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2009-05-07
2008-05-12
Last day to vote for the Mousies
Acer buergerianum, Bonsai, Root over rock style, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, November 2006

Voting for the 2008 Mouse & Trowel Awards, the "Mousies," closes at midnight Eastern Time tomorrow, May 13th. Flatbush Gardener is a finalist in the category of "Best Photography in a Garden Blog."
The photo above is one of six I submitted for inclusion in the video A Photoblog Tribute to Brooklyn which premiered at the Brooklyn Blogfest last Thursday evening. Four of the six are from gardens in Brooklyn.
Front Garden, 320 Stratford Road, Beverley Square West, Flatbush, Brooklyn, June 2007

Hibiscus, Pier 44 Waterfront Garden, Red Hook, Brooklyn, July 2007

Sanguinaria canadensis, Bloodroot, Native Flora Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, April 2007

Voting for the 2008 Mouse & Trowel Awards, the "Mousies," closes at midnight Eastern Time tomorrow, May 13th. Flatbush Gardener is a finalist in the category of "Best Photography in a Garden Blog."
The photo above is one of six I submitted for inclusion in the video A Photoblog Tribute to Brooklyn which premiered at the Brooklyn Blogfest last Thursday evening. Four of the six are from gardens in Brooklyn.
Front Garden, 320 Stratford Road, Beverley Square West, Flatbush, Brooklyn, June 2007
Hibiscus, Pier 44 Waterfront Garden, Red Hook, Brooklyn, July 2007
Sanguinaria canadensis, Bloodroot, Native Flora Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, April 2007
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You can see my photographs in posts labeled with Photos on this blog. You can also browse my Flickr Collections; most of my Flickr photographs are linked back to the posts in which they appear.Links
VOTE NOW!, Mouse & Trowel Awards2008-05-09
Photoblog Tribute to Brooklyn
A highlight for me at last night's Blogfest was the chance to see some of my photos on "the big screen." This video was produced by Morgan Pehme, Brooklyn Optimist, compiled from submissions from several of Brooklyn's "photobloggers." Six of my photos appear from 1:40 to 1:59 in the video.
Blogfest
Here are all the photographers, listed in the order in which they appear in the video.
Tracy Collins
Sharon Kwik
Frank Jump
Kevin Walsh
Hugh Crawford
Joseph Holmes
Lara Wechsler
Will Femia
Heather Letzkus
Robin Lester
Dalton Rooney
Tom Giebel
Adrian Kinloch
Related Content
My Best of Brooklyn photo set from which I selected my submission for the video.Blogfest
Links
Watch the video on YouTube. Select "High quality" and full-screen for best effect.Here are all the photographers, listed in the order in which they appear in the video.
Tracy Collins
Sharon Kwik
Frank Jump
Kevin Walsh
Hugh Crawford
Joseph Holmes
Lara Wechsler
Will Femia
Heather Letzkus
Robin Lester
Dalton Rooney
Tom Giebel
Adrian Kinloch
Blogfest 2008 Coverage
Here's a list of posts and articles about the 2008 Blogfest from those attending.
Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Optimist
Brooklyn Skeptic
City by Storm
Creative Times
cyclechicny.net
Flatbush Pigeon
Gowanus Lounge
Jaki Levy
Lost in the Ozone
Luna Park Gazette
miconian
New York Shitty
NY Daily News
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
outside.in
Oswegatchie
Prospect: A Year in the Park
Reclaimed Home
The Road to Nowhere
Stickymap
SuperVegan
Sustainable Flatbush
Urban Seashell
WNBC, Angela Freeburg reporting
Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Optimist
Brooklyn Skeptic
City by Storm
Creative Times
cyclechicny.net
Flatbush Pigeon
Gowanus Lounge
Jaki Levy
Lost in the Ozone
Luna Park Gazette
miconian
New York Shitty
NY Daily News
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
outside.in
Oswegatchie
Prospect: A Year in the Park
Reclaimed Home
The Road to Nowhere
Stickymap
SuperVegan
Sustainable Flatbush
Urban Seashell
WNBC, Angela Freeburg reporting
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The Brooklyn Blogfest 2008The Brooklyn Blogfest 2008
My view of last night's Blogfest attendees when I took the stage to talk about the Brooklyn Blogade.

