LOL @ FAKE ZINE

my friend had a thetruth.com zine (the anti-smoking pplz) that was all fake photocopied and shit serious lolz

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2183/2488739136_7e3f829b11.jpg?v=0

Ned "Flipmode" Anderson

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2412/2487963735_18a19da857.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2057/2488813074_a824b57611_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2411/2488830954_044c9f9f8f_b.jpg

comix

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2034/2488846474_d576d5dcc0_b.jpg

fake?

the whole thing is an ad for some website called vles.com

Virtual Lower East Side. Fun for everyone.

get booked w/ tips from tod p = ppl who are not chaki

vLES is a free virtual world and website based on New York City's Lower East Side.

Hi, I'm Paul Banks, and when I can't get to the Lower East Side, I go on vles.com.

LOLOL

Registrant:
Domain Registrant
Viacom International Inc.
1515 Broadway
New York NY 10036
US
domreg-admin(at)mtvn.com +1.2122586000 Fax: -

Domain Name: vles.com

I wish I could change my handle to Vles Paul

Hmm, there is a real lowlife magazine that's sort of a skate surf thing:

http://www.lowlifemag.com/

Late last year, the Viacom-owned MTV Networks Music and Logo Group made a deal to start VBS, with financing from MTV and content from Vice, which also sells ads.

xxp

It's funny how marketing gets more sophisticated and it doesn't at the same time. Pandering is still pandering and still smells bad. You can read these music reviews and hear an editor saying "We can have reviews written in a flip tone, just like in a zine."

It's funny how marketing gets more sophisticated and it doesn't at the same time. Pandering is still pandering and still smells bad. You can read these music reviews and hear an editor saying "We can have reviews written in a flip tone, just like in a zine. ILX."

-- Hurting 2, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:15 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i think its weird they did it in-house and in such an obvious ad agency/graphic designy way instead of just doing blogger/zine payola and letting actual awkward clumsy hipsters hype their shit

http://vles.com/files/ads/Awesome_color_horizontal.jpg

one thing thats cool abt the virtual les is: way less puke

I think vles.com is kind of neat because it allows me the ability to hang around New York City's Lower East Side from the comfort of my own bedroom!

http://web.archive.org/web/20030605093857/http://www.ouchthewebsite.com/

LOL hey McNeil let's piss away a ton of money on "edgy" stuff like Black Dice interviews than a new marketing director comes in and just deletes the site?