AUSTRALIA - AN APPLE A DAY PART 5

The 5th and final apple in our 5 Seeds Apple a Day series comes courtesy of Estelle Deve - a French artist and jewellery designer now living in Melbourne. Estelle's new collection is really crazy and beautiful and made from tan leather, gold and pewter. This is a special one-off piece she made for us with an apple and lots of expensive gold leaf. She also...

AUSTRALIA - AN APPLE A DAY PART 4

Apple number four in our 5 Seeds Apple a Day series is a collaboration between artist Brett Chan and his Indonesian Muslim Rasta DJ friend DiDi. Brett Chan is a pro skater, artist, filmmaker and all-round champion. Didi has the longest dreadlocks we've ever seen, plays righteous dub and reggae, is a cracking chef and an accomplished airbrush artist. Brett said that handing...

AUSTRALIA - AN APPLE A DAY PART 3

Apple number three in our 5 Seeds Apple a Day series was drawn by Kevina Jo-Smith. Kevina draws, constructs, designs and paints cute things from an artist-run space which she set up in Sydney called Brethren Just Below...

AUSTRALIA - AN APPLE A DAY PART 2

Apple number two in our 5 Seeds Apple a Day series was donated by our local fruit shop guy, who also happens to be an aspiring sculptor. You've probably never given much thought to the little stickers on every apple you've ever bought but he sure has. You see this sticker holds information, not only about the price of the apple, but also...

AUSTRALIA - AN APPLE A DAY PART 1

We don't mind the occasional cider. It reminds us of those early years when we were still finding our drinking feet. Tooheys Extra Dry 5 Seeds is a brand new cider on shelves just in time for summer. To celebrate its launch, we've asked five friends/contributors to make an apple inspired piece of art each, one for each day this week.

AUSTRALIA - FIND APPLES, WIN TICKETS

5 Seeds Cider is giving Viceland readers the chance to win a double pass to Stereosonic in the city of your choice. This year's lineup features The Bloody Beetroots, Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Tim Sweeny (DFA), Cut Copy DJs, Grafton Primary and The Cobrasnake.

LONDON - WHATEVER, MR. VERSATILITY!

After a Canadian intern turned her insides upside-down in search of a world record we asked our UK interns why they weren't as committed. They came back with this.

Ashrita Furman (born Keith Furman) happens to be the guy who holds the Escherian record for holding the most records in the Guinness Book of Records. He began his record-breaking record-breaking career after meeting his inner spirit while riding a bike non-stop for 24 hours (he’s a devout follower of the Indian mystic Sri Chinmoy), and has kept on breaking records in order to “inspire” normal people to find their very own inner spirit. He currently holds 98 records and habitually demands people to refer to him as Mr. Versatility. We decided to fuck with Ashrita Furman in the only way that Ashrita Furman can be seriously fucked with: we set out to break some of his records. And then laugh in his face.

LONDON - POP vs. LOVE

Fashion in the UK has been split in two. Over here you can't get much nearer to style's summit than new mega-zines LOVE (which is on its second issue) and the newly relaunched POP. The latest issues of both magazines came out within days of each other and everyone is trying to work out which is best. See, Katie Grand, editor of LOVE, used to edit POP, and when she left, rumour quickly spread that working for POP from now on meant you would be banned from working for LOVE. Now, only someone with truly enormous fashion balls or nothing to lose would be willing to risk a clash with Katie's untouchable in-crowd, so enter Katie's old boss and POP co-founder, Ashley Heath. Heath was forced out of POP by the corporate types years ago, and so being asked back to rescue the title must taste sweet.

US VS UK: LET'S SETTLE THIS

Hi. I basically hate everyone in and from the UK except for the few relatives who married into my family, about three friends, and Led Zeppelin (oh well, it's true). This includes some people in the UK VICE office, and at the top of my list used to be my fellow online editor Alex Miller, killer of deer and smasher of my productive work days. You may think we're all one big lovingly dysfunctional family around here, and usually we are, but every once in a while some nasty beef emerges from the molten pit of the earth that no amount of supervisor mediation can squash. That was a joke--you really think we have supervisor mediation around here? Andy Capper, who's Alex's boss, offered to set up a boxing ring for us if I wanted to come to London. When I found out Alex was coming to the States on one of his many leaves from office (how the fuck does that guy get so many vacation days?), I challenged him to an obstacle course. We really needed to settle, for once and for all, who was better: me or him, aka the US or the UK.

LONDON - SYMMETRY, DENSITY, BALANCE: AN AFTERNOON WITH THE ADONIS OF DALSTON

Building the body beautiful requires total dedication. It is a constant pre-occupation, a quasi-religious quest for physical perfection that consumes every aspect of your life. Bodybuilding is the fashion that happens before clothes. In fact, for bodybuilders, most clothing, although incredibly stylized for the gym or competition, is merely a distraction from the main event: a fucking massive, shiny, hard body made up of cement-like muscle balloons. We spent a gym session with Lucas Queiroz, a runner-up in the esteemed Mr. Titan body building contest, at his local gym in Dalston to see if we too could be infected by his zeal for the ultimate male form.