VBS - STELARC'S SCREWED-UP ART BODY

Stelarc is a Greek weirdo who lives in Australia and uses medical equipment, prosthetic limbs, electrodes, virtual-reality systems, endoscopy, and crazy cyborgian human-internet connections to produce shows that fuses the lines between art, performance art, body art, and some kind of futuristic Skinny Puppy electronics trade fair. VBS dropped in to get his thoughts on the present state of transhumanism and see what abominations of biological science he’s been working on lately.
Oh, and he also has a human ear grafted onto his arm.

VBS - WEEK ONE OF NEWNESS

Have you been taking note of what’s going on over VBS at this past week? Besides looking all snazzy in its new black satin duds, the blog’s had some quality reading largely in the form of tracking the Falcon folklore of Damanhur. Let's recap...

NEW YORK - SHANE WAS ON CBS IN THE WEE HOURS OF THIS MORNING

Look who was on Normal People Who Have Jobs TV this morning? Our own boss guy Shane Smith got up early to discuss current events and his adventures in journalism with the scaries and the scared in North Korea, where he and the rest of the crew snuck a camera in for the Vice Guide to North Korea. He says they were "really terrified of getting caught. And it's not like getting caught in Iraq or Afghanistan, or taking a stray bullet. You know you're gonna go away and go away for a long time." If you click down there you can watch him say that last quote (and more).

NEW YORK - GO SEE RICHARD KERN TONIGHT TOO

After you're done checking out the Rene Ricard exhibit, and we mean actually pausing for more than three seconds to look at what's on the walls (for crying out loud, dipshits, is free wine seriously that important in your life?), head on over to Rental for a Richard Kern retrospective. It's all pre-00s photos, the now-iconic stuff from 1980 to 1999 that really made people have a heart attack in their undies back then (you see girls on the street now wearing less clothes). The monthly magazine shoots and the Shot by Kern VBS show he does for us now all comes from somewhere, so go educate yourself about or revisit what solidified Kern's status as a guy who knows what we all want to see.

AUSTRALIA - 3 BEERS TO GO

It's the half way point of the 6 Beers of Separation series but we’ve been following the challenge since the beginning. Vice office favourite Oliver is finally getting things right. This is a little bittersweet as we sort of like him better when he's screwing everything up (check episode 2 to see him die completely at a standup show in Vegas). Perhaps his strategy of using his 6 Beers budget to fund his own comedy gigs will actually pay off.  Though, how it will help him meet his comedy hero Will Arnett is beyond us.

THE INTERNET - A GRACIOUS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

Remember that whole "Vote for Epicly Later'd, it's up for a Webby" campaign we lightly annoyed you with here for about a month? Well, we got it. Take it away, Patrick O'Dell...

I don't know what to say about this Webby Award really, but Vice asked me to write an acceptance speech. So uhh, thanks to the Webby Academy or whatever. Thanks to Jesus, Jereme, Gargoyinging, Claus Grabke and all my die-hard fucking fans. Also I want to rub it the face of ESPN, Play.com, and the Peyton Manning Promo, who were also up in the same category as me. You guys are really awesome, but I guess this proves that I'm a little awesomer. Oh, and the category was "Best in Sports Online Shorts" (or something)--isn't that some shit? At least it wasn't "Extreme Sports," because I would have vomited a little bit. I don't know anything about sports, it's a big blind spot I have. I always forget to care so this is an ironic win for me. And I say "I" and "me" because this award is not for Lauren Cynamon, Chris Grosso, Kelly Hudson, or anyone else at VBS that didn't have anything to do with it. Also, this has nothing to do with the skaters who agreed to be subjected to my awesome interviewing, 'cause in a way I made their careers. So anyway, I'll be seeing all you guys from the Webbys winners circle.

THE INTERNET - WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND HERE TODAY

If you have less pipes you can have more drugs. This is one of many priceless bits of wisdom regarding the framework for subaqueous drug trafficking, able to be gleaned from watching the new show on Motherboard today. It’s the video elaboration of Today’s Featured Story--like how we make that nice and easy for you, further deepening upon the internet the imprint of the laggard and incurious? At least you we’re not adding “information deficiency” to the list of maladies. In that spirit, do you know today is Star Wars Day? Yeah, we don’t fucking care either, it’s just a lame excuse to remind you of our Sabersegging story in the Technology Issue and its corresponding show on VBS.

THE INTERNET - LAST CALL ON THE CLICKING

We're not even going to pretend like we're simply mentioning that there's a new episode of Epicly Later'd while coyly mentioning that it's been nominated for a People's Choice Webby in the sports category, which is what we've done the last two weeks. This is a transparent declamation that if you're a human who's ever heard about skateboarding or Patrick O'Dell, you should go vote for us. Ballot-casting ends today at midnight New York time, so go ahead and knock yourself out clicking at 11:59 PM--there's nothing like the exhilaration of the last second to really put the thrill in a task--but just make sure you do it.

THE INTERNET - A CASUAL REMINDER

While you were moseying over to VBS to watch how to gleefully blow shit up and then get your one-armed ticket to jail (seriously, how many times do we have to tell you people not to actually do this stuff, even though it looks incredibly instructional?), you might've happened to see the new episode of Epicly Later'd, which goes more in-depth into Guy Mariano's periods. Not like that--what the hell is the matter with you? Anyway, while we're talking about the show, we're going to remind you that it's up for a Webby, specifically the People's Voice award in the Sports category in Online Film and Video. If you haven't voted for it yet, you can do that here.

VBS - FROM THE PAGES OF VICE

You've read the story (or if you haven't do so immediately) about testing our various recipes from The Anarchist Cookbook, and now you can watch an instructional video detailing the entire process from the inception of the article to swirling together some napalm. Today marks the premiere of VBS's new series From the Pages of Vice, a sort of behind-the-scenes look at how our magazine articles come to fruition. Keep reading for Associate Editor Rocco Castoro's reasoning behind forging insurance papers and putting a bunch of people he barely knows in a situation involving shrapnel.