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Yes, the oddest addition to the Kos Katalog is back for another year, with, naturally, a Labor Day sale.
Some background:
A little over a year ago, I was driving around near Touro Infirmary, looking for a parking space. In a wooded vacant lot, I spied an elegant purple leather camelback sofa missing one leg, plunked down in the middle of arboreal desolation.
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A couple of days later, I saw a pretentious brown wing chair under a tree by an abandoned building. The next day a disco-era white armchair by the highway.
Soon my posts started coming every day, with the tag line, "Your Abandoned Furniture Shot of the Day." Before long, the hobby-cum-obsession got its own FB page, with a fast-growing following nearly as obsessed as I with the once-loved furnishings we jettison.
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Soon, others began asking why i would follow such a bizarre muse unless there were some monetization angle. No one seemed to accept the "Because It's There" rationale, so I figured I'd have to cook up some commercial angle, if only to shut them up so I could photograph furniture in peace.
Which led to the 2016 Your Abandoned Furniture Shot of the Day Calendar, the hit of last year’s holiday season (for a very few, highly sophisticated people).
I was wondering whether it was worth while to run another one this year, when the ever-practical GF pointed out this is the first production of mine to break even in years. Since I’m not going to stop making records, I might as well have something with a shot at making some dough.
So here, in all its glory (and it does look pretty darn good), is this year’s model. So far, it’s only in local stores and Amazon www.amazon.com/…
Through the end of September, I’m selling ‘em for $2 off the cover price.
I know I promised bonus strangeness, so here’s a couple of items I saw in the market yesterday:
Happy Labor Day to all!
And a PS: Is it “katalog” or “katalogue?”