Bklink: Brooklyn Blogfest

“It’s official. We’re having the 3rd Annual Brooklyn Blogfest at the Brooklyn Lyceum (Fourth Avenue and President) on May 8th at 8 p.m. This year’s theme: Place Matters; Blogging My World. The Blogfest, an annual gathering of Brooklyn Bloggers, is for everyone. Bloggers and non-bloggers alike. What happens at the Blogfest? Lots of bloggers, non-bloggers, media, and others show up. A formal presentation with speakers and video will be followed by a shout-out and then some social time. It should be quite a get-together and I’m very excited about the new venue.–OTBKB

Bklink: More Adventures with Picture Taking

“Sunday while I was at the point, the parks department was summonsing some paintballers, and as I was taking pictures of them, this woman who never identified herself (pictured above) said “Excuse me you can’t take pictures of officers doing their jobs“. I responded by saying that Yes I can, that’s your misinformed opinion. Nothing came of it and she continued to do her job as you can see.”–GerritsenBeach.Net

Bklink: Blogfest is Set

The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Blogfest will be on May 8th, 2008 at 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn Lyceum on Fourth Avenue and Union Street right on top of the R train’s Union Street station. Cool venue for a cool event.–OTBKB

Bklink: Happy Birthday, Fading Ad Blog!

The Fading Ad Blog, which fascinates us every day with its photos and words, has turned one. Among the things it features on its first anniversary is some auto-related signage from Clinton Hill and the Kingston Lounge in Crown Heights. Happy birthday, and here’s to a second year of cool stuff.

Brookbit: Bay Ridge Loses a Blog

We were sad to get an email overnight from the person behind the Right in Bay Ridge blog announcing that the blog is being suspended. The email said, “After much reflection and a shift in priorities, I have decided not to continue running the Right in Bay Ridge blog any longer…Should I be able to revitalize this blog later on, I will let you know.” Right in Bay Ridge was one of the strongest and most reliable blogs coming out of that neighborhood. It will be missed.–GL Inbox

New Brooklyn Blog: Lornagrlphotos

Blogger and flickr photographer Lorna Keuning, whose work we like very much, has launched a new photo blog, appropriately called lornaglrphotos. The first photos she has put up are killer cool. Lorna has been chronicling her own life at her lornagrl blog, which is also worth checking out if you’re interested in knowing something about the person behind the photos. We are so looking forward to seeing more.

New Brooklyn Blog: Art Dog

The Carroll Gardens development battle over the building at 360 Smith Street has spawned many things, including a neighborhood group that has agitated for a downzoning and development moratorium and the wall we named “The Democracy Wall.” This is about the latter. Apparently the person who goes by “Art Dog” and has created many of the grassroots posters has started a blog called….drum roll…Art Dog to tell the story. Art Dog describes himself as follows:

I am an erudite Brooklynite though I was born a common street mutt…I worked my way up the ladder after my parents insisted I attend Columbia University. My major was “Film” but I lacked the looks and stature for the leading roles I sought in Tinseltown. After much hemming and hawing, I decided to settle back home in Gowanus, where I was born to a single Mom, and start an organic, vegetarian dog chow business which I run today. My puppies are all schooled at home and my bitch (I mean my wife) has her Doctorate in Animal Psychology from NYU.

We can guarantee one thing about the Art Dog blog: It will be fun to look at and colorful. Check out Art Dog.

Check Out Some Industrial and Working Brooklyn

We’ve posted some links recently to items on the Fading Ad Blog by Frank H. Jump, which has been around for nearly a year, but every time we look at it we’re captivated by some of the Brooklyn posts. (We wish we’d found it and put in our RSS feed a looong time ago.) The blog ranges broadly, but there’s often a fantastic focus on corners of Brooklyn that many people rarely visit like Canarsie and even more obscure blocks in Red Hook. The photo above is from a post yesterday about Old Dutch Brewers Inc. on East 42nd Street in East Flatbush. The shot below is one from a post on Hecht’s Hardware on Foster Avenue in East Flatbush. We could go and on and on with mentions of posts we’re loving, but simply suggest a click over to Fading Ad and a good look around.

New Brooklyn Blog: General Greene

The first thing we’ll say about the brand new Fort Greene blog called General Greene is that we’re looking forward to big things from it. It’s the work of two Fort Greene residents, Jim Colgan and Scott Lamb, and features an excellent mix of neighborhood posts including some excellent items about the neighborhood’s long history. Check out yesterday’s post on a meeting about creating a new Fort Greene/Clinton Hill food coop and, then, check out an excellent post comparing prices of products ordered at Fresh Direct versus the same products purchased at the Park Slope Food Coop. For something completely different, there’s this post with some interesting history about Fort Greene Park. The blog bills itself as “Stories of, about and from Fort Greene” and it takes its name from General Nathanial Greene, for whom Fort Greene is named. We offer General Greene a warm and big welcome and look forward to reading it and learning from it every day.

Bklink: Brooklyn Bloggers

Brooklyn bloggers had one of their semi-regular meet ups yesterday at the Frank White Cafe + Gallery in Clinton Hill. The meeting was hosted by the Clinton Hill Blog. Check out an excellent photo set of the meeting posted by Flatbush Gardener on his flckr page.–Flatbush Gardener/flickr