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The Brimfield Flea Market was founded in 1959 in Brimfield Massachusetts and has grown to become one of the largest flea markets in the world. Three times a year, the population of Brimfield swells from 3,000 to a quarter million, when treasure hunters flock to the fair in search of vintage Americana. One dealer sums [...]
They say the name ‘flea market’ first originated from the legendary Paris antiques market of St. Ouen, when an unknown bargain hunter in the 1880s looked down from nearby fortifications, observed junk dealers selling their scrap and allegedly exclaimed, “My word, but it’s a market of fleas!” In reality, it is anything but. On my [...]
On a crisp sunny Sunday, there really is no better place to be in Paris than les Puces (the flea market) of St.Ouen. The epicenter of authentic Paris, le Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen is an ideal little society of its own, made up of village-like alleys and small streets, persevered by an intellectual and [...]
Paris might have the Notre Dame Cathedral but in Austin, Texas stands a one-of-a-kind structure called the Junk Cathedral. Impressive in it’s own right, it is the work of Vince Hannemann, also known as ‘The Junk King’. Vince has been doing installation works using found objects since he was 16 years old and contrary to [...]
Browsing ‘Authentic-As-It-Gets’ Vintage at the Marché aux Puces in Paris, MessyNessy Gets Trigger Happy with the Hipstamatic Lens How to get there: Take the metro line 4 to the last station, Porte de Clignancourt. Don’t be alarmed by the neighbourhood when you emerge from the station, you’re in the right place. As a general rule [...]
I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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Everybody loves a good photo album, even the NSA! For their 60th anniversary last year, they put
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Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location,
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s
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An impressive line-up of automobiles will be up for auction hosted by Bonhams next week on June 2
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In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon
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Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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