Last night I attended the third annual Brooklyn Blogfest. I spoke briefly about the Brooklyn Blogade (about which there will be more in another post later today) at the end of a lineup of illustrious Brooklyn bloggers.

I estimate about 165 people attended. There were 210-220 chairs on the floor of the auditorium; they were mostly filled, but it was not a packed house. I helped collect the donations at the door and kept a tally of everyone who paid; we only had three $0 donations. We had about 130-140 people at the door. That does not include staff, sponsors or media, who comprised an additional 30 or so.
Four Mikes

Pre-show Briefing

I didn't get any shots of the speakers, since I was still busy staffing the table during the event. I got a couple shots of the shout-out, where bloggers get to introduce themselves and their blogs, and the after-show party.
The Shout-out
After-show party



Cupcakes from Red Mango Bakery

Beers, lots and lots of beers, provided by outside.in

My official "Staff" badge for the event. Anne Pope of Sustainable Flatbush made up all our name tags. Her strategy was to make the name - Xris - larger than the blog name - Flatbush Gardener - so that people would have to actually come up to you to find out what your blog was.

Flickr photo set
Last night I attended the third annual Brooklyn Blogfest. I spoke briefly about the Brooklyn Blogade (about which there will be more in another post later today) at the end of a lineup of illustrious Brooklyn bloggers.
I estimate about 165 people attended. There were 210-220 chairs on the floor of the auditorium; they were mostly filled, but it was not a packed house. I helped collect the donations at the door and kept a tally of everyone who paid; we only had three $0 donations. We had about 130-140 people at the door. That does not include staff, sponsors or media, who comprised an additional 30 or so.
Four Mikes
Pre-show Briefing
I didn't get any shots of the speakers, since I was still busy staffing the table during the event. I got a couple shots of the shout-out, where bloggers get to introduce themselves and their blogs, and the after-show party.
The Shout-out
After-show party
Cupcakes from Red Mango Bakery
Beers, lots and lots of beers, provided by outside.in
My official "Staff" badge for the event. Anne Pope of Sustainable Flatbush made up all our name tags. Her strategy was to make the name - Xris - larger than the blog name - Flatbush Gardener - so that people would have to actually come up to you to find out what your blog was.
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BlogfestFlickr photo set
Links
See Blogfest 20008 Coverage2008-05-02
Thursday, May 8: The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Blogfest
The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Blogfest will take place next Thursday evening at 8pm at the Brooklyn Lyceum.
The Third Annual Brooklyn Blogfest 2008 is an event for bloggers, blog-readers, those interested in Blogging, and those passionate about Brooklyn. It is open to one and all and everyone is warmly welcomed. No need to RSVP or be personally invited.The audience, assembled and ready, at last year's Blogfest
- The Latest Blogfest Details, May 2, 2008
This is a chance to meet the faces behind the blogs, learn about the state of blogging in Brooklyn, pick up some blogging tips, hob-knob with your fellow wizards, and all such as that. I'll be at the tail end of the program, speaking about the mostly monthly Blogades, started after last year's Blogfest.
Admission is $10, $5 for students.
WHEN: Thursday May 8th, 2008 at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Brooklyn Lyceum. 227 Fourth Avenue (at President Street) [GMAP]
HOW: R train to Union Street
PROGRAM (subject to change):
- Video: Place Matters: Blogging My World by Blue Barn Pictures
- Brief Welcome: Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Louise Crawford)
- Speaker: Creative Times (Eleanor Traubman)
- Speaker: Bed-Stuy Blog (Petra S.)
- Video: A Walk Around the Blog Promo by Brooklyn Independent Television
- Speaker: New York Shitty (Miss Heather)
- Speaker: Gowanus Lounge (Robert Guskind)
- Speaker: Blogger Smackdown by Gersh Kuntzman, editor, The Brooklyn Paper
- Video: A Word from WNYC's Brian Lehrer
- Speaker: Top Ten Tips for New Bloggers presented by So Good (Heather Johnson)
- Speaker: Outside.in, a resource for bloggers who blog about where they live
- Video: A Tribute to Brooklyn's Photo Bloggers (produced by Brooklyn Optimist)
- Speaker: Bloggers Reach Out: What is the Brooklyn Blogade? presented by Flatbush Gardener (Yours truly)
- ANNUAL SHOUT-OUT: Your chance to share your blog with the world introduced by Luna Park Gazette
Related content
My report from last year's BlogfestBack in the Day
My photos of last year's Blogfest
All my Blogfest and Blogade posts
Links
The Brooklyn Blogfest "miniblog" on Only the Blog Knows BrooklynBrooklyn Lyceum
2007-07-08
Brooklyn Blogging Highlighted in the NY Times
I've never seen or heard the word "Bloglyn" before this:
I wasn't interviewed for the article. I provided some info by email on myself and my blog. Flatbush Gardener is listed as one of eleven in a sidebar of "a few but by no means all of the Brooklyn blogs." I have 137 listings in the "Brooklyn" category of my Bloglines feeds, so no, by no means all.
In the past year, the word Bloglyn has been cropping up a lot, a reflection of the fact that Brooklyn, particularly brownstone Brooklyn, has emerged as possibly the center of the placeblog world. Web forums serve as virtual town hall meetings (complete with hecklers), and bloggers peer with equal interest at controversial development projects, restaurant openings and the most minute of neighborhood minutiae.Most of the article is about Louise Crawford, Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, and the Blogfest back in May. In addition to other heavy hitters, the article mentions a couple of specific neighborhood blogs. There is only the briefest mention of the Blogade, and not by name:
- Cracker-Barrel 2.0
... as the newest members of the community introduced themselves [at the Blogfest new blogger shoutout], there was a conspicuous lack of representation from less gentrified neighborhoods. No Brownsville. No East New York. No Canarsie. To remedy this, several bloggers, including Ms. Crawford, have organized a series of blogger socials, the first of which took place last month in Flatbush, to encourage networking and, as she put it, to “take the show on the road” to underblogged neighborhoods.And the next of which will be in Greenpoint on July 22, which the article omits. Nor did the article include any of the hundreds of photographs taken by the Times photographer at the Flatbush Blogade event.
I wasn't interviewed for the article. I provided some info by email on myself and my blog. Flatbush Gardener is listed as one of eleven in a sidebar of "a few but by no means all of the Brooklyn blogs." I have 137 listings in the "Brooklyn" category of my Bloglines feeds, so no, by no means all.
2007-05-23
Back in the Day
2008.03.10: Welcome - I guess - New York magazine Intelligencer readers. I encourage you to read my post about the BlogFest itself, which inspired this "hyperniche nostalgia," as NY characterizes it. (Shouldn't that be hypo-niche? sub-niche? micro-niche?)
Crazy Diamond, aka Flatbush Gardener, circa 1980s.

