Popping the Marks: What the WWE Can Learn from Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl Ad
During the Super Bowl on Sunday, 50 of my Muslim friends got excited because a Coca-Cola ad declared them to be sufficiently American. The commercial started with a lone cowboy riding his white horse...
View Article'MATTE' Magazine Presents: Molly Matalon
MATTE magazine is a photography journal I started in 2010 as way to shed light on good work by emerging photographers. Each issue features the work of one artist, and I shoot a portrait of him or her...
View ArticleThe ABC Has Pissed Off Tony Abbott And Will Be Destroyed
Illustration by Benjamin Thomson The ABC has come in for some criticism recently from the Government with the Prime Minister calling them unpatriotic. The ABC reported on leaks that showed Australia...
View ArticleThe Girl Who Played With Marc Jacobs
Image via Recently I was on some site that steals stuff from Reddit and repackages it for clicks, when I started reading the comments—because they are the best part of the Internet. In between lots of...
View ArticleThe FBI Said Last Year's Coordinated Attack on a Power Grid Was Not Terrorism
Thumbnail image via Flickr User TpolyG In April 2013, a group of men carried out an attack on a San Jose Pacific Gas and Electric transmission substation, attempting to cut local power. Former CIA...
View ArticleHow Egypt’s January 25 Revolutionaries Became Enemies of the State
All photos by Abdalla F. Hassan Speaking in an incensing lisp that ordinarily would have sidelined him from a job in television, the host of nighttime talk show Black Box, Abdul-Rahim Ali, tells an...
View ArticleDub-Stuy Takes Sound System Culture Back to Its Roots in Brooklyn
Dub-Stuy Takes Sound System Culture Back to Its Roots in Brooklyn
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: The Unknown Unknowns of the NSA
A fake drone carried by protesters during Obama's second inauguration. Photo via Flickr user Debra Sweet According to investigative journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill—writing today in...
View ArticleVery White Ad Agency Creates Whitest Valentine's Day Ads Ever
Some white people. Screenshot via Florists' Transworld Delivery. Valentine’s Day is widely regarded as the worst holiday in the history of holidays. You don’t get a day off, you’re very likely to get...
View ArticleIn Defense of Hairy Women
All illustrations by Ole Tillmann My friend Kevin, who majored in philosophy at Berkeley and is now a civil rights lawyer, and who supports all sorts of good causes (economic equality, gun control,...
View ArticleProtesters in Istanbul Rioted to Save Their Internet
All photos by Charles Emir Richards This year, Turkey's protesters have turned their attention from small, endangered urban parks to the slightly more on-trend issue of online freedom. The reason is...
View ArticleTerrorism Is Still a Very Real Threat in Sochi
Photo via The Olympics are a rare chance for countries to come together in the spirit of international goodwill and allow their finest athletes to compete on a world stage. And, as such, they're a...
View ArticleSelfies with the Homeless, a New Unshareable Low
Selfies with the Homeless, a New Unshareable Low
View ArticleVICE Eats: Chanmomo
On VICE Japan's pilot episode of VICE Eats, we hung out with reality TV star Chanmomo (who appears on a Real World–esque Japanese show called Terrace House) and discussed her blossoming art career and...
View ArticleVICE Special: Apocalypse, Man - Part 5
In the penultimate episode of our six-part documentary, Michael C. Ruppert examines the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Here is an accompanying statement from Michael: "Two weeks after VICE...
View ArticleBill McKibben Would Go to Jail to Halt the Building of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Environmental activist Bill McKibben is like Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln if Honest Abe shaved. A tall man with a soft voice, Bill knows how to incite passion in a crowd. In the last three and a half...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: We Must End Our Obsession with Robots That Look Like Humans
Image by Cei Willis "Recent breakthroughs in cybernetics mean that robots already exist with the brain power of insects. Within five years, robots will exist with the brain power of cats. In ten to 50...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Here Is Cheatahs' New Video
Here's a premiere of Cheatahs' video for "Get Tight," and before our new copy editor gets all pissy at me for misspelling their name... yes, it's spelled Cheatahs, dickwad. The song is about that mega...
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: 'Praying Drunk' with Author Kyle Minor
Photo by Jennifer Percy Kyle Minor's short-story collection Praying Drunk came out Friday. I had seen the very positive reviews and the raves, so I stayed in bed to read it. When I got to the end of...
View ArticleSothern Exposure: Inside a Satanic Hoedown in the Valley of the Damned
1985 I got a gig taking pictures at a satanic hoedown in the San Fernando Valley of the Damned. All I have to do is stand upright and point and shoot. My friend Stephen does interviews, pays the tab,...
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