well to be fair uncool did raise $9k and decades only needed $7k
― maura, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
man, a young adult magazine based on teen vampire/werewolves/etc if it were done well and had good short fiction? i'll bet you could raise a zillion dollars on kickstarter. just in case anyone is looking for a magazine to start. kinda goth, kinda hip, bloody fashion spreads, it would sell itself.
― scott seward, Friday, January 4, 2013 2:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM, this is already 70% of the bookstore based on recent visits
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 January 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
wait, Decades is my friend's magazine! She is a rad young person!
― sarahell, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
their video is funny. and yeah they didn't have to raise as much money. i kinda like more realistic goals on kickstarter. and the magazine itself is not that huge. 60 pages or so. its a compact creative idea for a certain type of person. some sort of POV/aesthetic is needed if you want money. "long articles about music" just doesn't sound that thrilling.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
i mean it doesn't thrill ME and i'm supposed to like stuff like that.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe if it was music that people tend not to write much about? I dunno. My attention span has been seriously depleted in the last couple years.
― sarahell, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
its true that if i smell indie rock i tend to run in the other direction...
i like scott t. though! he was gonna write for uncool. nice guy, ilxor, good writer, wrote an interesting book about one of the few 90's indie rock albums that i would read an entire book about.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
I'd read longform indie rock articles if there were also articles about things other than indie rock that made me feel like a thoughtful person -- like science fiction movies, or Doctor Who companions, or urban planning, or turn of the century machine politics.
― sarahell, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
as j0rd pointed out the “a site that understands that Taylor Swift, Animal Collective and Lil B are all worth writing about” line is especially funny, not just because as he said there are sites that do that already but because it's a little quaint how they aimed for the 2012 zeitgeist and hit the 2010 nail right on the head
― some dude, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
thanks scott.
I won't speak for Dave or Dan about all the schadenfreude so many people are experiencing right now. As far as I'm concerned, I really would have enjoyed writing some articles for them. I also would have enjoyed getting paid. Oh well, now I'll go back to writing for myself and not getting paid for it.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 4 January 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
It needed Dave Cool on board.
― Doran, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
Ayyyy!
― Doran, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
Taylor Swift, Animal Collective and Lil B
feel like i don't know anybody irl who listens to any of these bands yet i don't know anyone on the internet who doesn't seem to listen to all of them
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
yes, taylor swift, noted internet phenom,
― s.clover, Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
everyone loves T-Swift. in their hearts.
― scott seward, Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link