Noah Kalina has a way in front of the camera.

Gaining international notoriety for his daily self-portraits recorded over six years and uploaded to YouTube as a video (which has now been viewed over 14 MILLION times), 20x200 edition-maker Noah Kalina scored himself yet another 15 seconds of fame when he appeared in a Superbowl spot for the Dodge Charger on Sunday evening. Read in the flat, monotone voice of Michael C. Hall, the camera lingers for long moments over a series of resigned, chastened and, we are given to believe, whipped men.

I will take your call. I will listen to your opinion of my friends. I will listen to your friends' opinions of my friends. I will be civil to your mother.

Hall's voice drifts over Kalina's huge eyes, as the monologue continues to its coup d'cock riposte, "...and because I do this, I will drive the car that I WANT to drive."

Noah writes on his blog that he was the only non-professional actor in the commercial, chosen because of the long video portrait photographer Clayton Cubitt made of him and posted to Vimeo.

Noah has also recently redesigned his portfolio, which, he promises us, contains no flash. (Really, that's a promise I wish more people would make, including the entire country of France).

Untitled (LA20070805) by Noah Kalina

There are only a handful of Kalina's edition left on 20x200, so be sure to take a look-see before they're all gone.

I Like You Cause You Like Me, 2009 by Mike Monteiro

As you can probably tell from our endeavors both online and off, community and community-building are things that we strongly believe in at JBP. We strive to create and be attuned to opportunities for growing this community of artists, art-appreciators, art-collectors and anyone else that wishes to somehow participate in this ever-expanding conversation about how all of these things can exist and thrive in the present.

So it's especially thrilling when we see that happening organically amongst our artists and friends, like with 20x200 artist Mike Monteiro showing his Irony-is-Dead, Long-Live-Irony!-esque works in Lisa Congdon's San Francisco design store and gallery, Rare Device. (Lisa herself is another 20x200 artist.)

Text Me Later
Work by Mike Monteiro and Omar Lee
On view at Rare Device, February 5 – February 28, 2010
1845 Market Street between Valencia + Guerrero Streets
San Francisco, CA

Mike Monteiro's work reflects that of someone who is engaged with a great many things: he's an artist, a designer, one of the great-heaping-masses-of-humanity (you should read the local political commentary on his blog), and, echoing the tagline of personism, he's someone with opinions...lots of them. Monteiro has been described both here and elsewhere as everything from acerbically talented to putting the "gauche in gouache," and we have a lot of love at JBP for his uncomfortable truths. He's been in multiple shows at Jen Bekman Gallery and is also a AAA artist on 20x200.

My favorite recent example of how far and whither the mind of Mike Monteiro strays was his crowd-sourced artist statement for this show. There was a winner chosen among the submissions to Mike's blog, and it made it into the press release:

Mike Monteiro grew up in Philadelphia and currently resides in San Francisco. He explores the junction of traditional techniques with new media in his monumental portraits of the Helvetica typeface, posing it in a succession of "found" costumes such as pop song lyric and colloquial verbal challenges. While alluding to the recontextualized maxims of artists like Jenny Holzer, Monteiro brings a personal, confessional element to his sometimes abrasive aphorisms. Throughout his work, he aims to problematize the easy identification of Helvetica with truth.

If you can't make it to the show in person, a full online viewing can be seen on Rare Device's gallery exhibition page.

First Harvest in the Wilderness with Pileated Woodpecker by Valerie Hegarty

Surprise Monday greetings collectors! I'm sneaking in a day early but not a moment too soon to introduce First Harvest in the Wilderness with Pileated Woodpecker by Valerie Hegarty: a benefit for the Brooklyn Museum.

Over the weekend the ever-friendly 20x200 team meeted and greeted many of you at the Museum's Target First Saturday. It was lovely to see you there and we're happy to have you here! A warm and hearty welcome to 20x200 newcomers — I hope you'll enjoy seeing new art in your inbox.

Today, we have a special treat for 20x200 friends silver and gold — pick up one of Valerie's prints and receive a one-year membership to 1stfans. 1stfans is the Brooklyn Museums' socially networked membership. Join and you'll have access to all kinds of artist-created online content and exclusive events at Target First Saturdays — an insider's peek into what goes on behind those burly columns.

And, you'll have this gorgeous print to hang on your wall. As this collaboration with the Museum came together, I was delighted when I heard that Valerie had agreed to participate. I've known her sculptures for some while, from stumbling over bits on the internets and putting the pieces together with works that I already know and love. When I came across Niagara Falls, I linked it back to photographer Alec Soth's series NIAGARA. I've been looking forward to seeing what she would create in two-dimensions especially for 20x200 and 1stfans.

