Photo by Robert Wright for The NY Times
On a Saturday morning about two months ago, a kind mustachioed gentleman named Michael Tortorello visited me in
my home to interview me about a website I co-run called The Do Not Enter Diaries
for this newspaper called The New York Times.
Michael had heard of our project after I left the NYTimes a long fan-girl voicemail about it. I am still in awe that this happened, and the reactions that have come about since have been humbling (read the full article here). For those of you who don’t know The Do Not Enter Diaries, it’s a weekly webseries I founded with my best friend Emily Cohn that
tells the stories of teenagers through their bedrooms. From top-to-bottom our
site is of-teens-by-teens, dedicated to broadening our definition of the
teenage bedroom.
Emily films and edits the videos, while I interview our teen subjects,
created/ run our website (read our co-founder’s diaries here). We currently post a new video every Wednesday at 4PM,
but in the coming months we’ll be adding columns on Mondays and Fridays as
well. I am most excited about Mondays’ Correspondent’s Corner. Because we are
dedicated to making The Do Not Enter Diaries as global as possible, one way of
accomplishing this is through our correspondent program, where teenagers with a
strong interest in film, help us reach teens in areas to which we cannot
travel. Correspondents are responsible for cultivating a unique group of
teenagers whom they know, filming them in our style, and sending us the footage
to edit as we see fit. You can fill out the application to become a
correspondent here.
In addition to the NY
Times, other people of the internet have been writing really kind things about
our project. Thank you to Refinery29, Urban Outfitters, Rookie, and everyone else!!
We also have a lot of other online and print media projects coming out in the coming months to keep an eye out for. But, as
always, we are looking for teens who have a connection to their room. Don’t hesitate to apply or shoot us an email at donoenterdiaries@gmail.com
, Tweets us @donotenterdiary or like us on Facebook to share questions/comments .
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