The Brooklyn Filmmaker’s Collective, or BFC, was founded by filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine. It’s now a five-year-old informal but tightly knit group of about fifty local filmmakers who meet weekly to critique work that they have total creative control over.
June 18, 2013 Classic, Film, Multi/Media, Video
“There’s a search box and they own it and we put our dreams in it and they eat them,” said Columbia Law professor Eben Moglen in a lecture called “Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media” at the 2012 re:publica conference in Berlin. His was not a new revelation, even then.
June 14, 2013 Classic, Multi/Media, The People, Video
On May 29, 2013 there were two back-to-back panel discussions, one in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn, which drew two different crowds of artists, feminists and leftists. To my knowledge, only two people attended both: myself and the journalist and author Sara Marcus. Listen right here, or click through to read more, listen to audio and see video of a live performance of Habibi.
“I think a lot,” laughed the artist Itziar Barrio, stationed at the desk in her fifth floor studio at CSV (Clemente Soto Velez) on Suffolk Street in Manhattan. “That’s my job!” We were discussing her past eight years working as a full time artist – six of them in New York …
May 16, 2013 Classic, Featured Artists, Film
This Memorial Day weekend, specifically 8pm on May 25, at Bushwick’s own Acheron – the home of the second coming of CBGB’s according to them – we’ll be hosting some of Brooklyn’s talented emerging women in rock n’ roll at our showcase: The Grrrlie Show.
May 13, 2013 Audio, Classic, Music Profiles, Shows
Kim and Thurston were role models for working in a creative partnership. We thought we could trust these over-30s to model a lifestyle we could get into, one that would veer away from such clichés as the midlife crisis affair. So, what now?
May 9, 2013 Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
This savvy bunch of at once traditional and totally unconventional writers and performers will inhabit the Standard ToyKraft space in Williamsburg through May 18 with their latest production.
May 4, 2013 Classic, Theater, Video
Liz Godoy’s latest musical endeavor is a new LP under the guise of The Tablets, songs written by her, and co-produced with partner and collaborator the musician and producer Brenden Beu (Male Bonding, Pissed Jeans, o’death). This mélange of 60s garage infused new wave noise shoe-gaze sounds like a lot of things you want to hear, all at once.
May 3, 2013 Audio, Classic, Music Profiles, Shows
The SXSW film premiere of The Punk Singer, a documentary on the life of Kathleen Hanna, happened in Austin, Texas last week. The documentary on the Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin singer and longtime activist, artist and de facto leader of the 90s feminist movement riot grrrl, Kathleen, along with producer Tamra Davis and director Sini Anderson answered questions in a DIY media blitz down south. Special guest appearance by Amanda Palmer.
March 19, 2013 Boroughing, Classic, Film, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Photo, Video
The son of the former congressman from the district announced his new office as a political consultant, and clued in his local group of political wonks on news from a recent meeting of district leaders for the Kings County Democratic Party. Here’s a little inside baseball on the Kings County Democratic Party as heads turn to the 2013 local races.
March 1, 2013 Boroughing, Classic, New, State Politics
I arrived at ABC No Rio on a recent Saturday, sixteen years after my first matinee for a record release party celebrating the local lady band Claire’s Diary. It was the first time it really sunk in how far things had come.
February 26, 2013 Boroughing, Multi/Media, Music Reviews, Shows, Video
The FAILE tower has been assembled under the forty-foot tall ceiling of this luscious alter to New York’s cultural dominance.
February 13, 2013 Art Reviews, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, New, Photo
I spent the majority of my evening last Monday surveying the crowd at Lincoln Center’s preview of Les Ballets de FAILE for anyone who looked like a possible graffiti artist.
February 13, 2013 Art Reviews, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, Photo
Local photographer and artist Ryan James MacFarland is preparing for his next show, but was among the first to attend the Shandaken Project residency in upstate New York aimed at creating “a space where experimentation, process, and research are privileged as ends in and of themselves.”
January 10, 2013 Boroughing, Featured Artists, Multi/Media, Photo
Dominique Miniaci along with her partner and East Village Radio host, Mike Newman run Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records, an offshoot of Newman’s four-year-old EVR show by the same name.
December 17, 2012 Audio, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, New
Starting with her close group of friends who would come over with empty jars, Cindy’s Redhead Hot Sauce is a delicious homemade success now making its way onto the local market.
December 13, 2012 Bars, Video
You. Must. Write. About. This. Band. Was the message I got from Sharon Van Etten recently, and I obliged, and here we are. They’re playing this Saturday at Glasslands with Speck Mountain and a special guest – wonder who that could be!
December 12, 2012 Audio, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, New
These are the real local natives.
December 12, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, New, Night/Life, Photo
Since the current public advocate, Bill deBlasio, is ditching his post to run for mayor, Crain’s New York Business had a few things to say about who might replace him. We thought it was ripe for picking.
December 12, 2012 Boroughing, Classic
Take the L train to Dekalb Avenue in Bushwick where Brooklyn The Borough is media sponsoring a new ongoing event series by our good friends Partners In Crime at The Lab.
December 10, 2012 Audio, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, New, Shows
Juxtaposed against the early artists of the Hudson Valley style, whose creative re-creation of the manifest-destiny era American landscape lacked substance if not beauty, these modern artists toil in the devastating industrial quandaries of our society.
December 7, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, New
At the Brooklyn Night Bazaar in Williamsburg this past weekend we were thrilled to check out all the DIY designs, live music and tasty and inventive snacks on hand (peppermint patty CAKE, omg). Thousands of locals came out to see the crafts and culture and share it with friends this holiday season. Tweet us @bklyntheborough or use #BKLYN if you see any good items out in the markets and we’ll share it with the borough.
December 4, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Cooperative Public Media, New
There is something for everyone – literally – at Brooklyn’s plethora of local DIY artisan and food markets. Here’s the December 2012 line up!
November 30, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Food, New, The People
It’s not a festival, but a “film challenge that brings communities closer together by inviting filmmakers of all levels to create short narrative or documentary videos of their block using only their block’s residents as cast and crew.”
November 28, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, New
Brooklyn The Borough’s new model was developed outside of the mainstream media, yet is imbued with the lessons of traditional media’s ethical platforms for reporting and discovery. The only thing that has changed here is the business model – now it includes you. We’ve created a new role for business in media, that reflects our new independent economy and gives creative people a local platform to bring in new customers and up cycles that desire to support a local free press by and for the people.
November 26, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Cooperative Public Media, New
This is massively complex and yet really simple. We need a new kind of media for a new era – internet public access if you will. Media that is for us and by us, that tells the truth as best as it can, reflects our cultures, and informs us about our community wherever we go across devices.
November 20, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Cooperative Public Media, New, The People
An interesting short film came through our inbox this morning that we felt compelled to share in relation to our past series on food and environmental issues in Brooklyn. Here it is: the real life stories of New York City dumpster divers.
November 14, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Film, New, Video
Thankfully YouTube has allowed our account to upload more than 15 minutes at a time because this is seriously a great video. Last but not least in our Book Fest video series this year came from the last and likely largest panel of the day featuring Dan Savage.
September 28, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, New, Video
Towards the end of Brooklyn Book Fest we headed over to the Brooklyn Historical Society’s gorgeous old library for “Power to the People: Grassroots Revolution in the Post-Hope Era.”
September 25, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
In this video, Hayes takes a really long time just to tell us that OWS and the Tea Party have enough in common to be friends.
September 24, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Multi/Media, The Locals, The Read, Video