Perhaps you'd like to help save some art. This cool gallery I know really needs help. I love this place - the only place I've felt at home in Phoenix since I've been here. →[More:]

Basically they're about to lose their place to the bank. They actually own the property, but have been having issues making payments. It's a pretty unique little funky place. They do a lot of experimental art and music events, classes and interactive art sessions.

They also have a couple of little cheap live-work apartment/studios available on site they've been trying to rent out with only sporadic results, if any. That they offer such live-work locations in Phoenix is pretty unique as well.

They've already pawned a bunch of musical gear and other such priceless valuables, and are only about halfway to the amount they need - and knowing them they don't really have much left to pawn.

I've been interested in moving/renting into one of these places for a while now but haven't been able to afford it, but may be able to soonish. If they're still there. It also may be the location of my first "real" gallery showing for my huge, brain-twisty op-art posters - as opposed to the very small handful of half-assed unofficial shows and parties I've displayed them at.

This Friday they're supposed to have an ambient/experimental/noise open invite free jam session. And the Saturday after that they're doing an open-invite showing of the "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices" movie. Or will be if they're still there. I dunno how that's going to work out.

Anyway. If you see any art you like here email Kathy at kcone **atsign** earthlink dot net. She's selling a bunch of her excellent and totally manic pen and ink work at a steep discount. Less than half price, basically. As I understand it these are the originals, not the prints.

The list of stuff currently available from the above gallery is:

CONCEPTION
PREMISE
PERCEPTION
CHAOS I
CHAOS II
RETROSPECT
FORMATION
OTHERWORLDINESS

If you don't see something there that you like, but are still interested in possibly helping buying something email Kathy, tell her how much you're willing to spend at any level and maybe she might have something laying around that'll fit the bill.

If that still doesn't whet your whistle or you'd rather buy one of my prints, I'll donate abso-fucking-lutely 100% of the final sale price of any print I have in currently stock to the gallery. You'll also have to pay shipping, as I'm literally flat broke and living off of oats and ramen and iced tea until the end of this week, but that's ok, I'll survive and be sheltered regardless of what happens.

I'm willing to entertain just about any offer of $40 and greater for my prints, which normally range from $60-$200 in production costs just to have them output on a large format inkjet. Honestly I'd like to get more than $40 for any given print, simply because I have no idea when I'll be able to afford to make new ones again, but a good cause is a good cause. If the gallery I like so much that's interested in my stuff is gone, what's the point, y'know? So, if you're interested and feeling flush, buy at whatever level of generosity you can afford.

Unfortunately my frickin' webserver at my friend's place is down again but you can see a small sample of my stuff on my cheezoid myspace profile over here. There's more stuff like that. If you're interested, I'll email jpegs to you.

My prints are large. The smallest ones are generally about 2x4' or 2x2', and the larger ones are 4x4' or so output on a variety of media (mostly glossy stock) at 600dpi to 1200dpi. The jpegs don't do the detail that's in the prints justice, as they are ripped and printed from raw vector files.

AND if that still doesn't do anything for you, I'll do consignment work and donate 100% of the proceeds from that to the gallery. I can do art posters, I can do abstract art to match your couch, I can do a lot of quality stuff with digital art just for you. This option'll be more expensive if you want me to have it output for you, or you can just buy the vector source files and get it done wherever and own it outright - which would be cost effective and easy on my end. (I'll include vector files in any/all consignment work. You own the copyright. No rights reserved.)

I also do pretty good graphic design - specializing in unique logo and logotype work and corporate/small business identity kits. (Ask Beth/Marble how she feels about the design work I did for her recently at a nice price.)

FYI/BTW/TMI/ETC: She doesn't know I'm doing this (yet) so there may be momentary confusion on her part if you email her directly. Just tell her Jason/Chaosbit sent you, and then she'll know. I'm going to email her the link to this thread as soon as it's posted to let her know whats up. I don't know if she has a paypal account or a CC terminal or what to arrange payment. If not, I have paypal available.

Otherwise in the case of purchasing one of my prints instead of hers, for timeliness we can try to arrange to have you just pay her directly (to avoid the paypal-to-bank lag) then we'll arrange shipping in the next day or three after payment.

In any and all cases please don't feel guilted into doing anything. I realize my motives are somewhat selfish as I really like this place and am somewhat emotionally invested, and it's certainly not something on the scale of human tragedy like a catastrophic hurricane or earthquake.

But I like this place, alot, and want it to still be there.

Thank you for even reading all this.