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So there you are in the only bodega on your block, and they don't speak a lick of English. What's a hipster to do? HOW AM I GOING TO ASK IF THEY CAN MAKE THE CUBANO SANDWICH VEGAN??? Well, here at The Bushwick Dream we have taken the time to tackle such burning questions.
1) This better be Fair Trade, cold pressed, single origin coffee with Brita ice cubes.
Mas vale que sea cafe de solo un origen, prensado en frio y de comercio justo con heilo Brita.
2) I don't eat there, they got a "b".
Yo no come aqui, ellos recibieron una "b".
3) Of course this is a fixed gear.
Claro que es un cambio fijado.
4) I just moved here from __________.
Me acabo de mudar aqui de __________.
5) Stop whistling at my girlfriend.
Deja de estar pitando a mi novia.
A stranger is just a friend that you haven’t met yet. Bushwick Dream puts random people on the spot. This time: Pamela R., and found at Pearl's Social and Billy Club
Why are you here?
I am getting drunk.
What’s the border of Bushwick, in your opinion?
"I would say...... I just moved here a week ago.... but I would say Bushwick Avenue and Bushwick Place and I"m strictly judging by the name."
What’s your weapon of choice?
Knife!
Is that a terrarium around your neck?
Why yes. Yes it is......
Have you ever been sitting around and said to yourself, "Hey you know what would be awesome? If I could wear an itty-bitty terrarium around my neck." Yeah me neither, until I saw one, now I really, really want one.
In a small home studio in Bushwick a girl by the name of Tamar sits and tediously makes some of the oddly uniquest jewelery I’ve ever seen. Being a thirty-two year old male, I don’t know a lot about jewelry, but I do know when I see a work of art and this is definitely something special.
Each piece of terrarium jewelry is unique and individually hand crafted by Tamar herself. They're made from variouos types of moss, pebbles, sea glass,activated charcoal (to help the plant life breath) and other such elements. She can also add things that are sentimental to you if it'll fit in the jar, or you can fully customize your own.
"In an urban world you can still maintain your own wearable garden" Tamar says with a content smile. You can water them and they'll even grow. If you don't they'll eventually die but they stay in tact and still look awesome. If you think it's dead you may still be in luck. You can give it a little water and it may come back to life, moss and lichens are funny like that.
They can take anywhere from an hour to eight hours to make one depending on how intricate it is. They're also very reasonably priced. You can get yours at Littleworlddesigns.com or find her on etsy.com
Photos courtesy of Little World Designs
So there you are in the only bodega on your block, and they don't speak a lick of English. What's a hipster to do? HOW AM I GOING TO ASK IF THEY CAN MAKE THE CUBANO SANDWICH VEGAN??? Well, here at The Bushwick Dream we have taken the time to tackle such burning questions.
1) Where can I find the skinny jeans?
¿Dónde puedo encontrar los jeans apretado?
2) Its an obscure band, you’ve never heard of them.
Es una banda rara, nunca has escuchado sobre ellos.
3) Your rent is how much?
¿Su renta es cuanto?
4) Do you have a spare rolling paper?
¿Tiene usted un papel extra para rodar?
5) Yeah, my dog’s a rescue.
Sí, mi perro fue rescatado.
6) No, this is my parents credit card.
No, esta es la tarjeta de crédito de mis padres.
7) Does this come in plaid?
¿Esto viene en gaban?
8) I can’t make it, I’ve got band practice.
No lo puedo hacer, tengo práctica de la banda.
9) God I hate gentrification.
Dios, odio gentrificación.
10) So I’m thinking about applying to grad school.
Estoy pensando en solicitar a la escuela de posgrado.
Fred Valentine's salt-and-pepper hair easily betrays his status as an O.G. of the New York art scene. In the nineties, long before the condos came, he helped to create art and performance happenings in Williamsburg under the names Organism and Mustard. A mix of art, performance, and music mayhem, they were the forebears of the warehouse events now publicized by the likes of Nonsense NYC. Fred’s involvement in this scene climaxed in 1995 when he co-founded Galapagos Art Space in its old guise on N. 6th street. Unfortunately it didn't take very long before he and his cohorts were priced out of the scene that they helped to start. But now Freddy’s back to launch VALENTINE Gallery in Ridgewood--Bushwick's quieter, better-looking cousin. Just don't call him a pioneer.
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We asked local artist Don Pablo Pedro a few questions, and here’s what we think Bushwick Dream readers need to know. He had a solo show at Pandemic Gallery called “Fuck Don Pablo Pedro.” When describing the painted scenes in which characters “devour and violate each other,” Animal New York asked, “what the hell is wrong with this guy?”
On muslin scrolls Don Pablo Pedro depicts deformed, tormented grotesques who have extra arms and/or heads and/or vaginas, then adds delicate flourishes--floral borders rendered in meticulous detail: “Go Fuck Yourself” (see the guy in yellow, below) and Peony Cream Pie (also below) are two examples. Two of Don Pablo Pedro’s scrolls are part of the Stay Gold show at Curbs & Stoops. The closing party is Friday. Go see them.
The Bushwick Dream (TBD): Where are you from and what kind of place is it?
Don Pablo Pedro (DPP): The Middle of nowhere. It’s hot, there's a beach, lots of woods and elderly people.
TBD: What do you do?
DPP: Paint scrolls.
TBD: How did you end up in Bushwick?
DPP: A plane.
TBD: Do you see painting as a creative process or as a release?
DPP: It starts off as a creative process and ends with a release.
TBD: What's the process like for you as you're working: are you calm, manic, chaotic, do you need silence, music.
DPP: My process is usually calm and silent at first. I’m always a little manic and life can be very chaotic at times. I only sometimes listen to music.
TBD: People have called the Stay Gold show creepy: is that a compliment? How do people usually describe your work?
DPP: “Creepy” is a compliment but people usually describe my art as “perverted.”
TBD: Any stories about misinterpretations of your work?
DPP: I usually enjoy any type of interpretation; when people take the time to interpret I’m happy.
TBD: I love your bio, which is written as a folktale in which you rape and kill your mutilated brother. Did he have it coming? What'd he do?
DPP: I just made up a story that I felt described the paintings I do.
TBD: “Go Fuck Yourself” has this floral border that includes vagina-esque flowers. Are they happy vaginas or are they evil?
DPP: In “Go Fuck Yourself” the flowers were more of buttholes to me.
TBD: In both “Go Fuck Yourself” and “Face Sitter” seem to depict people who are, in the moment, not quite getting what they want. Do they ever live happily ever after?
DPP: They are in constant struggle. There is no happy ever after for the characters in those paintings.
TBD: What's next?
DPP: Everything.
Artist photo courtesy of Will Star of Shooting Stars Pro, taken at Crest Hardware Art Show 2011.
Imagine this.........
You're finishing up the end of your work day, looking forward to the three day weekend. You're dreaming of that ice cold Coors, the perfectly flamed hamburger with ketchup and pickles, that one joint you smoke a year because the company you work for has random drug tests and the spectacular fireworks display........ THEN WHAM!!!!!!!! It just goes straight down the tubes.
(The scenerio above is fictional, and any similarities to similar events, people or other ridiculousness is purely coincidental and hysterical)
