ladies and gentlemen, the target audience
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
lol forks media critic
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol u feeling the need to get defensive about the stuff you claim to like
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
jeez forks i just think your media criticism is funny
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
if anyone doesn't want to check out the vice travel videos bc gr8080, lag00n and i give considered praise for them, i think that's legit. i certainly don't think my taste in media jibes w/ everyone
― Mordy, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
japanese suicide forest sounds extremely interesting to me tho, and i will check it out now
― Mordy, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
brb starting a media company w/ lagoon and mordy
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
forks standby for the press release
1080p HD is sweet too
― Mordy, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
let's do it guys
1st order of business hire forks as public editor
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
forks i'm gonna need 700 words on spring breakers by 4:30 pm get to it
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
i'm pretty excited for the HBO series actually.
― Mordy, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
brb, cutting and pasting "horseshit" 700 times
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
feel like youll prob want to work 'white western male privilege' in there somewhere
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
enjoy what you wanna enjoy, i genuinely think you guys ARE the target audienceme, not so much anymore. ahma go throw some ceramics
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
goodnight sweet prince
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
u might like this video they did on anarchist pottery throwers
― Mordy, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Like, it's not enough that they go to Chernobyl. They have to do it drunk.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
you just cant deal w their bad boy take no prisoners attitude man
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
actually i guess theyre more dont give a shit than take no prisoners
if they added rocket-skates I would never watch anything else BUT their vids
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
the vice photo book is u+k
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
in the nyer piece theyre covering the flooding of venice and its connection to global warming and they goto a flooded bar and have a drink and are all NOW this is a real vice piece lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
Xtreme Bar
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
vice target audience: alcoholics
― Mordy, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like vice are more ironic detachment than they are extreme, like theyre not making a big deal out of things generally, hipsters arent xtreme
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, April 5, 2013 2:44 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah that scene cracked my ass up
― Jopy's on a vacation far away (Jon Lewis), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
the article kinda made me suspect that the business wasnt as financially sound as they were making it out to be
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
At present, Vice’s profits—which a source estimates were forty million dollars last year—seem to be dependent on securing and maintaining partnerships with a few major corporate clients. If you spend enough time inside the Vice empire, much of its noise and energy—the Web site and the ad network, the international offices, even Smith’s talk of global domination—can start to feel like a ruse, in the vein of its “basketball diplomacy” stunt, a show to make those partnerships happen.
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
― Jopy's on a vacation far away (Jon Lewis), Friday, April 5, 2013 8:51 AM (3 minutes ago)
guy yelling "look its CNN" was a great KO
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
i like their video work too. i dunno. i think the vice yall are thinking of is really fucking different from what they do nowadays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYFEoWwDvxY
travel stuff like that is dope to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQC3jp1udUg
there's that kind of thing, too.
and HEY fuck it sometimes i just want to see a guy taking acid and going to a dog show. does that make me a bad person?
― dylannn, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
westminster lsdiplomacy
― johnny crunch, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
dylannn otm
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
someone was telling me that there was some major fallout from the exploitative libera piece they did.
CNN picked up and after it ran a few times it killed what little tourism economy librea previously had
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 5 April 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
a friend of mine who works in libera wrote a v angry blog post abt that piece
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously, did anyone really not know how to capture the elusive 18-24 male market? Hint:
Also porn and poop and shocking pictures of dead things.
Not that there's anything wrong with this formula, but it should not be lofted up as some sort of standard or goal. Like, is Fareed Zakaria all, "ha ha, these cutting edge kids today and their porn and poop and guns and taking acid at dog shows!" Does he really believe this is some new vanguard, or is it strictly a salacious titillation/exploitation equals moolah calculation? (I mean, I know the answer, because the hack already works for CNN.)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
If anything the piece reminded me of the infamous New Yorker essay on the band Radish, with young Ben Kweller kicking it with Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine, Tom Petty and Joe Strummer, with the whole lot all "wow, this kid's got the goods!"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
it reminded me of ben kweller also.
― dylannn, Friday, 5 April 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, so pretty safe to skip this entire April 15 issue, right? Read the meh Burton/Le Carre and that's it for me, I think.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
dog if a susan faludi profile of shulamith firestone is "safe to skip" you need to get yr priorities in order
― max, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Same issue?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, didn;t see that one in there! Thanks!
yeah i almost wrote this issue off but then got sucked into that article and it kicked ass. Otherwise, a light issue for me. Which is fine, I can use a week off now and again.
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
which is the one with the Knife review? That issue had meh articles. Sometimes I'll skip whole issues.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
This is the one with the Knife, April 15, a day that shall not live in infamy.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
can i just say that lil sharing tab at the bottom of the page on the iphone app go fuck yrself
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
the le carré wasn't good?
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 11 April 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
i liked it
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 April 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link