News from the LAB 101

This info is taken directly from the LAB 101's newsletter.
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Dear LAB 101 Follows or LAB RATS as we like to call ourselves. We are about to embark on a NEW and exciting venture; the opening of a small laboratory style boutique store! Yes thats right our first full on STORE THE LAB 101 SHOP ! we have not moved far in-fact we just relocated directly across the street next to our friends at The Project Gallery. The LAB 101 SHOP will be an expansion of the shop we had inside our old space but only larger. We will still be bringing you cutting edge artists!!!! with raw untapped talent a long with a few of our previously shown favorites! focusing on smaller gift and collector scale works. Over the coming months the LAB 101 Shop with slowly fill up with all kinds of unique items as we search high and low in all corners of the states to find quirky one of a kind objects for your home and person. *********************************************************************** The LAB 101 SHOP OPENS NEXT SATURDAY: FEBRUARY 23, FROM 6 - 10PM @ its NEW Location: 8539 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 map link art work provided by; Keith Knittel (aka Keith Rocka) www.thelab101.com

Freshly Dipped - New Online Art Store

The good peoples over at Formulawerks clothing have launched a new venture - an online art store -- Freshly Dipped -- supporting their network of talented artists, currently numbering 30+. They sell artwork, prints, apparel and more. Lifted from the site, here's a little background:

Why does it exist?

I (Ryan / Escape76 from Formula Werks) had been shopping for new artwork with one of my friends. Even though I personally know all of the artists whose work I was shopping for, I found it almost impossible to know what works were sold, unsold, available, lost, or whatever by looking at people’s websites, MySpace pages, Flickr pages, etc. I spent a ridiculous amount time emailing, texting, messaging, and calling people to find out what was available for sale for both my friend and I to purchase.

After a couple of months, I was randomly thinking and thought it would be cool to open a site where artists can directly sell their canvases, prints, or whatever other goodies they have. I know a bevy of artists who have tons of complete works that are not necessarily being shown for sale anywhere, and I thought this was both a waste of space and a waste of possible income and exposure for the artist. Why hide all the goodies?

So this is why I came up with freshlydipped.com. I talked to several artist friends from both FWX and our immediate circle, and everyone seemed to think it was a good idea. We went ahead and started working on the site and talking to more people, and here we are.

Go browse, buy and support some independent artists!
www.freshlydipped.com