Myrtle Avenue Bird Town

Deinstallation

wongoers — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:05:22 +0000

A sad day for Bird Town!

Many people stopped by to ask why we were taking the birdhouses and feeders down. It made us happy that people cared about our project and also sad because it was the last day of Myrtle Avenue Bird Town. But we had a good run and we hope that all of our neighbors enjoyed the project while it was up!

Thanks to our friend, Chad, for coming out to help us!

If you’re wondering where the birdhouses and feeders will go, you may be able to view some of them at the Ingersoll and Walt Whitman Housing Community Gardens. We’ve donated several and plan to donate more to other community gardens. We’re glad they’ll be able to have an extended life on Myrtle Avenue.

It’s been a great seven months! Huge thanks to MARP and NYC Parks!

Hobby

wongoers — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:37:10 +0000

Hey! Check it out!

I recently presented Myrtle Avenue Bird Town (in slideshow form) to a crowd at the Harvest office for and event called Hobby. I presented alongside three other people and it was quite fun!

You can watch the video of the presentation here!

I hope you like it!

Thanks for all my friends who stopped by Hobby and thanks to Harvest for having me!

Community Kit for Educators

wongoers — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:17:00 +0000

O HAI!

Aaannnd we’re back!

Daniel made this awesome packet for MARP to distribute to teachers and educators in the neighborhood! We’re hoping that it will help them interact with Myrtle Avenue Bird Town before we de-install in December.

Check it out! There is a ton of information and a bunch of activities and pretty pictures in the packet. Try spotting some of our birdhouses or build your own suet bird feeder!

You can download the packet here. Super cool!

And be sure to get your last gander at Bird Town before it’s gone!

P.S. In case you were wondering about the title image, we couldn’t find a fitting one, so we posted a photo from a Brooklyn chicken coop we visited recently. Hey, it’s still about birds, right?

Bird Town Photos

wongoers — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:28:50 +0000

Awesome!

It took us forever to find these photos, but we finally found them! Dave Pinter took some really amazing photos of Bird Town about a week after we installed. It looks like it was a perfect day for light outside or maybe he just worked some photography magic. Check out the title photo and the photo below for examples of his work!

You can view the entire set of photos here.

Thanks Dave!

This photo is dedicated to the birdhouses that did not survive that crazy hail storm.

Sinovision

wongoers — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:16:02 +0000

Sweet!

Our first television interview! Local (NY, NJ, CT, PA) Chinese news station, Sinovision, aired the segment last night.

The reporter, interviewer, and camera man, Dawei Wu, was friendly, funny, and fun. He was also very organized and quite an enthusiastic character. You can see him in the photo above. We met up with Dawei at the Person Triangle site and proceeded from there!

You can watch our video interview HERE!

Note the seriousness of Dawei and the silliness of Daniel and I. Hehe!

Since neither of us can speak Mandarin or read Chinese, we plopped the text into Google Translate and this is what is spat out at us… please enjoy! (LOL)

Green Brooklyn bird housewarming Fort Park “Bird Town”
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The nest is located in Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, Fort Green Park, northwest corner of the triangle and the public parks, Parks Department and Brooklyn in New York Myrtle Avenue Development Council plan a public space sculpture exhibits. The Park Board plans to the theme through creative, natural, and human tripartite interaction, so that more art into life, but also hopes to awaken the community’s love of green and natural. Art duo Wongoers urban living by feelings and love for animals, nature, hair came up to add the art of nest trees in parks, “Bird Town” program.

“Bird Town” by the two parks were more than 50 shapes of art form nests. These practical and beautiful bird’s nest shape, unique innovative, eclectic selection. All kinds of nest, Jennifer favorite, is the element of the nest with Chinese characteristics. Daniel is the favorite with the 2008 Olympic Stadium “Bird’s Nest” concept similar to this.

