Viceland.com - VICE PICTURES

Since 2002, New York-based photographer Stuart Ignacio has been traveling to college science labs and private think-tanks around the country, taking pictures of some of the last few years’ most shocking research advances. These pictures are a sampling of some new work.

Here we see the hand of scientist Simon Brown, who focuses on supplemental sports medicine and what he terms “healthy steroids.” Using a newly synthesized compound with the colorful name of FB-150, Brown has grown his hand to three times its normal size with absolutely no side effects.

The Marine Biology Mutation Research Center in Portland, Oregon, not only studies genetic anomalies among sea life—they create them too. This is a genetically-engineered pygmy blue whale. Annie Caruso, the head of the Blue Pyg project, has named it Orcarina.

Speaking of genetic mutations, please meet Angus. He is the first succesful cross-special laboratory-reared creature. The cross-pollination of a dachsund, a Balinese cat, and a common lab rat, Angus is now a very healthy eight months old. He lives at the Stigwood Development Project, a privately funded laboratory and think-tank in New York City.

“Vitamin deficiencies are best understood by studying vitamin overdoses,” says chemist Maia Guerrero. Her intern Rob Castille, pictured here, has undergone massive overdoses of vitamin C and beta-carotene in an attempt to quantify how much is too much. Guerrero, who works out of a lab at the University of Levittown in southeastern Pennsylvania, has already made groundbreaking discoveries in her work. “Massive overdoses of vitamin E, absorbed directly through the skin, will cure shingles within one week,” she reports.

Comments:

Subject: crazy
Date: May 07 2006 03:09:35 AM
Author: stephani

essa é a revista mais louca e sem noçao q eu ja li
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Subject: 4 reel
Date: Mar 05 2006 08:06:25 PM
Author: shishkin

dudes - is anything in yr mag based on reality - aside from the ads? - you've got to larf big time when they only thing that's "real" is the advertising!!! truly subversive

Subject: haha
Date: Mar 04 2006 04:01:08 PM
Author: south

that dog rat thing made my day better, i cant stop laughing.

Subject: captain crunchberry
Date: Feb 27 2006 10:05:35 PM
Author: whale

That mini whale is a sperm whale not a blue whale. Come on dudes, you have to pay more attention to detail with your scientific hoaxes.

Subject: clowns on message boards
Date: Feb 24 2006 06:59:00 PM
Author: izzo-deezo

get over being able spot image work, you attention starved complainer bastards. Being a graphic designer is a thin veil for chronic masturbators.

The hand shot is huge.

Subject: Photoshop
Date: Feb 24 2006 06:08:00 PM
Author: Um...

Were these pictures photoshopped?

Subject: vice
Date: Feb 23 2006 03:55:39 AM
Author: artaud

ahhhhhhh. i want to give all these comment makers an oppurtunity to buy some nice swamp land in florida. Maybe this nice sack'o blow here. fuckin' foolish.
actually i would like to meet hot girls who believe everything they hear or read...

Subject: crap
Date: Feb 21 2006 12:18:21 PM
Author: skillet weasel

are you guys starving for material or what? you can't come up with real content so you photoshop a bunch of photos and make stoopid jokes about them?!? quit ripping off the onion and get your shit together.

Subject: Levittown
Date: Feb 18 2006 08:30:19 PM
Author: Joe Blow

LOL......I'm from Levittown,PA, that joke is funny cuz Levittown is a blue-collar shithole just north of Philly. It was founded by the same developer who founded Levittown, NY, Mark Levitt.

Subject: Fat Idiots
Date: Feb 18 2006 05:38:30 PM
Author: Terrence Trent D'Arby

Shut the fuck up, swine. Dyou think you're gonna say 'hmmm i think this has been photoshopped a lil bit' and then someone else is gonna be all like 'oh man i cant believe you know that computer application, i know that, i know that, that's among my favourite of all the computer applications that i have, what else dyou like?' is that what you think, you fucking piss-ass?

