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Times Square to Art Square is not a quick fix. It is a process worth documenting online.
This blog keeps you posted on our achievements and experiences on-the-go.
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These people rock
Do you happen to be an artist?
August 17th, 2010 by TS2AS team
We have gotten past weeks plenty reactions of artists that wanted to help us on the ‘art-side’. Which is fabulous of course but as you probably discovered we don’t have a ‘submit-art-button’ yet. It’s a pity, we know, we know…
But here’s the cool thing. When we just launched we used to have two pools where artists could just submit their works. At this moment we don’t use them officially, but if you happen to be an artist, please do submit your work here.
We will contact you through these channels, and we’ll soon ask you to really submit your work in a better way.
So go and add your works:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ts2as
http://www.vimeo.com/groups/ts2as
Best of luck!
Kicking off in NY + first time Times Square.
August 13th, 2010 by TS2AS team
Going to NY was one big hit. As explained in the previous blogpost, we (Alexander and Justus, me) got there selling cardboard works to buy our tickets. When we finally got there we reached the following goals:
- We set up a team base in NY: existing of three fabulous ladies:
Corinne van der Borch, a Dutch filmmaker living in NY, Rhea Joannou Operations and Marketing Manager at New York’s coolest club Apotheke and Juliette Bonhomme an art enthusiast working as organizer for MoMA PS1 - We have now a small but cool NY fanbase, just telling everybody about Times Square to Art Square, here’s how we made our business cards – it worked out well, since we got there we got after our trip 300 fans extra;
- We had several articles published here (cool blog btw), here (love this one), here and here;
- We kicked of first talks for our modest but awesome launch party in NY, somewhere in the end of October, if you like to come, just send us an original email;
I just want to remind you that some people laughed at me when I took the idea serious, but now we start feeling that we are beginning a storm, a social media storm, which will turn Times Square in a massive Art Exhibition. I assume you’re in?
Selling Art for changing the world a little
July 8th, 2010 by TS2AS team
It was an accident that I, as a Dutch guy living in Holland, stumbled uppon the idea to turn Times Square in Art Square. As you know Times Square is in the US and therefore it requires me to pay for a ticket I actually can’t afford. So I decided to come up with an idea: making art for paying the tickets to New York. I started a few days ago with my first works, I call them cardboard artworks.
One of the works, find more on http://campaign.ts2as.org
I launched the website and in no time I sold up to around 10-20 works to most of the people, my friends and family. Unofficially (comfirmed but didn’t pay yet) I have earned the half the price of one ticket. I hope we can sell by the end of next week at least enough to pay three tickets for a part of our team to head over to NY.
Anyhow it’s the start of something amazing: we are going to show the world that our generation is capable of changing things, by using the power of the internet, to reach out to the impossible and make it possible. Please help us getting our tickets and buy some of our works. See it as an art share, the price of the piece will increase dramatically when we turned Times Square into Art Square.
Get the project on track and join the biggest movement of the century!
Who brings us to NY? Part II: Art Miles :)
June 28th, 2010 by TS2AS team
Well as you may expect, we dove in a little naive thinking we could fly for free from day one. Anyhow, as you may expected, it turned out to be a little bit more complex then we thought. Calling and mailing several foundations and other commercial organizations made us asking more questions then getting real good answers. So we decided to ask our fans and followers. We had some pleasing replies:
- Try to become a co-pilot, just one thing: you only have one seat;
- Ask your upcoming Times Square to Art Square artists for a free work, guarantee them their minutes of fame, and organise an auction;
- Take an art work hostage and demand free passage to NY.
- Call Richard Branson!
Again there’s a reason why we do this. Every single dollar we get donated goes to the art project and not to our own expenditures, just that you get that right: we don’t have money. We want to show the world you can do something amazing starting without a single penny.
Ok shall we head over to Plan B? Ideas? Feel free to comment.
Who brings us to NY?
June 23rd, 2010 by TS2AS team
Tweet this message to several airlines to convince them.
Or just spread the word on Facebook or on twitter, because we need to get there and start making this happen!
What’s in the movie:
As you know we want to turn Times Square into Art Square.
Therefore we need to go from Amsterdam to New York.
Can you help us and share this message to get us in touch with the airlines and stimulate the negotiations to get us there?
Help us to turn Times Square into Art Square, spread the word, and make the impossible… POSSIBLE!
We love you!
We’re not afraid of a reality check
June 21st, 2010 by TS2AS team
We can’t ignore the elephant in the room. We realize our idea to turn Times Square to Art Square is a little ambitious. People laugh at us, all the time. Still, we really believe it’s possible to turn an enormous commercial machine into an art exhibition. And to prove we have reality checks all the time, here’s a video of Times Square. We watch it every day. Just so you know we’re serious. Would you like to join us on this exciting ride? Drop us a line on Facebook or Twitter.