With anticipation we did the The Young Blood Designers Market at Powerhouse Museum today ... sadly it was a total schmozzle. At 11am we queued for forty minutes to pay $5 to get in the Museum ... compared to last year when the market was free and accessable ... and on level two where where you could wander in and out ... was unexpected and irritating. The powers that be obviously decided they'd scoop the pool, get as many unsuspecting, never to have been inside the Powerhouse through the doors peeps as they possibly could ... and they did ... the market was on level one in the bowels of the building ... therefore the unsuspecting had no choice but to head on down ... clever ply ... annoying if you only wanted the market!!
The Powerhouse is an interesting joint ... today we went for the market ... here's a glimpse of what we had to contend with ...
... torture ... to see anything, to speak to who you were with ...
Stalls were tiny, the organiser couldn't have given stall holders a smaller space if they'd tried. Some areas had NO lighting at all. It was impossible to get through to browse or shop and more impossible to get down both sides of one aisle.
If something caught your eye and you dared to stand still you were physically swept along with the throng. The mega queue was still happening at 1pm ... The Powerhouse must have made a motza ... but ... my heart goes out to the stall holders ... all that anxiety, anticipation, preparation, travel, expense etc to be squashed in like sardines ... disgraceful!One of the best finds was the KEEP CUP ... onya Abigail Forsyth ... the end of disposable coffee cups is near ... she's on my list of great Aussie heroines ...... off to the cot now ... more Young Blood Designer finds tomorrow ...
