OMG :: Galapagos Jumps Wburg Brooklyn Ship

A huge hole in the arts universe will begin to open in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on June 17 when Galapagos will only open intermittently. Galapagos will eventually close and re-open in Dumbo. Galapagos and Elmes will be sorely missed. Lucky Dumbo.

clipped from www.nytimes.com In a move that has greater symbolic significance than mere real estate hopscotch, Galapagos Art Space, the pioneering bar and performing arts space that helped put Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the cultural map, is moving a few neighborhoods down the East River, to Dumbo.

Wburg.TV :: Vol. 1, No. 4

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Proud to present Vol. 1, No. 4 of our vlogvertising video magazine.

With the addition of Duder.com, Yuliya Lanina, and Chris Cassidy (whose 24-hour start-to-finish music video for Acquiesce appears), Wburg.TV begins to fold fine, local Williamsburg, Brooklyn film makers into the vlogvertising mix. It won't be long before all the video magazine content is produced by local artists.

Welcomes are also in order to Aaron of http://road82.com, Cheryl Colan (http://hummingcrow.com) and Cindy of http://calexivlog.blogspot.com.

Thanks to Ms. Colan for having called Road82 and Calexivlog to our attention; it isn't done alone.

We have a new commercial vlogvertiser in Santa Fe Mexican restaurant (366 Union Avenue @ Powers). These vlogvertisements excite the itinerant portrait painter in me. Fact is, I think of the vlogvertisements as portraits.

What could be more fun than portrait painting in motion pictures? Well...can think of a couple of things.

You can call interesting stuff to our attention here: WburgTV@gmail.com

G'head.

By the way, we use SpinXpress peer-to-peer filesharing tool to produce Wburg.TV with lots of folks from around the planet. It works. Distributed production is the future.

We're looking forward to what guest editor Chris Weagel will come up with for June 23's No. 6 of Wburg.TV.

Link-love:

11211 Office
Acquiesce - the excellent band in Chris Cassidy's music video
Baci & Abbracci Restaurant / Pizza
Sharon Bridgforth / Helga Davis - Love Conjure Blues
Calexi's Vlog - "Butterflies Desert Spring"
Chris Cassidy - Acquiesce music video
Champion Wireless
Philip Clark - "No Title [Floating Glove]"
Cheryl Colan - Time-lapse Trees
Duder - "The Spoon"
Faux Press - editor
Yuliya Lanina - animation - "Journey"
The Lodge - fine restaurant (try the trout)
Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate - rent or buy a Williamsburg apartment
Road 82 - "Eyeball"
Santa Fe Mexican Food / Margaritas - Archive.org - music
Scratch Video - in Penn Station
Surfburg.tv - Ben Sargent Surfing Chowder Hurricane Hopeful
Vic Thrill + The Saturn Missile - music / music video
Dave Toole / SpinXpress - music
Optical Warehouse
Wburg Mall

Prudential Douglas Elliman Music from the public domain & Archive.org
The Lodge Music from the public domain & Archive.org

Wburg through a Foreign Eye

Finland's "Six Degrees" travel mag features this three-sentence review of Williamsburg. Where do people get these ideas?

clipped from www.6d.fi Brooklyn has so far maintained its own character but many locals are worried about the increasing ‘Manhattanization’ of Brooklyn. Williamsburg, an interesting small neighbourhood in northern Brooklyn, is the latest transformation of a forgotten area to an uber cool district, attracting a growing crowd of artists and investors. Rents have doubled in the past few years.

Santa Fe :: Meet Mr. Margarita

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Meet Mr. Margarita. Best margarita this side of Texas. The great Mexican food is icing on the taco.

He lives at Santa Fe - 366 Union Avenue @ Powers - Williamsburg, Brooklyn, County of Kings, USA 11211.

(718) 599-2655

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San Loco Promo :: 20-Cent 20th Anniversary Tacos on May 20th

The 20-cent taco.

May 20th.

In honor of San Loco's 20th Anniversary.

My calendar's marked accordingly.

Download & print the coupon from the San Loco web site, HERE.

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Who is the Faux Press?

The Faux Press was an early adopter of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, back when Williamsburg's street tax was high, and the air was rife with airborne garbage; its asphalt, littered with dog poop, replete with broken glass, condoms & crack vials.

Local businesses closed not at a specific time, but at sunset, in fear for their lives.

