The Frustration

I'm back again this month

We aren't doing the 14.5 Issue for June for two reasons;

1. July just seemed to catch up to us so fast. I think it's because we kind of slacked on the deadline of the June issue since we had to make sure everything was cool with it.
2. The people in the 14.5 Issue seemed to slack on the information we asked them to send back preventing a 14.5 Issue.

oh yeah Jordan Beckham went on vacation also.

Guess we need to work on our consistencies within the magazine. At least we will be having a model contest coming together, may be having a monthly happy hour at AVA Lounge, and soon to really be able to launch some things with the street team. Oh and some more promotional prints will be coming soon.

Just gotta keep working and praying.

Til next time
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New JUNE Artist Issue!

Were back this month with a special issue. We have 15 plus artist included in this issue featuring: GirlTalk (our cover story), Gene Stovall, NOVA, Mambo Sauce, and more. Later this month we will be having a 14.5 Issue featuring Dwele, Lady Homi, George Tisdale, and others. Also special on the site is the the video interview with Greg of Girl Talk (video below)

Enjoy!

Upcoming Issue

The June Artist Issue.....is taking forever lol. But it's all good as you know we gonna come with the heat. We have our first good video interview with an artist rather laptop dj named Girl Talk. I didn't know who he was until Jeff and Kate (our new journalist and video journalist) brought the name up. Dude has some good work and his shows are crazy. You will see in the video he keeps clubs rowdy.

Oh yeah the site has/maybe back up but was down due to a fire in our outside server company. They said a electric circuit started a fire that ended up knocking down walls. Crazy. They said the servers weren't hurt though thank God. We would have had to go to a all new server I think and re-put up everything! Maybe I'm just exaggerating ha.

Talk to you peoples later. Watch out for the "Get Down or Lay Down 08'" Summer Campaign.

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Just Call Me Stupid

It's been a while.

Since the last blog, We were planning for the One Year Anniversary party.

First off, the party was exciting. Even though we didn't get the bigger sponsor like we wanted to, Absolute Vodka sponsored our first hour of the party with a free drink for attendees. We personally got a free bottle and let's just say we gracefully dealt with that bottle quickly. Everyone came through dressed correctly in their best black white/red attire. DJ E-V from Cleveland played excellent music and didn't play the same song twice and none of that retarded three words per bar rap such as Rocko (I really hate dude).

I think a lot of people got scared away from our April fools joke as we said we were quitting. Believe me we will never do that stuff again lol. People were killing Brian's make believe cell phone like we really quit. And when we put the real issue up I think people thought we were lying lol. Either or we will be coming strong for the summer. We got an all artist issue coming June and and international issue coming July. And we will finish up the summer with an All Women's Issue.

Pittsburgh has been surprisingly fun though as of late. Pharrell came, Lupe came, our party was dope, Fab 5 had Sneaker Me Stupid @ The Southside Fountain Room, The Roots came and performed for free at Carnegie Mellon U., and Devin Thomas danced with his first female at our party. God is good.

Got a campaign coming up though and you shall be first to view it. Check below and if your cool you can ask for this and I'll send it to you to post to your friends and stuff. Other than that tomorrow/today is voting day. Brian has been mad active in telling who he wants to vote for. I'ma go for Obama. But instead of telling you the real reasons, I'm just gonna say cause he is black, he played basketball, his wife is alright looking, and he's not Hilary. (ok I hope you didn't believe that)

Peace out
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Very Tired

The last couple of weeks + the drop of the issue = hell. I thought the only problem we would have this month was short weeks. That was barely a problem with me. The real problems were handling of designs, photos, and me really wanting to cut someone.

I'm so glad the 1 year anniversary is coming up though. Another excuse for us to get crazy for a night and not care about no one but Three Olives Mango and Orange Juice. That's another reason for stress for the rest of the month though. Have get all these sponsors together, invitations done (Brian is making a hell of a design), get special invitation cards done, get DJ EV here to the Burgh which well has been taken care of. I just hope it get nuts.

Pharrell and NERD is coming next week and Lupe Fiasco the week after in which they both should end up being in JENESIS for the month of April since Mr. Beckham is back from Italy newly married and will be photographing at both. I wish I was a little more famous so I could just call these people and be like "yo what's good we gonna get an interview and photos before the show."

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10,000 Hits on JENESIS For the month

This month we have finally gotten over the single thousandths hump for the month and into the ten thousandths mark! This may not mean anything to anyone else but me an a couple other people but it is really remarkable. I am happy but that doesn't mean I'm content with the mark we have made. I want more of course and will get more. But this is a good feeling. I could remember when our first issue came out and just getting 100-300 hits was crazy because we barely promoted except to the people we knew and on Facebook and Myspace. Now without even having to remind people, we have viewers checking out the new info and new issue daily. That's just more motivation to make bigger moves and do bigger things for the magazine and our readers. Thanks you all for sticking around.

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