McCarren Pool Hipster Fun: We Are the Pool! Vid


Wednesday, February 28, 2007, by Robert

We don't generally do music vids, but this is the We Are the Pool video produced by PoolAid and it's about McCarren Pool, which by definition makes it about Greenpoint and Williamsburg, historic preservation and, of course, hipsters. PoolAid wants free shows at the pool and for the facility to eventually become a, you know, pool again. The free summer concerts, of course, were revealed last week.
· We Are the Pool! [YouTube]
· McCarren Pool Will Have Hipsters This Summer! [Curbed]


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Comments (11 extant)

1.

What would a day at Curbed be without an article that will instantly devolve into Hipster-bashing! Here we go! Wheee!

By Anonymous at February 28, 2007 1:03 PM

2.

How about we do Hipster Aid - get them all to stand inside the pool under the pretense that it's the best place to hear the music, and then fill it in with quicksand. Now that's a nice thought..

By Anonymous at February 28, 2007 1:38 PM

3.

i am now dumber for watching that video.

By Anonymous at February 28, 2007 1:41 PM

4.

this is beyond shooting fish in a barrel. this is "fish jumps out of barrel and rolls itself into sushi while you feel vaguely sorry for it." i feel especially bad for Aaron Lazar. hasn't he suffered enough?

By Jimmy Legs at February 28, 2007 2:36 PM

5.

I got 52 seconds into the video before I had to shut it off because I couldn't handle their embarrassment. A true "Gong Show" moment. Eek.

By Anonymous at February 28, 2007 3:43 PM

6.

I liked it! They rock!

By Hewey Lewis at February 28, 2007 5:21 PM

7.

when will these so called hipsters learn that they are neither hip, not sters. please discuss.

By dick manitoba at February 28, 2007 5:39 PM

8.

Hipsters are just retards! We need a citywide ban on hipsters before their moronic antics get someone killed!

That germ infested pool needs to be leveled and new luxury condos put up in its place!

By Dude at March 1, 2007 12:00 AM

9.

Seriously - when this year's Of Motreol show is happening in McArron Pool, they should just take a bulldozer and push all of the hipsters into a giant vat of cement. Then they sohuld use that cement to build more condos. That way, the hipsters won't ever have to leave their beloved neighborhood, and you get moer former-Upper Montclair, NJ families!

By anonymous at March 1, 2007 8:44 AM

10.

I think it's great that folks came together to bring attention to McCarren pool. It's sad that attention's going to hipster bashing instead of saving a public community resource from potential corporatization.

By wow at March 1, 2007 10:19 AM

11.

This is a shitty song and vid put together by the dregs of the Williamsburg talent pool. It’s interesting how blogs find content to satisfy their preconceived notions about others. Just like that sitcom “The Burg” which the straight press loved to talk about. This will not be watched by any Brooklyn-based artists, but it will be discussed by yuppie ruberneckers.

By jared at March 1, 2007 3:18 PM




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