It turns out that Valerie's a super kind person to boot. She visited 20x200 HQ several times to check out her proofs as the edition came to fruition, then flattered me with her presence at the 1stfans meetup on Saturday. I gave a short presentation to 1stfans (one of those exclusive events I was just mentioning!) and was dappled with a smattering of smart questions from the audience. I was happy to be fielding inquiries about collecting, our artists, photography and fine art, all the things that make 20x200 so great.

I have two other short-but-sweet announcements to make! It's the last day for guaranteed shipping for Valentine's Day. Get your orders in before midnight EST to do right by your loved ones. Still grappling with what to get? I've recapped our heart-day editions below and you can always defer to the good taste of our artists. Don't delay!

The deadline for Valentine's Day shipping is TONIGHT, Monday 2/8, at 12:00 midnight EST.

And congratulations to Alissa from Coquitlam, British Columbia, the winner of our Lisa Congdon giveaway with Chronicle Books!

I won't be seeing you all for our usual Tuesday date, but will be back on Wednesday with some fine photography. We'll resume to business as usual next week.

Thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday in frigid temperatures to the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturday to say hello to the team and pick up one of Valerie Hegarty's prints and a 1stfans membership! We had a great time mingling with museum-goers and meeting Brooklyn Museum's newest 1stfans throughout the night. We also want to extend extra thanks to 1stfans founders Will Cary and Shelley Bernstein from Brooklyn Museum for giving us this opportunity to collaborate.

Artist Valerie Hegarty

Take a look at photos from the evening over on flickr, and make sure to sign up for the mailing list to get first dibs on the remaining larger print sizes of Valerie's edition (14"x11" and 20"x16"), which we're releasing today! Every print in this special edition comes with a 1stfans one-year membership. And, all proceeds will go to benefit the Brooklyn Museum.

Sara Distin, Associate Director of Jen Bekman Projects, is training for her first-ever marathon.

Dear Collectors and Friends of 20x200,

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you an important announcement. Ms. Sara Distin, the amazing Associate Director of JBP, is running her first-ever marathon this April in memory of her dad and in support of First Descents, a non-profit organization that provides guidance and instruction for outdoor adventure activities for young adults (ages 18-39) with cancer. We ask for your support in reaching her fundraising goal of $5,000.

Sara writes:

Survival rates for this demographic haven't improved much in the last 30 years and there aren't many support systems available to those patients who seek it, making the efforts of FD invaluable.

The experiences that First Descents offers promote emotional, psychological and physical strength and healing. Participants also meet a community of fellow patients and survivors, a potential network of support that sustains long after the week of camp is over.

With the money that Sara hopes to raise, five cancer survivors will be given the incredible opportunity to spend one week at a FD program. As of this writing, she has reached 33% of her total goal, but with your support we think that she can not only reach her goal, but double it!

On a typical day at JBP HQ, you will find Sara corresponding with our artists and edition-makers, working with Ms. Jen B. to curate 20x200, and making sure that every color of every print is absolutely perfect. Before or after work, Sara has been hitting the streets to cover "350+ training miles in Brooklyn, running over bridges and along rivers, in snow, sleet, wind and rain, or worse, the gym."

You can donate, in any amount, by clicking here.

Whether or not you are able to make a donation, we encourage you to learn more about First Descents and to read Sara's moving letter to friends and family, which has the full story behind her marathon.

Thank you for your support.

About Four Thirty by William Wegman

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

20x200 Print Giveaway at the Brooklyn Museum THIS SATURDAY!

On Saturday, February 6th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., join some of us from 20x200, including Ms. Jen B. herself, at the Brooklyn Museum for a Target First Saturday event with 1stfans. We'll be giving away 10"x8" prints by artist Valerie Hegarty to new and renewing 1stfans members and Jen will be speaking to an intimate group of 1stfans at a meetup. Meetups are an opportunity for 1stfans to interact exclusively with the Museum's staff, its collections, artists, and other members every month at Target First Saturdays. Hope to see you there! Don't let the snow stop you! Read More →

New Editions

We Are So Good Together by Dylan Fareed	The Architects + About 4:30 by William Wegman

Daisy 2008, Woodgrain series by Christina Muraczewski

Openings + Events

• Edition-eaker Christine Muraczewski is featured in a group show in LA titled Woodie, which runs through February 28th.


