{"id":5613,"date":"2012-02-14T23:10:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T09:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2012-02-14T23:34:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T09:34:50","slug":"so-long-chinatown-boardroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/14\/so-long-chinatown-boardroom\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Chinatown Boardroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I stopped by Chinatown Boardroom on this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s First Friday to say goodbye to the downtown art space and surfboard showroom I enjoyed so much over the years. I got to talk to Eric and roughhouse with Enoki a bit, but Jackie wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in when I was there. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to write about a shop closure without getting into the whole \u00e2\u20ac\u0153economic downturn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d thing, but as Eric summed it up, the whole Chinatown scene has changed so much in the last 10 years, and that in addition to the poor economy has conspired against operating a small shop at a profit. Indeed Chinatown has gone from a seedy crime-infested underbelly to a thriving art community, but in recent years (think around when \u00e2\u20ac\u0153block parties\u00e2\u20ac\u009d started) the vibe has changed toward more of a hipster club scene. Art has become \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old hat\u00e2\u20ac\u009d downtown. Face it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c hipsters only buy dumb hats and fixie bikes and each one fancies himself an artist, so they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really support the art communuity: Where hipsters go, the whole iToons-fostered culture of instantly downloadable sub-$5 consumerism soon follows and the idea of creativity is lost.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Eric said they will keep the website and continue to make and sell boards and related goods, but the shop location which he (and a whole lot of other people) loves so much will close at the end of February. It was a difficult decision to close the location, but I agree that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s better to leave on a good note rather than throwing money at something and ending up hating it. They may reopen somewhere else if conditions are right, but only time will tell. Stop by and say so long. You can get a good deal on the remaining merchandise and check out the last art show before the doors close for good!<\/p>\n

So long, friends.<\/p>\n

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I stopped by Chinatown Boardroom on this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s First Friday to say goodbye to the downtown art space and surfboard showroom I enjoyed so much over the years. I got to talk to Eric and roughhouse with Enoki a bit, but Jackie wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in when I was there. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to write about a shop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,7,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1sx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5628,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions\/5628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}