By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Augmented Reality , a mural of and by the Red hook community and artist Joel Bergner officially unveiled, May 29, 2024. The mural animates when seen via Snapchat! Check that out in this News12 story here . On Instagram, joelartista , Bergner thanks...
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Red Hook Rumba is a song on Chembo Corniel Quintet's 2023 album, Artistas, Músicos y Poetas . Featuring vocals, in English and Spanish, by Felipe Luciano, the song tells the story of the middle passage and the African influence on...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"I have so enjoyed painting the fabulous Mary Whalen and her surroundings." So says artist Janet Pedersen. “When a scene strikes me, I want nothing more than to set up my easel and paint. Through bold color and loose brushwork, my goal is to...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The 2022 public art project, @Work was by Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy. Portraits were made of essential workers in acrylic paint. These were then put on banners with QR codes linked to documentary films they made were essential workers describe...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
David Bowie music video for his 2013 song "Valentine's Day" is set inside the Red Hook Grain Terminal The same year the music video for Lorde's "Team" was filmed in and around the grain terminal.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Paul Frangipane is a photojournalist based in Brooklyn. He describes his approach as "through an intimate documentary lens, striving to capture the beauty in natural moments and providing creative perspectives on common events." Paul...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This image is not an actual photograph but a rendering created by the DALL-E AI system following the instructions given to it by Jefe (a real person). He requested that it create: "Boats leaving the dock in Red Hook Brooklyn, at sunrise in...
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The door at 349 Van Brunt is a different sort of portal. Since 2006, it has celebrated a vision of Red Hook in mosaics. Anne Griepenberg explained its origin story on Facebook: "My friend Max Airborne was creating mosaics & since...
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Down the Gowanus is a modern folk song by Steve Suffet. The Gowanus Canal is a man-made industrial water way built and streightened in the 1860s from an existing creek. The Gowanus has played a valuable role in Brooklyn's...
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"The Bridge, Erie Basin, N.Y.," is an etching Henry B. Shope (1862 - 1929). Tall masted ships, barges, horses and telegraph poles would have been a common site in Broolyn's Erie Basin from its construction in 1864 through the begining of...
