A Thousand Words
We’ve known that Kodak has been in trouble for some time now. At the beginning of the year, the former giant filed for bankruptcy, then a month later the company ended up killing production on cameras...
View ArticleHow Not to Smuggle Drugs Into America
You can almost hear the lowly mules—both of whom fled the scene—cry out in that sort of self-deprecating God damnit that only comes when you know you really fucked up. I’ve written a bit about Mexican...
View ArticleIf WiFi Is Water, Electricity Is Fire
On Wednesday afternoon, the lobby at Con Edison’s majestic headquarters on 14th Street and Irving Place felt very much like a hospital waiting room. In the offices and the war room upstairs, and...
View ArticleBitch Prefect on Life's Big Questions
Adelaide favourites Bitch Prefect have been pretty busy lately, somehow managing to balance growing up, making sound food choices and writing music. We have a lot of respect of anyone who can rock a...
View ArticleForeign Correspondents: An Al Jazeera Reporter in Little Havana
In this episode of Foreign Correspondents, we get a sense of the chaos at the final presidential debate in Miami. Then we follow Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Al-Alami as he ventures into Little...
View ArticleVoting Tech Still Sucks
The election is next week, and some of us will be voting on machines that may or may not properly register our selections and will also leave no paper record of any kind that might be used to clear...
View ArticleAmerica's Online Infantry
Just three weeks after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told an audience at the Sea, Air and Space Museum that the U.S. is on the brink of a “cyber Pearl Harbor,” the government has decided it needs to...
View ArticleProlate Spheroid Preview: Keep It Simple, Stupid Football Guys
We’ve talked about this before, but it seems that there are a lot more good quarterbacks than there used to be, and the good quarterbacks there are are a lot better. It’s made the game a lot more fun...
View ArticleSex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll: Knife Play, DMT, and The Trail of Dead
SEX - KNIFE PLAY Happy Day After Halloween, perverts! It's Scorpio season, the spookiest time of year. I love my dark side, and not just as an excuse to ignore cell phone bills in order to pay for a...
View ArticleWhat's So Scary About Sluts?
Halloween is the only holiday I’m aware of that is essentially just an excuse for even the most shy and boring girls to walk around self-identifying as prostitutes without getting bitched-slapped by...
View ArticleNoisey: Music Video Premiere: Leo Justi - "O Homen Mau (Sniper Queen)"
This video was directed by Julio Secchin, whose Vimeo page is worth checking out. We asked him for a quick bio, and he sent us a full director's statement of his latest video for Brazilian producer...
View ArticlePen Pals: Why Can't I Vote?
After watching all these presidential debates I’ve been trying to do the science and figure this bullshit out. I’m definitely an anti-conservative-cocksucker motherfucker—in general, it was the...
View ArticleIt Was Halloween in Chicago Last Night
With all this hullabaloo about Frankenstorms and such, there's a sense that Halloween, one of the greatest holidays of the year, has been put on the back burner for those on the East Coast. Aside from...
View ArticleRequiem for a Shithole
The author, in the DJ booth at St. Jerome's with Lady Gaga. Today, in the wake of the shittiest storm New York has ever seen, Manhattan’s shittiest dive bar is shuttering its doors for good. St....
View ArticleCrank Call to the Dick Pill Hotline
A well groomed man in an orange shirt conducted an informercial recently for a sexual enhancement product. His neck veins bulged like vipers, and he talked confidently about vacations to a ski lodge...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: How Much Would You Sell Your Virginity For?
Virginity is a delicate flower, its petals plucked passionately from you when you've eventually found the right person to share it with. Or it's a messy splurge all over the backseat of an Astra after...
View ArticleMaking Friends with the Prostitutes of Switzerland
In Italy, much like every single other country in the world, it's not uncommon to see girls—with or without penises—stalking street corners, watched over by some volatile pimp in a pleather jacket and...
View ArticleNick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #74
Dear VICE Comics Fans, I went to the NY Art Book Fair a month ago. I saw my friend Terence there and then he was killed the next day. I’ve been meaning to review the books I got but it was easier to...
View ArticleTable of Contents: Looking at Ben Pier's Photos Is Better Than Eating...
Two photos from this selection by Ben PIer appeared in the table of contents section of VICE's "The Raised Up Right Issue." All of these images are from a new body of work by Ben Pier. Ben's previous...
View ArticleSSION Tour Diary Part Two - More Colors, More Moods
Happy to be able to deliver this brand new trasmission of SSION tour pictures - round two. I just randomly thought of a person dumping a red, plastic bucket of heavy glitter onto an ocean's wave. I...
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