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AtomAge magazine was a fetish magazine published in Britain by the clothes designer John Sutcliffe in the 1970s as an offshoot of his AtomAge fetish clothing business. The magazine has been called the "underground bible of leather, rubber and vinyl fetish wear throughout the 1970s" and documented Britain's S/M scene. The first AtomAge clothing catalogue was published in 1965 and it expanded into a magazine in 1972. The magazine ended in 1980.

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34-489: 2010 saw the publication of Dressing For Pleasure, The Best Of AtomAge 1972-1980 , a comprehensive hardback book celebrating both the magazine and company. Dressing for Pleasure in Rubber, Vinyl and Leather: The Best of Atomage 1972-1980 . Jonny Trunk (author). Damon Murray, Jonny Trunk , and Stephen Sorrell (editors).  United Kingdom: FUEL, 2010. This lifestyle magazine or journal–related article

68-455: A "reputation for provocation". In 2010, Vice was described as " gonzo journalism for the YouTube generation". As the magazine grew into a broader media brand, it struggled with "how to distance itself from its crude past, yet hold on to enough of that reputation to cement, and grow, its authority with its core audience". Nevertheless, the magazine has continued to face controversy. In 2013,

102-412: A DIY antithesis to the methods practiced by mainstream news outlets, and has published an entire issue of articles written in accordance with this ethos. Entire issues of the magazine have also been dedicated to the concerns of Iraqi people , Native Americans , Russian people , people with mental disorders , and people with mental disabilities . Vice also publishes an annual guide for students in

136-472: A March 2008 interview with The Guardian , Smith was asked about the magazine's political allegiances and he stated, "We're not trying to say anything politically in a paradigmatic left/right way… We don't do that because we don't believe in either side. Are my politics Democrat or Republican ? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere." Vice founded its website as Viceland.com in 1996, as Vice.com

170-401: A community service. When the editors later sought to dissolve their commitments with the original publisher, Images Interculturelles (represented by Alix Laurent), they bought out the publisher and changed the magazine's name to Vice in 1996. Richard Szalwinski , a Canadian software millionaire, acquired the magazine and relocated the operation to New York City in the late 1990s. Following

204-416: A cult British label that specialises in film music, library music, early electronics and exotic, nostalgic recordings. It was the first label to release music from cult horror films such as The Wicker Man . On his label he has also released Dirty Fan Male , an album based on his own experiences organising various glamour models' fan clubs including that of his sister, Emma Benton-Hughes, who modelled under

238-607: A possible sale to a consortium of lenders including Fortress Investment Group, which will, alongside Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital, invest $ 225 million as a credit bid for nearly all of its assets. In February 2024, CEO Bruce Dixon announced additional layoffs and that the website Vice.com will no longer publish content. The print magazine returned in September 2024. Founded by Suroosh Alvi , Gavin McInnes , and Shane Smith (the latter two being childhood friends),

272-514: A quarterly publication schedule, though issues still generally explored a single theme. The publication was put on hiatus in 2019. In 2023, Vice filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company's lenders— Fortress Investment Group , Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital —agreed to purchase the company for $ 225 million. In February 2024, The New York Times highlighted that "over the past half-decade, Vice has had near annual layoffs and mounting losses, and has filed for bankruptcy, making it

306-531: A single by Jonny Trunk and Wisbey , made number 70 on the UK Singles Chart in August 2007, and re-entered at number 27 in September 2007 after a campaign by BBC Radio 1 's Scott Mills and Danny Baker . At 36 seconds long, it is the shortest track ever to chart in the top 30. Various Jonny Trunk side projects have included directing the now-banned pop video "Plug Me In" for Add N to (X) . This video

340-429: A very deep appeal…it seems to satisfy, temporarily, the sense of nostalgia for something lost; it seems to represent a stage further back.’ With their aura of wistful reverie and faded decay, the sounds exhumed by Trunk offer a portal into Britain's cultural unconscious." Vice (magazine) Vice (stylized in all caps ) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics. It

374-471: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . This sexuality -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jonny Trunk Jonny Trunk, born Jonathan Benton-Hughes , is an English writer, broadcaster and DJ as well as the owner and founder of Trunk Records . Jonny Trunk founded Trunk Records in 1995,

