JERRY HSU BONUS ROUND
September 10, 2009
by MATT EVS
Epicly Later'd Season Two
Wassup y’all. My name is Matt. I’m a little skateboarder grommet from San Jose. I’m the guy that MJ was referring to when he was talking about that one guy that pissed on the ledge in that one episode of Epicly Later’d that you probably missed. Unfortunately, I got old. Somewhere along the way (or somehow along the way) I lost a lot of friends. Patrick O’Dell won’t even deal with me anymore. He now has some guy named “Chris” constantly bother me via instant message over footage rights for shit I filmed back when I was younger and had cool friends. I used to kick it with Jerry Hsu back in the day. We used to ride skateboards together and dream of making it bigtime. Well, that’s why Vice loves him and not me: He made it to cooldom while I stalled out at “bitter old fuck.” Oh well. Thems the breaks.
VEIN CITY 1-2-3-4!
August 14, 2009
by FAYANN SMITH
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 stylised for the gym or competition, is merely a distraction from the main event: a fucking massive, shiny, hard body made up of cement balloons. We spent a gym session with Lucas Queiroz, a runner-up in the esteemed Mr Titan body building contest, at his local gym, Kings in Dalston, to see if we too could be infected by his zeal for the ultimate male form.
GOODBYE ANDY KESSLER
August 13, 2009
by CHRIS NIERATKO
Epicly Later'd
On Monday, August 10th, the skateboard community lost another icon, and many of us lost a very good, very kind, solid friend. OG NYC skateboarder Andy Kessler was stung by a wasp and died. I have very little to say about this. I still cannot believe it’s real. When I found out, I was walking out the door with my wife to see the OBGYN for our weekly visit leading up to our baby being born. The extreme emotions of anticipation of life and sadness of death floored me and made me vomit.
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A MESSAGE FROM STEPHEN LEA SHEPPARD, HOST AND CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF THE GAMING HOUR
August 10, 2009
by STEPHEN LEA SHEPPARD
Motherboard
Anybody who knows anything about my acting history knows I don’t actually care about acting much. It’s not that I don’t care for it—of all the jobs I’ve ever had, it’s probably my favorite, and not just because acting for Hollywood entitles one to ridiculous paychecks. (I say “probably” because I like writing a lot, too. Like all people who were picked on as children, I’m a huge megalomaniac, and so love garnering praise for my intellectual output. On top of that I always found acting more like being the director’s modeling tool.) But I never put much effort into acting—I was first cast as Harris in Freaks & Geeks while attending an open casting call on a whim, one I almost didn’t attend because it felt like a waste of a day (seriously, you know who gets cast in those things? Nobody, that’s who). Then I was cast as Dudley in The Royal Tenenbaums on the strength of my F&G performance. Essentially, I fell backwards into the profession. And then I fell out again, because, as it turns out, I suck at playing anyone other than myself.
WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?
August 07, 2009
by VBS Staff
Epicly Later'd
A mysterious box arrived at the VBS office this afternoon. Anybody care to wager on its contents?
GORE AND CRUELTY AT THE MARTHA'S VINEYARD SHARK TOURNAMENT (KIDDING, KIDDING - IT'S FINE)
July 28, 2009
by EMILY DIAMOND
Last Saturday I was sprayed with shark blood in the name of sportsmanship and science. And money, too. The 23rd annual Martha’s Vineyard Shark Tournament brought in 130 boats at $1,500 a piece from all over the east coast. Friday and Saturday they scooted 15 miles off shore to hook the monsters in hopes of attaining alluring prizes like another boat or cash. For the scientists that collect information and the shark’s organs and ’nads, the tournament is a field day of data. Only two boats sunk on Friday due to the ten-foot seas, but Saturday was calmer and I documented the glory on shore in sunny Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.
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BEAUTY & THE BEAST PART 2 1/2
July 14, 2009
by CHRIS GROSSO
Epicly Later'd Season Two
Here’s a little clip Spike shot during the Girl and Antihero tour to tide you over until episode three on Thursday. When you’re traveling with as many people as we were with there is always something good going on besides skating. At this park Tony Miorana and Frank Gerwer were occupying themselves by trying to surf John Cardiel’s bike in the parking lot. Both them were pretty good at it, but things took a turn for the awesome when Frank decided to switch gears to wind-surfing. Even though he’s just fucking around, it’s still pretty impressive on a totally non-homoerotic male athleticism level.
EPICLY LATERD'S BROOKINGS PILGRIMAGE
July 09, 2009
by CHRIS GROSSO
Epicly Later'd Season Two
Today was the first day of actual skating on the tour. The first park we went to was just a place to get loose, the second was a bust, but the third ended up being perfect. While we were at the swimming spot, someone mentioned we were heading to someplace called Brookings. I’m not that familiar with Oregon skate parks by name, but when we rolled in I instantly recognized it as the site of Cardiel’s bs 360 off the ski-jump-type thing from Cash Money Vagrant. I’m the kind of person who goes to a city and sneaks off by myself to check out “skate tourist” spots and think, “Wow, wouldn’t it be cool if so and so was here trying this?” This was pretty similar, except that every so and so actually was here. It was a skate-nerd dream come true.
CRICKET IS A THING PEOPLE PLAY
July 08, 2009
by TERRY HAND
Rule Britannia
- Reuters
in honor of something we’ve never heard of called The Ashes, somebody in the Vice UK office put together a ridiculously exhaustive explanation of the British Isles’ national ball-and-stick sport: Reverse Baseball. We think it’d be pretty rude of you not to read it considering all the effort and sentences that went into writing it, but as an added incentive I’ll send a mix CD of 1980s English fag-rock to the first three people to email me with the name of the guy who spent his childhood throwing golf balls at a water butt. It’s in the middle of the piece, so don’t think you can just skip to the end or anything. You people, I swear.
HI SHREDABILITY HEADS NORTH BY NORTHEAST
June 22, 2009
by JAKE BURGHART
HI Shredability
This is the first Hi Shred in a year and we’re really psyched to be back. I’ve been working with Brad Gerlach on the new season of School of Surf, and when he told me he was coming to New York with Chris Christenson to pick up some motorcycles, the rusty ole Shredability wheels started turning in my head. We didn’t really have a plan, just a window of time where we could all get away and ride, so we set out from Brooklyn and made up our route as we went along. We may not have scored the best waves in New England, but as most people who get skunked on surf trips will say, it wasn’t just about surfing. Anyways, click below for more pics.
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