Here, through the lenses The Advanced Digital Media Class for Teens at 12th Ave’s Photo Center NW, is another look at a changing Capitol Hill. Nice work, kids.
Capitol Hill in Transition from Advanced Digital Media for Teens on Vimeo.
Photographic Center Northwest located in Seattle, Washington offers teen workshops that help youth advance their creative skills in photography and digital media. The Advanced Digital Media Workshop offers teens the chance to create a multimedia piece where they use their photographic skills to tell a story.
In this particular class, our multimedia project explored the changes happening on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington. Capitol Hill has long been considered the heart of Seattle’s alternative culture and lifestyles, but with a mass population increase and influx of new business the landscape is rapidly transforming.
Through the use of photography, video, and audio skills gained in the workshop; the students created the multimedia piece, Capitol Hill in Transition, which looks at the changing cultural demographics and economics sweeping the area.
Instructor: Bethanie Mitchell
Videographer: Peter Kubiniec
Photographers: Jack Sarlls, Phoebe Metzger, and Johanna Mergener
Audio: Phoebe Metzger
Cry me a river. This film starts with a narrative and finds quotes to support. Anyone can do that. I congratulate the kids for creating this film but please do but this on pedestal as the one and only narrative on the Hill.
you are attacking high school students’ class project, which is pointing cameras at residents of this neighborhood, and recording them speak in their own voices.
I’d say that’s a lot more valuable than some naysayist crap on a web forum
I fully agree with you c doom. Instead of Steven embracing the fact that teens are learning a craft and putting their skills to use, all he has to offer are vitriol statements. Sad.
Meant “but please don’t* put this on pedestal as the one and only narrative on the Hill.”
Why don’t you pick up a camera, go find some brogrammers and amazoids, and record their valuable contribution to the narrative. Then hang around Pike and Pine on a weekend and get some woo girls and eastside drunks out to party. Won’t someone think of the poor downtrodden people whose voices are not being heard.
Getting stuck in the past is a great way to miss out on opportunity. People need to release their hearts of resentment and open their eyes to the possibilities. There are new locals in town and you can’t stop that.
I am confused by all the people who seem to be conflating the rise in hate crimes with the arrival of well-paid workers for tech companies. I know tons of people in the tech industry and many of them are gay, and the rest are fairly tolerant, civilized people.
It seems clear to me that people who have NOT moved in here are bringing most of the violence to the hill. Shouldn’t we be focusing more on the club and restaurant owners who make money off of attracting douche-bags from the Seattle metro area and leave the rest of the neighborhood to deal with the increased crime and violence? Why should the rest of us have to pay for the increased social costs that their clients bring?
The clubs and restaurants that are over serving these idiots should pay for all the extra police time and compensate the neighborhood for the general decline in quality of life. Talk about privatization of profit and socialization of risk/costs.
Stop bagging on Amazon workers, and start bagging on Meinert and his ilk.
Gays and artists made this neighborhood what it was, now we’re being replaced by newcomers, often that work at Amazon. At the same time, the area is less “safe space” and more “upscale rentals for new arrivals.” So a sense of community got lost, and the feeling of safety that went with it.
Or alternately, you made the neighborhood what you wanted it to be when you displaced the previous residents, who themselves had made the neighborhood what they wanted it to be when they displaced the people before that.
Neighborhoods change. If they never changed, you wouldn’t have been here in the first place because Capitol Hill wasn’t always this past bastion of arts and quirkiness. It was kind of a shithole with a bunch of terrible chains.
Gays and artists aren’t better than other people and don’t have more of a right than other people to define what this neighborhood is and will be. Also, most “artists” on the hill are deluded, no-talent white clowns who think working away at a job that probably isn’t fun all the time, and that doesn’t mark them out as special and talented – which is the lot of most humans not born to wealth – is beneath them.
I like the film, it captures actual capitol hill voices, as opposed to these annoying rich newcomers.
Rich newcomers? Check out this site and The Stranger. The only narrative is “new comers are bad”
I hope you’re Native American, that way you can really talk about being displaced…Or is only bad when it happens to hipster white people?
You know who’s a newcomer? John Criscitello, a white, male, recently-closeted, recently transplanted Brooklyn hipster and shitty pop artist who has been here for five years. And now he’s telling me and everyone else who’s cool enough to be on the hill? Who’s artsy enough?
I think the real problem is that guys who aren’t necessarily as hip and white as John and the other folks who have defined themselves as the cool and worthy crowd are making way more money that John. It’s almost as if the world values their uncool, boring skills that makes things like the software and iPhones that these artists use to let us all know how cool they are more than they value all that shitty, derivative art. Weird.