....
View ArticleOscar Pistorius’ Fucked Up Female Fans
If you make a joke about Chris Brown on social media, you can expect to get harassed by his deranged fan club, #teambreezy. The exact same bizarre thing will happen if you fuck around with South...
View ArticleTruckers in the Wild: Series Trailer
Truckers in the Wild is a six-part series on VICE created in partnership with Hellmann’s. The show follows New York City chefs, brothers, and cookbook authors Max and Eli Sussman as they explore the...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Go Behind The Scenes Of Leo Villareal's Monumental...
On the March 5, 2013 San Francisco’s Bay Bridge lit up with 25,000 LEDs courtesy of Leo Villareal’s installation The Bay Lights. The huge light sculpture will be illuminating the bridge for the next...
View ArticleEngineering the Bitcoin Gold Rush: A Chat With Yifo Guo
A month after it reached a new all-time high, the rollercoaster ride that is bitcoin continues to thrill and confound after a series of events helped propel the virtual currency to stratospheric new...
View ArticlePhilip K. Dick's 4-Dimensional Gun
Photo: DanCentury/Flickr The Zap Gun is one of Philip K. Dick’s lesser “pot-boiler” novels. It was originally serialized, so it’s shitty in the way that novels always are when it’s clear a writer is...
View ArticleMusic Reviews by Plants: "Bad Thing" - King Tuff
Ever wondered what kind of music your plants do and don't like? No? Well for everyone else, meet eco scientist Yannick Van Doorne. Thanks to MOG, he's here to give review music from a plant's...
View ArticleThe Noisey Guide to Rappers to Watch in 2013
The Noisey Guide to Rappers to Watch in 2013
View ArticleDogmageddon: Young People Still Suck
It isn't hard to see which way the winds are blowing regarding gay marriage. All you need is a second-grade reading comprehension and a very simple understanding of statistics. (Like, a...
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