By: News from Brooklyn

News from Brooklyn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:23:06 +0000

[...] News from BrooklynB5+10 blog ++++++++++++ At WorkSue Kroeter shoots Sharan SQ-35 Brooklyn, March 4, 2009 submitted by: ad11211webmasterPhotographer Sue Kroeter shot the iconic Brooklyn Bridge with the New Square Format Sharan SQ-35 pinhole camera. The SQ-35 is in our Camera Shop: http://www.brooklyn5and10.com/Sharan-SQ35-Pinhole-Camera-Kit-p/sq35.htmMore of Sue’s work can be found at these two sites: http://www.susankroeterphotography.com/http://www.sharan-camera.com/gallery.html++++++++++++ We Like ilovefactoryBrooklyn, February 14, 2009 submitted by: ad11211webmasterTemporarily transported out of Brooklyn and writing from Madrid Spain, I was looking last night for live music gigs and new films. I discovered an article on Hats in the hip lifestyle magazine Go Madrid. It featured a headpiece by Brooklyn duo Laurel St. Romain and Christopher Garbushian, designers of the extravagant and beautiful headgear of their new label I Love Factory. Ornaments for the head, these pieces are incredible, detailed, and beautiful. I love Factory has recently been on the cover of WWD, on Gossip Girl, and the design team has been featured in NY Magazine. Check them out: i love factoryhttp://fashionindie.com/designer-discovery-i-love-factory/http://www.dailycandy.com/new_york/article/39909/Top+of+Mindhttp://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/12/i_love_brooklyn_hats.html++++++++++++ Somewhere in Brooklyn hearts carBrooklyn, February 5, 2009 submitted by: walkerAn irresistible sight in the deep cold. ++++++++++++ Somewhere in Brooklyn Gas lightBrooklyn, January 20, 2009 submitted by: walkerBrooklyn night amble in the january cold. Streets empty. Not much fill-up action.++++++++++++ Somewhere in Brooklyn Day and Night CycloneBrooklyn, December 18, 2008 submitted by: webmasterIt was 1981?that rushed in?looking at this photo. How much ghostlier it appears in my memory from that time in New York City, during the wee hours of a Saturday night. I was new in the city and visitors were in from out of town. A friend and I took them to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in some little beater of a car. Star Reggie J. got himself thrown out of the game, to the distress of our guests. We got lost in the South Bronx driving back to Brooklyn and a cop car pulled up beside us on the highway, asking what we were doing there, yelling directions through open windows. The driver of our car somehow managed dialog with the cops with cigarette dangling from mouth. We decided that it was ‘necessary’ to take the out of town friends to Coney Island?for the Cylone and Nathans?to cap off the evening and to celebrate finding our way back home to Brooklyn. I liked going to Coney back then, when it was like something from Noir films. How bright even hyper it looks here, in the freshness of winter sun?totally surreal.++++++++++++ Somewhere in Brooklyn Sign RemainsBrooklyn, December 3, 2008 submitted by: walkerKenny’s shop has been closed for years, but the sign remains. With all the bad economic news lately, I imagined stopping in to ask about a hero of the economic kind. I guess that would be a combination of John DeLorean (prior to drug dealing?perhaps a thought for the big 3 today) and Frank Capra’s George Bailey. Neither have anything to do with Brooklyn or sandwiches. Did George Bailey actually eat in that film? He did drive a Pontiac into a tree. In the end, DeLorean’s crash was more dramatic.++++++++++++ Somewhere in Brooklyn Dark by FiveBrooklyn, November 19, 2008 submitted by: walkerToday, I noticed that fall is almost over ?the leaves are all falling, it is getting dark by five, and the green market has mostly only apples.++++++++++++ Somewhere in Brooklyn Transportation OptionsBrooklyn, November 2, 2008 submitted by: ad11211This should be a plithy post about things that I saw in a Brooklyn nabe that jumped off various shelves at me screaming to appear in the B5+10 blog. Instead it became a footnote about looking for a ride after I saw a guy wearing a tee shirt that I wanted. The shirt was light grey with a graphic black illustration of a young guy holding a video camera up to his eye ‘filming’. This had the big red circle and diagonal line ‘cross out’ intimating “DON’T VIDEOTAPE ME–I don’t want to end up on YOU TUBE!” My immediate options were limited. Perhaps he will see the blog. Yeah, right. I wanted a photo of the shirt, but instead show my limited options at the time of sighting.++++++++++++ Somewhere in Brooklyn Night TimeBrooklyn, October 15, 2008 submitted by: walkerBrooklyn has changed in the past ten years. Cleaned up. Gentrified. In some neighborhoods, the ‘hood was scrubbed away with a wave of new trendy shops, bars and restaurants. But it is still there. Sometimes it is easier to see it at night.++++++++++++ News from Brooklyn ++++++++++++ Call for Submissions October 13, 2008 Send your own mini-tale of streetlife in Brooklyn to me with photos. Feel free to send short narratives (several sentences) and three photos max. Or it would be great to receive snapshots of cool things that you see in and around NYC and would like to have or build or wear. When sending these include a link to the store site that they can be found on?or at least the store name and street. Tell me why it caught your eye…why you want it. Pics of you growing, wearing, building or otherwise engaged with B5+10 gear would likewise be appreciated. If you appear in the blog, I’ll send you a pair of Nippon Work Gloves from the shop as compensation for your permission to post it here. For submissions: webmaster@brooklyn5and10.com Include your name, how you want to be credited (name, nickname, etc) and an address. Thanks from B5+10webmaster [...]

By: priscilla

priscilla — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:35:23 +0000

its probably just a girl being a girl. no pictures jillian?

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Comment conundrum | Girls Guide to Blogging — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:51:01 +0000

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By: Daniel Saynt

Daniel Saynt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:39:03 +0000

do you have a website or images of your pieces for comparison?

By: Jillian

Jillian — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:44:35 +0000

I was horrified when I saw the press that has resulted from this line of hats. One of the designers has been buying hats from me for the past year…I sell them at a street market in Soho every weekend. She bought several pieces and soon after, I saw her out, wearing what I guess is one of her “own designs”. Strangely enough, it was almost identical to what my hats look like. Even the way they are attached to your head is the same. I am SO sick of these NY wannabe transplants that move here, rip off someone’s designs, and then get praised as if they designed it on their own. I Love Factory may as well be called H&M, because its basically a line comprised of looks copied from other people. Ive decided to change my look to a line of hats made of soft leather, detailed with feathers, beads and buttons. Wouldn’t be surprised if this line suddenly decided to make that their “new look”.

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