Just, you know, for the goddamned record. 

Just, you know, for the goddamned record. 

Longshot meets with Daryl the VC (via longshotmag)

Journalists Test the Limits of Publishing With HP MagCloud | MagCloud Blog

Nice write up on the HP & Magcloud sites about Longshot Magazine. 

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29)

  1. Sleigh Bells (21)
  2. Minutemen (17)
  3. John Denver (12)
  4. Missy Elliott (4)
  5. Hot Chip (4)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

choire: I definitely advocate the purchase of Longshot magazine in part because I wrote something really odd in it (which definitely at least looks like a better piece of writing than it is when it’s all gussied up with magazine sauce). Much better reasons to buy it include reading all sorts of writers you may not know!

choire:

I definitely advocate the purchase of Longshot magazine in part because I wrote something really odd in it (which definitely at least looks like a better piece of writing than it is when it’s all gussied up with magazine sauce). Much better reasons to buy it include reading all sorts of writers you may not know!

wendy macnaughton: Longshot Magazine production Wendy’s illos that run throughout the magazine are amazing. These are ones that she did that of the behind the scenes production

wendy macnaughton: Longshot Magazine production

Wendy’s illos that run throughout the magazine are amazing. These are ones that she did that of the behind the scenes production

Congratulations to our sponsor at Paper Or Plastik Cafe, who are also launching this weekend. If you’re in the LA area, you need to go check out this gorgeous coffee bar. 

Congratulations to our sponsor at Paper Or Plastik Cafe, who are also launching this weekend. If you’re in the LA area, you need to go check out this gorgeous coffee bar. 

I like Americans, but they are somewhat monocellular,” the former Democratic Party leader said. “When I talk with Americans, I often wonder why they are so simple-minded.

GOD. YES! FINALLY, A MAN WHO SPEAKS TO MY WORLD VIEW. I JUST HOPE HE, TOO, IS NOT A SECRET MUSLIM.

Ichiro Ozawa, Japanese Politician, Calls Americans ‘Simple-Minded’

laughingsquid: Why Working From Home Is Both Awesome & Horrible

laughingsquid:

Why Working From Home Is Both Awesome & Horrible

End the piece by really making your readers feel bad by quoting someone who is clearly above this trivial, ridiculous digital fray and has his/her life together through some sort of tree-gazing technique.
How to Write a Neuroscience Story for the Public New York Times
The new Wes Anderson movie looks amazing.

The new Wes Anderson movie looks amazing.

We will build this application. You might use it or you might not. We have an actual plan for making money and we have such low overhead that we can play with that plan until we think it’s right. It would be nice if more people did it this way. Life’s too short to spend it sitting in a stupid meeting wishing you had more time to make something good.
While I was in Yosemite last week, Andre Torrez wrote the smartest thing on the Internet. Read it:  “workin’ 9 to 5 “

It was slapdash. It was madcap. It was a crazy moment on a warm day near the top of the city, gorgeous views spilling out in front of us like red carpets stretching out to the premiere of The Entire World is Your Goddamn Oyster. It was terrifically exciting to watch and (from what I heard) very fun to play.

For your overworked and stressed-out Longshot Magazine coordinators, it was exactly the reminder we needed that we started this thing to make fun, and that’s what we’re going to do this weekend in Los Angeles.

So, mark your calendars, start your engines, and prepare for us to announce the theme of the next issue on Friday. Prepare to write, photograph, draw, and make for the next 24 hours. We’ll be waiting to see what you come up with. Especially you, German girl, who may just have taglined the new Longshot: All I know is we are searching but I do not know for what.

The Tale of The Treasure Hunt • Longshot!
longshotmag: Longshot is an ongoing experiment. Can very busy people, with full-time commitments, come together to make a magazine in a weekend? Prior history says yes. But will it be any good? Again, we like to think so. But the only reason that happens is because we’re able to attract really talented, hardworking people. And okay, while nobody’s in this for the money (Or at least: we hope you are not. There is very little money) we do intend to pay everyone we publish. Last time around we put together a four-way split, which you can read about here. We’re doing something similar this time, except we’re dividing it up three ways instead of four, and one person is going to get a whole bundle of dough. Same-same, but different. In short: 1. Socialism!We’re going to evenly divide one third of the profits from the first 48 days of sales of Issue One among our contributors and staff. Last time around, the total kitty was about $3,000. We hope to to that this time, but who knows. Nobody gets rich off this, but it may buy you a sandwich.   2. Meritocracy!We’ll allow our contributors and staff to vote on all the content we publish—photography, stories, art, you name it—and the top vote getter will get the second third of profits. Boom! If we can manage to make as much dough again this time as we did last, we’re talking real magazine rates here, people. Or at least, enough to buy all your friends a round. 3. The Future!We’ll invest the final third in the next issue of Longshot. To give you an idea of what we’re going to spend it on, we’re using the money we banked from the last issue to pay for a big-ass van* that we’re driving down to Los Angeles, food for our staff for Issue One, and other assorted expenses, like hosting, office supplies, and beer.  So, you say, what about the Crazy Stunt? There was a Crazy Stunt last time, why not next time? Fear not!  There will be a Crazy Stunt! But we’re going to finance it out of the final third of proceeds instead of breaking it out separately. To be totally, and completely transparent, we hate doing math and wanted to make things easier on ourselves this time. Rest assured we are all about Crazy Stunts.  Onward! *Please note: Our original plan to get a pimped out Winnebago and drive that fucker down the coast fell through due to Burning Man. Burning Man!

longshotmag:

Longshot is an ongoing experiment. Can very busy people, with full-time commitments, come together to make a magazine in a weekend? Prior history says yes. But will it be any good? Again, we like to think so. But the only reason that happens is because we’re able to attract really talented, hardworking people. And okay, while nobody’s in this for the money (Or at least: we hope you are not. There is very little money) we do intend to pay everyone we publish. Last time around we put together a four-way split, which you can read about here. We’re doing something similar this time, except we’re dividing it up three ways instead of four, and one person is going to get a whole bundle of dough. Same-same, but different.

In short:

1. Socialism!
We’re going to evenly divide one third of the profits from the first 48 days of sales of Issue One among our contributors and staff. Last time around, the total kitty was about $3,000. We hope to to that this time, but who knows. Nobody gets rich off this, but it may buy you a sandwich.  

2. Meritocracy!
We’ll allow our contributors and staff to vote on all the content we publish—photography, stories, art, you name it—and the top vote getter will get the second third of profits. Boom! If we can manage to make as much dough again this time as we did last, we’re talking real magazine rates here, people. Or at least, enough to buy all your friends a round.

3. The Future!
We’ll invest the final third in the next issue of Longshot. To give you an idea of what we’re going to spend it on, we’re using the money we banked from the last issue to pay for a big-ass van* that we’re driving down to Los Angeles, food for our staff for Issue One, and other assorted expenses, like hosting, office supplies, and beer. 

So, you say, what about the Crazy Stunt? There was a Crazy Stunt last time, why not next time?

Fear not! 

There will be a Crazy Stunt! But we’re going to finance it out of the final third of proceeds instead of breaking it out separately. To be totally, and completely transparent, we hate doing math and wanted to make things easier on ourselves this time. Rest assured we are all about Crazy Stunts. 

Onward!

*Please note: Our original plan to get a pimped out Winnebago and drive that fucker down the coast fell through due to Burning Man. Burning Man!

inthefade: politico: Today’s Wuerker: “Hallowed Ground”

inthefade:

politico:

Today’s Wuerker: “Hallowed Ground”