Episode 8: Stefan Killen (stefankillendesign.com and pinholeny.com) Directed by David Castillo Produced by Blue Barn Pictures, Inc. for DumboNYC on vimeo In this episode of Crossing Dumbo, Blue Barn Pictures interviews Dumbo based artist Stefan Killen, a graphic designer and pinhole photographer. Pinhole photography involves a handmade pinhole camera, a small cardboard box wrapped in [...]
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Crossing Dumbo: Video Portrait of Stefan Killen

Brooklyn Heights People: Dan Horan of Five Acre Farms
To be clear, Five Acre Farms is not a farm at all. There is no pastoral landscape where cows graze, no ever-present smell of manure percolating the air. There is no big red barn, no silo, no wooden sign on an oak tree announcing that Five Acre Farms is two miles down the road to [...]
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Brooklyn Heights People: Dr. Dylan Kwait
In many ways, Brooklyn Heights resident Dylan Kwait is your typical psychotic person who decides to run a marathon: he’s young (33), active, and, as a radiology resident at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center, barely able squeeze running into his hectic schedule. But in one really big way, Kwait is a rarity among marathoners, having been
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The Pigeon Keepers of Bushwick
Mike Tyson ain’t the only guy in Brooklyn keeping boids. Brooklyn photographer Chris Arnade writes us about a documentary, Pigeon Keepers of Bushwick, that he’s recently worked on with Rattapallax Productions; I first noticed the beautiful flocks of pigeons high above Maria Hernandez park in Bushwick last summer. At the time I had no idea FULL STORY

Crossing Dumbo: Video Portrait of Ken Goto of Jacques Torres Chocolate
In this episode of Crossing Dumbo, Blue Barn Pictures interviews Ken Goto, a business partner at the popular chocolate shop, Jacques Torres Chocolate. Jacques Torres and Ken Goto have been operating in Dumbo for over ten years and a supporter of the Dumbo neighborhood’s retail growth. Ken talks about how he got started in the
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#BackintheDay: The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique
Well, there’s nothing like it. The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique didn’t sound like any record that came before it, or anything since.I remember buying it when it first came out, but I don’t remember why I bought it. I liked a bunch of songs…
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