“Bird Town” program also wongoers members behind Jennifer Wong and Daniel Goers love story. From Singapore, parents Jennifer Guangdong people are doing rigorous, well-organized city engineer. Daniel is a character from Georgia lazy, thinking elegant wood artist and furniture designer. Two years ago, two friends through a common understanding, from hit it off, creative and life have become a wonderful complement. They said the “Bird Town” project origin, even Jennifer’s tokens of love is a gift given to Daniel. They love animals and nature, also contributed to the concept of this program one of the reasons. “Bird Town” is Wongoers efforts so far put up a plan, Jennifer said they have been the focus for creative arts, nature, and human interaction, the purpose of this event coincides with the focus of their writings. (United States David Wu Chinese net)

Time Out New York

wongoers — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:31:22 +0000

Yay!

We were in the paper and online editions of Time Out New York as one of the best parks to tour public art. Its in the July 8 – 14 issue or check out the online edition here.

NYC Parks & Recreation put up signs at both sites along with some informational fliers produced by MARP. Stop by and grab a flyer!

Some Final Installation Photos

wongoers — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:20:10 +0000

After installing the project, we soon realized that we never got any really good overall images of the birdhouses. How did we miss that!? So when we went back for the SONYA stroll, bird feeder building workshop, we made sure to snap some good overall photos. Enjoy!

Hiatus

wongoers — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:21:01 +0000

Hello all,

We’ve been on hiatus for the past month or so, hence the lack of posts. By hiatus, I mean to say that we were in China and the Philippines! The title image of this post is the UK Pavilion at the World’s Expo in Shanghai! It looks strangely similar to our zip tie house, don’t you think?

While we were away, we picked up on some great press from Ooh.com, Quirky NYC and Gothamist (again!).

Check out the three articles here:

The Birds’ New Abode in Brooklyn
A Trip to Bird Town, Brooklyn
Bird Town Goes Up in Brooklyn

A special thanks to Spencer of Quirky NYC for stopping by our workshop. We love the video!

Bird Feeder Workshop – Success!

wongoers — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:29:01 +0000

Thank you everyone who came out and participated in our Bird Feeder workshop. It was a lot of fun! Over 15 bird feeders were constructed and 24 bird houses were decorated!

Check out the pictures below:

Quirky NYC stopped by to interview us and put together a short video. Thanks!

Myrtle Avenue Bird Town from SAF on Vimeo.

Our friends from Canal Nest Colony stopped by and made a couple of feeders as well. Funnily, they both happened to paint their houses the same color as their t-shirts!

And some special thanks needs to go out to Seth and Melissa who came by and helped us manage the workshop. Couldn’t have done it without the help!

SONYA STROLL Bird Feeder Workshop

wongoers — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:24:19 +0000

We are excited to be participants in this year’s SONYA STROLL.

Myrtle Avenue Bird Town presents
a Bird Feeder Building and Educational Workshop for Children.

Saturday May 15th, 10am-4pm

At the event, children will be able to assemble and decorate small bird feeders from kits made custom by the Bird Town artists. In addition, children will be invited to assist with bird observations in Fort Greene park and at the Bird Town site.

The event is FREE! All materials will be provided. Each family will be allowed one bird feeder or bird house kit and one urban bird habitat information packet. The participants will assemble and decorate the house with provided materials such as paint, beads, or whatever else we come up with. The info packs are provided by Celebrate Urban Birds by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

The event will take place at the Northwest Corner of Fort Greene Park underneath the Bird Town installation. Please stop by between 10 AM and 4 PM.

Additional information from the SONYA website:

SONYA Studio Stroll
Saturday, May 15, & Sunday, May 16, 2010
12pm-6pm both days, Rain or Shine

Free and open to the public.

Start planning now – the Stroll is just around the corner! Invite your friends and family and make it an artfully fun and inspiring weekend meeting artists and experiencing the work they create. You’ll discover an abundance of unique, artworks created locally by the South Of the Navy Yard Artists.

The Stroll is a self-guided tour of SONYArtist members’ studios and galleries within our community including Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill, Wallabout and the western edge of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It attracts thousands of visitors from the NYC metro area.

And just for fun, here is a pic of Jenn working on the kits. Check out her muscles.