Blond brick tenements on Willoughby between Wyckoff and St. Nicholas.
From Trash to…Wearable Trash: Freegans are again torturing Bushwick with their shitty clothing, rancid food, and batshit bonkers ideas about economics.
Subprime ‘Crisis’!…?: I have been saying the whole time, there is no crisis, unless breaking a nail is also a crisis. It seems that under 2000 “subprime” homeowners in Brooklyn — a borough of 2.5 million, you’ll recall — are being foreclosed on. Uh, why all the hysterics? Even if it were 20,000, so what? Sucks for the people losing their house but they clearly should never have had it to begin with. Don’t worry, your stupid president will probably find some way to keep the market from cleaning up the mess in a satisfactory way.
Beat n’ Behead: Miss Heather would like to school us on the defunct City of Brooklyn’s mildly fascist symbolism, inspired by the old city seal on the amazing historic building tragically wasted on the HPD at Wilson and DeKalb.
Feelin’ Superior: An interesting look at tenements at the turn of the century, and how every law that allegedly improved housing pushed through by the uptown reformists simply shifted problems to other areas of the housing market or actually made things worse.
You’re Sooo Punk, in Your Car: People with cars amuse me: this guy had no idea he was in Queens until he had been in it for like two miles. Only when he turned around did he find his destination: a bunch of graffitied walls on Flushing. Is he actually lamenting that one of the pieces (the best one) was done legally?
f.trainer February 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
ahhaha – i’m going to petition bloomberg to install a giant neon sign announcing the transition of bushwick into queens as i wouldn’t want anyone else to make the mistake of not knowing exactly where one industrial park ends and another begins.
Dresden February 10th, 2008 at 12:09 am
As a side-note to February’s happenings, last night AD HOC ART had what I consider their best opening – and their most market-oriented.
And a few locals said, Fucking sell-outs. You’re not hanging our DIY shitty crap no one is ever going to buy.
I’d just like to tell those people a little quote from another DIY guy –
“If you hang it up, you have to look at it.”
- Andy Warhol.
Jeremy February 11th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Sell-outs? I was under the impression everything was for sale there. We even bought a set of prints there a while back — with a credit card.
The only way to be a viable artist is to sell things. If nobody wants to buy your art, it means it’s crap.
Dresden February 11th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I guess it was the fact that some “famous” artists got pieces into this show…
that the show, with the new gallery director, was beginning to have standards.
Of course, we’d all like to make mediocrity and have people lick our asses for it (among other parts), so when it doesn’t happen and you’re young and self-important, you get angry!
ah.