Look who was here to greet me this morning at work! #creepy #puppets #mtv #vh1 (Taken with instagram)

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This is (most of my) World of Jenks family. Today was the second to last day of my internship at MTV, and they all surprised me with a little party in the Story Room since most of them will be in the field tomorrow when I leave. They all signed the most adorable card with some of the nicest goodbyes ever, and gave me such a generous parting gift I almost cried.

I can’t even begin to explain how much these people have changed my life, they’ve been such an amazing support system and each one of them has taught me so much. They’ve been joking all week about how they don’t know what they’re going to do without me, and it really makes me feel like I did the right thing this summer by taking this opportunity and going with it.

Each one of them told me that they want me to hire them when I become a big shot after graduation. I would consider my career a success if I just get to work with any of these fine people again.

That awkward moment when you’re calling locations for MTV and your aunt picks up the phone because you forgot she worked at Shop Rite’s corporate office.

nowhaus:

Happy birthday, MTV! On this day in 1981, MTV was born and it rocked TV sets across the nation. Perhaps it is difficult to imagine adolescence, music, TV, or video before it was all mangled into our favorite music television station. While various “illustrated songs” existed in the 1960’s and ‘70’s for French artists like Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, and François Hardy (via a French visual jukebox contraption called Scopitone), MTV created the culture of the music video. Promotional they may be, but combining a visual representation for popular music has been an enduring method to making an artist an icon. Who would Madonna be without her Jean Paul Gaultier pointy bra in the “Open Your Heart” video? How else would Eminem be a revolutionary angry white rapper if we didn’t see the Real Slim Shady stand up? It’s telling that the first music video to air on MTV was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles. I’m not one for aggression, but there’s room for both mediums in this multi-dimensional atmosphere for art and music. 

Happy Birthday, gigantic-company-i-work-for!

A typical day at the office.

Not Pictured: 3 more cups of coffee I downed before noon, my actual work computer, and a stack of 300+ talent releases.

I get to work on The Real World: Brooklyn Reunion Special next month? I can live with that.