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Tumblr Staff: A year ago, Tumblr did something unprecedented — we created an...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:26:21 -0400

Tumblr Staff: A year ago, Tumblr did something unprecedented — we created an...:

jessbennett:

staff:

A year ago, Tumblr did something unprecedented — we created an editorial team of experienced journalists and editors assigned to cover Tumblr as a living, breathing community. The team’s mandate was to tell the stories of Tumblr creators in a truly thoughtful way — focusing on the people, their…

RIP TUMBLR EDITORIAL. WE PRODUCED SOME AWESOME MOTHERFUCKING SHIT / REDEFINED JOURNALISM / WON SOME AWARDS / OBSESSED OVER ONE DIRECTION / ALL THAT. IT WAS A GREAT RIDE> NOW: ANYONE WANT TO HIRE ME?

ALSO: Drunk on a plane. The only way to go out (or down?! It’s really bumpy.) Sorry for the all caps! XO

STAY ALIVE

Bronx Graffiti Artist Cope2 Creates New BlackBook Logo

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:43:46 -0500

Bronx Graffiti Artist Cope2 Creates New BlackBook Logo:

And I was there …

Give The Onion a Break

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:15:00 -0500

Give The Onion a Break:

I wrote this.

"It wasn't that long ago that Brooklyn was the place you moved when you failed to make it in 'real' New York. When 'bridge and tunnel' referred not just to New Jersey, but to every outer borough. It may be hard for the twenty-somethings lining Bedford Avenue to grasp, but through most of the nineties, Brooklyn was, at best, a cool place to be from, but no place to be."

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:51:26 -0500

"It wasn't that long ago that Brooklyn was the place you moved when you failed to make it in 'real' New York. When 'bridge and tunnel' referred not just to New Jersey, but to every outer borough. It may be hard for the twenty-somethings lining Bedford Avenue to grasp, but through most of the nineties, Brooklyn was, at best, a cool place to be from, but no place to be.":

I wrote this.

The time we went to Washington, D.C. and got a cool hotel suite and went to nightclubs and it was fun

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:24:07 -0500

The time we went to Washington, D.C. and got a cool hotel suite and went to nightclubs and it was fun

http://www.blackbookmag.com/vibe-media-sends-food-truck-to-rockaways-hurricane-victims-1.54754

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:59:02 -0500

http://www.blackbookmag.com/vibe-media-sends-food-truck-to-rockaways-hurricane-victims-1.54754

storyboard: Life Post Sandy: Scenes from Union Beach, NJ It was...

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:05:17 -0500

An evacuated beachhouse.

John Sochacki III stands in the remains of his bathroom. "We survived, but our community did not," he said.

Construction crews were at work trying to fix electrical and gas infrastructure.

"I've never been this far north, but in the [North Carolina] outer banks, we know hurricanes." said one resident.

A torn American flag still flies on the union beach pier facing NYC.

storyboard:

Life Post Sandy: Scenes from Union Beach, NJ

It was barely a week ago that New Jersey residents were wading through water. And yet on Thursday, they were cleaning up again, this time digging out of snow. Ben Lowy, on assignment for Tumblr, snapped these shots in Union Beach on Thursday.

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BlackBook: BlackBook Is Hiring!

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:05:41 -0500

BlackBook: BlackBook Is Hiring! :

bbook:

BlackBook Magazine / BBook.com is looking for a Social Media Editor to manage and grow BlackBook’s digital presence across multiple social sites including Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, and others. Responsibilities include managing BlackBook’s social media feeds and working with digital…

Are you this person? Maybe.

Hurricane Hell: 12 Great NYC Spots to Visit In Your Mind Today

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:10:32 -0400

Hurricane Hell: 12 Great NYC Spots to Visit In Your Mind Today

We Went to Edinburgh And I Wrote This Thing About It

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:14:06 -0400

We Went to Edinburgh And I Wrote This Thing About It:

You ever been to Edinburgh? Well you should go, assuming you’re like me, and you like beer, whisky, and castles. So here’s my story, which mentions the aforementioned, as well as a surly petrol station attendant.

storyboard: Muhammad Ali Goes to Mars: The Lost Interview It...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:45:27 -0400

storyboard:

Muhammad Ali Goes to Mars: The Lost Interview

It was in the summer of 1966 when a star-struck 17-year-old set out to interview his idol: Muhammad Ali. Twenty miles from the South Side of Chicago, in Glencoe, Ill., Michael Aisner was calling repeatedly to the gym where the boxing champ was training. Finally, a man named Mr. Shabazz — Jeremiah Shabazz, perhaps? The man who introduced Ali to Islam? — picked up.

“Where are you from?” Shabazz asked the boy.

