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San Loco Promo :: 20-Cent 20th Anniversary Tacos on May 20th

2007-05-18T04:17:00.000-04:00

The 20-cent taco.

May 20th.

In honor of San Loco's 20th Anniversary.

My calendar's marked accordingly.

Download & print the coupon from the San Loco web site, HERE.

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surfburg.tv

2007-05-03T14:27:00.000-04:00

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Bonita

2007-05-07T16:21:00.000-04:00

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Bonita on Bedford

Brooklyn Chamber Execs.

2007-05-08T12:30:00.000-04:00

Brooklyn Chamber Execs.at the Roebling Tea Room in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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The Lodge :: 318 Grand Street :: Fine Food

2007-05-09T16:30:00.000-04:00

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Our very first vlogvertisement.

We love The Lodge, their food, their service.

Everything about 'em.
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Tipico BK

2007-05-08T09:57:00.000-04:00

Little Paraguayan Cafe
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Little Paraguayan Cafe off Roebling at 221 South 1st. They serve a tasty filet mignon sandwich for $7:50!

Who is the Faux Press?

2007-05-01T09:33:00.000-04:00

The Faux Press was an early adopter of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 1995, the street tax was high, hookers regularly made themselves at home on my stoop to shoot up, and at least one car a week was stripped and eventually burned in front of our loft. The nearby chop shop did a brisk business.

The air was rife with windblown garbage, the asphalt replete with dog poop, condoms, glass, and crack vials.

Those who lived in Williamsburg then made the neighborhood bearable with street art and performance, with our bravery. We added beauty and vitality to a neighborhood whose businesses closed their doors not at a given time, but at dusk, out of fear for their lives.

Was priced out in 2004 when Wburg got hip.

My heart's there and I must return.

Need an apartment and sustenance.

Perhaps you have some ideas to help bring me back to the Burg.

Leave a comment or email me at jannie.jan@gmail.com if you've inspiration.

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2007-05-15T00:39:00.000-04:00

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Ze French...O-la-la...

2007-05-14T10:26:00.000-04:00

Thought our restaurant owner subscribers would get a kick out of this one. Courtesy of The New Yorker magazine's Cartoon of the Week. Subscribe yourself, HERE.

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Wburg.TV :: Vol. 1, No. 3.1

2007-05-12T06:22:00.000-04:00

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Vol. 1, No. 3.1 - What a ride!

It's amazing to be able to promote the videoblogging motion picture folks I've come to know and respect from around the planet, but more amazing as local creators begin to submit their materials for inclusion in the Wburg Brooklyn video magazine that Wburg.TV becomes.

Took the lessons 11211 Magazine taught to heart, most particularly its editorial policy and total commitment to the art and commerce of 11211.

My goal with Wburg.tv Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2 was to inspire folks to ask, "WTF?"

Done.

It's easy to vlogvertise with us. Really.

Shoot something you love with your cell phone - a video or still. Send us a scan of a drawing you made. Send us a link to some music you recorded. Record us a song to your phone. We're not interested in perfection, but passion. Oh, passion and 11211, the zip code for Williamsburg, Brooklyn, County of Kings, USA.

Email: WburgTV@gmail.com

If you need to learn how to get your stuff to us from your phone or computer, we'll teach you how. It's not difficult in the least. A first step in learning is found at FreeVlog.org. Check it out.

Thanks to Jen - for helping prepare for the launch party; and to Quirk - for coming.

Link Love:

11211 Office
Baci & Abbracci Restaurant / Pizza
Champion Wireless
Faux Press - editor
FreeVlog.org
Rupert Howe - Twittervlog
David Howell Studios
The Lodge
MissBHavens
Serpenteens - music
Shannon Noble
Scratch Video
Ajit Prem - SquiggleBooth
Surfburg.tv
Vic Thrill + The Saturn Missile - music
Dave Toole - music
Aaron Valdez - Blandlands
Erik Visser
Optical Warehouse
Wburg Mall
Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate
Prudential Douglas Elliman Music from the public domain & Archive.org
The Lodge Music from the public domain & Archive.org

We get a lot of music for our vlogvertisements from Archive.org and the public domain, but would prefer to promote local artists. Dig?

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Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate

2007-05-09T19:24:00.000-04:00

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Proud and happy to present our first vlogvertising effort for Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

The best vlogvertising comes from love and I most certainly fell in love with Michael and his best pal, Beverly, while making this vlogvert.

Falling in love is the future of advertising.

Made with love by Wburg.tv and The Faux Press.

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Williamsburg Review :: Williamsburg is Emo

2007-05-11T09:56:00.000-04:00

A review of Williamsburg:

Getting off the Subway we came across two vegan restaurants right away. We started to think, hey we can live here. We found an outdoor cafe and ate lunch with our pup. We both remarked on how emo the neighborhood looks. I really haven’t seen so many tight, tapered jeans since the 80s. The neighborhood is really, very cool. Ed is practically in love. He could move in tomorrow.

The author gets a bit more critical later as she discusses the quality of our graffiti.

Enjoy seeing the Wburg through a stranger's eyes.

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Adweek :: Motorola Sponsors Williamsburg's "The Burg"

2007-05-09T06:13:00.000-04:00

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Motorola to Sponsor Web Video Series
May 08, 2007
By
Brian Morrissey
SEATTLE Following in the steps of Lonelygirl15, another Web video serial is turning to product placement as an ad model.

