Sunday, Nov. 30: @ GIFTED, Masonic Temple

FRESH STUFF

Feature on Cal Patch's blog

Fun and crafty, Cal Patch's blog "sapling society" has great links to handmade, warm, fuzzy things to pair up with this winter. Check her out! She just posted up specimen today.

Feature today on William Yan's blog

Recently featured on William Yan's blog in a "Tastemaker" quick interview. Thanks for the interest.

specimen on ETSY

A place to find the latest specimen bits: ONLINE! You don't even have to leave the comfort of your easy chair to shop for the holidays. Visit specimen's ETSY site for the latest...updates weekly with new items so check regularly.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6351661

FLEA this Sunday, the 26th

Another season is upon us, and this drives me to sling a load more energy at specimen jewelry, so get ready for some fun new pieces. Come by the Flea this Sunday to see what's the latest. Also, and Etsy site is in the works, so specimen will soon be available online...Finally!

Necklaces for boys

Debuting this Sunday at the Flea: the first of more styles to come for boys that dig specimen. Some attractive qualities: black enamel chain, moody colored chunky coral pieces, bone eagle heads and feathers...here's a sample:

NEW! on the scene

Flea this Sunday, 6/15!

Specimen just got another shout out in NYLON mag! Just got back from a fabric research trip to Paris and London, resurrected some inspiration from the effortlessly and classically cool Parisians. A small shop across the street from my hotel housed an antique elephant skull keeping grim surveillance. Laying on the table beneath it was a blackened lattice-work carved cow skull. Serious.
Specimen will be at the Flea this Sunday in a 10X10 booth shared with Melody's Addiction. Come by!

Molokai live

A week fresh from Hawaii, and a quick virgin visit to Molokai for some skindiving, folks, and fun. The house we stayed conveniently had a flourishing 100yd. reef right out back for us to play in. The palm tree in the yard boasted the remains of the previous catches....

Cool Hunting posting

check out the latest write up on specimen by Sheena Sood from "cool hunting"...
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/05/best_of_the_bro_2.php

Flutter for feathers

Specimen just found a new source for beautiful natural feathers! They are slowly finding a place on certain pieces, a must have for bare collarbones in the summer months. Pull out the hawaiian dresses, and pick up a pair of showstopper earrings from specimen to go!
CHECK OUT THE NEW ADDITIONS TO THE PHOTOGALLERY!

Baby doll cries for the death of winter

Thank you Melody, for the lovely portrait of the crying Baby doll that watched over the specimen jewelry this Sunday. She had the best seat in the house. Oooh! Look at those pretty earrings!

Reminder: May 4th is the next time specimen will make an appearance at the Flea with loads of new trinkets and treasures for the people.

The NY Times just published a 2 page article profiling the Flea. Read it here.

Flea opening

The first Flea was a success despite the frigid temperatures and blustery winds. The people were excited to be out in the community post-winter, mingling and mixing amongst their neighbors. The specimen & Melody's addiction booth was filled with old friends and new acquaintances.

More things for this Sunday: Lots new of feather earrings mixed with chains and bones- Come check it out! Photos of the new goods are pictured in the "collection" slideshow.

This will be the last Sunday specimen will be at the Flea this month, and will not be making another appearance until Sunday, April 4th.

BFF Sunday

Brooklyn Flea is starting tomorrow and this is how I feel about it;

But actually, I'm not dead, there is no surf, and i'm really just making earrings today in my apartment.

Philly bones

Last weekend I ended up at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology while on a day trip to Philly. They have an impressive variety of native artifacts from burial trinkets to mummies to an actual sphinx. I got some great inspiration from the American Southwest, Mayan, and Inuit weapons and jewelry. The Inuit fishing hooks were my favorite.

In the way of Popo

The idea of rationing hasn't entered our daily lives for a couple of generations now, but it was a normal way of life for those that lived through war-time conservation. Born of this time were unique things of necessity that have found a permanent place in our society today, like the Levis 501 selvedge denim, pantyhose, and the woman factory worker. I remember as a child how my grandma, a.k.a. popo, had a use for every scrap of food she prepared for us: from saving the slop for the pigs, to letting our dog gnaw the bones to edible (but not very digestible) splinters, then using the dog shit to fertilize the plants. It was an understanding that things were never wasted, everything had an end purpose. If only I knew how to whittle bone into tiny pieces of preciousness, I could've started this much earlier. Everything organic I use for specimen is a bi-product from it's source, never the main product. I'm just finding my own way of emulating my popo.

Check out the latest drippy chain with shark vertebrae earrings I busted out tonight.

No sleep 'till BROOKLYN FLEA

Come check out all the new talismans and keepsakes that are materializing for the brooklyn flea! The specimen lab has been burning the midnight oil in preparation for a grand exhibition on Sunday, April 6 with tent-mate: "Melody's Addiction".
Get yourself to the corner of Lafayette & Vanderbilt on opening day!
Check out the flea's blog that Eric is putting together to keep everyone in the know...
http://www.brownstoner.com/brooklynflea/