the video is not going to be a plain shot of just us video recording with a camera. and i think it should be more interesting than just flashing different pictures. it should be somewhere between there. so, stop motion animation came to mind. how ever, in the video, there is not going to be any object being animated. it is just going to be a more complex form of just a video with pictures flashing through.
everyone liked the tea bag idea. so, maybe we should make the tea bag idea into a stop motion animation too! have not discuss with everyone yet. but this is going to be on the side with the main film. it's a commercial where it's animated and we can make ads and poster and incorporate into our booklet.
Friday, February 27, 2009
night visit to Williamsburg
This was my (reported by shuya) first visit to Williamsburg. i have to say it is nothing like how i pictured. the type of people who lives there varies from this end of the spectrum to the other side.
Lots of construction going on in many places. but i can see it's starting from a point and it is spreading out.
a nice condo/apartment.
factory on the other side of the street form the new building.
i mean, it's so different that you just have to cross the street to be in a totally different place. the feeling is so...complicated almost.
this is old williamsburg.
more and more construction as i walk down the street.
this sign was on the gate of the construction that is going on. i didn't get it at first, and then i was like, Oh...
This too.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The TEABAG idea and the money
A general drawing of how gentrification changes things.
This is the money idea, where a big bill comes into a community and covers up the poor coins and eventually forces them to leave.
Okay, I'm thinking of a tea bag that will represent a little community that no one knows but once it's open by someone people start to look at it more and more. The tea bag going into the hot water represents a little community mixing into the big melting pot (the investors and the rich people). Even if it's only the tip of the tea bag that gets into the water, the water will creep up little by little and eventually soak up the whole tea bag. The hot water will get rid of everything that was there. Even if the tea bag dries up the original favor will be gone. Maybe something like "it will never be the SAME again?"
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
developing storyboard
We have decided to come up with a short clip to draw people's attention to gentrification.
We are not taking a stand on any side, we are not saying it's something good or bad. We want to remain neutral because this topic is something that has benefits on both sides.
So the clip is the attention drawer and then we will make a pamphlet full of important information on how different members of the community can take a stand on it. It is their decision to be against or support, we would just like them to gain knowledge of what is happening around them and how they can improve their lives.
We are not taking a stand on any side, we are not saying it's something good or bad. We want to remain neutral because this topic is something that has benefits on both sides.
So the clip is the attention drawer and then we will make a pamphlet full of important information on how different members of the community can take a stand on it. It is their decision to be against or support, we would just like them to gain knowledge of what is happening around them and how they can improve their lives.
Governmental Sites:
Information on Housing in New York City, Renter’s Rights etc.
http://www.housingnyc.com/html/resources/resources.html
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/Notes-WB-future.htm
http://nymag.com/realestate/articles/neighborhoods/williamsburg.htm
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/greenpointwill_con/greenpointwill_con_2.shtml
http://www.housingnyc.com/html/resources/resources.html
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/Notes-WB-future.htm
http://nymag.com/realestate/articles/neighborhoods/williamsburg.htm
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/greenpointwill_con/greenpointwill_con_2.shtml
Historic Restoration Project
Mayor Bloomberg’s Affordable Housing PlanMayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace Plan will create and preserve affordable homes and apartments for half a million New Yorkers. It’s the largest municipal housing plan in the nation’s history. The Mayor says, "Every generation of ambitious and hard-working New Yorkers deserve just what my parents struggled to achieve and what all parents want for their children: the security that only good homes in safe and stable neighborhoods can provide. Affordable housing is fundamental to our long-term economic prosperity."
http://www.housingnyc.com/html/resources/resources.html
2.10.09 -2
-give back to the community
-making affordable housing and not condos/ or have a mix of both
-keep community-diversity
-give something to the community-parks, activities for children-community, give something needed.
Much of the debate about gentrification and displacement involves struggles over definition. Although it is often equated with neighborhood improvement, in reality gentrification is a process of class transformation: it is the remaking of working-class spaces to serve the needs of middle- and upper-class people. Sometimes this does not displace people from their homes, but from their jobs (as when factories are converted to luxury housing); at other times upscale housing is developed on vacant land. In any case, when an established working-class residential area becomes attractive to investors, developers and middle-class households, the risk of displacement can become quite serious.
-making affordable housing and not condos/ or have a mix of both
-keep community-diversity
-give something to the community-parks, activities for children-community, give something needed.
