Fort Green Dreams

“Fort Greene Dreams” is a personal narrative written by Nelson George a music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. This Narrative is about when he moves from Jamaica, Queens to Fort Greene in Brooklyn. He tells us his experience in Brooklyn while achieving his dreams, and how he discovered himself as a writer, lover, son, mentor, etc all by living alone in an apartment in Fort green, 19 Willoughby Avenue.

What i like about this autobiography is how he uses imagery though out all this story. The precise details give us a picture on our head of what is he going through while living in Brooklyn. One descriptive paragraph he wrote about that gave me a good image in my head, is how he witnessed thief getting arrested in his backyard! this is on page thirty three in the second paragraph. How just one night he was sitting in front of his laptop probing for inspiration, when just out of no where a guy climbed over the fence to Nelsons backyard with a television. He was about to call the cops, but two other cops jumped the fence and arrested the thief. Nelson said how he felt he was watching a reality show of Cops, which gives me a picture in my head how it happened.

Nelson also talks about the pros of living in Fort Greene like the transportation was good only a few stops away from Manhattan, had plenty of time to focus on his work, but most important how he discovered himself as a writer and how he was in general. living her he published five books! like i always say it doesn’t matter where you start but where you end up!

Project 1

Hi my name is Gabriel Perez-Ponce. Even though people think i am old because of my appearance i am actually 18 years old. I work at a bar/lounge in Columbus Circle called Stone Rose, i am a Food runner and sometimes a busboy. When ever i have time i like to go to the gym and workout. This is my first year in college as a freshman, i am pretty nervous because i do not know what to expect! But i know this is my future so i am going to try hard an achieve my goals in life. since  i am the first one in my family to go college i  want to make my parents proud, and be a role model to my little sister who is 13.

I have one main goal and that is to succeed in college. In the future I see myself receiving my bachelor degree on Criminal Justice and working as a Custom + Border protection officer (homeland security) . Many people ask “so why are you in City Tech?” Well It’s my for my lack of research  of every school i chose to attend. I was rejected by John Jay and City Tech was the only 4 year school that accepted me. I told myself to not attend a 2 year college(which was a big mistake) and just attend City Tech. i should of gone to Kings borough to work on my associate degree in criminal justice then go to John Jay and go for my bachelor degree. Like i always say it doesn’t matter where you start but where you end up.

The picture in my avatar is me during the this summer. The background is at night in the fountain in Columbus Circle. in my Picture you can indicate that i am a happy person who just likes to relax and enjoy life especially the summer. You can also see that I’m looking straight at the camera which mean that I’m determined of looking ahead of me and move forward.

People may interpret a lot of things of my picture. that i like going out at night, that it is a nice pic, or that I am just a happy person that likes to smile a lot. from my brief description of myself above, i hope people can see how i am. just a person who is open mind and humble if you treat me nice then ill do the same. Overall i just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself to everyone who is a Open Lab member.

Photo #2

  • the year of the photo is 1899
  • three women enjoying the weather at the park with a picnic
  • they are next to a lake
  • must be a sunny day since they are all wearing a hat
  • they are eating like little finger sandwiches
  • the woman on the right side is not aware of the picture being taken since she is not looking at the camera like the other two are
  • must be the season of Fall since there is a lot of leaves on the floor
  • the women are in some type of social group (club,school,church) because they are wearing the same dress code/uniform.

To me i can see these women enjoying the weather with a picnic at a park, maybe after a long day they had. I can assume that they went to an important place, by the way they are dressed. They are wearing long skirts, long sleeve white shirts with a tie, and they wearing fancy looking hats. Perhaps they went school, church, a meeting, or they just want to relax after a long day at work.

I looked up the picture and it is three ladies having a picnic in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I found this amusing because i live like 10 min away Prospect Park and i like going there to go jog or just for a walk at the park and sit by the lake. Instead of picnics i be having bbq’s with my family, it is definitely a good place a to have a picnic these women chose a good place.