I wrote the following as part of my Brooklyn Blogfest coverage. I now find myself in the position of being one of the coordinators of the first Brooklyn Blogade Roadshow, which it is hoped will take the spirit and energy of the Brooklyn Blogfest on the road to different neighborhoods in Brooklyn. I hope to provide details of the inaugural event later tonight or this week.
I'm highlighting this bit of autobiography and technology history in its own post here because it expresses what I'm trying to bring of myself to this first event.
[Written 2007.05.11]
Back in the Day
Gather round me, children. Close your eyes, and try to imagine it. It was long before the Web, when the Internet existed only in military and select academic settings. It was the time before GUIs, before mice and color monitors, when MS-DOS and 1200bps dial-up modems roamed the Earth.
There were these things called computer bulletin board services, BBS for short. Your computer told your modem the phone number of the BBS. Your modem dialed, their modem answered, and both modems connected with each other. Then your computer could talk to their computer. Directly. No Web, no Internet. Machino a machino. You could leave messages for other BBS members; the precursor of email. You could even chat with someone else who was also logged in; the precursor of IM today.
I was a member of a BBS based in New York City called The BackRoom. It was, as one might guess from the name, a gay BBS. It was an online community of gay men, mostly, living in NYC, mostly. We had handles, like CB radio users (1970s technology). My CB handle in the 1970s, 30+ years ago, was Green Thumb. My BackRoom handle was Crazy Diamond, after the Pink Floyd song, "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond."
Donor Recognition plaque on the wall of the second floor landing of the center staircase of the NYC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