Much of the debate about gentrification and displacement involves struggles over definition. Although it is often equated with neighborhood improvement, in reality gentrification is a process of class transformation: it is the remaking of working-class spaces to serve the needs of middle- and upper-class people. Sometimes this does not displace people from their homes, but from their jobs (as when factories are converted to luxury housing); at other times upscale housing is developed on vacant land. In any case, when an established working-class residential area becomes attractive to investors, developers and middle-class households, the risk of displacement can become quite serious.
2.20.09 -2
Displacement at Greenbelt
Indeed, the borders between “artists” and “locals” are porous. The media portrayal of Williamsburg suddenly transforming into a creative community with the arrival of mostly white artists displaced from Manhattan insults the neighborhood’s diverse creative heritage.
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/05/local/displacement-at-greenbelt
2.19.09
not-so-natural process of Williamsburg gentrification
Atlantic Yards Report
Local ACORN Dir. Bertha Lewis has tried to sell Bruce Ratner's controversial Atlantic Yards plan as a hedge against the rising tide of gentrification, explaining "If I could stop one iota of gentrification, I’ll do it."
Norman Oder looks at an analysis of gentrification and affordable housing in Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where inclusionary zoning and market forces may give Atlantic Yards watchdogs some clues to whether or not Bertha Lewis has a clue.
So, how well did the Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning work in terms of providing affordable housing? How far along is gentrification? Some sobering observations, if not a full statistical analysis, emerge from an analysis by graduate students at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. The report, Gentrification and Rezoning, Williamsburg-Greenpoint, was produced in conjunction with The New York City Community Council.
For example, the study concludes that inclusionary zoning—which provides increased development rights in exchange for including affordable housing—has worked well on waterfront parcels, where there is both public land to be used and sufficient space to build back.
However, on smaller upland parcels where there’s less room to build bigger overall, “the inclusionary program does not appear to be enough of an incentive to encourage the development of affordable housing.” Instead, developers have taken advantage of the existing 421-a tax exemption, which, until reforms go into effect next year, does not require affordable units in exchange.
http://www.nolandgrab.org/archives/2007/07/the_notsonatura.html
2.17.09
BROOKLYN BOHEMIA THE ARTS CROWD MADE THE SCENE IN WILLIAMSBURG - NOW GENTRIFICATION'S IN THE PICTURE
By WHITNEY WALKER Daily News Staff Writer
"There's a renaissance occurring in Williamsburg," says Assembly Housing Committee Chairman Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn), a Williamsburg native who likens its gentrification to that of Park Slope. But as neighborhoods improve, he warns, poorer ethnic groups often get pushed out.
"People move into a neighborhood because it's quaint, but it becomes unquaint after a while," notes Marty Needleman of Brooklyn Legal Services in Williamsburg. "One generation of immigrants resists the next generation. Some of it's right and some of it's wrong."
"I used to have to choke on the word Brooklyn," says one painter who doesn't want his name used, because he was violently mugged when he moved to the south side 15 years ago. Though Williamsburg feels safer now, he worries it will go upscale and the industrial waterfront will be rezoned for fancy condos.
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/lifestyle/1997/04/20/1997-04-20_brooklyn_bohemia_the_arts_cr.html
By WHITNEY WALKER Daily News Staff Writer
"There's a renaissance occurring in Williamsburg," says Assembly Housing Committee Chairman Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn), a Williamsburg native who likens its gentrification to that of Park Slope. But as neighborhoods improve, he warns, poorer ethnic groups often get pushed out.
"People move into a neighborhood because it's quaint, but it becomes unquaint after a while," notes Marty Needleman of Brooklyn Legal Services in Williamsburg. "One generation of immigrants resists the next generation. Some of it's right and some of it's wrong."
"I used to have to choke on the word Brooklyn," says one painter who doesn't want his name used, because he was violently mugged when he moved to the south side 15 years ago. Though Williamsburg feels safer now, he worries it will go upscale and the industrial waterfront will be rezoned for fancy condos.
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/lifestyle/1997/04/20/1997-04-20_brooklyn_bohemia_the_arts_cr.html
2.16.09
The Williamsburg Warriors
Dancing Against Rezoning
Drinking For Affordable Housing
The Warriors are a new breed of community activism in this area, an entirely new animal compared to the long-established coalitions such as the North Brooklyn Alliance and the Greenpoint Williamsburg Association for Parks and Planning. While this neighborhood is already unique in the fact that its younger residents actually care to join the community's opposition to firehouse closings and massive power plants, there is a significant section of the populace that spends infinitely more time drinking and dancing than protesting and picketing, and only vaguely understands what exactly a community board does and why.
http://williamsburgwarriors.org/press.html
Dancing Against Rezoning
Drinking For Affordable Housing
The Warriors are a new breed of community activism in this area, an entirely new animal compared to the long-established coalitions such as the North Brooklyn Alliance and the Greenpoint Williamsburg Association for Parks and Planning. While this neighborhood is already unique in the fact that its younger residents actually care to join the community's opposition to firehouse closings and massive power plants, there is a significant section of the populace that spends infinitely more time drinking and dancing than protesting and picketing, and only vaguely understands what exactly a community board does and why.
http://williamsburgwarriors.org/press.html
2.14.09
OUTLOOK
The basics: Roughly half the available spaces near the first stop of the L train are lofts, but railroad apartments (450 to 1,500 square feet) are more common in general.
