Census part I: WNYC's take

I've been eagerly awaiting the 2010 Census numbers for a while now.

Public radio station WNYC has released some census maps, including racial demographics and population changes from 2000 - 2010. I took some screen shots of the the population change map, but of course, I was more interested in focusing on how the New York based radio station divided New Jersey.

Did they divide it based on where their listening audience is?

Where the fringe signal reaches?

Where the census divides New Jersey?

I really don't know.

But I did notice some interesting patterns:

They left out the Lehigh Valley area of New Jersey that we focused on heavily in New Jersey: the Movie. In the film's extras, we interviewed a friend Doug, who grew up near Belvidere and both owners of Gunnar's Landing. You can see the newest interview of Gunnar's here.

Finally, my hometown of Ewing gets split by this map. Actually, it splits Mercer County and Monmouth County. The significance of this: it is exactly where our People's Line (detailed in the film) goes through.

But surprise: no Ocean County.

This all makes me wonder if Ocean County will continue to be counted as part of the New York metropolitan area in the new census or if it will become something else . . . Anyway, I hope to post more as the new census numbers creep out.

Preview: some of the bands in our film

One of the bands that we included in the film is, Save Pluto. They competed in a battle of the bands of sort on G Rock Radio and we at NJ: the movie spent a lot of time looking at these bands, especially because most had Jersey roots.

These guys were a definite favorite, and there wasn't many the crew here could agree on. But these guys rocked and were a group who we saw as an up-and-coming band. They stood out from many of the others in the competition. And - they just signed a publishing deal too - so I guess we have good taste!

Anyway, see an interview they did beforehand:

And hear one of their songs . . .

by the way . . . we are not putting this song in, but "Impressed" which you can listen to at their myspace site. The lyrics "are we ever going to get together" had some meaning from my point-of-view on this film . . but anyway, enjoy!