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[Rudi Fingers]

Inspired by DeJesus Built My Hotrod's post on the New York Times' multimedia article on the Tunnel Creek avalanche...

Post great long-form multimedia articles here - especially articles that push the boundaries of journalism with their layout as well as their content.

I'll start:

The Verge has a great article out today: "For Amusement Only:the life and death of the American Arcade".

The content (video and story) is great, but the incredible part is the layout - the scrolling call-out text over static images is mindblowing and original.

Edited by Rudi Fingers, 16 January 2013 - 11:18 AM.

[weeba]

The Verge has some great design work.

[weeba]

Be sure to book mark www.longform.org and www.longreads.com for more daily long form articles.

[Drocca]

I check both daily but find longform MUCH better than longreads. Longreads has less articles and their best are on longform anyway AND longform puts up awesome throw back articles.

[Rudi Fingers]

2 great long-formers:

 

1) A piece on that modern miracle known as the US Post Office in Esquire::  

The postal service is not a federal agency. It does not cost taxpayers a dollar. It loses money only because Congress mandates that it do so. What it is is a miracle of high technology and human touch. It's what binds us together as a country.

 

 

Also, a fantastic story on the Tijuana Xolos soccer team in SB Nation

[DrewDawg]

http://www.smithsoni...-188843001.html

 

Russian family cut off from human contact for 40 years, living in the wilderness.

 

Thus it was in the remote south of the forest in the summer of 1978. A helicopter sent to find a safe spot to land a party of geologists was skimming the treeline a hundred or so miles from the Mongolian border when it dropped into the thickly wooded valley of an unnamed tributary of the Abakan, a seething ribbon of water rushing through dangerous terrain. The valley walls were narrow, with sides that were close to vertical in places, and the skinny pine and birch trees swaying in the rotors' downdraft were so thickly clustered that there was no chance of finding a spot to set the aircraft down. But, peering intently through his windscreen in search of a landing place, the pilot saw something that should not have been there. It was a clearing, 6,000 feet up a mountainside, wedged between the pine and larch and scored with what looked like long, dark furrows. The baffled helicopter crew made several passes before reluctantly concluding that this was evidence of human habitation—a garden that, from the size and shape of the clearing, must have been there for a long time.

Read more: http://www.smithsoni...l#ixzz2JOlPeE3y
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[weeba]

http://www.vanityfai...y?src=longreads

 

Oral History of Pulp Fiction

[donutogre]

Going the distance: driving the Tesla Model S in the real world — from The Verge

 

I'm biased, because I work for The Verge, but the video we did is absolutely one of my favorite things we've ever done. Thought it was interested particularly in light of the NYT review scandal going around this week (which I saw we're already discussing elsewhere).

 

Another, less biased pick:

Michael Jordan has not left the building — from ESPN

 

I've largely given up on reading ESPN, but this piece is absolutely fantastic. Nice layout, too — not so much on the multimedia front, but it's far better than most things I've seen from ESPN. The content itself is second to none, in my opinion... I don't think I've read a single better piece about MJ before.

[donutogre]

Also, if you enjoy crazy layouts, check out our five-part series "The End."