Motorola has signed to sponsor "The Burg," a Web comedy series of nine four-minute episodes that explore the hipster haven of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Motorola products will be featured in the programming, which will not include pre-roll spots.

The Burg goes bigtime w/Motorola product placement sponsorship.

Congrats!

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MSNBC on The Hipster Boys of Williamsburg.

2007-05-11T09:37:00.000-04:00

The "hipster boys of Williamsburg" are gettin' as much MSM press as "The Sopranos" and Tony Soprano used to get.

The phrase is officially in the lexicon.

Shorthand for someone dangerously cute.

"Frackin'"?

MSM's getting hip, too. Or too hip. Something like that.

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clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com

O.M.G.! Kevin Rose is frackin’ adorable! How come none of ya’ll ever mentioned this?! How is it I never noticed until now that one of the pioneers on the new frontier of online community is a major hottie? Look at him, with his bad haircut and his AV-closet moon tan. I bet you a dollar he’s wearing a hoodie, right this very nano second! I’m sayin’, all those hipster boys stumbling around Williamsburg, Brooklyn wish they were so cool. Or smart. Or loaded.

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Wburg.TV :: Vol. 1, No. 2 :: Music

2007-04-09T16:20:00.000-04:00

Plan to use this tune in Vol. 1, No. 2.

Check it out.

Download "200 Lbs. Of Pure Love" (mp3)
from "Shake Your Pelvis"
by Red Elvises
Shooba-Doobah Records

Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody
Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
Buy at Napster
Buy at GroupieTunes

The Burg :: IP :: Fair Use

2007-05-10T09:15:00.000-04:00

The great Wburg-centric episodic comedy "The Burg" had a music video of theirs pulled from YouTube for having used a copyrighted tune in a parody.

The Burg fans weren't quite irate, but they were certainly disappointed and vocal in their comments. It's my understanding that you can use copyrighted material under Fair Use for parody. Perhaps the problem stems from their having used the entire tune and failing to add their own commentary.

My suggestion: add a wee bit of newsroomish commentary at the head to introduce a shortened version of this hysterical bit of fun.

What say you?

"Last Cigarette" - Plexiglass Brooch

2007-05-08T10:30:00.000-04:00

jewelry, originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan.

2003, mixed media, private collection (Fernando).

Maracuja

2007-05-05T02:30:00.000-04:00

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Ayesha

2007-05-04T22:40:00.000-04:00

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Bobby Bell's place

2007-05-04T22:39:00.000-04:00

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Southside Speakeasy - 245 South 1st. Do it!

Wburg.TV @ Veoh

2007-05-06T13:16:00.000-04:00

Wburg.TV Online Videos by Veoh.com

I really like the look and quality of Veoh's transcoded flash and player.

Moreover, Veoh will automatically cross-post to all the major social networking sites that support video. Nicer still, is that Veoh is 'fed' from our Blip.tv uploads, so once uploaded at Blip, the videos show up at Veoh, and on to YouTube and MySpace, and Google Video.

My Veoh Show

Wburg.TV :: @ iTunes, Yeah

2007-05-08T09:27:00.000-04:00

Click the iTunes image to subscribe (FREE) @ iTunes.
Beefin' up the web presence.

Oh, yeah:

GapingVoid

Vibrant Blogging :: Apartment Therapy

2007-05-08T12:35:00.000-04:00

ApartmentTherapy.com

From their mission statement:

Helping people to make their apartments better places to live.

The site's vibrant with comments on their excellent ideas for stuff-reduced living, low-cost decorating, and design.

How does a site come to be 'vibrant'?

Contests are a popular means toward that end. ApartmentTherapy.com has their own Smallest, Coolest Apartment Contest. Voting ends May 6, 2007, people, and one of the entrants - Rachel - is from Williamsburg. Vote for Rachel HERE.

Their goal is:

To connect people to the resources they need to redecorate their home, while reducing their reliance on stuff.

Monetization:

A one-week text link goes for $165. Buy a month for $575. No Google Juice.
A hand-coded text ad (for Google Juice) requires a 3-month commitment
Stats:

17,000 unique users / day
190,000 page views / day

Contest prizes from designers and providers of the stuff of home decorating

Authority. It helps to establish 'authority' if you have a book to hawk. ApartmentTherapy does: "apartment therapy : the eight-step home cure"

Niche. One way to go niche is to be geocentric. Apartment therapy is regional, having split the country into five regions.

Patience. Apartment therapy's been around since April 2004.

I'm surprised they haven't incorporated video into their bag-o-tricks.

Wburg.TV's going to incorporate a contest - a film festival - into our bag o' tricks come autumn. Keep yer eyes peeled. $35K in prizes.

Urban Outfitters :: the Malling of Brooklyn

2007-05-08T04:38:00.000-04:00

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Urban Outfitters is also looking in Williamsburg, Mr. McDevitt noted, but not where people think.

"I can't give the address, but we haven't even been in the building that people are talking about," Mr. McDevitt said. "We are kicking some tire in that neighborhood, though."

That "building that people are talking about" is 100 North 6th Street, formerly home to Coyote Recording Studios.

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2007-05-07T16:22:00.000-04:00

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