Two frames apart

I shot these for the Brooklyn Flea Vendor listings on their web site. It was composed in a few seconds with items at hand. The light was great, but lasted only a moment or two.

The Airstream is a cast model I got at Pottery Barn about a decade or more ago?
The "wrestlers" are by Lafayette L. Rittgers.
The crystal vessels are Danish.
The crystal carafe is my mother's.

Guy Trebay New York Times Brooklyn Flea DJ Record Fair

I chatted with Guy Trebay during the weekend I was at the Brooklyn Flea for the super DJ record fair. He is a regular there and covers it often for the Times. He is a witty, wry and intelligent observer of today's social mores and trends.

I had brought down a lot of stuff from the 80's music, art, fashion, and cultural scenes. Basically old clothes, old records, ACT UP and AREA tee shirts, club invites, Sex Pistols (see older post) promo posters, and more.

It was a great weekend - a perfect storm of sunny warm weather, good energy and people with money to spend and real interest in the items offered. A flea vendor's nirvana.

The following week Guy Trebay published a story about the record fair in his "Gimlet Eye" column in the NY Times on Thursdays. (link from post heading above)

He was kind enough to mention me and even kinder to find some relevance, humor, and a sympathetic insight into my life as it is now - and as it was then.

I was flattered.

God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols Posters - Jamie Reid

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OK - finally something to write about.
I'm starting to pull together merchandise for the Brooklyn Flea "SUPER DJ" Record sale on September 19th at One Hanson Place in Brooklyn. The Sunday location for the Brooklyn Flea.

This is my first show at this venue which is a landmarked bank space.

I did pretty good this past spring selling off some of my rare vinyl from the 60's - 70's and 80's at the Fort Greene location - so I'm excited to bring more records and ephemera to this expo.

While digging through my archives I'm finding some cool shit that I intend to show.

All sorts of music related Fashion, Graphics, Tickets, Posters, etc.

These posters were backstage in the dressing rooms for the Sex Pistols last gig - on their fateful US tour and their final show ever.

I was there too. Here's what I remember.

A member of the Avengers (the opening band) spray painted 'pretty vacant' over them.
They were stapled to the wall in a over lapping composition - so the graffiti tags are skewed.
I have 3 of the 4 posters that were there. I just ripped them off the wall on my way out.
The posters are promo material from Warner Bros. using the classic Jamie Reid graphics he designed for the Pistols record sleeves.

I also have a heavily silk screened tee shirt from the tour with the Jamie Reid album graphics.

I'll post more stuff as I find it.

See you there? Sept 19, 2010 - Brooklyn Flea.

Halloween Weekend / "Brooklyn Flea" and Gifted Holiday Market

I've been trying to get ahead of the rain, which is becoming another standard weekend event this fall, by moving indoors whenever possible. 

At the Tincan Trading Post upstate - I will be having an indoor tag sale of Holiday Kitchen and Tablewares along with the usual array of great furniture, objects and household goods.

Lots of cool stuff for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner table settings and decorative objects.

That's this SUNDAY !!!

NOVEMBER 1, 2009  -  11 am to 4 pm

Location;

C MEYER RD.

AT THE INTERSECTION OF  RT. 97 / RT. 116

COCHECTON, NY 12726

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I'll probably do 2 days at the Brooklyn Flea the following week.

11/7 - Saturday in Ft. Greene.

11/8 - Sunday under the Brooklyn Bridge. 

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Then for 3 days over Thanksgiving weekend I'll have a booth at the Brooklyn Flea's "Gifted Holiday Market" running through Christmas.

I am only doing the opening weekend with a special collection of Holiday gift items.

NOVEMBER 27, 28, 29 - 2009

Lafayette and Fourth St.

NYC, NY 10003

(the old Tower Video space)

I hope to see you all.

Brooklyn Flea or Brooklyn Flee

I just spent a week in Brooklyn (in Bensonhurst where I grew up and spent my life trying to get away from) tending to family matters.

While there, I rented a booth at the famous Brooklyn Flea in Ft. Greene. I had resisted shleeping stuff into the city since opening the Tincan Trading Post up here, in my beautiful trailers. But after a completely rained out summer, I needed a new venue (with lots of cool people) for showcasing my "tincan" concept and actually selling some select goods.

So I gave it a shot - up at 4:30 and by 6:30 I was sitting in my over packed Jeep with a deer head on the passenger seat and squeezed into the last parking spot on Vanderbilt Ave. drinking coffee and eating a bagel.

I brought an edited selection of goods that covered only a small range of the categories I have been collecting - but very beautiful and unusual things that I thought would be better appreciated in the city than they are up here.

The hit of the day in Ft. Greene were 4 pairs of unworn Suede Spectators - probably from the 40's very Fred Astaire looking? As soon as I un-packed them a Japanese couple scooped up a pair and also a pair of leather riding boots I had. Several chic women bought the other 3 pairs of spectators.

I had a 3 piece group of original McCobb chairs and a coffee table from the Planner series. I was asking$250 a piece or $750 the set. Great price!! There was lots of interest and drooling over them but no one bit. Most people wanted just 1 chair and I didn't want to split the pair. I regretted having to load them back in the jeep. Next week I'll let them go by the piece.

I'll be in Ft. Greene again this weekend - Saturday Oct. 3, 2009.

Eric and Rob are the guys running the Flea and they generously added a blurb about me and the trading post on the Browstoner blog. http://www.brownstoner.com/brooklynflea/