So Long and Goodnight
It’s been five years since Kathy and I bought the Junk-mag.com domain with the short-sighted intention to publish a webzine consisting mostly of my photos of our college classmates in their underwear. By the end of our first year, the people we featured each month would become campus celebrities, and we started to take advantage of the site traffic by posting more articles and written pieces alongside the pictures that everyone came to see.
Our hit count totaled the number of students enrolled at our college within 24 hours of the site going live. Within a year we had struggled to get to six digits, but with the switch from webzine to blog in 2005, more and more things started happening, I started taking party pictures in addition to everything else, and today our total all-time hit number is in the dozens of millions.
With frequent party photos, continually anticipated “Stripster” photo sets, Kathy’s “Waisted” column, my personal blog, and various contributions from other people, this site grew and grew until its ads made us significant revenue and the name alone helped us throw some amazing events with corporate sponsors. We’ve been name-checked in national newspapers and magazines, and we’ve made countless friends from the beginning ‘til now. We no longer have the time to properly keep this site going every day, so rather than fizzle out we’re going to simplify. It’s a good time to stop.
I’m still a photographer; I’ll still be taking lots of pictures and sharing them. I’ve not been taking photos at parties for several months now, save for the occasional party portrait photo set, which I still enjoy doing now and then. But mostly these days my photographic work consists of private shoots and commissioned/hired editorial and portrait work. All my work will from now on be showcased at my website, BradWalsh.com, which is being professionally redesigned and will re-launch next month to precede my next music release. I have a personal blog there already, and it will be where I post all the stories and photos that I normally post in my blog here on JunkMag. Kathy has a blog as well, and I will continue to update my blog for Misshapes.com. Also, you should add me on MySpace. Shameless.
So we’re not leaving the internet, just this website. Because it still gets so many hits from links and Google searches, we may reorganize the whole site to be less of a dead blog and more of an archive of the content that’s still here… if we get around to it. Thank you to everyone who’s been a part, whether in a photo or in the comments. Most of you are not assholes.
July 3rd, 2008at 11:47 am
i ttly understand that u need to make more time for yourself, but how can u stop maintenance of junk mag? its funny and the pics and music reccomendations are awesome! and btw isn’t ur blog on the misshapes website the same as ur ‘ihatebradwalsh’ one? like don’t they have the same content? btw thnx for the ting tings suggestion ‘that’s not my name’ is my favorite song now!
July 3rd, 2008at 11:59 am
lol… wait… are you sure you’re not me?
July 3rd, 2008at 12:09 pm
??? i’m pretty sure i’m not you… but u’ve managed to confuse me lol
July 3rd, 2008at 1:52 pm
NOOOOOO damn you
July 3rd, 2008at 2:13 pm
awww. But doesn’t this and your misshapes one have the exact same posts?
July 3rd, 2008at 2:25 pm
my misshapes blog thus far has been some from here, some from my personal one, and some new stuff. it’s going to be more original stuff in the future.
July 4th, 2008at 8:02 am
Brad, 30 Rock, oh so funny….did you see the David Schwimmer/Al Gore ‘Greenzo’ episode? The part at the end with the trash car ploy was classic.
[doesn’t make sense now…]
July 6th, 2008at 5:13 pm
this is sad, did you already decide to close down? there haven’t been any updates.
July 6th, 2008at 9:40 pm
tis a sad day when your contributions to junkmag will end. this site is great, it’d suck if you stopped working on it.
July 8th, 2008at 5:09 pm
good riddance!
July 8th, 2008at 6:06 pm
I only got into JunkMag on Saturday, it was the first time I’d ever come across it and I think it’s amazing! Actually, I got really confused about which blogs I was meant to be reading as I’d heard of three, so atleast it’s a bit easier this way? I’m a dumbass though, I’m sure no one else had THAT problem. Well done, both of you. The 4 days inwhich JunkMag was a main feature in my life were pretty darn good. Thanks. x
July 8th, 2008at 6:13 pm
I mean “good riddance” in the Green Day way: “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
cue the super sappy photo/video montage set to that song.
July 8th, 2008at 6:16 pm
Cheers to the life of junk-mag and here’s to all the new ventures.
July 8th, 2008at 6:38 pm
MOST of you are not assholes.
haha that just made my day
July 8th, 2008at 8:36 pm
How am I going to see pictures of myself now brad? Lastnightsparty? Bullshit.
July 8th, 2008at 9:36 pm
this is sad, i quite enjoyed reading this blog, yet i will look forward to new things in the future from both you and kathy. good luck.
July 8th, 2008at 9:40 pm
Awww. It was fun while it lasted I guess… this website became one of few that I check everyday simply for NYCness that I can’t get here in Peru… haha.
But I will continue to read your other blogs when possible… good luck!
: )
July 9th, 2008at 3:01 am
and thus ends my stripping career as well…we’ll see which retirement sends more cultural shock waves.
July 9th, 2008at 8:06 am
I have enjoyed Junk - it has made me feel not so old (which I hope you will not hold against me) and as I keep saying — I feel like you are the Andy Warhol of your generation — that’s how much I believe in your talent.
July 9th, 2008at 8:07 am
Also — I enjoy Kathy’s writing - she has a great sense of humor and I would buy a book of her observations if she published — I will be checking her site as well.
July 9th, 2008at 11:43 am
brad smells of horseradish.
July 9th, 2008at 12:39 pm
Ill miss this blog man, I check it daily, but on to bigger and better things. Best wishes :]
July 9th, 2008at 1:48 pm
Disappointing, but understandable. I will definitely be following both Brad and Kathy’s blogs, but will keep junk-mag in my favorite bookmarks as it has been for years to keep the memory alive! Godspeed.
July 9th, 2008at 2:36 pm
I may cry.
July 9th, 2008at 5:05 pm
Sad, sad, happy, sad– day.
miss you.
July 9th, 2008at 8:42 pm
well the earlier mentioned sad day has come. miss you.
July 10th, 2008at 2:24 pm
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July 12th, 2008at 12:06 pm
good. you should. i hate this blog. i hate looking at myself. i hate you. and kathy. you guys should just go dress in black and run on the freeway
July 12th, 2008at 2:46 pm
damn, that’s fucked up. i’m tripping. but you (two) go.
July 15th, 2008at 4:05 pm
thank you, everyone! except alana, who should eat poop.
July 17th, 2008at 10:52 am
i think nobody knows it’s me
July 29th, 2008at 2:51 pm
I am in a state of utter shock! So long Junk…..
August 4th, 2008at 4:34 am
i’m truly devistated at that decision. you guys are my idols..i had high hopes that i could work on this website..i guess not. it was good while it lasted. best of luck to you.