• Edition-makers Valerie Roybal, Lisa Congdon and Kate Bingaman-Burt all have work in Nahcotta Gallery's annual Enormous Tiny Art show up in New Hampshire through March 1st.


• This Saturday afternoon from noon - 5 pm, MoMA is hosting a free art book swap! "The public is invited to swap any art books in good condition for any one of the hundreds of art books donated by publishers, distributors, galleries and other art world professionals." Sounds to us like the perfect way to spend Saturday before heading to the Brooklyn Museum for the 20x200 Print Giveaway from 6 - 8 p.m.!


• Edition-maker Chris Ballantyne has a show titled Some Songs from the Shore at Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco, which is up through March 6th.


• Text Me Later, an exhibit by edition-maker and master of the clever aphorism Mike Monteiro + Omar Lee, opens tonight, February 5th at Rare Device in San Francisco.

20x200 News

• A portfolio of drawings by Rachell Sumpter and Jacob Magraw is the exclusive content of this week's McSweeney's iPhone app.


• Gotham Magazine ran a full-page feature on Trey Speegle, who talked about his work as it relates to the intersection of art, fashion and commerce.


• Show us your frames! 20x200 collector Jennifer wrote in suggesting that we make post some images of how collectors around the world have framed their 20x200 editions. We love it! To contribute to this project, simply tag your photos "20x200" on Flickr and we'll select the most inspiring walls to feature on our site.


• A friendly reminder that Clare Grill's GORGEOUS painting at Jen Bekman Gallery are not to be missed! Her solo exhibition, What You're Told is on view through February 27th.


• Our semi-annual 20% More Ridiculous Sale came and went, offering first-time and veteran collectors the chance to pick up remaindered prints for a price that is 20% more affordable than usual. Thanks to everyone who brought home some art and spread the word to all their friends. You rock!

From the Web

• We completely forgot to include this amazing New Order video (above!) directed by William Wegman in our newsletter, but there was "some serious pogo dancing happening" at the JBP HQ after we discovered it. See also: Wegman's early films.


• For the blackout poem obsessed—a group in which we count ourselves—Austin Kleon has created a new blog devoted exclusively this art. Check out Newspaper Blackout.


• Congratulations to team "Glen Lowry's Apartment," who took home 20x200 tote bags, prints, and gift certificates in last Friday's Art:21 Trivia Night!


• Themed menu lunch drawings, like last week's "Hunger Apocalypse," are a regular midday fixture at HQ. (We have fun over here).


• 20x200 was featured into today's VSL infographic with Pentagram Design and Obama's Hope Poster. Also make sure to take a look at Albert Exergian's modern TV posters featuring lines and shapes to depict The Wire, 30 Rock, Mad Men and 12 other popular shows.

Until next week, collectors! Anything we missed? Reply to @20x200 on Twitter.

The 20x200 print giveaway that we posted about last week is going down this Saturday from 6 - 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum, and we couldn't be more excited. The prints are packed, the banner has arrived, and we’re uhhh…still brainstorming on our apparel. Nevertheless, we hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be an awesome evening full of talks, music, film, dancing, and art.

Ms. Jen Bekman will be speaking, exclusively to 1stfans, about 20x200 and JBP's approach to supporting artists. So, after you've started or renewed your 1stfans membership (and picked up Valerie's print!), join us for a talk!

Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Jen's talk | 8:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, BK, NY

For the full details, check out our previous post or read on:

We've been collaborating with 1stfans founders, Shelley Bernstein and Will Cary, and Valerie over the last few months to produce this unique benefit edition. For the first time ever, collectors will be able to pick up a print in person and become a 1stfans member all for the ridiculously affordable cost of $20! 1stfans is the Brooklyn Museums's socially networked membership. Valerie Hegarty and 20x200 have donated the prints for this event.

The larger prints sizes in Valerie's edition (14"x11" and 20"x16") will be released on 20x200 the following week of Monday, February 8th. Every print in this special edition comes with a 1stfans one-year membership! And, all proceeds will go to benefit the Brooklyn Museum. To find out about the release online, make sure you're signed up for the 20x200 newsletter.

Can You Imagine by Trey Speegle

Last time we checked in with edition-maker Trey Speegle he was returning from a whirlwind trip to Paris, where he had created a gigantic runway backdrop for Stella McCartney's show at Paris Fashion Week. Trey is now the subject of a full-page feature in the current issue of Gotham Magazine. In the article, Trey talks about how his work with paint-by-numbers got started, as well as how his work has intersected with fashion and commerce. On being compared to commercial artist Peter Max, Trey says, "[the 60's were] a different time, people no longer make these kind of distinctions [between art and commerce]. Gagosian has a store." Of Trey's two 20x200 editions only one, Can You Imagine (above), is still available so hurry up and take one home!