We were an online community. A community of humpy nerds, of which I was one. We were not only virtual. We also met, face-to-face, at a periodic event called the Backroom Bash. Sometimes we met at a bar, sometimes at the home of a member or the Backroom founder and sysop, Art Kohn. We built community online, with handles and anonymity. We met in person, still with our handles, and less anonymity, and built community there as well. Our virtual community was enriched by our interactions in 3D, and vice versa.
Last night [the Blogfest] reminded me of that.
Crazy Diamond, aka Flatbush Gardener, circa 1980s.
I wrote the following as part of my Brooklyn Blogfest coverage. I now find myself in the position of being one of the coordinators of the first Brooklyn Blogade Roadshow, which it is hoped will take the spirit and energy of the Brooklyn Blogfest on the road to different neighborhoods in Brooklyn. I hope to provide details of the inaugural event later tonight or this week.
I'm highlighting this bit of autobiography and technology history in its own post here because it expresses what I'm trying to bring of myself to this first event.
[Written 2007.05.11]
Back in the Day
Gather round me, children. Close your eyes, and try to imagine it. It was long before the Web, when the Internet existed only in military and select academic settings. It was the time before GUIs, before mice and color monitors, when MS-DOS and 1200bps dial-up modems roamed the Earth.
There were these things called computer bulletin board services, BBS for short. Your computer told your modem the phone number of the BBS. Your modem dialed, their modem answered, and both modems connected with each other. Then your computer could talk to their computer. Directly. No Web, no Internet. Machino a machino. You could leave messages for other BBS members; the precursor of email. You could even chat with someone else who was also logged in; the precursor of IM today.
I was a member of a BBS based in New York City called The BackRoom. It was, as one might guess from the name, a gay BBS. It was an online community of gay men, mostly, living in NYC, mostly. We had handles, like CB radio users (1970s technology). My CB handle in the 1970s, 30+ years ago, was Green Thumb. My BackRoom handle was Crazy Diamond, after the Pink Floyd song, "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond."
Donor Recognition plaque on the wall of the second floor landing of the center staircase of the NYC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.
We were an online community. A community of humpy nerds, of which I was one. We were not only virtual. We also met, face-to-face, at a periodic event called the Backroom Bash. Sometimes we met at a bar, sometimes at the home of a member or the Backroom founder and sysop, Art Kohn. We built community online, with handles and anonymity. We met in person, still with our handles, and less anonymity, and built community there as well. Our virtual community was enriched by our interactions in 3D, and vice versa.
Last night [the Blogfest] reminded me of that.
2007-05-18
I was on TV!
UPDATE 2007.05.23: BCAT has the clips available on their Web site! It's Reporter Roundtable Episode #183. The format is WMV (Windows Media Player) and runs 27:54. The video montage from the Blogfest begins at 08:50. I make my appearance at 10:44, in the first interview.
Here are the direct links:
I'm watching the Reporter RoundTable interview with Lumi Michelle Rolley/No Land Grab, Jonathan Butler/Brownstoner and Louise Crawford/OTBKB/Smartmom. They ran a brief segment of footage from the BlogFest. There I was! Larger than life, if that's possible.
The video's not available online yet. I'll update this and the Blogfest Coverage post when it is.
I sure sound funny. And I have a face for radio.
Oh, and I watched through to the end. Louise Crawford mentioned that the first "Brooklyn Blogade Roadshow" will be June 24 at Vox Pop. She also announced it earlier this week. I'm helping to coordinate that event, so watch this blog for details and RSVP info as we move further along.
Here are the direct links:
I'm watching the Reporter RoundTable interview with Lumi Michelle Rolley/No Land Grab, Jonathan Butler/Brownstoner and Louise Crawford/OTBKB/Smartmom. They ran a brief segment of footage from the BlogFest. There I was! Larger than life, if that's possible.
The video's not available online yet. I'll update this and the Blogfest Coverage post when it is.
I sure sound funny. And I have a face for radio.
Oh, and I watched through to the end. Louise Crawford mentioned that the first "Brooklyn Blogade Roadshow" will be June 24 at Vox Pop. She also announced it earlier this week. I'm helping to coordinate that event, so watch this blog for details and RSVP info as we move further along.
2007-05-13
Blogfest Coverage
Update 2010.01.03: Removed all links to the old Gowanus Lounge domain, which has since been appropriated by some parasitic commercial site.
To highlight coverage of last Thursday's Blogfest, I've moved all the links from my original post to this one and organized it by media. I'll continue to keep this up to date as I learn about more.
Video
(Watch this space)
Photos, mostly
Words, mostly
To highlight coverage of last Thursday's Blogfest, I've moved all the links from my original post to this one and organized it by media. I'll continue to keep this up to date as I learn about more.
Video
- Brooklyn Roundtable (Episode airing 9pm 5/18 will include a video montage from the Blogfest and interviews with OTBKB, BrownStoner, and No Land Grab. Update: I was in the montage!)
- cruxy (I'm in this one, though not identified. They pan across me at the open mic before they move on to one-on-one interviews with attendees at the reception.)
- NewsChannel4
(Watch this space)
Photos, mostly
- Flickr (multiple contributors)
- Brit in Brooklyn
- Dope on the Slope (includes a heavily processed image of moi)
- Gowanus Lounge (link defunct)
- A Test Of Will
Words, mostly
- Atlantic Yards Report
- Brooklyn Heights Blog
- Brooklyn Record
- Clinton Hill Blog
- Crazy Stable
- Curbed
- DefinitiveInk
- Dope on the Slope
- Empire Zone (New York Times)
- Food of the Future
- Gotham Gazette
- Gowanus Lounge: (links defunct)
- iLoveBrooklyn.com
- I'm Seeing Green
- The Luna Park Gazette
- newyorkshitty.com
- No Land Grab
- Non-Profit Tech Blog
- Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
- Rainyday
- Runs Brooklyn
- Self-Absorbed Boomer
- Sustainable Flatbush
- Thrice Fresh
- Urban Seashell
2007-05-11
The 2nd Annual Brooklyn Blogfest, for real
[2007.05.23: Moved Back in the Day to its own post.]
[2007.05.13 23:50 EDT: Moved all links to their own post.]
[2007.05.13 10:50 EDT: Added still more links and link to video.]
[2007.05.12 04:00 EDT: Added several more links.]
[2007.05.11 23:30 EDT: Updated links, and wrote Back in the Day.]
[2007.05.11 20:00 EDT: Added one photo of me, and link love to other blogfest participants writing about the event.]
[2007.05.11 16:36 EDT: Added some photos.]