Subject: The dachsinese
Date: Feb 17 2006 05:19:26 PM
Author: Pippi Gangbang

I wish that animal was real.

Subject: the whale
Date: Feb 17 2006 12:21:15 PM
Author: cocopants

that whale looks like poop!

Subject: ...
Date: Feb 17 2006 12:11:03 PM
Author: lara

ha. ha.

Subject: dont....
Date: Feb 17 2006 01:27:20 AM
Author: the man with the hand

dont make me slap the shit out of everybody..

Subject: the future is mow
Date: Feb 15 2006 09:29:44 PM
Author: bruce mow

that mini whale is so gangster.

Subject: satire
Date: Feb 15 2006 05:15:13 PM
Author: azimuth

'“Vitamin deficiencies are best understood by studying vitamin overdoses,”'

You made me smile inside.

Subject: Fuck Photoshop, lets talk gramar
Date: Feb 15 2006 01:54:35 AM
Author: Zoltan

What Fucking earth language does, "is this you guyses idea of a joke?" come from?

Subject: wtf guys?
Date: Feb 14 2006 10:44:53 PM
Author: guy

This stuff is all photoshoped?
there is no deny it. I'm a photoshop pro, a graphic designer and this sucks guys, i was looking forward to a good issue of vice instead i get this BS photoshoped pimp cane mars and a "black eye" is this you guyses idea of a joke?

Subject: Perfection
Date: Feb 14 2006 04:56:57 PM
Author: Heg

The beauty of this issue can only truly be realized through the online publication. Seeing as how the printed one doesn't give you the opportunity to view all the comments from the idiots who got fooled by these terrible photo-shopped pictures. Doye..

Subject: i think i know whats going on
Date: Feb 14 2006 12:29:56 PM
Author: matt V

i think some of these are photoshopped

Subject: fuck this pomo bullshit
Date: Feb 13 2006 08:21:32 PM
Author: Ambrogio

If I had a pygmy blue whale I sure as Jackson wouldnt keep it next to the sink, and if I had a dachsund-balinese-lab rat it would wear its own fucking lab coat not some sweater you hacks had lying around.

Subject: aha
Date: Feb 11 2006 06:31:02 PM
Author: sufa sam

the hand one was hilarious

Subject: You Gots to Chill
Date: Feb 10 2006 09:47:11 PM
Author: The Green-Eyed Bandit

And if you're tired, then go take a nap.

Subject: uh yeah
Date: Feb 10 2006 06:37:52 PM
Author: capt obvious

...keep asking if anything in this issue is photoshop or for real...please....do it

Subject: Vitamins der
Date: Feb 10 2006 04:30:51 PM
Author: The Al Qaeda Terrorist Network

You can't dose on vitamin C as it is a water soluble vitamin. Massive overdoses of vitamin D kill you dead instead of curing shingles.

Subject: Vitamin OD
Date: Feb 10 2006 02:41:10 PM
Author: Zoltan

The redioactive dude on the bottom looks too good to be true. I suspect Photoshop? His skin color is a lot like the color of my piss after a Centrum Pill. He also kind of reminds me of Jesus after the 2nd comming. Maybe people all over the country could proove me wrong by ODing on Vitamine C and beta-carotene and then posting there photo's. Just don't be a fag and die from too much iron.

Subject: weak
Date: Feb 09 2006 03:10:45 PM
Author: dionysus

dude, this is so fucking photoshop yawn... so been done, the vitamin deficiency one is too lame to even comment on...

Subject: Pygmy
Date: Feb 09 2006 03:06:03 PM
Author: Me

A pygmy whale would be pretty damned cool.

Subject: shingles
Date: Feb 09 2006 09:47:01 AM
Author: bmx bandit

i had shingles for ages if i had only known to ram vit e into my skin it would of made everything so much better..

Subject: ...
Date: Feb 09 2006 03:42:21 AM
Author: 8-bit

that dog, rat, cat thing is gonna invade my dreams for weeks. thanks for nothing stuart.