Shea'la Finch and Jon Buonaccorsi are self-described "nerds and knuckleheads." But don't let them fool you. In 2005, these two dreamers from Rhode Island hatched a plan to make art more accessible to the non-gallery-attending populace.
Tiny Showcase is the fruit of their furtive planning, and the site's goal hasn't changed in the three years of operation. Their mission? Offer up a tiny limited-run print each week for art enthusiasts to "take home...for around the same price as a CD, book or record..."
We've been fans of the Showcase since it started and were lucky enough to score a conversation with the enchanting Ms. Finch. She's one half of the titanic Tiny Showcase empire and her thoughtful answers demonstrate the colorful spirit behind this arty adventure...
Hey Shea'la, what was the impetus behind the creation of Tiny Showcase (TS)?
We were born to out-idea each other. Your typical idea freestyle session can happen anywhere, anytime, and normally begins, "What if we..."
The ideas are normally outlandish, ridiculous, and seemingly impossible. Read the full profile...
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Everybody consumes stuff, but not everyone turns it into art like Kate Bingaman-Burt. When we reviewed her site in 2003, she was a typical grad student, except that she was chronicling every single thing she spent money on, from cups of coffee to fancy design magazines. She kept at it for a whole 28 months, only stopping when she finished her art degree.
But the obsessive documentation of her consumption didn't end for Kate, oh no. "The graduate school bubble had burst, and I was sitting on some pretty extreme credit card debt," she admits. So next, she started drawing her credit card statements, "like a penance for my sins. Ha!"
While racking up debt during school is pretty typical, sharing your bills online—even in a clever cartoon form—isn't. Kate explains her new direction: "People are embarrassed to talk about how much they make or how much debt they have. By sharing debt with other people it gives you more motivation to pay it off. By making it look less scary and maybe even fun it might encourage other people to think about their own debt and what they buy." Read the full profile...
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Math class always seemed light-years away from what happens in the real world. Quadratic equations, isosceles triangles, radical equations—forget it! We wanted to solve problems that we'd face in real life, like whether or not our hot summer jobs would make us more or less likely to get a date. But now, Jessica Hagy proves that all that chart-drawing and stats-calculating actually does apply. This ingenious blogger puts good use to her note cards in order to "make fun of some things and sense of others" in the measurement of everyday relationships. Scroll through to discover:
Filed under: Blogs, Star Trek, Drawing, Sci-fi Humor, Bad Art
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