Let's talk about Vice Magazine

My favorite part of articles like that is waiting to find out where the money came from for the loft/condo/treehouse.
Retroactively disappointed in Errol Morris for bringing that into the world.

My favorite part of articles like that is waiting to find out where the money came from for the loft/condo/treehouse.

yup. they usually try to underplay the reveal, too.

i sometimes wonder why anyone lives in NYC.

i do too (to answer both questions)

http://www.avclub.com/article/nadya-pussy-riot-writing-column-vice-221064

you couldnt have just linked directly her column?

http://www.vice.com/read/pussy-riot-sewing-in-the-streets-618

'offered without comment'

let's talk about vice magazine's belief in iridology
http://www.vice.com/read/will-your-eyes-change-colour-on-a-raw-vegan-diet-or-is-it-all-bullshit

I was reading a piece on vice just yesterday about the pseudo-scientific practice of voluntary trepanation. maybe this is a new direction for them.

"In iridology, the stomach area is represented just outside the pupil. If people have real digestive problems, that can make this area appear more a bit more brown."

can't argue with that

vice loves pseudo science type stuff. read the tao lin pieces on terrence mckenna

"tao lin pieces on terrence mckenna"

this sounds like hell

i feel like vice can do no greater disservice to its millennial followers than to propagate (or even give voice to) psuedoscientific new age bullshit.

there's a great mark jacobson piece on terrence mckenna if u can find it - i don't know if it's online but it is in his teenage hipster in the modern world collection

for some strange reason it comforts me to know that my generation is just as credulous + batty as all the other ones

i really hate to discover that battles i thought had been fought and won (like, say, vaccination) have to be fought all over again.,

i like the idea that human consciousness came into being from apes ingesting psilocybin mushrooms

seems wrong, but harmless

we'll need a new cut of 2001: a space odyssey though where instead of groping a monolith, the apes are tripping balls

Joey from Downtown Boys calls out Vice in a Vice subsidiary:

VICE itself is a great example of how punk can be co-opted by neoliberal forces. VICE began as part of a welfare program by the Canadian government, but then it got bought out, started publishing lots of gross stuff, and last year destroyed some of the most important DIY venues in the Northeast in order to build their corporate offices in Brooklyn. Among those we lost was Death By Audio, which was a very important place in giving Downtown Boys our start. Punk, then, like anything else, can be made to mean so many different things. If it’s an individualistic lifestyle brand, or a way to repackage traditional power relations, then it means nothing. We want it be mean an effort to build community in order to achieve personal and collective liberation, and build connections with other communities to further spread that message. But we can call that so many things. I personally have no particular attachment to the word “punk.”

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/downtown-boys-interview-2016

(I'm curious about the supposedly non-gross beginnings of the magazine. Did anyone here read it before the late nineties?)

Yeah my perception was they were more gross at the onset, making a point of being "politically incorrect" etc

VICE began as part of a welfare program by the Canadian government

http://i.skyrock.net/3868/16033868/pics/594077655_small.jpg

Oh, I definitely remember their early-oughts issues being rife with "ironic" racism/transphobia/homophobia/misogyny; I'm just curious whether that was their tack from their beginnings as a Montreal community zine. (I mean, Gavin McInnes was there from the beginning, so I kind of can't expect too much of their early years.)
Xp

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lol what is Vice anymore?? the only thing that i click on anymore is the foodie stuff

Viceland the TV channel is unnerving. Aside from Action Bronson every show sounds the same, every host has the same bored, disaffected tone.

https://news.vice.com/article/were-suing-the-irs-for-audits-of-donald-trumps-tax-returns

since when are personal, private tax returns subject to FOIA requests

VICE is such a shitty, stupid operation

https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/molecular-marijuana/5848830b7d3c36935920d070

Viceland has a weed cooking show. With the most annoying Top Chef contestant on the first episode, they may have reached Peak Vice.

The idea of multi-course edibles meals with THC infused wine is absolutely terrifying to me - edibles are so touchy about dose anyway and wouldn't start to hit until after you were two more courses in.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/how-an-editor-allegedly-used-vice-canada-to-recruit-drug-mules-for-a-global-smuggling-ring

wow

Putting that Murdoch cash to good use.

Uh @VICE not to edit-shame you or anything but the author of this article put herself in the article as a subject pic.twitter.com/YjlRAmNPN7

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) May 19, 2017

hustlin

lmao

Seeing loads of articles about how drinking alcohol and taking drugs are bad for you coming from Vice recently, what's up with that

court mandated following the coke bust

Ahhhh that's interesting

extra lolz

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAM91HTUAAEE1OQ.jpg

o rly

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DANORTuVwAAHndQ.jpg

I know people are tired of VICE, but "Nirvanna The Band The Show" is an excellent mockumentary/sitcom. By that I mean the main actors try to set up a gig at the Rivioli and in the process devise all manners of publicity stunts that involve real citizens/non-actors. It hits a groove by its third episode, but it's a rare Canadian sitcom that is this truly funny or inventive. With 3 seasons planned, I imagine it will gain traction eventually.

Vice Sports shut down today, also Thump, possibly more?

Thump was hit or miss but I'm sad if it's shutting down

I was to understand the Vice empire was worth billions of dollars

Does anyone else have a problem with their pages loading?....maybe I'm better off..

Welp

https://www.thedailybeast.com/unsafe-and-just-plain-dirty-women-accuse-vice-of-toxic-sexual-harassment-culture

the least surprising of all

Nirvanna the band the show is in season 2 and curiously slept on. Mining the early 90s hard (especially 1990-93) for movie/pop culture references, it's a situational comedy like curb in spirit but the mockumentary out-in-the-streets moments make it a thing of its own. Highly recommended

I'm really interested in this show - Ross, should I watch the web series first or start with the first TV series?

fuck these people and their garbage programming

shakey, i understand that sentiment and agree for the most part, but this show is good and just marred by the vice name.

NI - start with the tv series, web series isn't as good or fleshed out, can always go backwards later :)