Daisy, 2008, Woodgrain series by Christina Muraczewski

Rarely is an artist's statement as enigmatically engaging as the work itself, but Christina Muraczewski's reads like a philosophical text, meaning that you might have to read it and then re-read it again (and then maybe again) to best extract all the nuance and particulars one-by-one. Or, maybe it reads like the journal of someone who strives for as much order in personal articulation as in visual making: What you say about what you do can matter as much as the doing.

Before I leave the house in the morning I go through three sets of four rituals for getting ready to make sure nothing was forgotten. When I go to the store I plan to buy five things or in groups of five so I remember what I was supposed to get. I organize and categorize by a number of different systems...

By employing minimal characteristics, I create formal and informal relationships that...[are] disrupted purposefully by a foreign element: humor. Humor in the form of obsessiveness, senselessness, or sarcasm defines the absurd to serve as a balance to the mundane. The attempt is to fashion a new hybrid: minimalism as the backbone and idiosyncrasy as the fuel. This hybrid is meant to sit in the "in-between", the balance of abstraction and representation, the literal and the conceptual, sincerity and superficiality.

Muraczewski has referred to herself as an abstract painter, but has re-interpreted the label to include a methodology which incorporates a nearly OCD sense of organization, a serious love of ritual and contemporary design elements and a breezy, blink-and-miss it sense of humor. These elements of practice have culminated in her most recent series of work, Woodgrain. Using acrylic markers and glitter on canvas, Muraczewski creates a faux bois background that she then "overpaints" a scene of birds, vines, flora or colorful wallpaper or upholstery patterns. The result intones a whiff of David Salle, if Salle were perhaps more interested in the natural world as opposed to, say, the au natural girl.

We have a great fondness for Muraczewski's work here at Jen Bekman Projects, having shown her in two group shows at the Jen Bekman Gallery (X Marks the Art and Ornithology), and nearly selling out her editions here at 20x200 (you can still purchase the dwindling reserves from her featured editions here, here and here). We couldn't be happier to cheer and chart her current and future successes both in NYC and beyond.

To that end, if you live near or are visiting the left coast in the coming month, Muraczewski's work can be seen live and in person in the group show Woodie, an exhibition featuring art works made on wood, with wood or by wood simulation, at The Attic, 200 S. Ardmore Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90004. The exhibition is part of the Art LA Contemporary Fair programming, which includes a self-guided driving tour of new exhibitions at alternative spaces throughout the city.

The exhibition features: Anthony Brown, Brian Cooper, Craig Deines, Joan Kahn, Jared Pankin, Brian Mallman, Christina Muraczewski, Sharon Ryan, Klutch Stanaway and Noah Thomas and was curated by Cherie Benner Davis.

Woodie
On view: Jan. 31 - Feb. 28, 2010
The Attic, 200 S. Ardmore Ave.(cross streets: Normandie & 2nd St.)
Los Angeles, CA 90004
For more information or to view by appointment, call: 323-292-6029, or write: cheriebd@gmail.com.

About Four Thirty (top) and The Architects (bottom) by William Wegman

I'm so pleased and so proud to present a very special paired edition — About Four Thirty and The Architects — from William Wegman today. And a paired edition it is! These prints are only available together; Mr. Wegman and I agreed that it was a good idea to present the broader view of his practice. (We both well know how distracting and disarming those Wiemeraners of his can be.)

Some notes about the edition:

- We're limiting collectors to two 10"x8" / 8"x10" or 14"x11" / 11"x14" pairs each, and only one per collector for prints 20"x16" / 16"x20" and larger.
- This edition is not eligible for any discount or promotion.
- We reserve the right to refund purchases if we determine that a single collector has acquired multiple prints or used a discount code.

William's work is the perfect incarnation of Bill the person. As an artist, he is William Wegman and to call him Bill seems disrespectful. And yet, to refer to him as Bill, to other people, can easily seem to allude to a familiarity that's like, so Hollywood — that LA thing where everyone refers to super powerful people by their first name only. But to call him William in person, or even refer to him as William seems to signal a different kind of respect. He's serious, but please don't take him so seriously.

