Director John Hillcoat talks about his emotional end-of-the-world movie, The Road. Click here to read the full interview and see images from the film.

KEYWORDS: film, Movies

You do! VMAN16 hits newsstands tomorrow but we decided to perk up your manic Monday with a sneak peek at our VMAN FORD MODEL SEARCH/SHOWstudio.com winner and cover boy, Rico. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the shoot, including outtakes of the other finalists. Read more

KEYWORDS: FORD MODELS, model search, Nick Knight, SHOWstudio

The Velvet Underground is the ultimate visual biography of the greatest rock band in history. The new hardcover tome was lovingly and exhaustingly compiled by Johannes Kugelberg who managed to unearth a staggering amount of never-before-scene images. VMAN had a chat with Kugelberg about our shared favorite group.

Click here to see more images from the book.

I am such a Velvet Underground freak and completist and there was so much in the book I had never seen before.
I wanted to make sure that even like hardcore fanatics hadn’t seen like 80% of the stuff that was in there. The choices in the book was obviously trying to get the most amazing photography you ever could, and try to find as much stuff that hadn’t been seen by, anybody really, and we lucked out several times finding these amazing caches of unseen images. Read more

KEYWORDS: books, Music, velvet underground

Trudging through these hard times with a heavy heart, light pockets, and a jones for booze? If you’re gonna be all ghetto and sneak in liquor to a club, do it in a chic way. The New Museum’s Vive La Recession! flask, small enough for sneaking and large enough for inebriating.

$26, $23.40 for members, with a portion of profits donated to Goodwill and Americorps.

Available to purchase online here

Photography Alex O’Neill

KEYWORDS: alcohol, BOOZE, drinking

Our Fall cover star James Franco and art partner-in-crime Carter’s magnum opus Double Third Portrait healed the world. Check out some super cool behind-the-scenes footage.

KEYWORDS: art, carter, film, james franco, video