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Postcarden featured on Good Morning America Anchor Chat Segment Brooklyn, April 17, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
Postcarden: As seen on Good Morning America, Anchor Chat Segment, April 17, 2010. Postcarden was also recently featured in
Daily Candy London and Daily Candy All Cities (March 10). This phenomenal item is just in the US at Brooklyn5and10.com.
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Golden Half: Giveaway at Hard Feelings Blog Send Photos to HF blog and win... Brooklyn, March 31, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
REPOST FROM HARD FEELINGS BLOG http://www.hardfeelingsblog.com/ "It’s giveaway time again y’aaall. This time around I’ve teamed up with Crooklyn’s finest, Brooklyn 5 + 10 to offer up a Powershovel Golden Half 35mm camera! I bought one of these little guys from B5+10 last summer + I’ve had so much fun shooting with it, so naturally I was super excited to be able to partner up + bring this giveaway to the HF readers.
Here’s the skinny on the camera: the Golden Half is a plastic half-format 35mm, which yields 72 photos from a 36 exposure roll. The original Superheadz design features a plastic body with a fantastic lens, three apertures and a hot shoe for flash. Seriously guys, this camera is great. it’s small enough to fit in almost any pocket, super easy to sleuth around with + trying to pair images for each exposure is SO fun. I’ve honestly never been disappointed with a roll I’ve developed. You get your choice of the 3 different designs + the camera comes w/ a 36 exposure roll of film!"
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Powershovel Golden Half Camera: Test Drive Hard Feelings Blogger Dylan Haigh puts a Golden Half to Work Brooklyn, March 31, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
Thanks to Dylan Haigh! When Dylan Haigh, blogger at Hard Feelings, contacted Brooklyn5and10 with a giveaway idea, we had no idea how lucky we'd gotten. He already had a Powershovel Golden Half Camera that he had been using and agreed to write a little blurb about the camera and to send a few of his photos for the "News from Brooklyn" B5+10 blog. Below are Dylan's comments and photos:
"besides the fact that it takes surprisingly good photos for being a tiny little toy camera, my favorite thing about shooting with the golden half is how fun it is to create your own little diptychs with every frame. every day that i take the camera out, it feels like i'm on a cool mini-project; it's a lot of fun searching for the right image to couple with the last photo i shot. it's even more fun seeing what comes out..." -dylan
Please visit Hard Feelings Blog to view details to win your own Golden Half Camera (ends 4/4/10). http://www.hardfeelingsblog.com/
Golden Half Camera photographs by Dylan Haigh, Hard Feelings Blog
Please visit Hard Feelings Blog to view details to win your own Golden Half Camera (ends 4/4/10). http://www.hardfeelingsblog.com/
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Doll is Here! Youdoo Doll contest is coming... Brooklyn,
March 8, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
Youdoo Doll (Make Your Own Mini-Me Kit)- Immortalize yourself in doll form! Now you don't have to be a superhero or in some rubbish band to live on in miniature.
Check back next week for Brooklyn5and10's Youdoo Doll contest details. We want to see you in action-making-mugging with your Youdoo Dolls and we would love to use images of your doll on our site. Still photos and Videos are both excellent. A great prize will be offered. The Youdoo Doll is here now and the Youdoo Pets and Superheros March 20, 2010.
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World Pinhole Photography Day Contest World Pinhole Photo Day is April 25, 2010 Brooklyn, March 2, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
Rayko Photo in San Francisco is sponsoring a Pinhole Photo Exhibition and Contest for World Pinhole Photography Day (April 25, 2010). Send your pinhole photos!
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I Love Factory Fashion Week 2010 Bensoni Collection features headgear from Brooklyn based I Love Factory Brooklyn, February 18, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
images above from style.com
image reposted from I Love Factory Blogspot, by ivy yoon.
Congratulations to I Love Factory for their millinery designs seen during FW2010 on the catwalk for Bensoni!