He's so funny, affable and distracted that it's easy to underestimate him. People think of him as the dog guy and don't even know that he's an artist with a broader practice. Even if people do know about his other work, they complain about his obsessive repetition of a theme (the postcards), to which I say: who hasn't met an obsessive artist before? The dogs and the humor belie a very intense, earnest and important inquiry.

I want to perch myself up on a chair and wave my arms and say: take this man seriously! If you spend your life looking half as hard as he does it'll be much richer. Humor can be intelligent and revealing, even when it's downright silly on its surface. It reminds me of how I talk about what I want people to look for when they look at art: a connection. Only connect, and then fall into it.

"Only connect! Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die."

— E.M. Forster, Howards End

We Are So Good Together by Dylan Fareed

Wednesday Wegman Alert: Yes, that Wegman!

April 25, 2007 <-- Three years ago!

Hi Dylan,

I love (super love) your We Are So Good Together poster. I am sad (super sad) that it is sold out! I'm working on a new project and would like for y'all to consider doing an edition with me. You can read about it here.

Best,
Jen

A lot has happened since I wrote that email three years ago, but I couldn't think of a better time than right now to release today's 100% hand-made letterpress edition, We Are So Good Together by the multi-talented Dylan Fareed.

Obviously it's a suitable addition to our Valentine's Day Gift Guide, but its resonance right now has more to do with all the amazing people I have the good fortune to work with. When Sara and I were checking out the proof yesterday evening, I had the urge to take it out of her hands and tack it up on our wall. (Alas, since the walls of our temporary digs are Meetup red, it would've clashed horribly.)

Still, it seems the thing to be hanging over our heads. Our growing team is uber-creative and talented — the fresh perspectives of our newest members have reinforced how unique, amazing and engaged our hard-working peeps are. And I couldn't be happier for us all to be working together.

This pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming feeling of good-togetherness extends beyond team JBP itself. I am similarly knocked out by the people and organizations in our growing and interconnected universe: the artists we work with, our investors, advisors and various champions who are as excited as we are about this Art for Everyone idea of ours. Plus, there are lots of other great little companies with big ideas we get to work with, including Dylan's own Artlog, which he founded with Manish Vora a couple of years ago. Although Dylan most often labors in SF these days, Manish is firmly rooted here in New York's totally on fire tech community.

And last but not least: YOU. Because you know what? We are seriously so good together. Our interactions online here, there and elsewhere are energizing and inspiring. It's what keeps me going, so thanks for being one of the YOUs in the WE that I think of when I look at Dylan's print.

The Enormous Tiny Art Show, February 2010

Who says bigger is better?

Despite what my first drawing instructor preached, there is something to be said for small work. Smaller pieces beckon, siren-like, for you to approach and be alone with them for a moment. They ask for mano e mano consideration, and alert one to the distinction between looking into instead of looking at something.

Every February and September, Nahcotta Gallery hosts the Enormous Tiny Art show, where all the art on the walls is a come-hither intimate size of 10"x10" or smaller. And this February is especially notable in that Valerie Roybal, Kate Bingaman-Burt and Lisa Congdon, three of 20x200's own edition-makers, are showcasing their small splendors.

The good people at ETA write:

As art lovers and collectors ourselves, we want nothing more than to share our ardor for original art, making it possible for almost anyone and everyone to own original and irreplaceable works of art.

We couldn't agree more with the sentiment, and the act of collecting itself.

A Brief History 2009, by Valerie Roybal

I was lucky enough to acquire a couple of Roybal's exquisitely detailed 20x200 editions during the last 20x200 RIDONK sale , and if you're able to make it to Portsmouth, NH you can purchase some of her's, Kate Bingaman-Burt's or Lisa Congdon's original pieces for very reasonable prices. Alternatively, if, like me, you are glued to your task chairs and monitors, you can also browse and buy Valerie's, Kate's or Lisa's work directly online on their respective ETA pages. All three artists also have work remaining on 20x200 here, here and here!

Enormous Tiny Art
On view: February 4th - March 1st, 2010
Artist's reception: Friday, February 5th, 5-8 p.m.
Nahcotta Gallery
110 Congress Street
Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801
603.433.1704

Happy-to-be-warm-inside-on-this-freezing-cold-day greetings collectors! It's still bone-chillingly frigid here in New York, perfect for hunkering down with warm cups of tea and hot chocolate. For all of you bunkered in with us, I have a very exciting announcement: we're extending the 20% more ridiculous event until tomorrow, Monday at 2:00 p.m. EST! You still have plenty of time to browse and collect for 20% less — stock up today during your Sunday leisure, or squeeze in a mad dash during lunch at the office tomorrow.