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408-550: Is much bigger than the Lower East Side and the East Village." McInnes left the publication in 2008, citing "creative differences" as the primary issue. In an email communication dated 23 January, McInnes explained: "I no longer have anything to do with Vice or VBS or DOs & DON'Ts or any of that. It's a long story but we've all agreed to leave it at 'creative differences,' so please don't ask me about it." At

442-470: Is often unclear or contradictory. Articles on the site feature a range of subjects, often things not covered as by mainstream media. The magazine's editors have championed the immersionist school of journalism , which has been passed to other properties of Vice Media such as the documentary television show Balls Deep on the Viceland Channel. This style of journalism is regarded as something of

476-468: Is the first to examine their work in minute detail. It was conceived and edited by Jonny Trunk and has a foreword by Stewart Lee . Trunk also features frequently in the 2011 book Retromania by Simon Reynolds : "Cheezy sleaze and sepia–toned melancholy seem unlikely bedfellows at first glance. But in his 1935 travel book Journey Without Maps , Graham Greene put his finger on or near the place where musty and lustful meet. He wrote about how ‘seediness has

510-581: The BBC Radio 4 documentary Into The Music Library and presenting on BBC Two's The Culture Show . Trunk was the first dedicated film music DJ in the UK. HarperCollins published the Jonny Trunk book Dirty Fan Male in 2004. It subsequently became a Channel 4 documentary. He also writes for Vice , Record Collector , and Mojo . Working with art publishers FUEL Design, Jonny Trunk published

544-532: The United Kingdom . In 2007, a Vice announcement was published on the Internet: After umpteen years of putting out what amounted to a reference book every month, we started to get bored with it. Besides, too many other magazines have ripped it and started doing their own lame take on themes. So we're going to do some issues, starting now, that have whatever we feel like putting in them. In

578-558: The UK. His talks focus on the art of creativity based on nostalgia, enthusiasm and cunning. Trunk is also a regular broadcaster on London's art radio station Resonance FM . His long-running radio show OST has concentrated on film music, TV music, library music and related recordings since 2004 and is the only show of its kind on British radio. It has championed the work of François de Roubaix , Roger Roger (composer) , Krzysztof Komeda and many other obscure international soundtrack and library artists. Other recent broadcasting has included

612-640: The Vice independent record label was functional, and the online video channel VBS.com had 184,000 unique viewers from the U.S. during the month of August. The media company was still based in New York City, but the magazine began featuring articles on topics that were considered more serious, such as armed conflict in Iraq, than previous content. Alvi explained to The New York Times in November 2007: "The world

646-432: The Vice.com website. The company has since expanded and diversified to include a network of online channels, including Munchies.tv, Motherboard.tv, Noisey.com, Thu.mp, and Broadly. On 22 February 2024, Vice Media CEO Bruce Dixon announced "several hundred" additional layoffs as the company restructures, and that the website Vice.com would no longer publish content. From its beginnings as Voice of Montreal , Vice had

680-591: The commencement of 2012, an article in Forbes magazine referred to the Vice company as "Vice Media", but the precise time when this title development occurred is not public knowledge. Vice acquired the fashion magazine i-D in December 2012 and, by February 2013, Vice produced 24 global editions of the magazine, with a global circulation of 1,147,000 (100,000 in the UK). By this stage, Alex Miller had replaced Capper as

714-566: The document and letter archive of Mary Whitehouse based at the University of Essex , and made a deal with publishers Faber and Faber . The book based on this material, Ban This Filth! Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive (2012), was edited by Ben Thompson. 2014 saw the publication of "The Art Of Smallfilms", a book exploring the archives of Smallfilms and the world of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin . The book

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748-467: The editor-in-chief of the UK edition. Furthermore, Vice consisted of 800 worldwide employees, including 100 in London, and around 3,500 freelancers also produced content for the company. In February 2015, Vice Media named Ellis Jones editor-in-chief of Vice magazine and former UK editor-in-chief, Alex Miller, was appointed to the position of global head of content. In 2018, the magazine switched to