It was a great event. I was too exhausted, achy, and feverish when I got home to write anything last night. I'll be coming back tonight to write more. A couple of quick notes now.
Update 2007.05.11 23:30 EDT: I'm back. Only minor edits and links added to what I wrote earlier today. Some possibly closing thoughts here.
Back in the Day
[2007.05.23: Moved Back in the Day to its own post.]
Present Day
Ye Olde Stone House

I met lots of my fellow Brooklynites and bloggers. I am terrible with names and faces and, well, people, mostly, so if I met you or gave you a card, please leave a comment below to slap me a reminder! A special shout out to my neighbors Brenda of Crazy Stable, and Anne of Sustainable Flatbush, both of whom I met for the first time last night.
Our host(ess) for the evening, Louise Crawford, Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, keeping time with the broom

Robert Guskind, Gowanus Lounge

Steve Johnson, outside.in

Lumi Michelle Rolley, No Land Grab

Jonathan Butler, Brownstoner

Norman Oder, Atlantic Yards Report

Eleanor Traubman, Creative Times

Despite enduring a root canal from the dentist earlier in the day, my partner tuffed it out and accompanied me to the blogfest. His name tag read "Blog Widow" and he found others last night with whom to commiserate. He said "You're famous" based on the response I received at the open mic. And here I'd thought it was my natural charisma, wit and charm. Or, if not, that the response I received was for "Flatbush" more than me. Represent.
News12 Reporter Heather Abraham recording her voice-overs outside the Old Stone House before the doors opened.