“I’m from WNTH, a high school radio station,” Aisner said.

“The champ doesn’t have time to talk,” he told him.

Aisner called back two days later. And then two days after that.

“Can I interview the champ?” he asked again.

Finally, Shabazz relented.

“Ok,” he said. “The champ will meet you.”

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Irvine Welsh Seems to Understand Young Minds

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:20:03 -0400

For Mark Renton it’s almost a lifestyle choice.

Young people do strange things, and the older you get the more you forget that you were young yourself and did these strange things. You look at kids being willfully crazy and you ask “Why are you doing this?” but there’s a level of existential education going on, this just has to happen to me to make sense of what’s going on. Not even on an intellectual level but on an emotional level.

From my new BlackBook interview, on the publication of Irvine Welsh’s latest novel, Skagboys:

http://www.blackbookmag.com/author-irvine-welsh-drinks-scotch-and-discusses-his-new-novel-skagboys-1.53053

tylercoates: bbook: What, when one is the engine behind a...

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:17:12 -0400

tylercoates:

bbook:

What, when one is the engine behind a multi-million dollar industry devoted to inoffensive desire, can a man do? Efron began by looking in the mirror. “As a man watching Zac Efron,” said Zac Efron. “I don’t necessarily like me yet. So how can I like Zac Efron?” He toyed ponderously with a lone edamame then concluded. “Maybe, if that guy shook things up, did what I didn’t expect him to do, if he wasn’t afraid to be a dick, if he wasn’t afraid to fall on his face, if he hung around long enough and did the grunt work, one day I might respect him.”

So, like a ship of state, Efron set his course for a distant shore where Terpsichore, Melpomene, and Calliope dwelt. There were some hiccups on the way. (No one who saw 2011’s New Year’s Eve could call it anything but frumious gunk.) But the journey had begun, the Rubicon crossed.

Retrospectively, of course, it is easy to see the signs that something had to give. There was that condom that accidentally flew from his pocket onto the red carpet at the premiere of The Lorax, a film adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book for which Efron provided a voice, as apt a place as any to announce that Efron makes love. (“A brilliant fuck–up,” he calls it.) There was the prison tattoo he got on his hand that reads YOLO, short for You Only Live Once [Ed Note: Funny how YOLO is only used to justify poor judgment. No one says, “I should put an extra 15% into my 401K because YOLO.”] Efron doesn’t remember exactly the details of that tattoo. “I went through a period there, when I was single for the first time in six years, where I went out a lot,” he explained sheepishly.

But there was nothing as explicit, mindful, or successful as The Paperboy, Lee Daniels’ pulpy tale of murder, journalism, and sex in the bayou, which comes out October 5th. “I wanted a project that involved risk,” Efron explained, “I wanted to see how deep the rabbit hole went and how far I could really push myself.” If The Paperboy marks twain, the rabbit hole is very deep. In fact, it might never end.

Zac Efron Doesn’t Want to Be Your Teenage Crush Anymore

Hey, hot stuff.

Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey Launches Halfway Day, A Day Dedicated To Drinking Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:15:53 -0400

Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey Launches Halfway Day, A Day Dedicated To Drinking Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey:

From all of us, to all of you, Happy Halfway Day!

Move Over, Wine. Beer Pairs with Fancy Food Too

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:15:14 -0400

Move Over, Wine. Beer Pairs with Fancy Food Too:

Eating and drinking beer is too journalism.

American Experience

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:28:05 -0400

American Experience:

I always wanted to take a road trip in a big powerful Cadillac. Last month I finally got my chance.

storyboard: The Art of the Profile with David Remnick of ‘The...

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:52:26 -0400

storyboard:

The Art of the Profile with David Remnick of ‘The New Yorker’

David Remnick writes for fun. That might seem an odd sentiment coming from the editor in chief of The New Yorker, a magazine known for an eminent tradition of literary and journalistic gravitas. But his kind of “fun” shouldn’t be misread as trivial. What Remnick considers fun to write are the signature New Yorker profile pieces, which involve weeks or months of rigorous research and legwork for the writer (running to many thousands of published words). On the occasion of Remnick’s comprehensive profile of Bruce Springtseen in the new issue, we picked his brain about the art of the modern profile and how the form originated and evolved at The New Yorker.

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Photo

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:11:24 -0400

Dispatches from Racing School

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:41:25 -0400

Dispatches from Racing School

It really is an amazing rum. Happy 50th Birthday,...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:20:42 -0400

It really is an amazing rum. Happy 50th Birthday, Jamaica!

chrismohney:

(via Ten Celebrities Who Should Buy Appleton’s New $5,000 Jamaican Rum - BlackBook)