Application In!!!

What, what? So after countless emails and phone calls to brokers and Craigslisters, we happen to pass by a building that has a sign with a phone number on it saying "Lofts for Rent." Then a friend of my boyfriend's contacts us saying that he's ready to move out of his parent's house and heard of our dilemma, shall we all look together? With a hurried "yes!" and a phone call, we find ourselves standing in a beautiful, new loft in East Williamsburg/North Bushwick where old industrial buildings are rapidly being taken over by hipsters and artists, converted into loft spaces and studios, and inhabited.

Now the exciting part: our applications and deposit have been given to the landlord! We await the verdict, but feel pretty good about our situation. When all goes well, we will be the inhabitants of a new and beautiful loft come October 1st!!! Can it get any better, you ask? The landlord has also given us permission to construct whatever walls/divisions we wish in the space, so once we move in we'll be turning the open space into a two bedroom with a living and work space (guests more than welcome). The waiting, the walking, the blisters and exhaustion have all been worth it for the amazing find we now nearly grasp in our hands. This is the Brooklyn we wanted to live in, the city we wanted to inhabit.

A Thought: Why do we as a culture so enjoy reading stories, watching movies, viewing plays? One idea: we're all secretly voyeurs. No, but actually. Who out there hasn't passed a lit house at night and looked in the windows, straining to see what the inhabitants are watching on tv? However, with art we are given permission to look, to watch, to stare at other people and other lives. We hungry for that sense of "the other," that sensation of contact we get by watching another. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me you don't people watch when you think no ones watching back. 

A Find: "Kiki de Montparnasse" by Catel Miller. This is an amazing graphic novel that tells the true story of Alice Prin, better known as "Kiki," a model and artist from 1920s france. Kiki presents an amazing example of a sexually liberated woman during the first real sexual revolution in a city where the bohemian artsy lifestyle was exploding. It's an amazing story and a well drawn graphic novel that will also expose you to several of the other artists from that time.