Over the past couple days i have been working on fly.paper.
fly.paper is an experiment in magazine 2.0, taking social computing principles andapplying them to the creation of a magazine. There are a fw magazines that have a similar premise, but not many.Adbusters and jpeg magazine are really the only two i am aware of.
On our website, we interact with all kinds of visionary individuals the kinds of people who lead trends with out trying, urban intellectuals, skate rockers, backpack hackers and digi-glitch mobsters. People like yourself. These creative and stylish people aren't so attracted to a facebook or a myspace, they are looking for something more niche, more interactive and definitely less bullshit. Thats where fly.paper comes in.
fly.paper can be described from a bunch of different angles for people with different motives. This can be a collective diary, it could be a traveling portfolio, it could be an urban lifestyle and opinion magazine it could be an online community. And in reality it's all of these things. The main point is that people participate, there are contests so contest winners get paid for participation and we make a magazine.
Magazine attracts ads, like flies on shit if the shit stank so good; so what that means is the higher the quality of our community and and our contributions, and lastly the magazine the mone money we will be able to charge per ad because we reach a specific demographic that we know wears nikes, likes certain kinds of social networking sites, certain bands and eats french fries religiously, we can go ahead and talk to nike, talk to those bands, talk to the french fryers andget them to place ads on our site.
Oh i hear it now, the groans, the sighs; "ou muhfuckin sellout you only have 3 members on your site, how are you talkin about makin all this and sell these ads and selling these peoples work.
Where else can a designer, photographer and a writer go post their works and get paid for it? NOWHERE trust me i looked. I am also investigation other ways to create residual income for the artists that contribute to fly.paper and monetize our online and print presence. Ad as far as ads go i'm not even trying to have that many. One full page Nike SB will probably feed me for a few months once this get off the ground.
So http://flypaper.ning.com is the place. Read the manifesto, get a profile and start posting contests will be posted shortly and will rn for 12 weeks so you'll have plenty of time to get your shizzy together.