Synchrodogs

Synchrodogs are Ukranian photography duo Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven (pictured above). They've had their high-contrast, colourful and playful work featured in VICE, Harper's Bazaar Ukraine and Brighton's We Are Lucky Zine, amongst others.

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FILM: Project X

Project X is the story of a house party that gets a bit out of hand after an open invitation is posted on Facebook.

To premiere the film, Project X have asked VICE to throw the mother of all house parties. There will be an open bar, live performers and general crazy shit (of which there is a lot), entering your photo gets you in with a chance of winning a ticket to the partIf you're interested, you need to enter the competition by uploading a 'do' or 'dont' photo on the UK Facebook Tab.

Visit the UK Facebook Tab now to upload your image and check out the celebrities VICE interviewed to find out about the wildest party they'd ever been to. You can watch them here, with clips from Snoop Dogg, Tyler the Creator and A-Trak.

Marshall Headphones: On the Road

To celebrate the release of their new headphones line Marshall have taken to the road to explore the roadie lifestyle. They're now on the second series, which is hosted by Tim Harrington of Les Savy Fav and this series sees Tim meeting the unsung heroes of Rock and Roll. In the first episode (below) he meets Pyro Pete. Pyro Pete is, as his name suggests, a pyrotechnic expert but not your average village fireworks display guy! He works with the likes of Kiss, AC/DC and on a lighter note Katy Perry: her display sounds interesting to say the least. 

Check out the first episode and head here to watch the rest of the series. 

Marshall Headphones

Vice

Roseboy and Friends

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VICE has premiered a new documentary on VICE.COM entitled Rose Boy. The documentary short, presented by Billie Porter (Channel 4, Jalouse, NME, Dazed & Confused), explores the concept of celebrity obsession in today’s youth culture, through an exploration of its extremes and margins. Filmed over the course of 2010/11 the film follows four celebrity obsessives to explore their motivations and the highs (and lows) that today’s celebrity culture is able to generate.

The two part documentary is named after Harvii a 12 year old self styled ‘super-fan’ who leapt to his own form of stardom after an image of him attempting to give Megan Fox a Rose went viral. Filmmakers Billie Porter and Jamie Lee Curtis Taete befriended Harvii by accident one evening and felt that he epitomised the zenith of celebrity culture which has overtaken the UK. Rose Boy also follows Danilo, a Brazilian who has moved to the UK in the hope of fulfilling his lifelong dream of meeting all the Spice Girls. Sam, a La Roux obsessive who has changed his image and name in the singers honour and finally 40 year old Steve who has covered his body in celebrity tattoos ranging from Shania Twain to his latest Billy Connolly as he goes in search of Billy to sign his latest artwork.

Duck and Cover competition.

Duck and Cover, the brand named after the 1950's American government's advice on what to do in the event of a nuclear bomb, are searching for their new campaign model in a different way.

Instead of hiring a professional, these guys are holding a competition called "We Want Your Face". The winner will receive £1000 in cash, £1000 Duck and Cover apparel and will get to see his face all over the internet and a million magazines.

It's not all for boys either! The female winner will be styled and photographed by the VICE Style team and featured in an editorial for VICE magazine.
Interested? Then please enter here.

Daisy Lowe Xperia in association with VICE.

On the 14th September the wonderful Daisy Lowe allowed a camera to provide a glimpse into her daily life. To celebrate the launch of the new Xperia ray - HD smartphone from Sony Ericson. A series of three short films were created alongside VICE.

Sony Ericsson's Facebook page will also host an exclusive fly on the wall photo series of Miss. Lowe's day, all shot by photographer Ben Rayner using his Xperia.

VICE.com Launch Party

We went, we saw and we conquered the open bar. VICE's launch party for vice.com made the area outside Factory 7 on Thursday look like a Zimbabwean petrol queue: filled with pretty, sharply-dressed people, of course. If you were there, we can assume you had as awesome a time as we did to the tunes of Tom Vek, Factory Floor and the DJs' sets.

I asked for funny faces: well done, boys

The combination of free drinks, a Boinc-sponsored photobooth and debauchery starting at about 8:30pm shaped up to a night of mischief and giggles. And one thing we learned from an awesome girl named Dora (shout out!): if you don't ask for the free unlisted champagne, you don't get it. Life lessons, people.

Big thanks to VICE, Kate at VICE for being a total sweetheart and all the organisers of the night. We can safely say it was a success.