** Enter RIDONK at checkout for 20% off your prints till 2:00 p.m. EST Monday, February 1st! **

The sale extends to purchases $40 and greater; now's the time to jump for the larger print you've been eying. The savings really start to stack up and many of these editions are on the edge of the forever-disappeared from 20x200: They're going, going and likely to be gone when this event ends.

30"x40" prints with only 1 of 2 remaining for $2,000 $1,600:

Untitled (Hanoi no.2) by Kelly Shimoda
The Faceted Couroucou by Carrie Marill
Katarina by Karolina Karlic
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Carts #1 by Kate Bingaman-Burt
Unleaded, Unleaded, Premium Unleaded by Eric Graham
Towards Christiana (Copenhagen) by Rachel Sussman
Site by Sarah McKenzie
Fortune (will be successful in...) by Kirby Pilcher
ny.07.#32 by Jennifer Sanchez
Auditorium by James Rajotte
White and Grey Canary #1 by Luke Stephenson
House Plant 2 by Carrie Marill
House Plant 3 by Carrie Marill
132 Birds at The American Museum of Natural History by Jason Polan
The Weight of the Bridge by Amy Park
Untitled (elephant) by Don Hamerman
In One Ear, Out the Other by Jessica Snow
Burning Down the Second House by Ann Toebbe
Waiting for Hand Grenade Practice, Southern Israel by Rachel Papo

16"x20" prints with 6 (or fewer!) of 20 remaining for $200 $160:

Running Track by James Deavin
Embedded by Aili Schmeltz
Mossball by Don Hamerman
Idaho Springs, Colorado by Justin James Reed
Untitled #46 from "Stories" by Jessica Bruah
Bonaparte 9 by Superdeluxe (Adrienne Wong and Karin Spraggs)
Hank Williams' Bed, Georgiana, Alabama by Scott Eiden
Berry by by Kevin Cyr
Houndstooth Pattern in Parking Lot, at Disney World, FL by Alex MacLean
Color Study #4 Dustin Amery Hostetler (UPSO)
Monk by Mark Ulriksen
Stricken by Don Hamerman
Untitled (You're Impossible) by Mike Monteiro
Space and Illusion by Carrie Marill
The Office by Rebecca Loyche
Palm Aire by Tema Stauffer

We wanted to illustrate just HOW FREAKIN' GINORMOUS our 40"x50" prints are so we whipped up this handy infographic for you. Somewhere between Canary Wharf and the Empire State Building in scale, these editions will fill even the loneliest wall space.

To sweeten the deal, if you make the plunge for one of these prints before noon tomorrow, we'll knock a whole $1000 off the price. Yes, $1,000! Simply use the code RIDONK at checkout!

We have a few prints this size in our office and they are literally a-maz-ing, but we don't want to keep them all to ourselves, so take some of these babies home. Happy collecting!

Greetings collectors! I'm happy to be back with a special dispatch in honor of our but-twice-a-year site-wide event: The 20% More Ridiculous Sale! Our ridiculously affordable prints are 20% more affordable for the next 48 hours or so, a rare and brief occurrence. We go back to being our same old ridiculous selves at noon on Sunday, so there's no better time than the present to get your art on.

Enter the code RIDONK in Google Checkout for 20% off your print order.

A few small details:

- You'll need to spend a minimum of $40 to qualify for the discount. (We're ridiculous and generous, but not entirely foolish!)

- No double-dipping! RIDONK stands alone, and cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions.

- Gift certificate purchases are not eligible for the discount.

- Being the incredible opportunity that they are to begin with, the very few and rather gorgeous prints by Mike & Doug Starn are not eligible for discounts.

$50 prints are now $40
$200 prints are now $160
$500 prints are now $400
$2,000 prints are now $1,600
$5,000 prints are now $4,000

Looking for some shopping inspiration? Our sale is well-timed for your V-Day present-giving needs and we're unveiling our love-inspired gift guide just in time for the occasion.

We're also regularly making additions to our VIP Selections and Artist Gift Guides. New this week: Lisa Congdon's fetching selects and sweet editions from Joanna Goddard. If you follow Joanna's blog A Cup of Jo, you know she's a girl who loves love — she's the perfect person to turn to for romantic selections for a special someone!

Now's definitely the time to get your shop on if you're the budget-minded sort, but what we've got queued up for next week is bound to have EVERYONE reaching for their wallets. The prints we have lined up are blockbusters and perfect for <3 Day! Just don't say I didn't warn you.

Till then, happy collecting!