Tag Archive for the term: brooklyn

Got this sweet email from Brooklyn’s Secondstar, comes complete with a free EP full of songs from far away friends whistling for you and me to come find them and they follow their drums and croaky pretty repetition like a chant from the light to the dark.
Here’s one of the free Secondstar songs, called [...]

All over the city of New York one watchful eye found plastered red paper hovering in flight, but when the images came home and lined up in a row to make a video, they fluttered and hovered with life, coming off the wall and into flight with the addition of time and the compiling eye, [...]

Check out this tasty little excerpt from THE BQE – A Film by Sufjan Stevens which sounds grandiose and great. Can’t wait.

First and foremost, The BQE is a self-made home-movie documentation, exhibiting how all the architectural colors of Brooklyn and Queens are fabulously intersected by this ramshackle artery of highway traffic. Shot renegade style [...]

While we’re remembering some of the good indie fun had in 2008, let’s flash back to September 2008, NYC, Fashion week madness. For me one event in particular is worth revisting for it’s epicness (I do love a large scale indie art event) and that’s the Fashion Indie show where over 20 independent designers showed [...]

Two sets of brothers and one brotherly, baritone friend came together from Ohio to Brooklyn to be The National, except first they were American Mary. “Discovered” by Rolling Stone last year, they have been building their marching mumbled, low rider, soft thunder rock and making it roll since 1999, stayed in the indie area, and [...]

This will be a simple photo post to reflect on the last few days. I’m all alone now, with Sarah and Alanah gone. I’ve taken to more wandering and walking then before. Some of the shots i’ve taken will be featured soon, but first I have some stuff to show you that I took while [...]

In the NYC vs X-Mas contest, Williamsburg is waaay ahead. Thanks to ye olde heat-island effect, it’s practically t-shirt weather, without a snowflake in sight. Of course, nobody who lives in this neighbourhood is actually from Williamsburg and anybody who is hung up on Christmas traidtions is likely home for the holidays.
Centered around the Bedford [...]

Christmas is not my favourite.
Presumptuous and self-important, Christmas insists on dominating the month of December. Instead of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we are stuck with Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Leading up to this are the manic weeks of Christmas shopping, set to the nauseating tinkle of Christmas tunes, or worse, to rock [...]

Once in a while, trawling through the web will turn up a real treasure. The Brooklyn Community Sound Mapping Project is the awesomest one I’ve found in a while.
Students at Erasmus High School in Flatbush, South Brooklyn collaborated with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, to create a soundscape of their neighbourhood.
The 10 [...]