Dutton's Brentwood Books, in the Brentwood neighborhood, is known for its thorough stock of classic, new and esoteric literature and a staff of bibliophiles far more familiar with their wares than most employees at corporate chains.
First, philosophers, who have much to explain; second, T-shirt designers, who can emblazon their wares with the familiar formula and a picture of the most photogenic nutty professor ever; and third, everyone, since the mass-energy equivalence makes nuclear weapons possible.In fact, the relative is everywhere and that is not a reference to your great-aunt.
And for memorabilia dealers, the growing appetite for such wares represents a business opportunity that sounds eerily familiar to investors in Internet companies: they are buying while demand is hot, and hoping to cash out before this particular dot-com market crashes.
Few of their wares are carried in American stores, unlike the more familiar designer names — the global powerhouses like Armani, Dior and Gucci; the avant-garde fashion favorites like McQueen, Givenchy and Alexandre Vauthier; the New York big guns like Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Michael Kors; and the stalwarts of evening glamour like Marchesa, Vera Wang, Badgley Mischka and Naeem Khan.
Various wares have decoration in red and green, a palette that became more familiar later.
Organized by powerHouse Books and VII Photo Agency, the event is not to be confused with the more familiar type of art or photography fair in which scores or hundreds of galleries show their wares in separate booths.
"Sudan has positioned itself to be a major global arms supplier whose wares have reached several conflict zones, including the Syrian rebels," said one American official who is familiar with the shipments to Turkey.
And with deals like this one with TV.com parent company CBS Interactive, more and more people will grow familiar with Cooliris products, which in turn will make them more interesting for publishers to add, and advertisers to promote their wares on.
