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“I buy my own supplies and pay my own tickets.”
In developing my idea, Im conscious of the problem I can solve. I want to provide value to the parties involved in building the street art community. To refine my ideas, I’ve been using reddit.
The feedback I am getting is mixed. In the /r/streetart subreddit I got one person who expressed clear interest in wanting to monetaryily contribute to the creation of street art. In the /r/graffiti and /r/stencil threads, I am getting many more no’s.
One comment that stood out was by a person who sounds like an artist. The person said:
As an artist that works so so hard for any money that I make with art, no. No I wouldn’t. That being said I would never ask for that from another artist. An art trade maybe.
I thought the user misunderstood my question, so I specified my point. Instead the point was reaffirmed with this comment:
Nope. I buy my own supplies and pay my own tickets.
This forces me to reflect on the reality for artists. People dont want to be left asking for stuff. People may like being approached, as in sponsored, but they dont want to be in a place of vulnerability. This makes total sense.
I took a deeper look at AngelList today and realize I really like their model for showcasing startups. The homepage alone serves three distinct needs: job seekers, trend seekers, passive observers. I think the model they use is going to be reflected in my own presentation.
“There’s this analogy I use a lot when talking about code to beginners: web applications are just like restaurants. You have the front of the restaurant and you have the kitchen, so that’s like the front-end and the back-end. Data and databases — you can think of that as the fridge or your pantry. So what happens when someone orders food is they make a request, it goes to the kitchen, they get the food from the pantry, it goes through the kitchen again, and back out to the front. That may not be the most efficient thing to do if you just want water. You’re not going to want it in the pantry, you’re going to want it near the front where everyone is. That’s similar to what cacheing is when you’re talking about web applications. Instead of going all the way to the database through the back-end, what you end up doing is you have things sitting very close to the front."
Jon Chan is a web developer at Stack Exchange and founder of Bento, a guided tour through the best free web development tutorials, including videos, interactive classes, and reading material. He’s also a quasi-celebrity in Poland.