Photos by Tshepo Mokoena

VICE.com Slash You

Well, it looks like the whole Christmas-come-early feeling at VICE isn't dying down any time soon. They're asking readers to tell them exactly what you think of the mag and site, in 50 characters or less, then to make one of these pictures about it (d'you like ours?).

We're pretty sure ours breaks one of the sub-clauses about not championing an illegal activity or something, but what's done is done. Let VICE know just what you think about them and their fave entry will win a double-page spread feature in the next issue, a 5-year subscription to the mag and be part of an ad campaign. This is probably more excitement than any URL name change has garnered, ever.

Head to VICE.com/you to add your caption to the mix, then fingers crossed: you could be reading VICE when you're like 27 if you win.

Comp closes on Friday, September 30th

Win VICE.com Launch Party Tickets

Well, congrats are in order to our pals over at VICE: they finally got their domain name back from the creepy porn site that used to own it. Calls for a party, no?

It calls for a mega-party, in fact. Now that VICE have bid a fond farewell to Viceland.com, they're taking over an East London warehouse space for a ridiculous-sounding night next Thursday (September 22nd). The wondrous Tom Vek, Factory Floor and Iceage are already confirmed on the bill, with DJs playing til the lights come up at 1am.

They'll be giving away free tickets to the party here soon, so keep checking back to get the chance to party it up with us. See you then.

WIN Tickets to Puma x Vice x The Warehouse Project event.

Live in Manchester? Love live music then enter this competion with Puma, Vice & The Warehouse Project to grab yourself a season ticket, giving you entry to every single Warehouse Project event of this series for you and one friend.

Let us know if you enter! Good luck. x

Hayley Brown for VICE.

'get over it' editorial for vice style.

Lovebox Festival

Spank Rock.

High Rankin.

With massive thanks to VICE for providing us with tickets for Friday's line up of goodness. Featuring acts such as Beardyman, Ms Dynamite, High Rankin, Skream, Roll Deep and loads more. Our faves of the day must of been Spank Rock over in the VICE arena and Skream who were on the Rinse stage. The only problem of the day was wondering where Flying Lotus got to...? As we waited for them after Spank Rank we were subjected to some pumpin' beats but then it was clear there was a problem and we went outside to meet Yani from Big Eyes Little Soles and her boyo Andrew from Better Never Than Late...We saw the crowds sifting out of the venue and still no one knows what happened!? UPDATE: So, on the Lovebox Facebook page people are FUMING because the security stopped Flying Lotus due to the tent being too packed - then why let SO many people in...?

 

Saturday filled us with De La Soul, Snoop Dogg - who to our delight played Regulate!, London Elecktricity, High Contrast, Santigold and loads more! The mud was a bit of a nightmare but at least by the time we got there the rain had gone.

Sunday, literally brilliant. Jodie Harsh (our new favourite women, you'll love her too if you love Amanda Lepore, Party Monster, party party bangin' beats), Blondie, Kelis, 2 Many DJ's. The mud got worse but the people there got better! All in all a wonderful time and def on our list for next year.





Did you go? Who were your favourite acts?

1-2-3-4 Shoreditch Festival x Noisey

Right. So the Dream Team has arrived: Vice's new music platform Noisey is partnering with 1-2-3-4 Festival in Shoreditch Park on July 9th. They're taking over the main stage for a day of incredible music from the likes of The Raveonettes, The Black Lips and legendary Lydia Lunch (alliteration much?). As you can see below, bands like Echo Lake, Stay + (ex-Christian Aids) and Becoming Real are all gonna play too.

Super-cheap tickets are still going (thanks, Noisey) for £19.50. Jump on it. It's going to be an awesome day. Find out more here.

Interview: Karley Sciortino

For this interview installment, we got together with Karley Sciortino, the mind behind Slutever, a blog primarily focusing on the darker aspects of sex that aren't necessarily discussed over lunch with your mother. Sciortino also contributes articles to Vice, Dazed and Confused and Interview Magazine.

Firstly, what would you say is the point of Slutever? (Would you say that the point of it has changed since you started it?)

I definitely think the point has changed. When I started the blog in the summer of 2007, the intention was mainly to keep a written record of my life. At the time I was living in a squatted, abandoned hostel in London with 12 other people--all of us in our early 20s. It was the sort of house where it wasn’t out of the ordinary to come home to a living room full of naked people on DMT performing masturbation rituals, or a homeless Romanian family baking bread in the kitchen. Like literally, both of those things happened. So I started writing the blog mainly to document all the weird/hilarious/gross stuff that went on in the house. But as time went by, and as my daily life has become less “crazy” (i.e. I now live in a normal apartment, no longer eat out of garbage bins, and only sleep with one person), Slutever has evolved into what I like to think of as an investigation into modern sexual behavior. It’s more interview based now, less about me, and more about exploring SEX in general. Like I recently shadowed a dominatrix for a week, for example, and yesterday I interviewed a middle aged married woman who is a sex slave to a quadriplegic. That’s cumming soon...

