VICE Special: The Fourth Dimension
We teamed up with Grolsch Film Works and got three directors to make three short films about that most elusive and confusing of dimensions, the fourth. Then, we took their work and smooshed it into...
View ArticleNoisey Premiers Songs' New Video
Fresh from Australian powerhouse label, Popfrenzy, this new track from Songs gets a visual rendering that's worth a peep. Sort of Pixies by way of heavily distorted Cocteau Twins (if Debbie Harry were...
View ArticleTransmutations in Tijuana
Photos by Alejandro Cossio Sunday prayer at the church is when attendees try to wash away their sins through atonement, music, and dance. T he pastor finishes her sermon and closes her eyes, waiting...
View ArticleKeep Your Reputation Tight with Reconstructive Hymen Surgery (or, if You're...
Illustration by Kara Crabb You know how, growing up, your mom was always like, “Don’t have sex until you get married or else your husband will throw you in the garbage and you’ll die a dirty,...
View ArticleA High School Reenacted Chris Brown's Domestic Abuse with Blackface
Last Friday, Waverly High School in New York state hosted a pep rally for their sports teams—fanfare, mascots, jocks, cheerleaders—all good, clean, American fun. Then, because it makes total sense to...
View ArticleDelicious with Mish Episode Six: Featuring Nathan of Heroin Diet
I just got home from touring in Europe/UK for three weeks. You know what happened when I was over there? I had an epiphany about this podcast. Originally I wanted this to be about sex and music, but...
View ArticleMore Eddy: Obama (and 'The Economist') Won the Second Presidential Debate
Yes, Obama and The Economist (as in the magazine) won the second presidential debate. And it all happened in the last round of question and answer. In fact, I don’t really care about anything but the...
View ArticleBlowjobs, Satanists, and Tiny American Flags in Valley Forge National Park
On any given day in Valley Forge National Historic Park, in Pennsylvania, a hunched-over retiree wearing a powdered wig, a brass-buttoned Revolutionary War uniform, and a tricorn hat will board a bus...
View ArticleObama May Have Won the Debate, But Mitt's Got a Binder Full of Bitches
After Barak Obama’s anemic performance at the first presidential debate, everyone knew the second debate was guaranteed to be different. The president had been widely criticized as coming off as bored...
View ArticleI Learned How to Stop Being a Loser and Start Winning
God is dead. Schools are failing. There’s no such thing as a “community.” No one reads Milton any more. Greed is good. The Apprentice is a popular TV show. People feel “uninspired.” People feel...
View ArticleWorld Record Skydiver Was Thinking About Tits
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner fell to Earth from a height of 128,000 feet a few weeks ago, setting three world records. He stepped out of a capsule/balloon floating on the edge of space and fell...
View ArticleWe Put 'The Fourth Dimension' on YouTube
Unless you have selective amnesia targeting good films, you probably remember the movie we made with Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko, and Jan Kwiecinski earlier this year. It's called The Fourth...
View ArticleFightland: Weightless History
“The tradition of all dead generations,” Karl Marx once wrote, “weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” For James Joyce’s double, Stephen Dedalus, history was a nightmare from which one...
View ArticleShorties: We Gave Bullshit E-meter Readings to Complete Strangers
VICE editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro heads out to Union Square to give strangers E-meter readings to determine their spiritual and moral fiber. The Hubbard Electrometer, more commonly known as the...
View ArticleI Asked My Dad, Who Has Dementia, to Annotate Jonathan Franzen’s ‘How to Be...
When my father lost his memory to dementia, everything in the house around him became new. He often can’t remember how sitting in a chair traditionally works, but turning the chair upside down makes...
View ArticleCornel West Plans to Vote for Obama in November and Protest His Policies in...
Cornel West is special. He rocks the best afro, has impeccable taste in music, and boasts the unique ability to communicate complex political ideas to, as Sly Stone said, "everyday people." As an...
View ArticleProlate Spheroid Preview: There Aren’t Any Good NFL Teams This Year
People talk a lot about NFL parity—“How about parity in the NFL?” a man says to another man as they sit on a park bench and watch the traffic in the distance. “Yes, parity,” the second man says. How...
View ArticleDie Antwoord and Lady Gaga Are Beefing
On Tuesday, Noisey put out the music video for Die Antwoord's "Fatty Boom Boom," and it's pretty much the best thing ever. If you haven't seen it, a man who is very clearly dressed as Lady Gaga is run...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: The xx - "Chained" by Young Replicant
“Chained,” the second single off Coexist, has all the somber intensity that is distinctly xx. The play of lyrics between Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim evoke heartbreak and the rhetoric that often...
View ArticleHank Willis Thomas Has a New Show and We Went to the Opening
Artists Hank Willis Thomas had a big opening last night for his big new show at the Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea. The gallery is a pretty huge space, and Hank filled up the whole thing with his...
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