The Strange Swiss Custom of Dressing Up as a Bush and Throwing Women in Wells
However you spent your weekend, it’s probably safe to say that it didn’t include disguising as a bush, sneaking up on women and dunking them in a nearby well. Unless you happen to live in the Swiss...
View ArticleI Went to the Protest Against London's Anti-Homeless Spikes
On Saturday, a guy named Andrew Horton from Surrey tweeted a picture of some spikes that had been put on the pavement outside some luxury flats in Southwark, to stop homeless people from sleeping...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Stream Junglepussy’s Debut of ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’
The album cover of Satisfaction Guaranteed Early into the second song on Junglepussy’s excellent debut album Satisfaction Guaranteed, she raps, “How dope is this? Teach you how to grow and live.” The...
View ArticleOne for the Road: The Witches and The Pyramids
After meeting the witches of Cividale and their two-man drum team, Pia goes on a tour of the regions' mystical pagan sites, as part of her initiation into the Sisters of Mother Earth order. The...
View ArticleBungalow 89
Painting by Richard Phillips I was in Bungalow 89 of the Chateau Marmont, the old hotel where the stars stay. The hotel is tucked behind a wall, off Sunset Boulevard, just west of Laurel Canyon, right...
View ArticleWhich Team Should You Hate at the World Cup?
(Photo via) Cool Runnings, in case you didn’t have a childhood, is a film about four Jamaican sprinters and one obese American coach who head to the Winter Olympics as the island’s first ever bobsled...
View Article20 Years On, the Prodigy's 'Music for the Jilted Generation' is a Relevant...
20 Years On, the Prodigy's 'Music for the Jilted Generation' is a Relevant Explosion of Madness
View ArticleVICE News: Surrounded by War in Sloviansk
On Sunday, recently elected President Petro Poroshenko vowed he would end two months of fighting with rebels in eastern Ukraine by the end of the week. Last week, however, the Ukrainian army suffered...
View ArticleI Went to a Doomsday Prepper Convention
Before last week, I'd never met a doomsday prepper in person. My entire knowledge of them was culled from stuff like Tremors, Louis Theroux documentaries and that one show on National Geographic where...
View ArticleGround Zero: Journey to Golan
In May of 2013, Syrian rebels took control of the heavily disputed border between Israel and Syria. Seven months later, they were joined by FSA forces from Daraa. In January of 2014, various Islamic...
View ArticleA Funeral for Manuel, 32 Years After the Guatemalan Massacre That Killed Him
On the 14th of May, 1982, Carmen Sánchez Chen left her three-year-old son, Manuel, with a neighbour as she went to bathe in Guatemala's Chixoy River. Two months had passed since Guatemalan soldiers...
View ArticleThese Guys Faked a Wedding to Smuggle Refugees Through Europe to Sweden
Abdullah is a 30-year-old Palestinian from Syria with short black hair, a thin frame and shadows under his eyes. Fleeing from the civil war, he boarded a small fishing boat heading to Libya on the...
View ArticleContra a Copa: the Other Side of Brazil's World Cup (Part 1)
Contra a Copa: the Other Side of Brazil's World Cup (Part 1)
View ArticleMachina's MIDI Jacket Turns Dance Moves into Sound
Machina's MIDI Jacket Turns Dance Moves into Sound
View ArticleFor €250, Tata Will Slap You Until You're Sexy
All photos by Toby Silverman When I arrived at Face Slapping International in San Francisco’s Richmond District, a young Thai couple dressed in eccentric outfits greeted me. The man wore a blazer with...
View ArticleActivists Poured Concrete All Over Some 'Anti-Homeless' Spikes This Morning
The war against London's "anti-homeless" spikes escalated today from sign-waving to radical criminal action. In the small hours of the morning, some activists dressed as builders poured concrete over...
View ArticleRyan McGinley's Advice to Young Photographers: Don't Compete
All photos examples of Ryan McGinley's early work, courtesy of the artist and Team Gallery I didn't go to Parsons's graduation ceremony last month, but people tell me I missed a remarkable...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd: Keith Hufnagel - Part 2
In part two of Keith Hufnagel’s Epicly Later’d, Keith brings his East Coast style to the West. His combination of technical style and a unique ability to ollie big shit leads to a pro spot on Real...
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