From: VBS TV on Fri, Jul 15 2011 7:18 PM

Animal Collective chose the noise rock band, Black Dice, to create a 70-minute visual experience for their Coachella set—their largest show to date. Using everything from old movie clips to simple splashes of color, Black Dice created both the organic and fluid lo-fi projections that made up the...

From: VBS TV on Thu, Jul 14 2011 5:00 PM

Part One of Tattoo Age finds us at Smith Street Tattoo Parlor getting to know Dan Santoro, along with his shop-mates Bert Krak, Steve Boltz, and Eli Quinters. Dan takes a nostalgic view on how destiny landed him at Smith Street, and what a person can expect to find if they enter this ha...

From: VBS TV on Thu, Jun 30 2011 1:59 PM

Tattoo Age is the new series that takes an inside look at the craft of tattooing through a series of profiles on some of the most interesting and sought-after artists in the world. The series kicks off on July 13th with Dan Santoro, and new episodes featuring such artists as Troy Dennin...

From: VBS TV on Wed, Jun 22 2011 12:57 PM

Animal Collective chose the noise rock band, Black Dice, to create a 70-minute visual experience for their Coachella set—their largest show to date. Using everything from old movie clips to simple splashes of color, Black Dice created both the organic and fluid lo-fi projections that made up the...

From: VBS TV on Thu, Jun 16 2011 4:17 PM

Film director Barney Clay teams up with the most iconic rock photographer of our time, Mick Rock, to uncover and remix Rock’s classic footage of David Bowie’s music video for “Life On Mars.” Choosing this particular video for “its iconic, pure, simple, and memorable qualities,” the duo began to ...

From: VBS TV on Wed, Jun 15 2011 2:54 PM

In this fourth episode of Picture Perfect, VICE visits Vincent Fournier in Paris to discuss his distinct style that merges fantasy with reality in photographs of rockets, otherworldly landscapes, research facilities, and cosmonauts. We then travel with Fournier to the NASA Kennedy Space...

From: VBS TV on Sat, Jun 11 2011 8:20 AM

Mike Brown is a tattoo artist who, if you know your history, always comes up when people talk about those who pioneered tattooing in the late 1970s.  He worked at China Sea (formerly owned by Sailor Jerry), ground zero for traditional American tattoos, and at the birthplace for black grey penite...

From: VBS TV on Sat, Jun 11 2011 8:19 AM

There are a couple of ways you can look at traditional tattooing. If you’re Japanese, you might think of the large koi fish or dragons that typically adorn the bodies of your local crime syndicate. Or you could imagine the tats seen on sailors in old cartoons, where most of the images comprise o...

From: VBS TV on Thu, Jun 09 2011 5:28 AM

AntiVJ is a collective of French experimental artists who share the common goal of extending web-based visual technology outside the confines of our square screens. In building the blueprints for dynamic concert projections in warehouses and cathedrals, AntiVJ repurposes software and technology ...

From: VBS TV on Thu, Jun 09 2011 5:28 AM

The Kuchars’ Room 666 was funded by VICE because we wanted to produce a documentary about the brothers working collaboratively, which hasn’t happened in decades. Here it is in full. Enjoy.

From: VBS TV on Wed, Jun 08 2011 5:09 AM

George and Mike Kuchar are preternatural fraternal twins who have been making oddly amazing motion pictures for over 50 years. Their work has consistently defied the film industry’s staid standards of aesthetics, plot, acting, direction, production, and when it’s appropriate to show a 65-year-ol...

From: VBS TV on Thu, Jun 02 2011 7:50 PM

Move quickly through the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, down the main thoroughfare Eastern Parkway, past a conflicting intermingling of beautiful terraced homes and marred vacant buildings, and you could easily miss a modern cultural landmark. Hidden in plain sight, packed inside a shuf...

From: VBS TV on Wed, Jun 01 2011 5:45 PM

In the third episode of Picture Perfect, Vice meets up with Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra in Utrecht, the Netherlands. There, we discuss his advocacy for slow journalism and the genesis of his ongoing Sochi Project.

From: VBS TV on Thu, May 26 2011 1:58 AM

The third episode of Picture Perfect premieres May 31st.

From: VBS TV on Wed, May 18 2011 8:05 PM

Ludovic Houplain co-founded the design collective H5 just as multimedia artists found at-home accessibility to groundbreaking technology. The collective’s small scale and experimental approach led the firm to visually capture the beginning of the “French Touch” dance music movement, making music...

From: VBS TV on Fri, May 06 2011 3:01 PM

UK-based visual artist and filmmaker Davide Quagliola (aka Quayola) likes to deconstruct architecture and historic artworks, rebuilding them to form the basis of his video pieces. He reveals the painter who’s been his biggest source of inspiration, talks us through clips of his Strata series—whi...

From: VBS TV on Mon, Apr 04 2011 4:54 PM

On the eve of Superjail’s second season, we sit with show creator and animation genius Christy Karacas to bathe in the wonder of his being.

From: VBS TV on Thu, Mar 24 2011 1:04 AM

We visit Stefan Ruiz at his studio in Brooklyn, New York where we talk about hoarding, portraiture, and his career as one of the best photographers around. We then go on assignment with him to Monterrey where an urban subculture of “Cholombianos” are so inspired by the Colombian culture that pa...

From: VBS TV on Thu, Mar 10 2011 4:27 AM

This December at Art Basel Miami Beach, the premiere art show in the United States, FriendsWithYou unveiled Rainbow City, a 40 piece environmental installation addressing the potency of interaction, ritual and play.

From: VBS TV on Thu, Mar 10 2011 4:27 AM

This December at Art Basel Miami Beach, the premiere art show in the United States, FriendsWithYou unveiled Rainbow City, a 40 piece environmental installation addressing the potency of interaction, ritual and play.