Cool Hunting Video Presents: Brimfield Dealers

A Cool Hunting Video on the people selling Americana of all sorts at the U.S.'s biggest flea market

This video checks in with the sellers who come to the Brimfield Antique Show, which three times a year inflates the population of Brimfield, Massachusetts from 3,000 to a quarter million. From a dealer who specializes in Masonic ephemera to a sculptor who uses scrap metal as his material, we took a look at the community who gives shoppers reason to travel far and wide …

The Public Hi-Fi Balloon

Collaged fake album covers by Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard

by Noah Armstrong Before Robert Pollard formed the seminal lo-fi band Guided by Voices, he was a high school student making imaginary album covers for imaginary bands. The collage style of these mock album covers would eventually manifest itself in much of the album art for Guided by Voices, and a multitude of his solo and side projects. Pollard regularly visits flea markets and antique …

The Media Disconnect

Video director Carl Burgess' work takes on mass media

“Art in advertising? Why would anyone do that after Warhol?” The joke may come from the most recent episode of Mad Men, but the punchline is just as clear in Carl Burgess’ video for “Drugs“—Ratatat’s latest single off their album LP4. Composed solely of stock footage typically reserved for the likes of corny law firm or pharmaceutical commercials, Burgess points to the absurdity of these …