— unpredictable thoughts

freezing memes

Last week, yes last week – I had a web­site launch so I’m a bit behind, Maryanne Devine tweeted that she had tagged me. We fol­low each other on twit­ter. This is her orig­i­nal post for ref­er­ence, meme for fri­day. We met at an arts advo­cacy meet­ing at the Philadel­phia Cul­tural Alliance. She has the same inter­ests in mar­ket­ing and using social media to draw a wider cir­cle around the arts.

I’m the kind of per­son that usu­ally tags back and light­ning speed but alas I admit that this month has been a bit crazy and I am on over­drive but it hasn’t seemed to help me catch up. So finally I am responding.

Just a lit­tle info about meme here.

 The rules:
1. Link to your tag­ger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about your­self on your blog — some ran­dom, some weird
3. Tag 7 peo­ple at the end of your post by leav­ing their names as well as links to their blog (or    twit­ter page)
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leav­ing a com­ment on their blog. (or twit­ter account)
5. If you don’t have 7 blog friends, or if some­one else already took dibs, then tag some unsus­pect­ing strangers

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Fact #1
My part­ner and I have a new com­pany called Heavy Bub­ble. We had been asked by so many artist friends to design a web­site for them that we just couldn’t take it any­more. It wasn’t appro­pri­ate for our firm Stel­larvi­sions to do this work but we could design a sys­tem and pre­sen­ta­tions for {DIY} do-it-yourself sites. We cre­ated a new com­pany and have done just that. We are really thrilled to have started a new ven­ture that allows us to meet new artists and cre­ate ways to give good work the expo­sure it deserves.

So, here’s a pitch.

Ring in the new year with Heavy Bub­ble! Give an artist you care about more time for mak­ing art.

With a heavy­bub­ble web­site their work will be easy to find and easy to man­age, and best yet in their con­trol. Pur­chase a gift cer­tifi­cate and we will send a spe­cial card and a heavy­bub­ble blue I make art. but­ton by US Postal service.

Take a peek at our good­look­ing sites here.

We’ve got sev­eral shapes and sizes to choose from give ONE YEAR of heavy­bub­ble, give SIX MONTHS of heavy­bub­ble, give THREE MONTHS of heavybubble.

one year ($200.)

give ONE YEAR

six months ($100.)

give SIX MONTHS

three months ($ 60.)

give THREE MONTHS

Heavy Bub­ble will make them happy.

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Fact #2

I’m an artist.

This is one of my show postcards.

I’m work­ing on get­ting my heavy­bub­ble site up over the holidays.

You can find my work at www.stellagassaway.com and read my stu­dio jour­nal at www.stellagassaway.com/artlog

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Fact #3

I love letterpress.

I’m work­ing on a series of prints and note­card designs that will be from orig­i­nal draw­ings. My friend Peter Fra­ter­deus who I met on the net back in it’s begin­nings, has a won­der­ful let­ter­press shop in Dubuque, Iowa in the ware­house dis­trict. Exquis­ite Let­ter­press has a ter­rific thing called almost free check it out. He just fin­ished a ter­rific set of note cards for Igor Kopel­nit­sky.

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Fact #4

I cur­rently have four blogs and I don’t expect to stop there.

unpre­dictablethoughts : the inter­sec­tion of work and play

stella gas­saway : works on paper, a stu­dio artlog

*IDEAo­r­ange : seg­ments of col­or­ful thinking

!infobub­ble : the blog for heavy­bub­ble web­sites for artists

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Fact #5

Break­fast is my favorite meal. I can eat break­fast three times a day.
This is a homage to break­fast. Sim­ply Breakfast

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Fact #6

I love movies but I hate going to movie theaters.

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Fact #7

I’m try­ing to write a new book but I just can’t get in the right frame of mind.

Tagged:

jacob albablank

Rebecca Mala­mud

steve mul­der

chris lehmann

matthew naftzger

kate kaman

phil ives

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