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Fab.com Flash Sale: Artsicle Limited quantity.Fab.comArt collecting can be a daunting experience—from navigating the gallery scene to committing to one piece. Artsicle makes the process infinitely easier by renting out original artworks with the option to buy. A membership lets you take home art by emerging and mid-career artists for as long (or short) as you like. 

Fab.com Flash Sale: Artsicle Limited quantity.
Fab.com
Art collecting can be a daunting experience—from navigating the gallery scene to committing to one piece. Artsicle makes the process infinitely easier by renting out original artworks with the option to buy. A membership lets you take home art by emerging and mid-career artists for as long (or short) as you like. 

changetheratio:

Here it is - the video for “Raise Your Cache” from last week’s incredible RaiseCache event for HackNY. Note the ratio. There now, that wasn’t hard, was it? 

Very proud of this, the product of many zany hours by myself and my co-producer Phil Di Giulio, co-founder of FrameSocket, the vid platform embedded above (shout-out also to our Mixmaster David Pakman, who took my raw vocals and auto-tuned them into submission). Startups/orgs repped, in no particular order: 

Urtak, Piictu, Dispatch, Fashism, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Foursquare, Lover.ly, The Daily Muse, Honestly Now, Shelby.tv, Art.sy, The Geno.me, CityPockets, Bnter, LaunchPad LA, WantWorthy, 10gen, Sonar, The Difference Engine, Hashable, WellcomeMat, FrameSocket, Change The Ratio, Contently, NYTM, OnSwipe, KloudCo, Siftee, Hopscotch, Artsicle, Veri, TechStars, SideTour, TechCrunch, Aviary, Yipit, GirlDevelopIt, Elizabeth & Clarke, YouNow, Giftiki, Barbarian Group, Birchbox, Local Response, The Lean Startup Machine, Sailthru, Business Insider, Spark Capital, IA Ventures, HuffPost Tech, WSJ Social, The Daily, StockTwits, Uber, Wanderfly, Small Girls PR, Behance, BrunchCritic, Google, USV, WeFest, Guest of a Guest, RaiseCache, We Are NY Tech. 

Lyrics below: 

RAISE YOUR CACHE 
(To the tune of Pink’s “Raise Your Glass”)

Hack, hack, get in the black
Get on the ball there’s no turning back
Show some stamina 

Think, think, energy drink 
Push some more code it’s swim or sink 
Want some ramen, ya? 

Founder, hacker 
Venture backer
Maker, shaker 
Firecracker
Trying, frying, odds-defying 
This shit’s serious 

So raise some cache if you’ll be here  
To hack one more day
Startup underdogs
We’ll just iterate, iterate - lighting up the night 
In New York City - til we get it right 
But until then until then we’ll raid your stash
Just come on and come on and raise your cash! 

Pitch, glitch, scratching the itch 
Solving the problem to make us rich 
Can’t we just cash out (cash out!)
Bootstrap, note with a cap,
Building the userbase, build the app 
It’s so on right now (so fuckin’ on right now)

Rip it, zip it,
Ship it, flip it
Read the blog from that guy from Yipit 
Flying, vying, Hack NY-ing 
This shit’s serious 

So raise some cache if you’ll burn on 
Without a runway 
Startup underdogs,
We will never be never be anything but lean
It’s better that than going to Wall Street 
So just come and come on and make your splash  
Just come and come on and raise some cash 
If you’re dorky, New Yorky then raise some cash
Keep on wishin’ it, Tischin’ it - raise some cash 

(Bubble? This ain’t no Y2K, baby.)

And if you’re short on the flow 
And the going’s pretty slow 
You can change that ratio 
We can always, we can always,
Raise another round…

(Aw, foo!) 

So raise some cash if you are in
It for the long haul
Startup underdogs,
Keep on making things making things - every single day, 
In New York City 
Techie little geeks 
So - raise - some
Cache if you are here,
And you are staying 
New York underdogs,
We can make it here make it here - only gotta try 
In New York City 
Here’s to us, NY 
And together together we’ll raise some cache 
With community, unity - raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise your cache 
For me 

******

Donate to HackNY here! Buy Pink’s Greatest Hits here!

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People who cringe at the privacy and data-mining implications of the Facebook Timeline ought to be just floored by the magnitude of Amazon’s opportunity here.

Fire - cdespinosa’s posterous (via jryu)

They are as likely to do this as they are spying on EC2 and S3 data. In other words, never.

(via caterpillarcowboy)

What a brilliant move. Might facilitate a whole new way to search for content.

joeyevoli:

This is the NYC Tech Blood Drive’s official announcement (click to sign up). The first drive will be Sept. 24th, 11am-5pm. It’s something I’ve organized with the help of the Red Cross, and fellow Techstars alumni Crowdtwist and Redrover. My plan is to make this a regularly occurring event…

Myself and Alex talking about Artsicle with Brian Lehrer 

artsicle-inspiration:

Art is my Weapon. Seen on SoHo storefront.

artsicle-inspiration:

Art is my Weapon. Seen on SoHo storefront.

We Love The Whitney! (Giveaway)

artsicle:

We’re really excited about the Whitney’s groundbreaking and want to celebrate! So we are giving away 25 Whitney memberships to the first new Artsicle subscribers to sign up by June 1st.

Find yourself some great art to rent & we’ll make sure you see great exhibits at the Whitney all year!

Go here to check it out: www.artsicle.com

(Source: artsicle)

thenesvig:

When most people see panhandlers on the side of the road, we condescendingly think “Why don’t they get a job? You’re not going to get anywhere begging for money. Get to work!” Yet, this is what so many people do with their ideas - they put their fate in the hands of passerby’s hoping someone…

(Source: bennesvig)

caterpillarcowboy:

Ribs, sausage, half chicken delight.  (Taken with Instagram at Snow’s BBQ)

caterpillarcowboy:

Ribs, sausage, half chicken delight. (Taken with Instagram at Snow’s BBQ)