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Chinese-Made 107mm Rockets Are the Workhorses of Insurgencies (and Goons)

If the design virtues of rocket-propelled grenade launchers prove time and again to be ""cheap killer[s] of technology"":http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/feature/on-the-shoulders-of-rebels/26108/ riding, durably, on the shoulders of rebels and...
Brian Anderson
8.22.12
Art

Crowdsourcing The Sublime: Studio Tobias Klein's Interactive Installation Virtual Sunset

The artist recreates a sunset inside London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Creators Project Staff
8.22.12
video

Tobias Klein: Crowdsourcing A Virtual Sunset

Studio Tobias Klein is an experimental design studio that specializes in architectural systems and interactive installations. For Virtual Sunset, they asked users to submit images of the...
The Creators Project
8.22.12
Music

We Interviewed Beach House About Blue Shit

The sound of Beach House’s newest album, 'Bloom,' can be described with all sorts of treacly adjectives, but we just mainly want to know how they feel about the color blue.
Erik Morse
8.22.12
Stuff

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #69

This is my 69th comics column for VICE and I am very proud of that. I hope that you are 69ing while are reading it. I am masturbating to Penny Flame having sex with a hot tub full of Jack in the Box employees.
Nick Gazin
8.22.12
New music

The xx: "Angels" (Video)

Uh-oh, The xx break the internet with their first video from Coexist.
Noisey Staff
8.22.12
Motherboard Blog

New Study Accuses Antibiotics of Boosting Civilization's Fatness Problem

Antibiotics enable much of the lifestyle we've grown accustomed to on planet Earth. An infected wound or case of syphilis or any of the other great many sinister things caused by bad bacteria are no longer things that carry a very real possibility of...
Michael Byrne
8.22.12
Recreate Berlin

Episode 1 - The Master Class

As part of the 'Recreate Berlin' workshop, 12 young talents from various creative backgrounds are taking part in Master Classes taught by renowned mentors such as Volker Motsch (Design), Fabian Fenk (Bodi Bill) and Lars Borges (Photography / Film).
VICE Staff
8.22.12
Photos

The Lost Babes of Transnistria

Photographers Jeremy and Nicolas navigate through the streets of Transnistria's capital, Tiraspol, capturing the most fetching ladies to never grace the pages of your favorite streetstyle blog.
Jeremy Suyker and Nicolas Leblanc
8.22.12
Chunklet to Go Go

Steve Miller's Account of Intercepting a Box of Records Addressed to His Son

Fan Fiction based on inner dialogues of hilarious generational dissonance: legendary classic rock guitarist Steve Miller’s first-person account.
Andrew Earles
8.22.12
Stuff

The Putrid Voyeurisms of Peter Sotos

It’s not exactly easy to get your hands on the work of Peter Sotos. Most people probably wouldn’t even want to. His work traffics in a range of subjects that most average readers—even those who fancy themselves to have transgressive tastes—would find...
Blake Butler
8.22.12
Motherboard Blog

Burma Gets Internet Freedom for the First Time

Watching Burma, which has been ruled by an oppressive and brutal military junta for more than half a century, undergo a breakneck transition into an actual, tentative democracy has been one of the strangest and most thrilling developments in years...
Brian Merchant
8.22.12
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