Ty Randall Products in Mays Landing, NJ Borders

"Put your makeup on Baby, fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City" - Bruce Springsteen

I am happy to announce that Ty Randall photographic products are now available in the fifth retail location at the Borders Books and Music in Mays Landing, New Jersey. Borders is located off exit 12 of the Atlantic City Expressway.

One thing I noticed on my drive down to deliver my postcards and bookmarkers to Mays Landing was when I got below mile 56 on the Garden State Parkway, I started passing signs that were facing backwards. I turned to read what they were and discovered they were signs saying "Wrong Way."

I of course paid closer attention after that to idiots that would be driving up in the wrong direction on the interstate. Maybe those signs are for all the summer tourists that go to the shore and have a little too much to drink before driving home. Shortly after the "wrong way" signs I also started noticing "One Way" signs posted on the side of the parkway. I guess that was in case I didn't notice the traffic moving in the same direction for the last 100 miles.

I had to laugh as I wondered exactly how far south Atlantic City is that people down there are too stupid to tell which direction they were supposed to be driving on the highway. I really wanted to meet some of those dim-wits, because I'm sure they would make a great photographic subject. Unfortunately, I was too sick when I delivered my stuff, so all I did was drop it off and drive right back home again - following the one way signs of course.

Feel free to let anyone else you think may be interested know about this.

Below is a sample of one of my postcards from Margate, New Jersey, which is a stone's throw south of Atlantic City. Lucy the Elephant is a famous New Jersey landmark built as a hotel by a land developer to attract tourists and landowners to the area. Apparently it worked. If you want to read more about Lucy, go to http://www.lucytheelephant.org/.

Ty Randall Products In Flemington, NJ

Just an announcement that you can now find Ty Randall Creations products in the Flemington New Jersey Borders Books and Music store. They are carrying my local New Jersey postcards and hand-made photo bookmarkers. The Flemington Borders store is currently the third retail location and second Borders store to carry my products - East Brunswick was first, but they closed in January 2008, and Watchung was next.


As you can see from the small sample below, some of my postcards are sort of unique and perhaps a little more unusual than a typical postcard. They may be views of familiar places taken from different perspectives than you are used to seeing or maybe of local scenes you would not expect to see a postcard of.


My bookmarkers are high-quality pieces of an actual photograph. Inspired by Jerry Garcia ties, which use only a portion of the original artwork, I take a portion of my original photograph and create a bookmarker of it. Sometimes I create several different products using the same photograph, sometimes it's a unique piece. I don't really like wearing ties, but I do read a lot, so I thought I would make bookmarkers instead of ties. As these things usually go, you do a few for yourself, you start giving them away to friends, others start requesting them, and before you know it, you're running a small business. You can see the bookmarker samples on my website under the fundraiser section.