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Whoa, Internet Generation; McDonald's Just Nailed You
Credit where credit is due; these Big Mac ads are pretty stellar.
Fruzsina Eordogh
6.5.13
Art

Light Becomes An Oppressive Force In Bernardí Roig's Haunting Sculptures
If Dan Flavin and Francis Bacon's art met, married, and had a child, it might look something like this.
TCP Staff
6.5.13
News

Fort McMurray Is Sponsored by Oil
Fort McMurray is a hub for oil money in Canada and as a result, the companies who flood the town with cash sponsor everything from baby clothes to new community centres. Is that a conflict of interest? Uh, maybe? Vincent McDermott reported on all this...
Vincent McDermott
6.5.13
Motherboard Blog

Turkish Teenagers Are Getting Arrested for Tweeting About the Protests
Last night, Turkish police raided 38 homes and made 16 arrests, including some teenagers. Their crime? Tweeting about the demonstrations.
Brian Merchant
6.5.13
You Need to Hear This

To Be Frank - "Nothing"
Glitchy melancholia in the new video from Hackney-born To Be Frank.
VICE Staff
6.5.13
New music

Syron Made Us The Best Mixtape Ever
Seriously, it has Christina Milian AND Kendrick Lamar on it.
Noisey Staff
6.5.13
wild things

The $wiftest Pigeon
China's spoiled young princelings aren't content with buying horses, sports cars, and insanely tacky watches alone.
Thomas Morton
VICE Staff
6.5.13
Pretty Girl Bullshit

Robin Thicke's New Video Is Horrible, Misogynist Bullshit
It's just so incredibly creepy.
Bertie Brandes
6.5.13
Stuff

The Rob Ford Scandal Is Just Like 'The Wire'
What with City Hall, the police, Toronto's drug dealers, and the media playing a major role in the Rob Ford crack scandal, there's no real-life parallel to this evolving story—it's more like a work of fiction, specifically David Simon's much-lauded TV...
Patrick McGuire
6.5.13
Photo

Tom Bianchi Photographed His Gay Paradise Before It Disappeared Forever
Close your eyes and imagine you're at the party of your dreams. You dance and you love and you spin and you love some more, and then all of your friends die. I know it's harsh, but it's also sort of what happened to Tom Bianchi in the 1980s, with the...
VICE Staff
6.5.13
vice shorts

I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Sins of the Nude'
Composed of outtakes from a different short film produced for the Dutch Online Film Festival, director Todd Rohal weaves together a sordid, upsetting, and hilarious alternate version of 'Variety' critic Robert Koehler. Watch as they lampoon an...
Jeffrey Bowers
6.5.13
Stuff

The Taipei Book Release Party Is Tonight
Yesterday Tao told us via email that he has "confirmed probably 15 ppl plan on using it as a chance to get really messed up" and "several ppl have planned to die from drugs that night also."
VICE Staff
6.5.13
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