What's new:
Williamsburg Gardens, at 250 South 2nd Street, and Bedford Court, at 150 South 1st Street (both in the $300,000-to-$700,000 range), are condo buildings catering to first-time buyers. Tellingly, for a young neighborhood that's starting to mature, 158 Broadway's apartments all have two bedrooms. Busta Rhymes recently bought a million-dollar-plus apartment at 60 Broadway, an old musical-instrument factory.
Bargain hunting:
The farther from the Bedford and North 7th Street epicenter you get, the better the deal—specifically, the farther you go east toward Bushwick or north into Greenpoint. If you go about two stops past Williamsburg proper into Bushwick, a 42-unit building in a former tea factory has lofts renting for $1,100 to $1,800. Prediction: How the waterfront is developed—park or garbage-processing plant?—will determine the area's long-term fortunes. Expect prices and rents to keep climbing, as young singles and artists are joined by traditional first-time buyers.
“Services are within walking distance, so especially the area north of the Williamsburg Bridge has become attractive,” says Insignia Douglas Elliman's Helene Luchnick. That means larger apartments are more in demand. Wild card: If the 2012 Olympics come to town, Williamsburg will be home to archery, beach volleyball, and all sorts of new construction. — Profile from the March 10, 2003 cover story of New York Magazine
http://curbed.com/tags/gentrification?tag=gentrification&page=2
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=215400035
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml
http://savemarxbrothersplace.wordpress.com/
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/greenpointwill/greenoverview.shtml
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE1D6173CF933A05750C0A960948260
http://ny.therealdeal.com/articles/new-williamsburg-development-going-rental
http://ny.therealdeal.com/articles/choosing-plan-b-when-going-condo-to-rental-makes-sense
The basics: Roughly half the available spaces near the first stop of the L train are lofts, but railroad apartments (450 to 1,500 square feet) are more common in general.
What's new:
Williamsburg Gardens, at 250 South 2nd Street, and Bedford Court, at 150 South 1st Street (both in the $300,000-to-$700,000 range), are condo buildings catering to first-time buyers. Tellingly, for a young neighborhood that's starting to mature, 158 Broadway's apartments all have two bedrooms. Busta Rhymes recently bought a million-dollar-plus apartment at 60 Broadway, an old musical-instrument factory.
Bargain hunting:
The farther from the Bedford and North 7th Street epicenter you get, the better the deal—specifically, the farther you go east toward Bushwick or north into Greenpoint. If you go about two stops past Williamsburg proper into Bushwick, a 42-unit building in a former tea factory has lofts renting for $1,100 to $1,800. Prediction: How the waterfront is developed—park or garbage-processing plant?—will determine the area's long-term fortunes. Expect prices and rents to keep climbing, as young singles and artists are joined by traditional first-time buyers.
“Services are within walking distance, so especially the area north of the Williamsburg Bridge has become attractive,” says Insignia Douglas Elliman's Helene Luchnick. That means larger apartments are more in demand. Wild card: If the 2012 Olympics come to town, Williamsburg will be home to archery, beach volleyball, and all sorts of new construction. — Profile from the March 10, 2003 cover story of New York Magazine
http://curbed.com/tags/gentrification?tag=gentrification&page=2
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=215400035
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml
http://savemarxbrothersplace.wordpress.com/
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/greenpointwill/greenoverview.shtml
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE1D6173CF933A05750C0A960948260
http://ny.therealdeal.com/articles/new-williamsburg-development-going-rental
http://ny.therealdeal.com/articles/choosing-plan-b-when-going-condo-to-rental-makes-sense
Project Statement
The purpose of our project is to further explore the idea of gentrification in reference to the Williamsburg community. Through this exploration we hope to raise awareness about the issue of gentrification within the community while providing information and resources for those residence that wish to explore the topic more in depth.
