Local blogger, The Northamptonist, officially announced on March 30 that he will soon be moving to New York City where he hopes to pursue new journalistic ventures. As a result The Northamptonist blog will be updated less frequently and then not at all. This brings me great sadness. Like a big old pit of despair sadness.
If you never got the chance to check out his blog before, do it. A great feature of his blog is that he covered local street art. My personal favorite was The Brick Of Gold as pictured above which, last time I checked, is still on the Pleasant Street side of Sweetie's candy shop.
Other great things he covered include; "Do you have a quarter?" Al street art, and Bennie "Bucket Man" Johnson. You know, the guy who drums on a bucket in front of Delano's.
Paolo Mastrangelo, the local 31 year-old, who runs the blog has done other great things like his Northamptonist TV channel on blip.com which has all of his past videos there to browse through. Perhaps the most disturbing yet completely brave video that he made was a photo slide show documenting a heroin user in Northampton going to the pharmacy for needles and then shooting up.
And one of his most recent ventures is the Community Audio Recording Project. He essentially created a phone number that anyone can call and leave a message to. You can leave your name and location and talk about anything that you want to share with the community and the links will appear on the map at your location with the message.
I love this blog and he's done some great community focused blogging. I am sad to see it go.
On a personal note, I've gotten coffee with Paolo recently and he's incredibly supportive of other journalists and blogs and I'm sure if you ever had a question for him he'd only be more than happy to help. I wish him all the best in his new endeavors.
Posted by Andrea Murray
2 comments:
that video was very disturbing, but nonetheless informative about the life of a Northampton drug addict. It also shows a journalistic side as he shoots the informational boards that he passes on the way to get clean needles and probably ignores...very sad
Yeah it's definitely the most intense video hes made.
So real in Northampton though.
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