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Ian Jacoby – Nudge Magazine - Episode 27
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Send us Fan Mail Episode 27 – Ian Jacoby – Nudge Magazine. He sits down virtually with Jamie and Donovan Wade. They discuss multiple subjects from the magazine’s origin, “No Days Off, Youth in...
Highlights
- Nudge Magazine was started during COVID as an outlet for pinball thoughts while Ian was moving to Detroit
- Ian's aesthetic vision for Nudge was inspired by 1990s skateboarding magazines like Big Brother
- Nudge shoots all photography on film rather than digital
- The Twippy controversy article was Nudge's biggest public reaction piece
- Elizabeth Weinberg, a photographer for Vogue and LA Times, contributed to Nudge because of her love for pinball
- Ian considers pinball machines to be an artistic expression equivalent to books or movies
- Ian dislikes Metallica pinball, calling it 'really fucking mid' with artwork that looks like 'eighth grade notebook drawings'
- MGC (Midwest Gaming Classic) attracts over 30,000 people over four days
Notable quotes
“The Nudge Aesthetic, the best way for me to put it is I think it's a skateboarding magazine from the 90s, except for it's about pinball.”
“I love pinball so much... it's kind of like tongue in cheek, right? Because it is not a job at all. But you're just like, no days off. Like, I want to play every day.”
“I do think a pinball machine is an expression of art just as much as like a book or a movie is”
“I think metallica is really fucking mid like i don't like it that much... it kind of looks like a it's like eighth grade like notebook drawings”
“dude people can tell when you fake it like it sucks like i didn't want to do something that felt cheesy or like halfway, I want to do it all the way”
“I think if people kind of listened for like input and like internalized it they'd actually be able to get away with stuff that they couldn't otherwise”
“pinball is actually easier to get into than skateboarding because you can see how cool it is there's like movie themes that are right there that you're already familiar with”
“We take it and we take it seriously but we don't take ourselves seriously you know like that's the vibe”
Entities
- MGC / Midwest Gaming Classic· event
- Hard Body Pinball· game
- John Wick Pinball· game
- Metallica Pinball· game
- Shadow Pinball· game
- Big Brother Magazine· organization
- Nudge Magazine· organization
- Tilt / Lit· organization
- Wormhole Pinball· organization
- Bill Belichick· person
- Brian Moen· person
- Colin· person
- Donovan Wade· person
- Elizabeth Weinberg· person
- Eric Frick / Rick Brewster· person
- Gene Wong· person
- Gina Kolechia· person
- Ian Jacoby· person
- Ida Kruitzer· person
- Jamie Burchill· person
- Rachel Ristow· person
- Tanner Petsch· person
- Tyler White· person
- Zombie Yeti· person
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