Just a quick update that we have raised $935 for St. Judes to date!!! We are ahead of schedule but we haven’t made the cool grand yet. I’m looking for a mere $65 more dollars to fill that pesky test tube above. And thanks again to those who already met the challenge! Their names are [...]

Dropping off prints at my old Post Office:

Clerk: Air Mail? Me: Yes, please. Clerk: Need stamps? Me: Not today, thanks. Clerk: Okay that’ll be $x.xx. Me: Here ya go. Clerk: Have a good day Me: Thanks, you too.

Dropping off prints at my NEW Post Office (word for word):

Me: Hi, I’d like to send this International Air Mail. Clerk: Air Mail? Me: Yes, please. Clerk: Any [...]

Thanks to Erik J. Olsen for the spotlight! www.thumbtackpress.com

“I’ll take it, let’s bring in the toys chop chop!” www.thumbtackpress.com

My luck swings wide I tell you. If you’ve been reading these posts lately you’ll notice a bipolar trend: A customer ripped me a new one (but we’ve just celebrated one year in business!). Someone stole an original from me (but we were mentioned in a national magazine!), and most recently My computer died (but [...]

A good and loyal companion left me today. I bought my 13-inch Titanium Powerbook on January 21st, 2003 the same day Apple released them to the public. In the 3 plus years I owned this little guy I had zero, that’s z-e-r-o, problems with it. Together we built Thumbtack Press.

There were warning signs of [...]

We’re one year old today. From my very first post, here’s the quote that kept (and continues to keep) me going:

“Many of life’s failures are the result of people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

– Thomas Edison

Haven’t given up yet Tom. www.thumbtackpress.com

It’s about time for some good news!

Home Magazine is featuring Thumbtack Press, but more importantly, Gina Triplett’s work in their November issue on newsstands now! It’s a little scary seeing the other stores—Anthropologie! for Pete’s sake!—with their 24 hour “call now” toll-free numbers compared to my puny “please don’t call during peak hours!” local [...]

Wow! Orhan Pamuk has won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. Two years ago I picked a book off the shelves based entirely on the cover art—My Name is Red—it became a treasured addition to my collection and my introduction to Mr. Pamuk’s amazing prowess as a storyteller. Here’s the best part: It’s a murder [...]

Updated: Alex Noriega just informed me that the original I purchased came back to him as “unclaimed” and he’s resending to me. My first thought was, of course, “hooray!!!” My immediate second thought was “shame on me” for mentally prosecuting every mail handler in the Western hemisphere. I also erroneously assumed our landscapers as possible [...]

Believe it or not, I have a thin skin. A few weeks ago I received an inflammatory e-mail from a customer complaining about how their print was damaged via shipping, it rarely happens, but unfortunately, it does happen. UPS is a good company but 90% of their handling is done by machines and conveyors (and [...]

A popular LA museum has put up a 20 ft. banner of my Son directly facing the I-5 freeway, which means he’s seen by over 100,000 people (probably more) every single day. I’d give you the details of how it all went down, but who cares, I’m just tickled to see him so huge. There’s [...]

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Hi Canada, it’s me! Tony, your friend in the States. Thanks to a little programming change I made to the website today you may now order prints to be sent via UPS instead of Int’l Air Mail. I know this news won’t make the front page of the Toronto Star but I thought you art-loving [...]

I just want to give a hearty hooray to Communication Arts for spotlighting Penelope Dullaghan in their latest illustration annual.

It’s one thing to be supremely talented, it’s another thing entirely to create a portal for illustrators (from all walks of life) to showcase their work - I’m speaking, of course, about Illustration Friday, one of [...]

Neat little chat device that I predict will never ever be used on Thumbtack Press, but here’s hoping. I’ll try to use it and maybe we’ll cross paths. You can use it on your site as well!

P.S. I am becoming increasing engulfed in web 2.0 and AJAX. Suddenly the rest of the web is [...]

While being in a new town is great, I’m starting to feel the pangs of disconnection from all things that were once familar and that I took for granted. I’m looking forward to . . .

  1. making friends up here (I don’t know anyone, this sucks)   2. finding an awesome park where I can read and/or [...]

Over 500 prints now available on Thumbtack Press! www.thumbtackpress.com

The original painting for Bob Dob’s “Black Head” was stolen from La luz De Jesus (Los Angeles) last weekend [May 6-7, 2006]. Please keep your eyes out for it and help spread the word. This is a bloody shame.

If you have seen it please contact : Annie Adjchavanich Gallery Director BSFA & La Luz de Jesus Gallery (323) 297-0600

Hey [...]