Next week, PSFK will be hosting Good Ideas Salon, Brooklyn. We’ll be enjoying local fare, and featuring a panel of guest speakers discussing small batch culture and local entrepreneurship.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

Two graphic designers in Williamsburg Brooklyn have taken their love for their pet rabbit to a new level with Brooklyn Bunny- a live action webcam and line of related products.

DIY music community newspaper SHOWPAPER is collaborating with Urban Green Initiative on “Scene & Captured” an art show that “explores waste solutions for the music scene”.

The Boerum Hill area of Brooklyn may be getting a touch of urban farming to counter newly installed sidewalk extensions.

Bodega is launching its first endeavor, the “Mapping Project.” The meet-up, which takes place tomorrow at 303Grand in Williamsburg, Brooklyn aims to connect creatives, start-ups, social entrepreneurs, and small business owners with the purpose of spurring collaboration.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

This Saturday, in Brooklyn, PEEL Zine (authors of PEEL The Art of the Sticker) and Shepard Fairy will unveil an exclusive poster collaboration as part of the MBP Urban Arts Fest.

With album sales dramatically falling as people increasingly migrate to one-off digital purchases from the likes of iTunes, the music industry is need of creative solutions to reverse this trend. To that end, we found out about one such effort that took place in Brooklyn last night. Musician Langhorne Slim, played a small, secretive show in support of his latest release, “Be Set Free,” where the cost of entry was buying the record.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

The Red Arrow Project by Jennifer Fisher and Christian Cerrito uses floating 4′x4′ kites to remind viewers to stop, explore and engage with their surroundings.

Specialists in creating extreme environments, as well as events that bring the DIY community together, a Bushwick-based art duo have constructed a maze within the space, entitled “YOU ARE HERE: THE MAZE”.

In the true spirit of DIY culture, skillshares operate under the notion that access to education is a right rather than a commodity and that everyone has knowledge to share, making every individual both a student and a teacher. Their mission is to bring people together and create a reciprocal community based on learning, sharing and doing. A quick internet search reveals groups already formed in both Boston and Austin, but nothing in the NYC environs, until now.
Brooklyn Skillshare’s inaugural event will take place October 10th at the Gowanus Studio Space, offering classes on topics that range from kombucha brewing and [...]

Judith Supine continues installing his work in hard to reach places. His latest, “Above the City in a Summer Night Dream,” was crowned on top of the Williamsburg Bridge.
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Wired’s Bryan Derballa recently published a photo essay on the growing moped communities around the country and their passionate fascination with the fuel-efficient, but ailing, and often discarded, motorized bikes.  Derballa’s three week immersion into the moped culture involved a run-in with the police and a group ride through Times Square.
The vibrant moped community in Brooklyn is centered on a little shop called the Orphanage in Greenpoint.  The group support the little collection of bikes rescued from obscurity and repairs them to sputtering, though working, order.  The mopeds often top out at 30 miles per hour and the little two-stroke [...]