Those of us who lived there then made street art and performance to keep ourselves going. We were brave and loved Wburg for its diversity and inspiration.

By 2004 found myself priced out as the burg became hip.

The thing is, my heart's still there.

I need to return. That means a roof over my head.

Ideas? Leave a comment or email me at jannie.jan@gmail.com

Nick Zedd

at Black Betty in Williamsburg
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Ze French...O-la-la...

Thought our restaurant owner subscribers would get a kick out of this one. Courtesy of The New Yorker magazine's Cartoon of the Week. Subscribe yourself, HERE.

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Wburg.TV :: Vol. 1, No. 3.1

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Vol. 1, No. 3.1 - What a ride!

It's amazing to be able to promote the videoblogging motion picture folks I've come to know and respect from around the planet, but more amazing as local creators begin to submit their materials for inclusion in the Wburg Brooklyn video magazine that Wburg.TV becomes.

Took the lessons 11211 Magazine taught to heart, most particularly its editorial policy and total commitment to the art and commerce of 11211.

My goal with Wburg.tv Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2 was to inspire folks to ask, "WTF?"

Done.

It's easy to vlogvertise with us. Really.

Shoot something you love with your cell phone - a video or still. Send us a scan of a drawing you made. Send us a link to some music you recorded. Record us a song to your phone. We're not interested in perfection, but passion. Oh, passion and 11211, the zip code for Williamsburg, Brooklyn, County of Kings, USA.

Email: WburgTV@gmail.com

If you need to learn how to get your stuff to us from your phone or computer, we'll teach you how. It's not difficult in the least. A first step in learning is found at FreeVlog.org. Check it out.

Thanks to Jen - for helping prepare for the launch party; and to Quirk - for coming.

Link Love:

11211 Office
Baci & Abbracci Restaurant / Pizza
Champion Wireless
Faux Press - editor
FreeVlog.org
Rupert Howe - Twittervlog
David Howell Studios
The Lodge
MissBHavens
Serpenteens - music
Shannon Noble
Scratch Video
Ajit Prem - SquiggleBooth
Surfburg.tv
Vic Thrill + The Saturn Missile - music
Dave Toole - music
Aaron Valdez - Blandlands
Erik Visser
Optical Warehouse
Wburg Mall
Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate
Prudential Douglas Elliman Music from the public domain & Archive.org
The Lodge Music from the public domain & Archive.org

We get a lot of music for our vlogvertisements from Archive.org and the public domain, but would prefer to promote local artists. Dig?

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Williamsburg Review :: Williamsburg is Emo

A review of Williamsburg:

Getting off the Subway we came across two vegan restaurants right away. We started to think, hey we can live here. We found an outdoor cafe and ate lunch with our pup. We both remarked on how emo the neighborhood looks. I really haven’t seen so many tight, tapered jeans since the 80s. The neighborhood is really, very cool. Ed is practically in love. He could move in tomorrow.

The author gets a bit more critical later as she discusses the quality of our graffiti.

Enjoy seeing the Wburg through a stranger's eyes.

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MSNBC on The Hipster Boys of Williamsburg.

The "hipster boys of Williamsburg" are gettin' as much MSM press as "The Sopranos" and Tony Soprano used to get.

The phrase is officially in the lexicon.

Shorthand for someone dangerously cute.

"Frackin'"?

MSM's getting hip, too. Or too hip. Something like that.

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clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com

O.M.G.! Kevin Rose is frackin’ adorable! How come none of ya’ll ever mentioned this?! How is it I never noticed until now that one of the pioneers on the new frontier of online community is a major hottie? Look at him, with his bad haircut and his AV-closet moon tan. I bet you a dollar he’s wearing a hoodie, right this very nano second! I’m sayin’, all those hipster boys stumbling around Williamsburg, Brooklyn wish they were so cool. Or smart. Or loaded.

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The Burg :: IP :: Fair Use

The great Wburg-centric episodic comedy "The Burg" had a music video of theirs pulled from YouTube for having used a copyrighted tune in a parody.

The Burg fans weren't quite irate, but they were certainly disappointed and vocal in their comments. It's my understanding that you can use copyrighted material under Fair Use for parody. Perhaps the problem stems from their having used the entire tune and failing to add their own commentary.

My suggestion: add a wee bit of newsroomish commentary at the head to introduce a shortened version of this hysterical bit of fun.

What say you?

Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate

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Proud and happy to present our first vlogvertising effort for Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

The best vlogvertising comes from love and I most certainly fell in love with Michael and his best pal, Beverly, while making this vlogvert.

Falling in love is the future of advertising.

Made with love by Wburg.tv and The Faux Press.

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The Lodge :: 318 Grand Street :: Fine Food

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Our very first vlogvertisement.

We love The Lodge, their food, their service.

Everything about 'em, especially their complete collection of fine bourbon.
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Adweek :: Motorola Sponsors Williamsburg's "The Burg"

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Motorola to Sponsor Web Video Series
May 08, 2007

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Brian Morrissey

SEATTLE Following in the steps of Lonelygirl15, another Web video serial is turning to product placement as an ad model.

Motorola has signed to sponsor "The Burg," a Web comedy series of nine four-minute episodes that explore the hipster haven of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Motorola products will be featured in the programming, which will not include pre-roll spots.

The Burg goes bigtime w/Motorola product placement sponsorship.

Congrats!

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Vibrant Blogging :: Apartment Therapy

ApartmentTherapy.com

From their mission statement:

Helping people to make their apartments better places to live.

The site's vibrant with comments on their excellent ideas for stuff-reduced living, low-cost decorating, and design.

How does a site come to be 'vibrant'?

Contests are a popular means toward that end. ApartmentTherapy.com has their own Smallest, Coolest Apartment Contest. Voting ends May 6, 2007, people, and one of the entrants - Rachel - is from Williamsburg. Vote for Rachel HERE.

Their goal is:

To connect people to the resources they need to redecorate their home, while reducing their reliance on stuff.

Monetization:

• A one-week text link goes for $165. Buy a month for $575. No Google Juice.
  
• A hand-coded text ad (for Google Juice) requires a 3-month commitment
  
• Stats:
  
• 17,000 unique users / day
  
• 190,000 page views / day
• Contest prizes from designers and providers of the stuff of home decorating
  

Authority. It helps to establish 'authority' if you have a book to hawk. ApartmentTherapy does: "apartment therapy : the eight-step home cure"

Niche. One way to go niche is to be geocentric. Apartment therapy is regional, having split the country into five regions.

Patience. Apartment therapy's been around since April 2004.

I'm surprised they haven't incorporated video into their bag-o-tricks.

Wburg.TV's going to incorporate a contest - a film festival - into our bag o' tricks come autumn. Keep yer eyes peeled. $35K in prizes.

Brooklyn Chamber Execs.

Brooklyn Chamber Execs.at the Roebling Tea Room in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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"Last Cigarette" - Plexiglass Brooch

jewelry, originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan.

2003, mixed media, private collection (Fernando).

Tipico BK

Little Paraguayan Cafe
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Little Paraguayan Cafe off Roebling at 221 South 1st. They serve a tasty filet mignon sandwich for $7:50!

Wburg.TV :: @ iTunes, Yeah

Click the iTunes image to subscribe (FREE) @ iTunes.
Beefin' up the web presence.

Oh, yeah:

GapingVoid

Urban Outfitters :: the Malling of Brooklyn

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Urban Outfitters is also looking in Williamsburg, Mr. McDevitt noted, but not where people think.

"I can't give the address, but we haven't even been in the building that people are talking about," Mr. McDevitt said. "We are kicking some tire in that neighborhood, though."

That "building that people are talking about" is 100 North 6th Street, formerly home to Coyote Recording Studios.

Do You Know???

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Do you know where this photograph was taken? Hmmm?

First one to email me (jannie.jan@gmail.com) gets $5 via PayPal.

Bonita

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Bonita on Bedford

Testing the Vimeo Thumbnail Player / Generator

Video on the web. So many video distrubution outlets, so little time.

We're hosting our vlogvertising videos at Vimeo, too.

Wburg.TV @ Veoh

Wburg.TV Online Videos by Veoh.com

I really like the look and quality of Veoh's transcoded flash and player.

Moreover, Veoh will automatically cross-post to all the major social networking sites that support video. Nicer still, is that Veoh is 'fed' from our Blip.tv uploads, so once uploaded at Blip, the videos show up at Veoh, and on to YouTube and MySpace, and Google Video.

My Veoh Show

Per the NY Times :: Williamsburg is Ugly

They don't know why the hype about Wburg Brooklyn?

Tut-tut.

Then go away, yo.