The first phase of our project consists of a stop-motion film that’s main goal is to simply catch the attention of the community. We plan to find objects that are specific to Williamsburg’s history and show them being “gentrified” (a box of Domino sugar transforming into “Sugar in the Raw,” etc.) We would also focus on specific buildings and areas within the community that have been gentrified, thus driving home the relevance of the issue. This would start the dialogue we are looking to create and would begin to touch on the idea of money being a catalyst for change.
We would create booklets that contain further information about the idea of gentrification as well as information about organizations that are working to curb it i.e. historical preservation organizations, rent control groups etc. The main goal of our work is to emphasize the importance of the community in reference to combating the negative aspects of gentrification. We hope to provide the information necessary to allow those people who are leading the gentrification process to begin to work within the community. Rather than simply focusing on the negative aspects of gentrification we plan to emphasize the positive contributions and opportunities it provides for communities. We hope to provide the opportunity for those people who are not actively taking part in the community to begin to refocus their attention to the area where they live, whether they take part through the contribution of their time, financial contributions, or otherwise.
The first phase of our project consists of a stop-motion film that’s main goal is to simply catch the attention of the community. We plan to find objects that are specific to Williamsburg’s history and show them being “gentrified” (a box of Domino sugar transforming into “Sugar in the Raw,” etc.) We would also focus on specific buildings and areas within the community that have been gentrified, thus driving home the relevance of the issue. This would start the dialogue we are looking to create and would begin to touch on the idea of money being a catalyst for change.
We would create booklets that contain further information about the idea of gentrification as well as information about organizations that are working to curb it i.e. historical preservation organizations, rent control groups etc. The main goal of our work is to emphasize the importance of the community in reference to combating the negative aspects of gentrification. We hope to provide the information necessary to allow those people who are leading the gentrification process to begin to work within the community. Rather than simply focusing on the negative aspects of gentrification we plan to emphasize the positive contributions and opportunities it provides for communities. We hope to provide the opportunity for those people who are not actively taking part in the community to begin to refocus their attention to the area where they live, whether they take part through the contribution of their time, financial contributions, or otherwise.
how we arrived...list of topics
list of possible topic:
-New School Gym:
The fact that the New School does not maintain a
gym is a great issue for many who attend the university.
-New School Cafeteria problem:
The New School lacks adequate dining facilities and
needs to explore expanding the current “cafés.”
-Transportation,
limitations of public transit, rising costs, compensation for students
who live in the far-off dorms and are forced to take public transit.
-Global warming, impacts on NYC, rising sea levels,
climate change, green living, a greener New School.
-Economic turmoil, falling real estate prices, mortgages,
NYC small business, New School loans/financial aid.
-Personal identity, concept of “self,” heritage,
social/economic status, ethnicity, religion, personal defining characteristic.
-Stereotypes
and misconception, labels, minorities, the “isms” (racism, sexism,
ageism etc. etc.) how that factors into and affects large and small
communities.
-Identity of community, cultural diversity, history,
economic history, influences, demographic
-Diversity and culture, NYC the “melting pot,”
how diversity affects a community.
-Gentrification,
the destruction of unique communities, affordable living conditions,
forcing low-income/minorities out, undermining of sense of “community,”
how to reverse gentrification, how to incorporate new
investments/money/residents back into the community, avoid economic
stagnation, restoration/preservation of historic/community significant
sites.
we were interested in the ideas of personal Identity and of
Stereotypes- misconceptions and labels and that type of deal, but found
it to be too broad.
That we focused on the idea of the Identity of a community and how we
are interested by the diversity that each community, especially the ones
in NYC, possesses.
we decided on gentrification because it threatens that
diversity and the sense of a community Identity and how we are
interested in exploring areas that have either been gentrified, are in
the process of it happening, or might be future areas of gentrification.
Times Square and Hells Kitchen are pretty good examples of where
gentrification has already taken place
Williamsburg is a community where it is currently taking place.
2.10.09
when we thought about gentrification in Williamsburg, we thought about hipsters.
so, we did a little in-depth research on them.
Williamsburg. Striving place for artists and young people, they’re attracted to it like a moth to a light. Cheep rents, originally…. And is only a stop away from Manhattan so it’s not too far out of the way. Lots of hipsters and indi rock.
Mainly families, artists and hipsters living there… but now with all thee gentrification they’re taking a neighborhood that used to be trashy and crime ridden place but it rapidly turning into a nice developed place. Pushing out the local community who has lived there for years.
Bedford is where the hipsters live…….
They-hipstes are also attracted to the music scene… yes indeed Williamsburg is slowly turning into the new hit neighborhood for the young folk. It was soho, then tribecca, now…. Williamsburg.
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