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I Love Factory Fashion Week Launch, Eternal Coronation Brooklyn, February 13, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster Brooklyn based fashion duo I Love Factory asked Brooklyn5and10 to partner with them for their Botanical Review last year. This year, we partner again for the launch of ILF's third line of cool millinery | headgear�February 13� at the Eternal Coronation launch party. Check out photos from last years Botanical Review launch (second link below) and to the official I Love Factory Website, below. B5+10 LOVES I Love Factory! Congratulations to ILF on an editorial feature in the current issue of super-hip NYLON Magazine (Japan). Good luck to Christopher and Laurel tonight with the launch of their third line!
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TLC* Magazine Motif Cubes, Global section, pg. 21 Brooklyn, February 12, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
Vancouver based TLC* Magazine picks Brooklyn5an10's Motif Cubes for its Global Gift section in their Dec|Jan Issue.
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Martha Stewart Living TV! Whole Living Segment with Terri Trespicio February 3, 2010 Body + Soul Magazine Sr. Editor Terri Trespicio wearing Brooklyn5and10 - Batucada Petals Necklace Brooklyn, February 3, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
Batucada Jewelry from Brooklyn5and10 made a surprise appearance on Martha Stewart Living TV this week! In the Whole Living Segment with
Body + Soul Magazine Senior Features
Editor Terri Trespicio February 3, Terri wore a Batucada Petals
Necklace (in black) from Brooklyn5and10. Terri is also the host of "Whole Living" on
Martha Stewart Living Radio and appears frequently on the TV show with
Martha Stewart for segments on health and wellness. http://www.wholeliving.com/article/whole-body-action-plan-recap?video_id=0
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Body + Soul Magazine! Brooklyn, February 3, 2010 Batucada Petals Necklace featured in the Holiday Eco-Gift Guide (re-post due to MSL tv spot-the necklace makes an appearance-above. Article from Dec 2008) submitted by: ad11211webmaster
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As seen in Better Homes and Gardens Magazine: Fresh Tech Section! Ikimono 110 Mini-Camera, pg. 26 Brooklyn, February 1, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
The cool little Ikimono 110 mini-camera was featured in Fresh Tech a new segment for Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. You can check it out on page 26, February issue.
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As seen in Better Homes and Gardens Magazine: Fresh|NOW! Snowflakes Papercraft Kit, pg. 28 Brooklyn, January 1, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
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Swiss Miss Design Blog! Brooklyn, January 1, 2010 submitted by: ad11211webmaster
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Design Milk Motif Cubes Giveaway! Brooklyn, November 9, 2009
submitted by: ad11211webmaster This week super hip Design Milk online is helping us giveaway a Motif Cubes to a lucker reader. Follow the link here to post a comment and enter the contest. http://design-milk.com/ Or view at the B5+10 store: http://www.brooklyn5and10.com/motifcubes
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Ikimono 110 Film Mini Camera from Japan�on our homepage this month! Brooklyn, September 8, 2009
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A photo taken in Brooklyn by one of our staff members using the Ikimono 110 film mini camera from Japan. Check out the Ikimono.
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Design-Milk�Batucada Baroco Jewelry Giveaway! Make a comment at Design-Milk to enter July 20-24: this week only Brooklyn, July 18, 2009
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Design-Milk is a fabulous art, design, lifestyle blog. If you are not familiar with them, now is the time to check the site out and enter this contest to win a Batucada Baroco Collar or Necklace from Brooklyn5and10. Design-Milk.com Batucada Baroco giveaway�please access contest through the link below. Basic Rules: To enter, comment on the design-milk post at http://design-milk.com/batucada-jewelry-giveaway-from-brooklyn5and10-new-baroco-necklace-or-collar/. One comment per person. Contest runs from July 20, 2009 - July 24, 2009. Design-milk will choose a winner at random.
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Holgapalooza�Enter to Win Great Gear! Summer Contest brought to you by Light Leaks Magazine and ToyCamera.com Brooklyn, July, 2009
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Brooklyn5and10 is pleased to be sponsoring the Holgapalooza in the category of �Early Bird Draw�, and will be giving a lucky winner a $75 Gift Certificate for Toy/Plastic and Pinhole Camera/s from our Camera Shop here at Brooklyn5and10.
