The VICE Guide to Meeting Your Heroes
From Fan to Clan
If you created a pie graph indicating the incidences of people meeting their creative heroes, you’d find a massive piece of pie representing all the people who never get to experience an encounter. Next would be a small piece of pie for the people who...
The Time I Met...
BEASTIE BOYS Glenn G: Somewhere around 1988, one of, if not the first record that I ever bought was a copy of the Double A side of “Shake That Rump” and “Hey Ladies” by the Beastie Boys. I was quite young and it helped change my perspective...
Into the Inner Sanctum
Our friend James sneaks backstage at gigs all the time. It helps playing in a few bands and having a few connections, but most of the time, he’s still manically trying to counterfeit crew passes or talk his way onto a door list. Here are his top five...
It’s All in the Detail
Being a hero is cool. You’re allowed to be self-indulgent and in some cases, you even get your own personal chef. Plus, people of the opposite sex like you even if you’re hideous. Unfortunately there’s also the pressure of having to be consistently at...
A Guy Who Rules at Math Explains the Theory
The idea of a web of relationships linking everyone on earth dates back to a 1929 story.
Really Liking Stuff a Lot
Susan Batho truly believes in fandom as a way of life. In the 25 years that she’s been involved, Susan has produced over 400 fanzines and remains Australia’s most prolific science fiction fan editor. She was the founder and president of the longest...
A Guide to the Art of Conversation
Whether your creative hero is a musician, actor, skater, filmmaker, designer, blogger, dancer, professional ratbag or another variety of artist altogether, the most important thing to remember is that they’re not normal
Meet the Winners
Four creative intrepid hopefuls were sent on an 18-day mission with a six pack, $12,000 and their very own camera crew with the singular goal of meeting their respective creative heroes. From all accounts they had a hell of a time
Can We Meet Heroes?
It's good to have heroes. They're the people you admire, who inspire and influence you and who ensure that your screen saver is different from everyone else's. If this is the case, it also makes sense to assume that they are the people you'd most like...
6 Degrees Covered
To produce the set of unique, interconnected covers for this magazine, we approached six people - all well endowed in the creative department - and kindly asked them to provide an image of something that inspires them.