In Bethnal Green We Trust
this ones for marcosi...
bethnal green has a number things going for it: some banksy activity, a street named "brick lane" full of indian food, a strangely uber-hip out of place side street, more hipsters than you can shake a fist at and tons of used gear / retro shops. i discovered all this on saterday, and took two shots to prove it.
in the building that is the majority of shot one is this SUPER random used gear / flea market that this one japanese dude that looks like he magically came to life from the pages of some eccentric japanese fashion mag, runs. only the whole place looks just like him. and it smells of 100 years of unfresh cellar air. the place sells pretty much anything they think they can sell. the nicest thing i found was a circa 2000 flat screen crt apple monitor, but they had tons of shoes, jackets, couches, tables, tools, long dead answering machines, old tv's, parts of beds, 50+ beat ass bicycles (im assuming hot), old records, used magazines, used books, probly a few rats and 1 traffic light (the dangly green-yellow-red kind). in short,
awesome.
down this out-of-place steet (shot two) was this funny little outdoor barbeque that looked like where the actors eat when off set from the shoot of "hipster city" or someother ficticious concentration of lopsided hair and holey flat soled shoes. oddly enough this street had all these rediculoid expensive stores, with £200 jeans and one off nike shoes, adjacent to hippy retaurants boasting "home made" cookies with "all natural" ingredients. it felt very similar to haight, but with the homeless weeded out and all the crap stores gone.
i will return.
bethnal green has a number things going for it: some banksy activity, a street named "brick lane" full of indian food, a strangely uber-hip out of place side street, more hipsters than you can shake a fist at and tons of used gear / retro shops. i discovered all this on saterday, and took two shots to prove it.
in the building that is the majority of shot one is this SUPER random used gear / flea market that this one japanese dude that looks like he magically came to life from the pages of some eccentric japanese fashion mag, runs. only the whole place looks just like him. and it smells of 100 years of unfresh cellar air. the place sells pretty much anything they think they can sell. the nicest thing i found was a circa 2000 flat screen crt apple monitor, but they had tons of shoes, jackets, couches, tables, tools, long dead answering machines, old tv's, parts of beds, 50+ beat ass bicycles (im assuming hot), old records, used magazines, used books, probly a few rats and 1 traffic light (the dangly green-yellow-red kind). in short,
awesome.
down this out-of-place steet (shot two) was this funny little outdoor barbeque that looked like where the actors eat when off set from the shoot of "hipster city" or someother ficticious concentration of lopsided hair and holey flat soled shoes. oddly enough this street had all these rediculoid expensive stores, with £200 jeans and one off nike shoes, adjacent to hippy retaurants boasting "home made" cookies with "all natural" ingredients. it felt very similar to haight, but with the homeless weeded out and all the crap stores gone.
i will return.
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