Of all the books Vice has put together so far, this has gotta be their most ambitious: a huge (336 pages) oversized (13"x10.5" or so) hardcover collection of (you guessed it!) the most provocative, disgusting and sometimes just beautiful pictures from the...
expand review mag's existence. Hope you got a sturdy coffee table.
Full color, with a combination of glossy and matte paper stocks. The book is divided into six sections: The Magazine (a history of photography in Vice), The Photographers (with brief bios and interviews for each), Photojournalism (aka "the realness"), Fashion (aka "the fakeness"), Music (self-explanatory) and The Photos, which is just that - pictures that speak for themselves with little explanation. If you ever wanted to see a barely conscious Ed Templeton bleeding all over after falling off a halfpipe in France and cracking his head, the effects of Toxic Shock Syndrome, a monkey on stilts, or boobs (plenty of boobs)... believe it or not, the Vice Photo Book has you covered. Recommended.
-Larri Byrd
Trying to write anything funny or cute about this book without reading and digesting every page of it would be a mistake. I can say this: Dear Diary is a totally unique, totally addictive (n.p.i.) little book from Vice contributor Lesley Arfin....
expand review If you're not a regular Vice reader, Dear Diary is where Lesley publishes excerpts from her 13 years of meticulously kept diaries (ages 12 to 25), then responds to each entry with the benefit of hindsight, even interviewing the people she loved / hated / talked shit about in the entries. There are innocent chapters, less innocent chapters, totally fucked up chapters and then some - but Lesley pulls them all off with a tone that's just right, not too serious, not too light. I tried to just do the cursory review-skim of this book but got sucked in and ended up reading half of it at my desk. This hardcover first printing comes with a neat magnetic snap "padlock" on the front, with a cool cover shot from Richard Kern. It's also got pictures throughout (B&W sketches and color photographs) and a foreword from Chloe Sevigny. 288 pages. Recommended. -Chris Lemon-Red
Chris is the perfect anti-hero. He drinks, fucks, and write as much crass stuff as he wants and then gets paid for it. But is he a babbling brook? Hell no! He's more like a creek running through the sleaziest...
expand review parts of America polluted with enough dirt to raise the eyebrows of Larry Flynt, Big Brother, and Vice. In fact, he's the porn reviewer at Vice, and if you've ever read his section, you'll see it has nothing to do with the videos. Instead, every review is like a small piece to a never ending puzzle, which is Chris Nieratko's perverted and adventure-filled life. Overall, he may be brash but his writing is most creative and witty and you will get stuck reading(fans of Bukowski will love this). This book compiles all his reviews to make one helluva concentrated mix. Keep your mom away from this - it's potent stuff. -C'mish
Vice's first installment in their DVD series is nothing short of insane (what would you expect from the dudes at Vice). The series features short documentaries on different themes, and for this one it's travel... to places you would never, ever want...
expand review to go to even if you had to (of course). Think of it as National Geographic on drugs. So Vice sent out correspondents to various strange, and extremely dangerous locales such as Chernobyl, Pakistan, Paraguay, Rio, Beirut, Congo, and Bulgaria - and documented life as it happens and the adventures that occur. The locales and stories are truly eye-openin, fascinating and make you glad you didn't have to go experience it yourself. My boy Dave was one of the "lucky" correspondents and had the pleasure of going to the dark, deep jungles of the Congo to search for Mokele-mbembe (the last living dinosaur). On his hunt, he witnessed mind-reading shamans, pygmys, hooker villages, scorching heat, and other truly bizarre shit. You'll see him take mind altering elixirs, trek through the deepest rain forest, and give interviews while playing his drums with a bunch of naked, ass-shaking prostitutes in the back --- crazyness! But this is just a smidgen of what you get on the DVD - other adventures include chillen in the slums of Rio and going to a Baile Funk party (and getting shot at), meetings with PLO boy scouts and black market nuclear warhead dealers that hang with Osama, and more. Not for those that can't hang with the heavy shit. 7 shorts in all, plus a gang of extras. Presented in a hard cover, 72-page, full color book featuring interviews with the correspondents and pictures from all the weird places. -snackmaster
They should have put this one out first. This book features 260 pages of every single Dos and Don'ts published in Vice magazine plus a bunch of new stuff. The Dos & DonÌts have been running ever since Vice started, and itÌs...
expand review probably the one nail-down asset that has kept them around so long. Ironic anti-politics and hipper than thou guides to life will get you places, but thereÌs nothing like seeing candid pictures of cool people & idiots on the street, accompanied by the best photo captions ever. ItÌs a legitimate phenom. Measure your visual coolness (am I a do or a donÌt? quickly shuffling to the middle of the magazine to find out); laugh at the amazing fashion ineptitude of middle america/canada; ponder the coin toss fate of the ones that could have gone either way....so easy to get stuck in this book, but so amusing. Full color, and the pictures are a lot bigger. Recommended, and with a note on usage: store in the dumpy room so you can savor it longer. -mgmnt
Ahhhh Vice. Regardless of what your disposition is towards their trucker-hat posturing, it gets pretty hard to front on a magazine that consistently comes correct in terms of unique angles and stories, especially at the cover charge of zero dollars. For all...
expand review of you who missed out on any of the past nine years worth, this book basically contains a greatest hits of Vice articles. Everything from the guy who was on acid for a year, to how to go down on your girly and/or shine up your man. Leave it in the loo, and it makes bathroom time supremely fun and entertaining. Your roommates will concoct disturbing reasons for why you are laughing so hard and have been in there for an hour, but you'll be too busy learning how to do it in the butt the right way and how to score free pills to care what they think. 331 fun loving pages true believers, plus the bonus "best of fashion DO's and DON'Ts" photo section that is easily the most excellent part of the whole thing. -mathhead
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