You expose some pretty dark stuff on your site. This is mainly an issue for social theory, but do you think reporting things like licking alien bodily fluids off of someone else’s boots, or snorting ketamine while engaging in group sex influences the perspectives of people who follow your updates?

You mean people’s perspective on life in general? Well, I hope so! Sex is really weird and complicated, which isn’t something that’s necessarily taught to us growing up, so talking openly and realistically about all the dark, strange stuff we’re into helps us to better understand our sexual desires and experiences. I think a lot of things that are commonly perceived as being abnormal or “taboo” are actually pretty common. We’re all freaks on the inside.

You’re cute. I know that people are under the illusion that that’s down to opinion, but my opinion is gospel. Do you think people would have as much interest in your site and stories if they were written by some balding sweaty fat fuck with a bad rash?
Thanks! (*wink*) Hmm, I hope they would! Actually, I rarely put photos of myself on my blog. It’s only recently, since I’ve gotten into making little video diaries, that I’ve been more visually featured on Slutever. So I think it’s possible that in the past some readers didn’t even know what I looked like. But if people come to the site just to check out my boobs, I don’t really mind that either.

I just finished reading your post on female ejaculation. You tackle a lot of subjects that people keep their top button done up about, and with a frank honesty, even if that means, such as this case, that you know little about it. What gives you the courage to be that honest about the mysteries still surrounding sex?

Well (as I’m sure you know) the thing about writing is, it’s a very solitary experience. It’s not scary or embarrassing for me to write a blog about my masturbation habits from the privacy of my own bedroom, just like it’s not scary or embarrassing to write in a diary. And after I put a blog out there into the internet realm, I basically never think about it again. So it’s not very courageous really. It’s only on very rare occasions that the over-sharing gets a little weird, like the other day, for example, when my seventh grade teacher sent me a Facebook message saying that she and some of the other teachers at my junior high have been reading my blog, and find it “entertaining in a twisted sorta way.” That was a little too real for me.

If your views on sex were put on a compass similar to the one used to label people politically, there is no doubt you’d be on the far left. This extreme view leads to some interesting debates: when is the age of consent for you? Are there any particular acts that you don’t agree with ethically, or wouldn’t consider for your site?

Well, obviously in America the age of consent is 18, which admittedly I think is a bit old. In the UK it’s 16, which seems more realistic. These cases of a 20 year old boy being charge with statutory rape for sleeping with a 17 year old girl seem a bit crazy. It’s just all relative. Sure, I think 17 yr old boys are beautiful sometimes, but I don’t want to sleep with a 17 yr old. I’m 25, so we’d be missing that needed “connection”, or whatever cheesy word you want to use. I don’t really understand why anyone wants to sleep with kids. They’re clearly bad in bed.

As for ethics, as long as a sex act is consensual on both parts, I’m not really one to judge. Incest is a specific topic I’m kind of interested in, but I’ve yet to really talk about it because it’s a hard topic to breach without sounding “too much”. I do think it’s kind of hot though, in a Dreamers sort of way. Although I don’t want to fuck my brother. But I wouldn’t be opposed to watching someone else fuck their brother, for example. At least I think anyway.

I’m completely straight, but I kind of think your brother is hot (I saw a picture of him on the internet; don’t forget how creepy the internet can let people be). How do you take the uses and contradictions of ‘sexual labels’ such as ‘straight’, ‘bi-curious’, etc.?

I think using sexual labels is fine, if only for that it helps us to communicate and understand each other. I say that I’m bisexual because it’s easier than being like “Well... I’m mainly straight but sometimes I like to have sex with girls, but I’ve never been in a relationship with a girl, but I’m not ruling out the possibility... blah blah blah.” But I also think it’s fine to be sexually fluid, and not self-identify as any specific sexual orientation. I mean... whatever, right?


But as for you wanting to do it with my brother, well, it’s very rare for a person to fall on a far side of the Kinsey scale--most of us are somewhere in the middle--so I don’t think it’s abnormal to be “completely straight” and have the occasional homosexual leaning. Most people have the potential to be sexually attracted to both genders, for sure.

Check out Slutever right now; remember, it's probably NSFW! Cheers Karley!

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