A stencil call for a May 1st general strike. #streetart #williamsburg Doesn’t look strictly #OWS related. (Taken with instagram)

A stencil call for a May 1st general strike. #streetart #williamsburg Doesn’t look strictly #OWS related. (Taken with instagram)

At least if you’re going to diss a joke — and really, we all know it’s just a stupid joke — use some real facts. You are conveniently forgetting (erasing?) Brooklyn’s 10% East Asian community and your percentages add up to over 110% even without that group factored in, though I understand there is overlap with Hispanic and white & black (reinforcing that racial categories are pretty useless). The Hispanic community of Brooklyn is about 20%, not 35%. Also, the white community, which is more like 47%, like the black community (34%) is not a monolith. Portland’s breakdown is 76% white, 6% black, 7% East Asian, 9% latino and 2 or more “races” is 5% (I’m guessing the overlap I mentioned above means these don’t add up perfectly). It’s curious to note that only 1% of people in Brooklyn identify in the multiracial category. youngmanhattanite: pareene: jawnita: ALSO, can we stop creating this false dichotomy between Portland and Brooklyn? People are comparing a small-sized city with a legitimately white-majority population, to some myopic media perception of maybe like one or two neighborhoods in THE MOST POPULATED BOROUGH OF NEW YORK CITY. Brooklyn has 3 fucking million people living in it, and Mr and Ms Media Reducto over here are reducing it to a few banal and dated stereotypes about the privileged white people who live on Bedford Avenue and/or Park Slope. GUESS WHAT, Williamsburg existed before “hipsters” moved there. This borough is 42% white, 35% Latino, 34% Black, AND ALL LOVE. Whereas Portland’s community of color is largely relegated to outlying suburbs and neighborhoods still affected by the segregating effects of redlining in the 1940s, and is stuck with a “liberal” white community that is so scared to admit it might be racist that its lack of dialogue and overt white-niceness towards blacks and Latinos there completely otherizes them in a totally condescending way. ANYWAY! STOP SAYING THE TERM “BROOKLANDIA,” and also PORTLAND IS NOT A UTOPIA FOR NOT-WHITE PEOPLE. Yep, pretty much this And Sanfrooklyn and Broaklynd and Willadelphiaburg and…

At least if you’re going to diss a joke — and really, we all know it’s just a stupid joke — use some real facts. You are conveniently forgetting (erasing?) Brooklyn’s 10% East Asian community and your percentages add up to over 110% even without that group factored in, though I understand there is overlap with Hispanic and white & black (reinforcing that racial categories are pretty useless). The Hispanic community of Brooklyn is about 20%, not 35%.

Also, the white community, which is more like 47%, like the black community (34%) is not a monolith.

Portland’s breakdown is 76% white, 6% black, 7% East Asian, 9% latino and 2 or more “races” is 5% (I’m guessing the overlap I mentioned above means these don’t add up perfectly). It’s curious to note that only 1% of people in Brooklyn identify in the multiracial category.

youngmanhattanite:

pareene:

jawnita:

ALSO, can we stop creating this false dichotomy between Portland and Brooklyn? People are comparing a small-sized city with a legitimately white-majority population, to some myopic media perception of maybe like one or two neighborhoods in THE MOST POPULATED BOROUGH OF NEW YORK CITY. Brooklyn has 3 fucking million people living in it, and Mr and Ms Media Reducto over here are reducing it to a few banal and dated stereotypes about the privileged white people who live on Bedford Avenue and/or Park Slope. GUESS WHAT, Williamsburg existed before “hipsters” moved there. This borough is 42% white, 35% Latino, 34% Black, AND ALL LOVE. Whereas Portland’s community of color is largely relegated to outlying suburbs and neighborhoods still affected by the segregating effects of redlining in the 1940s, and is stuck with a “liberal” white community that is so scared to admit it might be racist that its lack of dialogue and overt white-niceness towards blacks and Latinos there completely otherizes them in a totally condescending way. ANYWAY! STOP SAYING THE TERM “BROOKLANDIA,” and also PORTLAND IS NOT A UTOPIA FOR NOT-WHITE PEOPLE.

Yep, pretty much this

And Sanfrooklyn and Broaklynd and Willadelphiaburg and…

jawnita

In case you forgot, this #streetart work wants to remind you something. #OWS #williamsburg (Taken with instagram)

In case you forgot, this #streetart work wants to remind you something. #OWS #williamsburg (Taken with instagram)

Where Christian clergy might sign a letter “yours in Christ,” Kopimists write, “Copy and seed.” They have no god. “We see the world as built on copies,” Gerson told me. “We often talk about originality; we don’t believe there’s any such thing. It’s certainly that way with life—most parts of the world, from DNA to manufacturing, are built by copying.” The highest form of worship, he said, is the remix: “You use other people’s works to make something better.
Culture Desk: “The First Church of Pirate Bay,” The New Yorker (via wreckandsalvage)

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Hot startups that pop up on TechCrunch all have at least five Chinese versions. That’s a common route for the ‘cool kids’ among Zhongguancun’s techies: there are more Tumblr, Flipboard, Pinterest, Instagram, and WhatsApp clones and mashups than you can count.
Kai Lukoff on TechCrunch

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I just have to say it, NohJColey’s screen printed stickers have been a nice recent addition to the streetscape. He’s also creating zines (like the one on the top left) which opens to an accordion of black and white pages that feel like an art version of manga.

I just have to say it, NohJColey’s screen printed stickers have been a nice recent addition to the streetscape.

He’s also creating zines (like the one on the top left) which opens to an accordion of black and white pages that feel like an art version of manga.

I think it is safe to say this is the least friendly menorah in New York. #Williamsburg (Taken with instagram)

I think it is safe to say this is the least friendly menorah in New York. #Williamsburg (Taken with instagram)

Holiday decorations on N6th Street #Williamsburg (Taken with instagram)

Holiday decorations on N6th Street #Williamsburg (Taken with instagram)

The gentlemen from Bushwick Print Lab doing a live printing late Sat night at @bkbazaar (Taken with instagram)

The gentlemen from Bushwick Print Lab doing a live printing late Sat night at @bkbazaar (Taken with instagram)

One of tote bags by James Prez at our @bkbazaar booth. (Taken with Instagram at Brooklyn Night Bazaar)

One of tote bags by James Prez at our @bkbazaar booth. (Taken with Instagram at Brooklyn Night Bazaar)

Jean Lowe’s ” When to Tell Your Husband…” (2006) at McKenzie Fine Art at #AquaArtFair (Taken with instagram)

Jean Lowe’s ” When to Tell Your Husband…” (2006) at McKenzie Fine Art at #AquaArtFair (Taken with instagram)

A view of Shigeto’s set at the Electro-Mechanica electronic art festival in St Petersburg. (Taken with instagram)

A view of Shigeto’s set at the Electro-Mechanica electronic art festival in St Petersburg. (Taken with instagram)

Young woman endlessly staring at a Matisse. #hermitage (Taken with instagram)

Young woman endlessly staring at a Matisse. #hermitage (Taken with instagram)

Detail of Henri Matisse’s “Arab Cafe” (1913) #hermitage (Taken with instagram)

Detail of Henri Matisse’s “Arab Cafe” (1913) #hermitage (Taken with instagram)

When you visit the #Hermitage you realize why there was a Russian Revolution. Also I’ve learned a new concept. The banality of super awesomeness. (Taken with instagram)

When you visit the #Hermitage you realize why there was a Russian Revolution. Also I’ve learned a new concept. The banality of super awesomeness. (Taken with instagram)