ARTICLES BY BRUNO BAYLEY
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 NORMAN J. WARREN
Until the middle of the 1970s, British horror films tended to be camp, period rehashes of American horror classics in which hammy, top hat-wearing toffs would end up being killed by the big guys from the gore of yore such as Dracula and werewolves. Not surprisingly, that wasn’t enough to keep the youth of 70s Britain on the edge of their seats, let alone in the cinemas. Then, directors realised that if these thrillers were set in the...
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  RAVING, WE’RE RAVING
In 1989, Gavin Watson went from being a documenter of skinhead culture to being one of the only people who managed to operate a camera through the ecstasy haze that enveloped England that year. At the time, rave was a revolution, even if it has now been run into the ground. We spoke to Gavin about those halcyon days when you could dance all night on one pill, and about...
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 SUITING UP, CRUSTING DOWN
Yuppies vs. Punks for a Working WeekRecently London was tousled by a series of riots led by outraged anarchists who were probably just really bored. As usual, it looked like a good time. But it also made us wonder who really has the superior lifestyle: hand-to-mouth agitators or the city-boy capitalists they abhor? So we assigned one ...
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 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Technology IssueCHICKEN: LOW ART, HIGH CALORIE
This is yet another one of my forgotten stoned ideas come to fruition. I must be a virtual millionaire in stoned ideas. It is a book documenting fried-chicken...
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 YOU'RE GONNA DIE!
Gigadeath and Other Terrifying Thoughts of Hugo de GarisWithin the next 30 years, technology will advance at such a rate that it will produce an intelligence explosion, cause a world war, and create new variations of the human species. According to Hugo de Garis, a professor at Xiamen University in China...
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 DAVID CHAMBERS
You have almost certainly never heard of David Chambers, but he makes suits for some of the best-dressed people in the world, from David Bowie to Terence Conran, with a long semi-secret list of other clients in between. Chambers is an old-school designer who rejects the obsession with fashion and fa...
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 LOOK OUT!
"Militia Babes" are Ready for WarOne of the main problems with paramilitary groups is they're all a bit uptight and unapproachable and are almost always made up of intimidating men. How much more fun would Hamas or FARC be if their ranks included attractive girls in camouflage hot pants with huge guns? Well, the Michigan Militia th...
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 NOTHING TO DO
On the Dole in RochdaleOn the Falinge estate in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, over 75 percent of the residents of working age are on benefits. Many newspapers were up in arms about this, so we thought we would ask the few locals who would let us southern fairies into their...
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 FREAK SCENE
One Guy Has Lots and Lots of Weird Old Photos in His HouseYou will almost certainly have seen images from the Burns Archive, most likely in books such as Death Scenes. But the archive of Dr. Stanley Burns covers far more than forensics and violence. The New York-based ophthalmologist has dedicated his life to collecting photos from forgotten and und...
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 JESUS WAS A TERRORIST
Mindless Religious Violence Rife in IndiaBarun Roy is the editor of The Himalayan Beacon, a monthly magazine based in Darjeeling that has a reputation for unswerving journalism and being more clued-up than anyone else. He explained how it's not just Al-Qaeda wannabes kicking up trouble in India. Hindu, Muslim and Christian extremist...
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 PROTEST BY FIRE
Most of us are pretty familiar with the hotbed of sad news stories that is Afghanistan. The hundreds of killed and injured troops, the thousands of dead civilians, the poverty and instability, but all of them start to look a bit unremarkable once you stumble upon a hospital ward full of girls who ha...
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 THE WELSH SUICIDE CONTAGION
A heart-shaped wreath is £40 from a florist in Bridgend, Wales; a crucifix can be up to £50 if you go for the three-foot-tall option. The tear shapes and traditional circular wreaths are all a bit cheaper-around £30-but that's still quite a bit of money for a run-down South Wales town with the secon...
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 MATT LOCK EMBRACES THE UGLINESS OF REALITY
Vice: When did you start making art?
Matt Lock: I've been drawing since I was a kid. But I didn't get serious about art until mid-2005.
What were wee Matt's drawings like?...
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 JUDGMENT DAY: VICKI BEHRINGER SKETCHES PEOPLE ABOUT TO GO TO JAIL
Not all artists spend their days smoking hand-rolled cigarettes and getting hammered down at the Rusty Toe while wondering what to do with the next few weeks of their lives as they wait for a "gallerist" to decide that they want to pay $14,000 for a cube covered in chewing gum and cat hair.
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 A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS A MEMBER OF A PARAMILITARY GANG...
The Brits may have left Northern Ireland and the IRA may be all but completely decommissioned, but Loyalist (the guys who loved the Queen and hated the IRA) areas of Belfast are still firmly in the grip of paramilitary thugs. Surprised? You shouldn't be. Did anyone really...
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 THE DOODLES OF WAR
Bloodthirsty Child Soldiers Tag LiberiaThe child soldiers of Liberia have taken street art to another level. Tim Hetherington, winner of the World Press Photo of the Year in 2007, took these terrifying photos during the blood-drenched civil war over there a few years back. The childlike scrawls of rape, violence and intimidation are pret...
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 NOTHING TO SEE HERE
Geographer Takes Photos of Things Really Really Really Really Really Far AwayTrevor Paglen is an experimental geographer working at the University of California. He's reponsible for one of the coolest books on confidential military activities, I Could Tell You But You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me, a collection of the arcane shoulder patches worn by soldiers operat...
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 HAARP BIZARRE
Secret Military Death Ray Or Weather Research Outpost?Up in the wastelands of Gokona, Alaska, there is a forest of high frequency radio antennae. The US government claims it is conducting research into the uppermost reaches of the atmosphere, but Dr Nick Begich, a well-respected local education official, suspects there are darker motives afoot. He, lik...
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 IF ONLY IT WAS LIKE THAT HERE
If you have killed a journalist in Mexico since 1992 you can probably relax about being caught. The impunity rate for murders of members of the press over there is a reassuring 92 per cent. Last year, men in a four-by-four pulled up outside Tabasco Hoy, a leading newspaper, and delivered the ...
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 A MEXICAN IN... LONDON
Monica Gonzalez
Vice: Ay caramba, look at you. Why did you decide to come all the way to London?
Monica: I left Mexico City with my parents due to my dad's job and moved to the States for around two years. Then we moved to France, then to Geneva, and then my dad decided to go...
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