Big Saturday
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The last stop on our European tour takes us to sunny Sofia. At casting, each girl is hotter than the next, and Richard struggles to pick one out. He has the best problems of anyone we know. He eventually chooses three friends—G7, G-Star, and G-Vag—and takes them to the beach where we do our first three-girl shoot of the series.
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Later this month Richard Kern and VICE will be heading to the wonderful and golden-frosted city of Los Angeles to film a new mini-season of Shot By Kern. We know there are many lovely ladies out there reading this, and we would like you to take off your clothing and let us interview you about Kern photographing your nude or semi-nude body and why you enjoyed it. And trust us, you will enjoy it.
Anyway, we will be shooting from May 27 to June 3 and are looking for ladies of all varieties, ethnicities, attitudes, shapes, sizes, and other variables. Would you like to be a Kern girl? If so, please email vice@vice.com with the subject line “I WANT TO BE A KERN GIRL,” and we will get back to you promptly. -
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Army Girls Can Be Girly Girls in Afghanistan
I don’t know about you ladies, but to me the army has never seemed like the ideal place to spend your early twenties. In my mind, there would be no shopping, Gossip Girl or spending hours in one position under the sun trying to achieve the perfect tan. Or basically anything else that’s silly and unimportant, but is an important part of me feeling unashamedly like a girl.
Turns out I was wrong. Lalage Snow is a photographer who has spent a good part of the last five years in Iraq and Afghanistan photographing female soldiers. According to her work, girls in the army remain very intent on “being girls.”
Not that this makes the army any more appealing to me personally, but I think it’s cute to know that, while you’re sweeping the roadsides for Taliban IEDs, you can also sorta smile to yourself whilst imagining Spencer from Made In Chelsea getting blown up by one. So I called up Lalage for a chat.
VICE: Hey Lalage. What’s up?
Lalage Snow: Hey! Just got back from holiday with some friends. We stayed in a house in Assenois, which is in the south of Belgium. We ate lots of paté and drunk biére blonde.
And how did that differ from your time in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Haha! It was different, but you know, it was much girlier than you’d think. The British girls in Iraq, for example, would sunbathe any chance they got, while when it came to the way they decorated their bunks everything was over-the-top girly. Pink washbags and sponges, pink iPod cases. The American girls would have a slumber party almost every night. They’d watch scary films and eat popcorn in their little bunker on a computer. When you are in such a masculine environment you sort of need to cling on to your femininity really tightly.
How old were most of the girls?
Young. The American female engagement team were like, 19 to 22 years old.
You know how they say women are more tolerant to pain, because of our periods and baby birthing and all that? Did you find that to be the case with the female soldiers?
Well, for the time I hung out with the girls they never came under fire. Their main job is to go out and find Afghan women on the streets and search them. Because men are not allowed to speak or touch Afghan women, they were finding that often they were hiding rifles or thousands of dollars under their burqas, and so the female team was brought in.Right. Were they being treated differently by the male soldiers?
Yes and no. They would get some hassle and some slack at the same time from the other guy soldiers, but I think at the end of the day, they look at it and say we are just soldiers together—a job is a job. They have the confidence to do so.
But the funniest thing was the Afghan response to these girls. They can see that it is a soldier in uniform, but they also see the blonde hair underneath the cap in a ponytail and they are like, “Oh my God, it’s a girl looking like a man!” They all think that Western girls are really weird. -
Skinema delves into the dirty secrets of the dirty movie industry. Watch the premiere episode here.
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Thomas Kinkade, “the painter of light,” died. He was an interesting character despite his appreciation by the blandest people on Earth. He drank a lot and he claimed in court that God was his art agent. He was only 54 and it’s currently being reported that he died of natural causes. I don’t know how the fuck that is possible. My guess is that when you die of natural causes at 54 it’s because you are doing just not enough drugs to avoid ODing.
