NEW YORK, July 9 \u2014 Taylor Swift fans have paid US$25 (about RM102) for pieces of trash \u2014 including cigarette butts and an ovulation test kit \u2014 collected near the US pop queen\u2019s wedding to NFL star Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n
A New York artist picked up the garbage last Friday from city streets around Madison Square Garden, where the couple staged a glamorous event for hundreds of celebrity guests amid a global frenzy.<\/p>\n
All of items, sold individually, were snatched up by yesterday within 24 hours of sales starting: water bottle caps, ring pop candy, police caution tape, straws, utensils \u2014 as well as a single left AirPod.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s getting a lot of Swifties who just want a tangential piece of the wedding,\u201d said Justin Gignac, who is selling the trash on his website New York City Garbage.<\/p>\n
Each item \u2014 described online as a \u201csculpture\u201d \u2014 is sealed inside a tiny plastic cube to avoid leaking or smells.<\/p>\n
Gignac told AFP he has made US$1,250 from selling 50 items so far, and he may put more on the market.<\/p>\n
\u201cI try to commemorate cultural moments in New York City, and this seemed to be a big one, so just capturing a little time capsule from that moment in time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Gignac, who sells other city trash on his website, said he tied some of the items into knots to \u201chammer home the wedding theme.\u201d<\/p>\n
He pointed out the garbage was from outside the barriers that surrounded Madison Square Garden for Swift\u2019s wedding, not from inside the venue.<\/p>\n
The lavish ceremony last week was closely watched by Swift\u2019s fans, who have followed the 14-time Grammy winner\u2019s love life largely through songs based on her relationships.<\/p>\n
Some followers descended on New York in hopes of catching a glimpse of their idol, with the star-studded event that some commentators dubbed a \u201croyal wedding.\u201d \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, July 9 \u2014 Taylor Swift fans have paid US$25 (about RM102) for pieces of trash \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,243318,129043,409,243317,197012,2070,2071],"class_list":["post-533242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-justin-gignac","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-music","tag-new-york-city-garbage","tag-royal-wedding","tag-taylor-swift","tag-travis-kelce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}