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PARTICIPATE!
The brink is a user driven high participation e-zine about life on the edge. Our passions are pop-culture, indie-film, cars built in 1969, modern architecture, high tech toys, vintage machines and travel to remote lands.What are your passions? We think radically and play hard. Our users send us photos of their parties, cars, houses, artwork etc. We like the margin, but we are not marginal. If life is worth living it is worth living well. It is worth living ON THE BRINK.
PARTICIPATE!
Yes you! We want you to want us, need you to...no, it's not a CHEAP TRICK! Tell
us what it's all about. Everyone's tired of the same all crap,
so give us some fresh shit. We believe that the web should
not be a passive experience.
WE PAY FOR CONTENT!
It's hard to believe, but it's true. We'll pay you! When you upload your content you give us your PAYPAL email address and every month we take 50% of the advertising revenue and divide it up among everyone who contributed that month. It's that simple and it's AUTOMATIC!
You see, countless scholars and even high school dropouts have pontificated
on this, how the Internet is a unique medium with an ability
to so easily facilitate media back and forth etc., blah, blah, blah, from
end user to publisher and back again. We all know that,
but what do we do about it? At Brink we have an answer.
It involves you. If you have something to advertise you can pay to do that. If you have something to say, something to give, we'll pay you for that.
So what it boils down to is this: we're looking for A FEW GOOD PEOPLE in every city
on the planet to share things with us. Are you possibly one of those people? That's right, it's
pretty simple really, we just want YOU to show us YOUR digital
photos! And if you have anything to say you can say it. Life is beautiful when you have an outlet. Right?
HOW DOES IT WORK?
We have automated everything. So basically log in. Then upload something to us. When an upload is fresh, the first 24 hours are a trial period. We alert 5 users that new content has been uploaded. Their instructions are simple - to judge soley whether the content has merit on any scale. This is to prevent people from abusing the system. If two out of the five deem that the content has no merit the content goes into the CRAP bucket. The crap bucket will be available for the people that like to look at crap.
Our advertisements are also automated (or soon will be). Anyone that wants to advertise simply uploads their advertisment and pays our very reasonable rates. Half the money goes toward administering the site and half the money gets divided automatically among that month's contributors. Simple concept, right? Damn right! Content needs to be free, but at Brink, we pay YOU for YOUR content!
What we really want to see are the regular
snapshots of your life, the car you drive, the house you
take refuge in, your parties, vacations, even the clothes
you wear or don't wear. Local dives and folkways are also of extreme interest. We are trying to build a database of living, a chronicle of our lives. Yes, a big, bad and beautiful communal diary, at the Brink, on the margin, but never marginable. Guerilla rock and roll media, circa 2006. No, we aren't kidding and there's really no bullshit.
OK, you're ready to try it, but what does that really mean?
It means pull out that digital camera or that cellphone
camera, or even the bitchin' video camera you bought yourself
for Xmas last year and hardly ever use, and point it at
yourself. Yes yourself. You are the topic, the object. the
subject. We are the media, the software. Transfer or scan
the photos to your computer and then upload the photos from
your computer to our website. Automatic, designed for luddites
so everyone can do it. Think of WWW.BRINK.COM
as breakfast, desert and a cocktail all rolled into one
thing and that one thing is the reason you don't do well
with authority. You are the one in control. WWW.BRINK.COM
is the control panel.
Ask yourself this: how did the
Village Voice start? And the companion question to that
one: Why did the Village Voice die? Both answers lead to
WWW.BRINK.COM....
Got more questions for us... well FAQ
you!
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