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Welcome to FleaTheOrdinary, where unique and captivating NFT photography was captured at a Midwest flea market.
Explore the single-mint NFT collection and find the perfect piece to elevate your digital art portfolio.
THE FLEA GALLERY STORY
In a quiet Midwest town near the banks of a mighty river is a routine flea market, almost. In early 2023, I began visiting this local marketplace and found a unique style of goods and how they are put on display in one area of this bazaar. Alongside the usual suspects selling oversize knives, political tee shirts, and boxes of DVDs, an eclectic collection of items and presentation exists. This assortment represents what can be considered simple trash, to cloaked treasures. From canned goods without labels and half-used bottles of lotion, to vintage baseball cards and knickknacks poured of solid bronze - small treasures exist. The proverb, "one man's trash is another man's treasure" was used as early as the 1860s in Hector Urquhart's Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Nowhere else does that proverb ring truer than this interesting merchandising strategy and what is hidden in the clutter. The lens captures this bizarre exhibition.
IMPORTANT NFT COLLECTOR INFORMATION:
This site is simply a place to describe the collection and metadata of these photographic NFTs recently released on the OpenSea.io marketplace.
The collection is unique and extremely limited. There is one NFT minted for each image posted, ensuring digital rarity on the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem. Each item is tagged/titled based on a selected trait natively embedded in the image as well as a sequential numerical suffix identifier. Because of the dynamic nature of a live marketplace, each image could never be recaptured, unlike other NFTs with models clutching hands together or face photos with the same expression but different views and clothing. Find the unique.
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I visit this flea market most Saturday mornings, but certainly not all, and take a maximum of 2-4 photos each time. The total current inventory is limited, and anyone can roughly estimate the total images not yet minted based on the story timeline above. However, not all images possess the strict quality requirements so the total volume will be less. At some point, additions to this one-of-a-kind collection will end for a variety of reasons. Then, Flea The Ordinary, will simply scamper away.
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