Sunny Skies Grace The Flea's Opening Day
Over 10,000 people made it out to the opening day of the Brooklyn Flea on Saturday to shop, eat, socialize and people watch. A bunch of people have already uploaded photos to Flickr under the “brooklynflea” and “Brooklyn Flea” tags and Metromix has a great slideshow posted already. Twitter, hardly a household name when the…
Over 10,000 people made it out to the opening day of the Brooklyn Flea on Saturday to shop, eat, socialize and people watch. A bunch of people have already uploaded photos to Flickr under the “brooklynflea” and “Brooklyn Flea” tags and Metromix has a great slideshow posted already. Twitter, hardly a household name when the Flea opened a year ago, was full of Flea-related tweets this weekend. Below are some excerpts. Thanks to everyone who came out and made it a great day.
dorifern: @scanneremily I’m guessing you hit the Brooklyn Flea yesterday. Hotness (literal and visual) abounded…LilyQ: http://twitpic.com/3kyxi – Tragic Barbie dismemberment at the Brooklyn Flea…theambershow: As usual, I admired John Murphy’s art today at the Brooklyn Flea. So very lovely. http://tumblr.com/xid1m6z04…jillpriluck: Brooklyn flea. Bikram yoga. Brooklyn blooms. Beautiful day…nervousacid: Brunch, bike ride, Brooklyn flea, and buttery grilled corn. Fuck you, winter. You’re dead to me…lrhayward: opening day at brooklyn flea is like the first day of spring: filled with hope and excitment for the season to come!…designglut: Going for a run + finally experiencing brooklyn flea + new boots + new scissors + ginger ice cream = Glorious day…murphysarahann: Brooklyn Flea today in Fort Greene – beautiful items and even more beautiful people…carolhan: Brooklyn Flea!!! Antiques, vintage, empanadas, ice cream, boys, sun. What more could a girl want?…skimkim: Brooklyn flea is good for me!…iwasbombed: saw Jeffrey Wright from 007 (at Brooklyn Flea Market)…RadioRose: Ummm the brooklyn flea is crazers…alexandraHOME: Wow Brooklyn flea is packed today!!…James_nyu: The Brooklyn flea rocks…boogieBEE: Im at the brooklyn flea market in bk…lovin it….so much culture…slasser: At brooklyn flea madness. 30 min line for grilled cheese. Its artisnal, so must be worth it…eliz: Just found “Rumours” first pressing on vinyl. Three dollars. I am in love with the Brooklyn Flea.
my guess is that the “black people” who were there thought getting your picture taken at a flea market is a little um, i dont know, dumb? they probably just didnt want their pictures taken.
*rob*
I don’t think Gross was trying to incite hate. I thought the same thing too. Looking at this article reminded me about the Nelson George piece a couple of weeks ago. The lack of folks of color in these photos, even in the background, struck me.
The tweets…are…poetry! As a Twitter-nope myself, it hurts to admit this, but just look at that lovely fractured mosaic of language…it does a sweeter job conveying the day than I could have done in best Professional Journalist mode, like being able to pass, MRI-slice-style, through the heads of a dozen strangers in one arc. Tweets, at least aggregated ones (a Tweet Concerto?), get my Strange New Respect award of the day!
MM and I did the Flea several times as vendors. The crowds were very mixed, as were vendors. Don’t know if something has changed this year.
We finally went to the flea this weekend for the 1st time. It was pretty fun, we bought a piece of cheese, and some empanadas and strolled around.
Crowd was pretty white, hipster-ish. The silly jug band just outside the gate really made me laugh—oh what the hipsters will do to entertain themselves! : P
Gross, why incite hate? Why rile people up? Seriously what’s the point…
the photographer must really hate black people.
AM I RITE!
Only 4 blacks people (African-American) photographed. There were certainly more than the 4 represented in 3 out of 63 images.
I went but was not in any of the photos.
so i got that going for me.