Barnaby Jack Could Hack Your Pacemaker and Make Your Heart Explode
An X-ray of a pacemaker in someone's chest. (Photo via) Having your heart wirelessly hacked and set to explode at 830 volts could be viewed as a bit of a setback if you're considering getting a...
View ArticleCould the Turkish Uprising Be a Breakthrough for the Country's Kurds?
Emre Elmekci, a Kurdish activist, sits on a barricade in a road leading to Taksim Square during clashes with the Turkish police. The fallout from the protests in Turkey isn't all bad. Unthinkable...
View ArticleImagining 'Seinfeld' on Molly While on Molly with @Seinfeld2000
Imagining 'Seinfeld' on Molly While on Molly with @Seinfeld2000
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Harvey Moon's Drawing Machines
How does a cricket become an artist? Try placing it in one of Harvey Moon's drawing machines where its movements will be tracked by a camera and turned into original works of art. Bugs Draw for Me,...
View ArticleThe Voting Rights Act Is a Mess, but We Still Need It
LBJ and MLK, architects of the Voting RIghts Act. All photos via Wikipedia Commons The Supreme Court ruled today that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which said that some (mostly Southern) states...
View ArticleDavid Yow Wants to Paint You
That photo on the left is of David Yow, the guy who used to get naked and horrify audiences with the Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid. The image on the right is a painting he made from the photo. If you...
View ArticleGermany's Blood-Drenched Debt Could Save Greece's Economy
Greek men murdered by German paratroopers in Kondomari, Crete in 1941. (Image via) In early April of 1941, the German army defeated Greek forces along the country's northern front. Where Greece had...
View ArticleNeither Big nor Easy: Odoms and Ballzack Are Kings of the Wank
Photo by Megan Roniger Some New Orleans artists travel far and wide, enhancing the city’s well-deserved rep as a incubator of innovative music, but other acts achieve fame and pack rooms without ever...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Brand-Funded Films and the Trailer for 'La Passione'
I have been working on some projects with Agyness Deyn for a while. We had previously collaborated on a shoot for Elle where she and Natalia Bonifacci had dressed up like James Dean and Sal Mineo and...
View ArticleRecognizing Your Ex-Girlfriend in Porn
Photo by Blair Hopkins According to Cosmopolitan magazine, watching porn together can be a great way to spice up your sex life. I've found watching pornography with girls to be a mixed experience, at...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Members of a Christian Group Are Being Assholes
A Christian group in Texas has begun taking photos of people's cars as they patronize "sinful businesses" and posting them online. In a "news alert" posted to their Facebook page, Texas Christian...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast Show - Jeremy Scahill on 'Dirty Wars' and National Security
Please enable Javascript to watch this video The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly unedited discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we...
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: Marie Calloway on Her New Novel and Being Called "Jailbait"
Photo via Marie Calloway "I wondered if I should go into his apartment." That line opens Marie Calloway's debut novel, what purpose did i serve in your life. She, of course, does go in, and the...
View ArticleScenes from the Pro-Choice Chaos at the Texas Capitol
Photos by Karen Little & Abigail Perry Last night, the Texas state legislature failed to meet, then changed time itself to meet, then ultimately admitted that they actually failed to meet a...
View ArticleKickstarter Superheroes: the Less Important Portraits of Jeremy Bailey
Back in the winter, a time most of us would prefer to forget, Toronto new media artist Jeremy Bailey did what most artists do these days—he started a Kickstarter campaign to fund his art. With the...
View ArticlePop Stars and Radical Clerics Are Fighting the Army in Lebanon
A man surveys the wreckage of fighting in Sidon. Photo by Sam Tarling. Relatively speaking, Lebanon is a madhouse. In the West, we're used to being bombarded with images of Kanye West and Kate Upton,...
View ArticleShorties: 'La Passione,' a Short Film by James Franco
As announced, we are premiering James Franco's new short film, La Passione, right here, right now. It's a decadent and beautifully shot trip that riffs on Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc,...
View ArticleHow Last Week's Celebration in Rio de Janeiro Turned Violent
On June 20 somewhere between 300,000 and a million people took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro to celebrate the cancellation of the public-transportation fare hikes that had set off nationwide...
View ArticleThis Is a Defining Year for WikiLeaks
The WikiLeaks-mobile parked outside of Fox News. Photo via Flickr Edward Snowden is currently acting out his own real-life version of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? as he jumps from exotic...
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