Yep, this was part of the demo for my aborted reality TV vintage picking show. There was a camera guy, sound guy, assistant, producer. Apparently watching things on cell phones is the way of the future. Can't say I much enjoy seeing something on such a tiny screen or am convinced by the logic.
Updates on the bus.
Spent some more time in the shop last week, cutting parts. I got someone to take the wheelchair lift (thanks, Craigslist!), so now we have that space open for our bathroom, storage, windowseat, flip out outdoor picnic table, shower, etc. With such limited space, everything...
I think the other thing people don't realize with this is that it's a full time job, and my only means of putting food on the table, and paying rent and tuition.
It is a lot of fun (see here: Vintage Picking and Road Tripping with Dinerman), but people don't see the hours behind the scenes that...
We took a loop through Ennis, Pony, Harrison, Boulder and Basin. It was mostly a photo trip to round out Alex's latest series, but we hit a couple of thrift shops, which yielded a handful of good vintage ties each.
There's a whole world of work that goes into the vintage business beyond what you see in the road trip pictures. Here's a view into more of the process and what it's like dealing vintage as a real job.
For example, Schott claims to have been putting zippers in their jackets years before the jacket type zip was even invented. The Wild One Brando jacket which they claim was made by a company, Durable, which they had no association with at the time and whose design has key differences from...
Some more progress on the bus (apologies for some of the weird distortion/errors in the photos, my camera's lens just isn't quite wide enough to get the whole thing in there and the photo stitch program did some odd things). We have the frames for our cabinets roughed in and the counter top cut...
Some variation on this is pretty typical these days. '80s Banana Republic hat (safari? cowboy? fedora? campaign? Somewhere in the middle), RRL shawl collar mackinaw, RRL shawl collar vest, LVC jeans, Blundstone boots, Homespun shirt, Elephant bandana, deerskin gloves.
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