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People Who Watch People Having Sex in the Park, and the Man Who Photographed...
Kohei Yoshiyuki is a Japanese photographer best known for The Park, his series of photographs of people watching other people have sex in the public parks of 1970's Tokyo. It's that exact mix of...
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I'll Read You When You're Dead
I can’t bring myself to read books by writers who are still alive. It’s not simply that dead authors should be read first in order to understand the living authors they’ve influenced, although proper...
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The Mercy Rule: Hall of Lame
“We don’t take sports seriously enough” has to rank behind “many dumb people are heavily armed,” “many of the people who are heavily armed are also popping pain pills like Mike and Ikes” and...
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Kody Maxson, Amanda Todd's Alleged Tormenter, Has Reemerged Online
A screenshot from a YouTube vlogger's interview with "k0dy" and his ex-girlfriend "Gei." The media attention surrounding Amanda Todd, the Canadian teenager who took her own life after being sexually...
View ArticleNoisey: The People Vs. Action Bronson
More gorgeous than Rick Ross and apparently an extremely good gymnast, Action Bronson responds to the comments left under his music video for "The Symbol" on YouTube. Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube...
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Question of the Day: What's More Important: Fried Chicken or Animal Rights?
After saving up throughout his entire summer, British teenager Olly Tyler bought (not rented—bought) an $1100 chicken suit and headed to his local KFC to protest how their chickens are reared for...
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Talkin''Bout the Boards: Satan's Favorite Column
Dear VICE Readers, Happy Friday! Each week I peruse your comments and find the stupidest. Then I humiliate you by drawing pictures of them. How do you like that? Honestly, let me know. I have no...
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Stephen Hawking Is Taking on the Robot Apocalypse
The faux apocalypse has passed, praise Xenu, but there are plenty of real ones left to worry about. That's precisely what the folks at the Cambridge Project for Existential Risk do—they're full time...
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Why So Many Booth Babes, CES 2013?
When I clicked on Business Insider’s example of illustrious, hard-hitting journalism that is an advertisement-ridden slideshow, “Meet the Booth Babes of CES 2013,” I"m not quite sure what happened....
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Obseshes: 'Girls' Is Back and You Should Care
This week’s obseshesssss mostly end in questions, so either I’m especially curious or I have devolved into a Valspeak uptalker? What do you think? Actually maybe it’s just that my heart is a-flutter...
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I Found a Dog, Will One of You Guys Adopt It?
A few days ago I was walking along Fountain Avenue in Los Angeles when I saw a dog running in the road. Cars were swerving around her, and she almost got hit a couple of times. So I chased after her,...
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Michael Haneke’s Everyday Horror
It’s just another day in the ordered life of an well-to-do family, the kind of family you grew up hating for being so perfect. The day’s activities are broken down into a polished routine, assisted by...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal - After Hours with Nelson "Loui_D" Darden
For this week's Mahal, I'm introducing a new series of videos that finds me cruising the streets with New York City's finest shredders. I will be dropping these from time to time as the weather...
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The Frenzied Conspiracy Theories of Jeff Boss
A letter I received from Jeff Boss: “As I write this, I am in a tent on my bed to avoid the cameras that are all over my apartment. I have been chased around the world. I have survived over 1,000...
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Global Food Poisoning in Italy
Bra, Italy is just an hour south on the three-car regional train from Turin, but it takes its character more from the hectares of farmland and vineyards that hem its boundaries than from Piedmont’s...
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Kaufman on Kaufman: An Interview with Andy's Brother
When I was a kid I used to love Taxi. It had been cancelled for a number of years by the time I got into it, but I watched the syndicated episodes whenever they came on Nick at Nite. Thinking back on...
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Pooping in Trash Bags with London's Squatters
Squatting in residential properties was criminalized in the UK last September, after a campaign in the tabloid press that portrayed squatters as a bunch of vagabond Romanian immigrants who would...
View ArticleAaron Swartz's Tragic Battle with Copyright
Aaron H. Swartz, one of our most vigorous champions of open access and copyright reform, committed suicide in New York City on Friday at the age of 26. He was a pioneer and a renegade, part of the...
View ArticleWhy I Love Hairy Men
I once slept with a Greek guy. There are two things you can expect when you go to bed with a Hellenic dude. First, his mother is going to hate you. Second, when he’s naked, he’s still going to be...
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'Southern Weekly' and the Limits of Censorship in China
Censorship in China is a strange thing, invisible but omnipresent. There is no official list of banned books, yet books get banned every day. There is no official list of "sensitive topics," yet...
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