782-432: The magazine retracted parts of a fashion spread entitled 'Last Words' which depicted "female writers killing themselves". Also in 2013, Vice again gained unwelcome attention when the then-editor of the magazine joined millionaire software mogul John McAfee as he evaded authorities to avoid being questioned about a murder case. In the late 2017, multiple stories were published citing allegations of sexual misconduct and

816-592: The magazine was launched in October 1994 as a spin-out of the English-language portion of the Revue Images , a multicultural publication founded in the early 1990s by Dominique Ollivier with Alix Laurent, under the name Voice of Montreal . Voice of Montreal was split out from Revue Images with salary assistance through a Quebec welfare grant. The intention of the founders was to provide work and

850-491: The name Eve Vorley . The album contained amusing recitals of the fan mail they received, and was later turned into an award-winning live show and a book, with the album getting 4/5 stars from The Guardian . Trunk has also released his own material through the label, including his album The Inside Outside . Since 2003, Trunk has been responsible for the rediscovery of Basil Kirchin , by releasing his unknown 1960s experimental jazz and soundtrack work. " The Ladies' Bras ",

884-413: The poster child for the battered digital-media industry" and that while "some observers hoped its new owners [...] would reinvest" in the company, Fortress Investment Group has instead "decided to make sweeping cuts". In September 2024, Vice Media relaunched its print magazine and will publish issues quarterly. The company has a goal of reaching 20,000 subscribers within a year. Vice magazine includes

918-482: The publication of Own Label, Sainsbury's Design Studio 1962 - 1977 . This book brought together a vast array of own label packaging developed and designed by the supermarket's in house studio. Conceived by Jonny Trunk and based on his memory of the 1975 Own Label Cornflake packet, the book brings some 400+ rare, period and often curious designs from the Sainsbury's Archive into the modern graphic world. Trunk licensed

952-464: The relocation, the magazine quickly developed a reputation for provocative and politically incorrect content. Under Szalwinski's ownership, a few retail stores were opened in New York City and customers could purchase fashion items that were advertised in the magazine. However, due to the end of the dot-com bubble , the three founders eventually regained ownership of the Vice brand, followed by closure of

986-406: The stores. The British edition of Vice was launched in 2002 and Andy Capper was its first editor. Capper explained in an interview shortly after the UK debut that the publication's remit was to cover "the things we're meant to be ashamed of", and articles were published on topics such as bukkake and bodily functions. By the end of 2007, 13 foreign editions of Vice magazine were published,

1020-490: The work of journalists, columnists, fiction writers, graphic artists and cartoonists, and photographers. Both Vice ' s online and magazine content has shifted from dealing mostly with independent arts and pop cultural matters to covering more serious news topics. Due to the large array of contributors and the fact that often writers will only submit a small number of articles with the publication, Vice ' s content varies dramatically and its political and cultural stance

1054-460: The world's first and only book dedicated to the graphic art of production library music on Trunk Records. This book, known as The Music Library , was the first book to bring to the public the hidden art and design of vintage library recordings. The book was expanded in 2016. The original "Music Library" book was followed up in 2010 with Dressing for Pleasure in Rubber, Vinyl and Leather: The Best of Atomage 1972-1980 , about AtomAge . 2011 saw

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1088-500: Was already owned. In 2007, it started VBS.tv as a domain, which prioritized videos over print, and had a number of shows for free such as The Vice Guide to Travel . In 2011, Viceland.com and VBS.tv were combined into Vice.com, also the host of the Vice Motherboard website at motherboard.vice.com. In 2012, Vice Media was created as the parent company for Vice magazine and other properties including Vice News on HBO and

1122-521: Was founded in 1994 in Montreal as an alternative punk magazine, and its founders later launched the youth media company Vice Media , which consists of divisions including the printed magazine as well as a website, broadcast news unit, a film production company, a record label, and a publishing imprint . As of February 2015, the magazine's editor-in-chief is Ellis Jones. On 15 May 2023, Vice Media formally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy , as part of

1156-526: Was shot in Wales , and was edited as the standard pop version and a longer, more controversial Add N To XXX 45 minute version. Trunk has also held modern music and movement classes using vintage electronic recordings, issued official Tony Hart Vision On tee shirts and screenprints, ran action painting sessions to Ken Nordine 's colours, and regularly finds music for advertising, film and TV. In recent years Trunk has been lecturing at art colleges throughout

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