The ultimate hipster-anti-coolness-nerdy-kid-cool mag that simply kicks some serious free magazine ass. This high quality monthly glossy magazine is distributed in cool shops and cafes in some 15 countries around the world.
Founded in Montreal ,Quebec by Suroosk Alvi,Shane Smith and Gavin Mcinnes, the magazine was launched as the Voice of Montreal in 1994 with government funding to provide work and a community service. The guys decided to cut the government out and moved to New York in 1996, and lash out some white suburban angst on the world, in a most ironic way.
The content of the magazine is always known to be on the, "edgy" side to put it mildly blunt.
However it never misses the mark and always provides me with the type of laughter that has me typing LOL! LOL! on my msn.
Articles, such as The Vice Guide to Shagging Muslims and Bukkake On My Face: Welcome to the Ancient Tradition of the Japanese Facial have gotten the magazine being banned from a number of university campuses in the States
. The magazine is also famous for the extremly harsh "DOs and DONTs", section which has since been imitated by countless other magazines. The feature displays candid photographs of strangers in public places accompanied with a short piece of commentary either ridiculing or praising the person's fashion and perceived sensibility, although some DOs and DON'Ts don't comment seriously on fashion, preferring to couple unusual photos with absurd text to create a joke. We love it.
Vice has strong ties with hipster icons such as photographers Terry Richardson, Patrick O'dell, (their former photo editor), clothing line American Apparel (owned by the founders), and comedians such as Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman and David Cross. Vbs.tv, Vice's new "television" channel, is available for viewing on the internet, with the apparent intention of circumventing network intervention over content issues and allowing for a global, free of charge distribution plan to that of the magazine.
Vice's issues are usually devoted to one theme (e.g., "The Comics Issue," "The Iraq Issue") but, in 2007, Vice announced: "After umpteen years of putting out what amounted to a reference book every month, we started to get bored with it. Besides, too many other magazines have ripped it and started doing their own lame take on themes. So we're going to do some issues, starting now, that have whatever we feel like putting in them."
Vice is more than just a funny butt-fucking joke, as every issue centers amongst a series of articles with substance on topics you never knew existed. Vice never gets old, never goes mainstream, and never compromises it's humor.
http://www.viceland.com/index_int.php?country=uk
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