NewsChannel4 Van outside the dog run in J.J. Byrne Park.

News12 Brooklyn, Brooklyn Independent Television (BIT), and NewsChannel4 (NYC NBC affiliate) were in the house. (A very crowded and cozy Old Stone House, it was.) BIT interviewed me on-camera along with several others at the end of the evening to get our reactions. And Dope on the Slope conducted a probing and humorous digital audio interview with me. (Note: I wasn't serious about hoping the Bradford Pears just planted on Cortelyou Road would die soon so they could be replaced. But I bet they will expire before our mortgage does.)
Battle Diorama inside Old Stone House

Update 16:36 EDT: BIT airs at 8:30pm this evening on BCAT (Brooklyn Community Access Television). I hope to try and catch it to see if I made any face time.
Update 19:45 EDT: And here is the man behind the blog, yours truly, Flatbush Gardener. Thanks to the blogfest participants who dared risk their lenses against my visage.
Flatbush Gardener, present day
Credit: Robert Guskind, Gowanus Lounge

Link Love
All the links now have their own post.
[2007.05.13 23:50 EDT: Moved all links to their own post.]
[2007.05.13 10:50 EDT: Added still more links and link to video.]
[2007.05.12 04:00 EDT: Added several more links.]
[2007.05.11 23:30 EDT: Updated links, and wrote Back in the Day.]
[2007.05.11 20:00 EDT: Added one photo of me, and link love to other blogfest participants writing about the event.]
[2007.05.11 16:36 EDT: Added some photos.]
It was a great event. I was too exhausted, achy, and feverish when I got home to write anything last night. I'll be coming back tonight to write more. A couple of quick notes now.
Update 2007.05.11 23:30 EDT: I'm back. Only minor edits and links added to what I wrote earlier today. Some possibly closing thoughts here.
Back in the Day
[2007.05.23: Moved Back in the Day to its own post.]
Present Day
Ye Olde Stone House
I met lots of my fellow Brooklynites and bloggers. I am terrible with names and faces and, well, people, mostly, so if I met you or gave you a card, please leave a comment below to slap me a reminder! A special shout out to my neighbors Brenda of Crazy Stable, and Anne of Sustainable Flatbush, both of whom I met for the first time last night.
Our host(ess) for the evening, Louise Crawford, Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, keeping time with the broom
Robert Guskind, Gowanus Lounge
Steve Johnson, outside.in
Lumi Michelle Rolley, No Land Grab
Jonathan Butler, Brownstoner
Norman Oder, Atlantic Yards Report
Eleanor Traubman, Creative Times
Despite enduring a root canal from the dentist earlier in the day, my partner tuffed it out and accompanied me to the blogfest. His name tag read "Blog Widow" and he found others last night with whom to commiserate. He said "You're famous" based on the response I received at the open mic. And here I'd thought it was my natural charisma, wit and charm. Or, if not, that the response I received was for "Flatbush" more than me. Represent.
News12 Reporter Heather Abraham recording her voice-overs outside the Old Stone House before the doors opened.
NewsChannel4 Van outside the dog run in J.J. Byrne Park.
News12 Brooklyn, Brooklyn Independent Television (BIT), and NewsChannel4 (NYC NBC affiliate) were in the house. (A very crowded and cozy Old Stone House, it was.) BIT interviewed me on-camera along with several others at the end of the evening to get our reactions. And Dope on the Slope conducted a probing and humorous digital audio interview with me. (Note: I wasn't serious about hoping the Bradford Pears just planted on Cortelyou Road would die soon so they could be replaced. But I bet they will expire before our mortgage does.)
Battle Diorama inside Old Stone House
Update 16:36 EDT: BIT airs at 8:30pm this evening on BCAT (Brooklyn Community Access Television). I hope to try and catch it to see if I made any face time.
Update 19:45 EDT: And here is the man behind the blog, yours truly, Flatbush Gardener. Thanks to the blogfest participants who dared risk their lenses against my visage.
Flatbush Gardener, present day
Credit: Robert Guskind, Gowanus Lounge
Link Love
All the links now have their own post.
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