September 2011
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What's Next For Longshot Radio? Find Out, And Help... →
August 2011
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The Making Of Longshot Magazine Number Two →
Wendy’s art is so good, it deserved its own domain. You’re going to love this.
And the bounty goes to...
We are delighted to announce that the Longshot editors have selected Aholaah Arzah, author of Ring Cycle, to receive our $2000 feature fee. As Mat put it, when the three of us read this story together in a Gakwer conference room last weekend, we let out a collective gasp. We love the multi-layered interpretation of “debt” and admire the beautiful use of language. Congratulations,...
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“Surround yourself with talented people you trust and then let them step up. In...”
– Association of Independents in Radio talks about the Longshot Radio process.
2 Days Later, Let’s Welcome Longshot Magazine... →
“Standing on the rooftop of Gawker Media with some of Longshot’s web team,...”
– I came, I saw, I coded.
Longshot // Publish: All
The downside of getting so many great submissions is that it means we don’t get to publish a lot of great work. So before we went to press this time, we decided that we wanted to publish everything everyone submitted. That’s right, everything.
Longshot is an exercise in creativity. It’s an experiment defined by two constraints: a limited time period, and a theme. We want to get...
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WatchLongshot Radio is live as of Sunday afternoon. Take a listen here.
July 2011
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Your Longshot Contributors, Issue Two
Forty-eight hours ago we gave you guys an assignment, twenty-four hours ago you turned in your stories, and today we made a magazine. Despite the fact that we’ve only spent a collective 6 days streamlining this process, it seems to get easier every time. That’s thanks in large part to the amazing turnout of NYC’s media mavens — but even more thanks to all of you. Though it...
A Note From Our Managing Editor
Hey gang, First off, everyone is doing an amazing job editing, fact-checking, designing, and moving stories along. We’re well ahead of last year’s pace, so keep doing what you’re doing. The fact that we can see anything remotely resembling a finish line, at this point, is a testament to your awesomeness. Of course, our plan for this issue is more ambitious than anything...
hydelaura asked: Can we use curse words? Or should I delete them? I'm usually kind of an aggressive writer, guys, but I can tweak the piece of deemed necessary!
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The Easiest Way Ever to Participate in Longshot...
Call this number: 718 (bk baby!) 635.0222. Complete this analogy. Call in and tell us “Life in [[MY TOWN - tell us your town]] is like taking out a loan because…” Just do it - 718.635.0222
We Owe
You. For your hardwork on all these submissions. They’ve been great. Keep them coming!
Gawker. For letting us Most especially Joel Johnson for setting it up, and Nick Denton for letting him set it up.
Dustin Grella. For this amazing launch animation.
Our editors here in New York. For your talent, dedication, and enthusiasm. It astounds us.
How you doing out there?
We know you’re getting tired. So are we. But we promise: you can finish! Let us know if you have any questions. In the meantime, we’ll be here quietly reading.
selinjessa asked: Two and a half questions:
Is there a minimum age for those who want to submit?
How many submissions per person?/Can you submit to more than one category?
Thank you! :)
Is there a minimum age for those who want to submit?
How many submissions per person?/Can you submit to more than one category?
Thank you! :)
I Owe _______ for _______
Arikia Millikan and Nick Jackson collected up some of the best submissions coming in for our Longshot Challenge, “I owe _____ for _____.” You can submit your own on this form or via the sorta wonky embed below.
I owe $10 for a haircut tip that I promised to pay after I got cash from the ATM and never did. I owe the Victorian Police in Australia $6,000 of $13,000 for parking fines...
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About Those Longshot Challenges
So, this time around, we didn’t just give you a theme (DEBT) but also five challenges. We did this for a couple of reasons. First, we wanted there to be easier ways to contribute to the magazine. We kept hearing from people that they really wanted to do something but they were hungover had too much work or forgot until the last minute were stuck at a cousin’s wedding. So, the...
and the Issue Two theme is...
The moment has arrived. Here’s how this works: Starting right now, you have 24 hours to produce and submit your work. We’ll take the next 24 to select, edit, design and lay everything out. The end result will be a beautiful glossy paper magazine. And a super sharp digital edition.
And this issue’s theme is:
DEBT
Debt is the condition of owing. It can be bad; ask anyone with too much...
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We used a song from our friends at Correatown as one of our very first moodbook entries way back when we were still [REDACTED] magazine. And we posted another last time around for the Comeback issue of Longshot magazine.
So we couldn’t be prouder of this tune, written and performed by Ms. Angela Correa and Mr. Rob Poynter, just for our moodbook. It’s an original composition hinting at the...
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Longshot Radio: Everything you want to know
Here’s how you can help Longshot Radio explore this year’s theme of “Debt.” There are several ways to participate, or email longshotradio@gmail.com with your own ideas.
+ I Live In New York
Visit the Longshot Story Booth at McNally Jackson Books. Like Storycorps on speed. Starting on Friday afternoon at 5, Lonsgshot Radio will have a pop-up recording booth inside the...
We Want to Feature You
We love long-form reporting. We love big, meaty stories that we can tear our teeth into and savor for hours or days afterwards. That’s why we’re offering a $2,000 bounty for our favorite feature in the next issue of Longshot.
Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, we’re going to be able to pay our best rates yet to everyone we publish. But we want to do more than that. We...
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Our latest theme hint: Cat Power covering a Dylan...
About Those Longshot Satellite Offices
UPDATE:
We’ve been adding Satellite offices and wanted to bump this post up so you could check out the cities for one in your area.
What’s a Satellite office? Simple. It’s just a place where people can get together, hang out, and work on submissions. If you set one up, let us know at editors@longshotmag.com. Thanks!
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Issue #2: One week to the starting gun!
Seven days remain until the kickoff of our next issue. There are many reasons to get excited. This time around our digital team will be experimenting with all sorts of interactive features, we have a new audio crew coming in to invent Longshot Radio (sweet!), the magazine’s art direction will be spearheaded by the awesome ETC…and that’s only the stuff we know about. We’re...
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Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert - Chapter VIII
She asked herself as she walked along, “What am I going to say? How shall I begin?” And as she went on she recognised the thickets, the trees, the sea-rushes on the hill, the chateau yonder. All the sensations of her first tenderness came back to her, and her poor aching heart opened out amorously. A warm wind blew in her face; the melting snow fell drop by drop from the buds to the...
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Watch“I don’t know how to live but I’ve got a lot of toys!”
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VII. BEOWULF SPEAKETH WITH HROTHGAR, AND TELLETH...
HROTHGAR spake, the Scyldings’-helmet: — “For fight defensive, Friend my Beowulf, to succor and save, thou hast sought us here. Thy father’s combat a feud enkindled when Heatholaf with hand he slew among the Wylfings; his Weder kin for horror of fighting feared to hold him. Fleeing, he sought our South-Dane folk, over surge of ocean the Honor-Scyldings, when first I was ruling the folk of...
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“In short, for our young people, this privilege quickly comes a burden: seeing...”
– French philosopher Pascal Bruckner’s Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy in which he argues that we don’t really have any duty to be happy and (of course) Americans take this non-demand the most terribly seriously