Matt Damon on Grand St. 11211

Matt Damon on Grand St. 11211, originally uploaded by fabian17.

Lately Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11211, is becoming quite an usual destination for mainstream movie making. It can be nice, but sometimes it gets a little annoying: closed streets, noise, people attracted to the celeb-factor, and otherwise beautiful bars and coffee shops turn into a catering station for the film industry. What do you think? Good or Bad?

There is an article about Matt Damon in Now Public

Gorgeous-est actress and neighbor you can stumble upon by chance on a weekly basis while walking Kent Ave. overlooking Manhattan from a Williamsburg park while you think, in a rather politically incorrect way, that beauty is actually quite a deep thing.

Gorgeous-est actress and neighbor you can stumble upon by chance on a weekly basis while walking Kent Ave. overlooking Manhattan from a Williamsburg park while you think, in a rather politically incorrect way, that beauty is actually quite a deep thing., originally uploaded by fabian17.

Best jeans wearing, sign of the horn gesturing, Lenny Kravitz look--alike, pair of identical twins you can find on a weekday in NYC around Times Square. Now they strike again, this time close up 2.0.

Best jeans wearing, sign of the horn gesturing, Lenny Kravitz look--alike identical twins you can find on a weekday in NYC around Times Square. Now they strike again, this time close up 2.0., originally uploaded by fabian17.

Most interesting Biohazard Lead Bassist, Oz Actor, nice Jewish guy, with a penchant for ink and skin and overall awesomeness you could ever wish to have as your down the hall neighbor in Williamsburg, circa 2003.

Most interesting Biohazard Lead Bassist, Oz Actor, nice Jewish guy, with a penchant for ink and skin and overall awesomeness you could ever wish to have as your down the hall neighbor in Williamsburg, circa 2003.
Originally uploaded by fabian17.

Evan Seinfeld

Best faux fur hat, small pants, glove in pocket, girl jacket wearing hipster neighbor you can meet at Bedford at N7 by Ali’s Deli, coming tired in a crowded L train from Manhattan on a snow day, lets say… January? Yes. The 27th. 2007, Right?

Best faux fur hat, small pants, glove in pocket, girl jacket wearing hipster neighbor you can meet at Bedford at N7 by Ali’s Deli, coming tired in a crowded L train from Manhattan on a snow day, lets say… January? Yes. The 27th. 2007, Right?
Originally uploaded by fabian17.

Best jeans wearing, sign of the horn gesturing, Lenny Kravitz look--alike, identical twins you can find on a weekday in NYC around Times Square.

Best jeans wearing, sign of the horn gesturing, Lenny Kravitz look--alike, identical twins you can find on a weekday in NYC around Times Square.
Originally uploaded by fabian17.

Adorable! The couples at Mermaid Parade

Adorable!
Originally uploaded by fabian17.

In Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY during June 2007. Was this the last Mermaid Parade before he inevitable übergentrification of that area?

Greenpoint Warehouse Fire • Not so accidental it seems.

Greenpoint Warehouse Fire
Originally uploaded by fabian17.

American Manufacturing Company Greenpoint Terminal Market, Brooklyn, New York. It seems it was not so accidental.
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There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. It shows an angel who seems about to move away from something he stares at. His eyes are wide, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how the angel of history must look. His face is turned toward the past. Where a chain of events appears before us, he sees on single catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it at his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise and has got caught in his wings; it is so strong that the angel can no longer close them. This storm drives him irresistibly into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows toward the sky. What we call progress is this storm.

--from Walter Benjamin 1940 work, "On the Concept of History," Gesammelte Schriften I, 691-704. SuhrkampVerlag. Frankfurt am Main, 1974. Translation: Harry Zohn, from Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Vol. 4: 1938-1940 (Cambridge: Harvard University Pres, 2003), 392-93. Sholem's poem on the Klee painting was written for Benjamin's twenty-ninth birthday --

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http://www.wnyc.org/blog/lehrer/archives/000939.html

White & Blue Argentina State

White & Blue Argenta
Originally uploaded by fabian17.

For the First Time on July 8th 2005, the Empire State Building lit up with the colors of the Argentinean flag, celebrating the July 9th Argentinean Independence Day. This is how it looked to me from a Williamsburg Rooftop

The Iconic Alley

The Iconic Alley
Originally uploaded by fabian17.

This is a short alley by Lafayette St. and Broadway, in Manhattan, just accross the Puck Building. Its iconic, cuasi-cliché, quality reminds me of how I Picture New York before actually being here. I supposed that this would be more up to the point in Black & White. But I cannot renounce to the colors.

We Are Really Lost Here... and the lights are out...

We Are Really Lost Here... and the lights are out...
Originally uploaded by fabian17.

Sometimes it feels like that here in Williamsburg. Es como sí una vez más no nos cansasemos de retornar a Walter Benjamin y a su nefasto y brillante Angel de Klee, quien mira desesperado las ruinas que el progreso va dejando mientras el viento lo arrastra y sus alas adquieren una cualidad icaresca. Impotente en su inutilidad no queda más que la mirada azorada. But gentrification has its upsides, it shuffles and reshuffles the social fabric in a slow motion coreography of bodies, wealth, poverty and commerce in a never-ending feast of colors and irrelevant sorrows.

Crossing The Bridge 4

Crossing The Bridge 4
Originally uploaded by fabian17.