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IF YOU CAN DO IT BETTER

Hopefully you've been checking our Where the Wild Things Are micro-blog thingie daily to see which artists we've decided to unveil during the lead-up to the release of the movie. And, if you're of the artistic persuasion, you might be saying to...
VICE Staff
10.7.09
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ODE TO TIGHT WHITE JEANS

A two-week trial wearing white jeans will give you a slight crust punk patina that will confuse crust punks enough to not ask you for a dollar, but won't save you from lonely, homeless crackies who think you yourself might be a bit cracky enough to...
nicole
10.7.09
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Cowboy boots and taxidermy

Bruno
10.7.09
Vice Blog

THE DEMONS OF NOLLYWOOD

In our Film Issue Andy Capper wrote about Nigeria's Nollywood film scene and promised to upload some of the DVDs he found in Liberia in an internet cafe/business center that doubles as a barbecued chicken feet outlet. Sorry it's taken so long – the...
VICE Staff
10.7.09
Vice Blog

VICE GUIDE TO FILM - MEXICO ON IFC CANADA

You know how we just reported on the Mexican videohome industry: that low budget, seedy, fast-paced, straight-to-DVD genre inspired by (and often funded by) Mexico’s ultraviolent drug cartels? Well, this week VICE founder Shane Smith heads to North...
VICE Staff
10.7.09
Film

The demons of Nollywood

viceuk
10.7.09
Vice Blog

WHEN DRINKING BECOMES ART AND ART BECOMES AN EXCUSE TO DRINK, AKA HOW TO FILM A DRINKING BATTLE

Excessive drinking paired with art has always been deeply entrenched in any city’s culture. Berlin's best proof is the cinematographic document Berlin Drinking Battle by Rolf S. Wolkenstein and Wolfgang Hogekamp. The film was made in 1989, just one...
Felix Nicklas
10.7.09
Vice Blog

JOHN SAFRAN BRACES HIMSELF FOR THE FALLOUT

It’s two weeks exactly until John Safran’s new series Race Relations goes to air and it’s already been labeled by someone from the Australian Family Association as “the lowest point in Australia's television history.” Are you fucking serious? Have you...
Briony Wright
10.7.09
Vice Blog

THANK YOU, SUZANNE FIOL

Suzanne Fiol, founder of Issue Project Room, died of cancer on Monday. Issue is my favorite legal venue in NYC -- I've wandered in there and seen many bizarre, funny and beautiful things, including world-famous Pamelia Kurstin doing theremin stand-up...
PATRICK HAMBRECHT
10.7.09
the vice guide to travel

From Poland with Love

Ivar and Julita head to Gdansk to meet a hero of the Polish solidarity movement who helped put and end to years of communist rule in 1989.
Ivar Berglin
10.7.09
Stuff

Hey Ron! - My Girlfriend Gets the Worst Tattoos

You know that show LA Ink? Well, it sucks, and so does the conundrum this week’s letter-writer got himself into. You see, he’s got a girlfriend who he loves with all his heart but she is continually running off by herself to get inexcusably retarded...
Ron Hemphill
10.6.09
Vice Blog

THIS MACHINE KNOWS DEMONS

The Baby Universal's second album is due end of this month. The songs are filled with cocky sadness and are not my thing at all, but they are actually cocky enough to become so famous that in only two years from now that Wikipedia will write about...
nicole
10.6.09
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