Visiting HUSH Studios / Brooklyn Navy Yard

Last year I took a trip to Brooklyn Navy Yard for their open house: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-house-new-york-weekend-at-the-yard-tickets-421606164387.

A lot of this trip was walking around and exploring the city, so most of this blog post will be too.

Walking around:

Went up this beautifully long staircase at Fort Greene Park https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fortgreenepark.

I think the gray/black bird is a woodpecker.

Sign at the momument at the top of the park

IN MEMORY OF THE

11.500 PATRIOTIC AMERICAN SAILORS AND SOLDIERS

WHO ENDURED

UNTOLD SUFFERING, AND DIED ON THE BRITISH PRISON SHIPS, ANCHORED UN WALLABOUT DURING THE REVOLUTIONART WAR.

1776-1782

THEIR REMAINS LIE BURIED IN THE CRYPT AT THE BASE OF THIS MONUMENT

WHICH WAS DEDICATED ON NOVEMBER 14 1908

THIS PLAQUE WAS AFFIXED BY THE

SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYNITES

ON JUNE 1 1900

FOELLY CRANE MD

PRESIDENT

JAMES A KELLY

BOROUGH HISTORIAN

(copied from Apple’s image to text)

I really enjoyed this park.

More photos:

Check out this Mercedes, Vanagon, and Vespa.

Onto the Navy Yard:

In the lobby was Jason Krugman’s LED sculpture in the lobby. https://www.jasonkrugman.com/basket/

Jason Krugman’s LED sculpture

There were a lot of companies and organizations open to tour. Besides HUSH I checked out most of them on the list. I really enjoyed CLIP Bike and Bike New York & Recycle-A-Bicycle. Clip Bike was a lot smoother ride than I expected, and much easier to convert a bike via it than a Bafang Kit. Recycle-A-Bicycle was sweet because they were fixing up donated bikes and teaching people how to work on them.

HUSH:

There I met Maddie, Joseph and John.

Thank you to John for walking me through how projects were made and your tech stack.

Hearing them all speak was incredibly informative, especially on the approach to projects. Learning about how they approach installations as a conversation with the client and spend so much time communicating with them about their wants/needs/progress/result. It was eye-opening as well to learn about how long their timelines are, and how collaborative their process is not just internally but with external vendors as well.

[above] I don’t exactly remember what this was a demo of (maybe this). It was very pretty. The crystals were coated as to not allow light to escape from the ends.

[above] Hush Studio’s Visualizing HBO Max https://www.heyhush.com/work/7-visualizing-the-infinite-universe-of-hbo-max.

Other projects that were featured:

https://www.heyhush.com/work/2-visualizing-sustainability-for-united-therapeutics

https://www.heyhush.com/work/1-defining-uber-s-global-first-impression

https://www.heyhush.com/work/25-reinventing-vornado-s-penn-1-with-artful-digital

External Navy Yard photos:

Outside Building 77

Cranes

More images from Brooklyn:

Church like building.

I thought the architecture/windows were cool.

Street closed to cars

This was a really nice street to walk on. There was an outdoor restaurant down there. Wish Syracuse would shutdown Walton again. Streets are so much nicer without cars.

Very pretty homes

Granite sidewalks

This reminded me of the stone slabs that make up the stairs of some old Syracuse parks like Lincoln Park. Also, this was a costly area lol.

Really enjoyed my trip this time to Brooklyn and meeting so many new people. Highly recommend it. Also, staying in a hotel > AirBNB, and flying > Amtrak.