Below is all the info and links you will need to enter Holgapalooza and the Early Bird Draw:
Light Leaks Magazine and Toycamera.com announce Holgapalooza � the annual Holga photography contest.
In addition to over $10,000 in cash and prizes available, the winning photographers will have photographs published in Light Leaks Magazine. Over 25 winners will be chosen from various categories including the Early Bird Draw. International judges from the Holga community and photography world will determine winners.
Visit the official Holgapalooza Website for all the details and online entry form. Contest deadline is September 25th, 2009. Early Bird Draw deadline is July 31st.
Enter Holgapalooza by July 31st and you'll automatically be entered to win great prizes including a $75 Gift Certificate on Toy/Plastic and Pinhole Camera/s from our Brooklyn5and10 Camera Shop:
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WonderWheel, Demekin Fisheye 110 Camera Coney Island Brooklyn, June, 2009
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Our B510 staff members continue making cool images with the toy, plastic, and pinhole cameras that we have in the shop. The Demekin Fisheye Camera by Superheadz of Japan is a Fisheye that takes 110 film. Follow the link for full frame pics and
camera details (also for film). Also posted is a link for a reliable processing house for retro-cool 110 film. The Demekin is tiny, easy to load, light, has great optics and is perfect for summer travel.
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Blackbird Fly Scaffold, guy, dog Brooklyn, May, 2009
submitted by: ad11211webmaster B510 staff member, Walker, recently test drove the Blackbird Fly camera by Superheadz of Japan. 510
homepage image is by him. Blackbird Fly is a solid and cool looking
analog/plastic camera, with a nice, adjustable 33mm adjustable lens and
two shutter speeds. Takes 35mm film. Check out the full frame pics and
camera details in the shop: http://www.brooklyn5and10.com/Blackbird-Fly
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At Work World Pinhole Camera Day April 26 Nic Nichols of FourCornersDark Blog builds and shoots Sharan SQ-35 Brooklyn, April 17, 2009
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At the risk of sounding like a groupie, last month I asked Photographer
Nic Nichols if he was interested in testing out a Sharan SQ-35 Pinhole Camera Kit! As mentioned earlier this month,Nic's
blog "FourCornersDark" is a terrific, cool news
and review site for analog and toy cameras. Check it out for his full review of both building and shooting the sturdy SQ-35 (links below).
With Nic Nichols' permission, I'm posting excerpts and linking back to his full blogs. Five pinhole cameras are stocked in our B510 Camera Shop, including the SQ-35. Below is an excerpt from Nic's posts on his 'Build' and 'Shoot' (Many thanks to Nic and his dad):
"I
was not the kid who built models when he was young, I didn�t have the
patience for it... So a camera kit should just be a relaxing evening,
right? Actually, yes. After a nice dinner at our favorite Mexican
restaurant, we moved from the home office to the big farmhouse table in
the living room and set up shop. At first glance the instructions look
a tad daunting, but after you�ve read them once or twice, you realize
they are just very detailed, and that is a good thing. My Father was
very impressed with the engineering of the kit- his first thought was
�what does the die that cuts this kit out look like, and how many did
they have to make before they got it right?� I am going to say a few.
Whoever designed this camera was a genius, but that person has a twinge
of masochist as well. It�s an amazing camera, but you have to build it
first.
The build...
The kit really is a work of art in
itself, and as you progress along the build you realize you are
following in the footsteps of photographic history. The first thing you
do is build the shutter assembly, with the provided apertures. Once
finished you will have the choice of either soft or regular focus, and
a separate shutter setting for full sun or the SP filter. Provided with
the kit are two sheets of adhesive: one sheet of pre-cut double sided
tape, sized exactly for your needs, and one sheet of black tape to hold
the cameras sides together. The x-acto will come in handy removing the
little pieces of double sided tape, but after a bit of frustration
getting both sides of the tape exposed, I grabbed a roll of double
sided tape and just used that. Quicker, easier and stronger. Shutters
built, on to the film box."