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Ms. del Corte Hirschfeld and Mr. Leiner are artists in the broadest sense of the word, bringing creative energy, humor and intelligence to even the most mundane aspects of their lives. So you might think they would be delighted to live in ultra-hip Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But they are not.

“I think it’s really ugly,” Ms. del Corte Hirschfeld said, referring to the blocks surrounding the 1,200-square-foot Grand Street apartment, which they rent for $1,350 a month. “The plastic facades are superugly. The asphalt siding. You don’t know why there’s all this hype about the neighborhood.”

Black Betty :: Finally! a .pdf Menu

Checking out local Wburg businesses online, I'm astonished at how few restaurants offer easily-downloadable .pdf versions of their menus.

Black Betty is an exception.

Way to go, Black Betty.

Here's the Black Betty menu in .pdf

No blog or videoblog, but photos - unlinkable here because the entire site's in flash.

Sigh.

Holy Cannoli :: Buyer Beware :: Real Estate Developers in the News

So much development, so little time. "The 'Enron' of real estate development deals," right here in Brooklyn - and in Williamsburg.

In a word, appalling.

Maracuja

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Ayesha

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Bobby Bell's place

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Southside Speakeasy - 245 South 1st. Do it!

Re-vlog :: With Love, From Williamsburg, Brooklyn

I totally get how folks are inspired to make love letters to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, County of Kings, USA, 11211.

Do it all the time, m'self.

I really like how this v-love letter is edited. Love its energy, and the music's perfect.

Check it out.

More vlogvertising.

Hand made.

Smells like fresh-baked cookies.

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Surfburg.tv

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Wburg.TV Gets Around

[Giggles]

Ta-da!

The second vlogvertisement for Wburg.tv has been heartily approved by Mr. Moran, and begins its online life, including presence at YouTube, Blip.tv, MySpace, Veoh, and Google Video.

Phew.

Psst, Wburg.tv:

Launches:
May 12, 2007

At Laila Lounge
113 North 7th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Music from the shores of Columbia

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Rose Live Music

Roses on Grand St !

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Cell Clip from Columbian night @ liue At Roses.com. Every Tuesday

Live at Rose

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Rose

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LiveAtRose.com

I Love U Friday

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Found poetry? No notes on the image by the Brooklyn photographer who took it, but I liked it so well, felt moved to blog it here.

Sweet.

Meeting A Test of Will :: The Wburg.tv Reviews Begin

One of the things I love about vlogging and blogging is how it brings folks of like interest (if not like mind) more easily together.

Like how, having been away from Williamsburg for three years (priced out), I "meet" Will, a Wburg photographer who's photo-blogging Wburg's radically changing cityscape.

Including Wburg.tv.

Couldn't be happier that - while Will characterizes our wee screen as having "Times Squared" the corner - he's not used a heavier blunt descriptive instrument.

As folks get to know us - and the mini jumbotron plasma screen at the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 7th Street - I think they'll find us all pretty damned okay.

If it's NOT okay, get your own stuff or the stuff of somebody you admire up there on the screen. I'm an email, an AIM, a Skype, or a phone call away.

862.221.5280 (air)
janofsound (aim)
janmclaughlin (skype)

Photo by TresspassersWill.

The Williamsburg Jumbotron

The Williamsburg Jumbotron
Originally uploaded by TrespassersWill.

Folks with open eyes see and record the existence of our "Jumbotron".

Are we "Times Squaring" or "Web 2.0'ing" the space?

It will take some time for a community to grow around the Jumbotron, but it is above all, a communications device.

Thing is, it's not one-way.

Got something to say in pictures (motion or still)? Email me at jannie.jan@gmail.com or AIM me at 'janofsound'

G'head.

Who is the Faux Press?

The Faux Press was an early adopter of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 1995, the street tax was high, hookers regularly made themselves at home on my stoop to shoot up, and at least one car a week was stripped and eventually burned in front of our loft. The nearby chop shop did a brisk business.

The air was rife with windblown garbage, the asphalt replete with dog poop, condoms, glass, and crack vials.

Those who lived in Williamsburg then made the neighborhood bearable with street art and performance, with our bravery. We added beauty and vitality to a neighborhood whose businesses closed their doors not at a given time, but at dusk, out of fear for their lives.

Was priced out in 2004 when Wburg got hip.

My heart's there and I must return.

Need an apartment and sustenance.

Perhaps you have some ideas to help bring me back to the Burg.

Leave a comment or email me at jannie.jan@gmail.com if you've inspiration.