The lovely Adam Goldberg, perhaps my favorite famous Jew these days, took some time out of his life to take Vice on a video tour of his least favorite things about Los Angeles. Among them: his own cul-de-sac, where Rihanna’s violent boyfriends often stir up trouble, just about every dining establishment in Silver Lake, and the house of a buddy who doesn’t button his shirt up high enough. Good stuff… Read more »
While some artists prefer public memorials to SACE, spraypainting his name and face across buildings and rooftops, others prefer more private, haunting tributes. Collage artist Mario Zoots gouged out Dash Snow’s face as it appeared on a recent issue of Vice.
Image by Mario Zoots
Alex Pareene ventured out of Brooklyn for the exotic Upper East Side and survived to write about it. It’s a humorous tale and timely too: Kate Ahlborn just made her return to Vanity Fair, 7 weeks after her Brooklyn blogging disaster. |Vice|
On Halloween, I had lunch with Imp and Aloha from Stereo Hell and they told me that American Apparel had contacted them and that an ad was being prepared for the November Vice magazine. And here it is (see it big HERE), on the back page! It’s a sort of an advertorial with a selection of AA’s favorite fake AA guerrilla pieces from the last year (including one of my favorites, “Dildo Dov“); pieces that turned out to be expert Photoshops not physical street art posters. So: the art/ad/commerce circle has been completed, digital has become print, virtual has become real. This leaves me feeling a bit melancholy. I’ve been a fan of this starkly pornographic, red-on-white send-up movement, from the early super-sexual pieces to the later crazy pop art pranks. I guess my only question is: what took American Apparel so long?
As if one LES wasn’t obnoxious enough, the masters of self deprecation, Vice, have launched a hybrid Second Life-like/MySpace-ish LES world: VLES. If this were really some sort of comical micro site it would make sense, but by the looks of this thing, these dues mean business. So if you can’t be the coolest kid below Houston in real life, go ahead and take a crack at it with your VLES virtual identity.
Second Life LES Launched; No Room for Chrystie St. | Curbed|
VLES |www.vles.com|
Technically, the guys at Vice are way better at making fun of retards then us, but we couldn’t resist Life Goes On’s very own Corky spasming to Public Enemy’s ‘Fight the Power.” Secretly we’re hoping to raise awarness about America’s most famous downsyndromed hip hopper and see if he can get a reality show. Afterall, Flavor Flav is basically a black Corky with gold teeth.
(raspect Peter Dean)
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