"So we�ve seen the kit, and gone through the build. It�s off to play with the finished camera. For the first attempt at shooting, we chose the Audubon Center in Pennsylvania, and some Kodak 200 asa film. While the exposure guides are for 100 asa, I was a little concerned about the cloud cover, so I thought I would speed it up a little. The best images seemed to be about 2 seconds, and that is �one, one-thousand, two one-thousand..� If you don�t know, that is the technical way to time pinholes. Not to be confused with the �One-Mississippi� version, which doesn�t work. Too many syllables.
So here are the first round of images, some with the soft focus filter, some without. Some with the full shutter open, some with the SP filter. I will continue to practice with the camera as we build up to World Pinhole day, so check the flickr page for weekly results, but for some really nice images- check the Sharan website."
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At Work Nic Nichols of FourCornersDark Blog shoots Ikimono 110 Film Camera Brooklyn, April 4, 2009
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Photographer
Nic Nichols recently test drove the Ikimono 110 Film Camera and the Demekin Fisheye 110 Camera. Nic's
blog "FourCornersDark" is an absolutely excellent, smart, and fun news
and review site for analog and toy cameras. Check it out! With Nic Nichols' permission, I'm posting a couple of his terrific Ikimono photos and a blog excerpt. We gave Nic an Ikimono to giveway in a contest on his blog to a lucky reader. Below is a link to the Ikimono giveaway (April) and to his review of the Ikimono 110 Camera. Both the Ikimono and Demekin are stocked in our B510 Camera Shop, along with 110 color film from Kodak. 110 film processing resource below. Here is an excerpt from Nic's post on the Ikimono 110 Film Camera:
"Ikimono 110: the mini cooper of cameras I wasn�t sure what to make of this little camera when it arrived on the doorstep, I hadn�t shot 110 since I was a kid. I wasn�t even sure how to load it! But with a quick snap, the film pops in the back, a flap locks it in, and away you go. The camera and film becomes one cute little unit. Quick note- pop up the sportfinder, because if you don�t, you won�t open the lens. I ended up with a few black frames by accident. I guess that�s why we just throw away the lens caps for our Holgas.
So what will folks use the Ikimono for? Pure fun. It hit me when I was driving around a few weeks back looking for colorful spots to shoot- this camera is like the Mini Cooper S of Toy Cams. I hadn�t driven our Mini in a while, and had almost forgotten how much fun it was flying around the back roads going through the 6 speed gearbox like a mad man. The Mini isn�t the car we take to the Opera, (mostly because we don�t go�) it�s the fun car. The weekend car. The Ikimono is just like that. You can get a great 35mm image with a Blackbird, Fly- but it won�t fit in your pocket. The Ikimono will go anywhere. Pocket, bag, even on your key chain. And at $20, it�s very inexpensive as well."
�Nic Nichols, April 2009, www.nicnichols.com/FourCornersDark
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At Work Demekin 110 Fisheye Camera�"604 Perfect" Photograph on our homepage Brooklyn, March 1, 2009
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B5+10 staff member Walker test drove the Demekin 110 Fisheye Camera in Coney Island. The Demekin is a mini-marvel, easy to load, tiny, lightweight, great optics, and utilizing retro cool 110 color film. A lot of result from a tiny plastic camera. The Demekin is available in the B5+10 Camera Shop, along with 110 color film. More of Walkers photos can be seen there too. Take this baby anywhere.
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We Like ilovefactory Brooklyn, February 14, 2009
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Temporarily 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 factory
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Somewhere in Brooklyn
hearts car Brooklyn, February 5, 2009
submitted by: walker An irresistible sight in the deep cold.
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Somewhere in Brooklyn
Gas light Brooklyn, January 20, 2009
submitted by: walker Brooklyn night amble in the january cold. Streets empty. Not much fill-up action.
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Day and Night Cyclone Brooklyn, December 18, 2008
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It 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.
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Sign Remains Brooklyn, December 3, 2008
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Kenny'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.
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Somewhere in Brooklyn
Dark by Five Brooklyn, November 19, 2008
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Today, 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.
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Somewhere in Brooklyn
Transportation Options Brooklyn, November 2, 2008
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This 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.
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Somewhere in Brooklyn
Night Time Brooklyn, October 15, 2008
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Brooklyn 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.
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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.
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