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Time and time again, I get the same question from our investors after showing our product. “Why hasn’t someone built this yet?” I’ve answered it a thousand different ways without one succinct response. Today, my response fell flat and only captured a small fraction of what I wanted to convey, but I realized it is impossible to put the answer to this question into one sentence. The answer is more of a matrix. Next-gen behaviors are challenging the art market, but the stagnancy of the old-schoo...
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COHARTThe Perfect, Imperfect Internet
A case for authentic, creative expression in our digital worldA few months ago, I read Jay Drain Jr.s’ article about Crypto Wallets. He requested that anyone who was building a crypto wallet that “felt even remotely like using Tumblr” should contact him immediately. But what happened to Tumblr? Most of us forgot about it after the $3M Wordpress acquisition. It might have swept out of the mainstream apparatus, but the OG Tumblr concepts we love are renaissance-ing today. We’re all somewhat obs...
COHARTArt Discovery through your Creative Identity
Discover art as you discover your creative identity on CohartWe live in a world full of ideas. Once the internet was born, everyone’s ideas, creations, and communities became accessible via technology. As a result, we feel compelled to represent ourselves alongside our ideas. Now, we’re hyper-focused on building our identities in digital spaces. There is no shortage of information in the digital landscape, so how can we curate the content we intake to tell our own story? At Cohart, we believe...
COHART“Why hasn’t someone built this yet?”
Time and time again, I get the same question from our investors after showing our product. “Why hasn’t someone built this yet?” I’ve answered it a thousand different ways without one succinct response. Today, my response fell flat and only captured a small fraction of what I wanted to convey, but I realized it is impossible to put the answer to this question into one sentence. The answer is more of a matrix. Next-gen behaviors are challenging the art market, but the stagnancy of the old-schoo...
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As children, we were closer to our creative selves. Our ability to express ourselves with art and design was intuitive, free-flowing. We were never in our heads about it. It was natural.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve watched close friends and family distance themselves from “Creativity” as a concept, then “Art” as a value, then the “Art World” as an industry.
What’s left is this little red pool of people, with a strong affinity towards one another as like-minded individuals. But something about it isn’t quite right.
While it is fun to be in the little red pool for a period of time (for your ego), it is not doing the artists or the world of art any favors for us to all stay there camped out. We need to be the ones prying open the doors and changing the conceptions about “art” as an experience, an industry, and a career. We need to challenge the current paradigm and build a new system.
And what’s weird about this to me, and why I am building Cohart, is because most of this is in our heads. If we take a step back, it looks a little more like this:
The majority of us are creative.
The majority of us enjoy art.
A lot of people own art.
And there are a fair amount of us who actually make art (and there would likely be more if the system worked on behalf of artists).
If you are creative, how do you cultivate your creative voice and find mentors for inspiration?
If you enjoy art, how do you know exactly what you like?
If you buy art, do you know the story behind the work you purchased?
If you make art, do you want to know your audience and understand how they think about your creations?
We are working to solve those problems. We are taking a few steps back — away from art as an asset or as a stock to be traded. Away from the ego-side-of-it-all. And away from perpetuating the same system that has dis-empowered most of us to date.
Artists, creators, and designers build the world we live in & collectors, advocates, & buyers help to bring the visions to life. Cohart is a place for these relationships to be made — for community to be fostered.
Join the conversation — share your values, perspectives, artwork, collections, designs, half-baked ideas, feedback, critiques, comments, and stories with one another.
As children, we were closer to our creative selves. Our ability to express ourselves with art and design was intuitive, free-flowing. We were never in our heads about it. It was natural.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve watched close friends and family distance themselves from “Creativity” as a concept, then “Art” as a value, then the “Art World” as an industry.
What’s left is this little red pool of people, with a strong affinity towards one another as like-minded individuals. But something about it isn’t quite right.
While it is fun to be in the little red pool for a period of time (for your ego), it is not doing the artists or the world of art any favors for us to all stay there camped out. We need to be the ones prying open the doors and changing the conceptions about “art” as an experience, an industry, and a career. We need to challenge the current paradigm and build a new system.
And what’s weird about this to me, and why I am building Cohart, is because most of this is in our heads. If we take a step back, it looks a little more like this:
The majority of us are creative.
The majority of us enjoy art.
A lot of people own art.
And there are a fair amount of us who actually make art (and there would likely be more if the system worked on behalf of artists).
If you are creative, how do you cultivate your creative voice and find mentors for inspiration?
If you enjoy art, how do you know exactly what you like?
If you buy art, do you know the story behind the work you purchased?
If you make art, do you want to know your audience and understand how they think about your creations?
We are working to solve those problems. We are taking a few steps back — away from art as an asset or as a stock to be traded. Away from the ego-side-of-it-all. And away from perpetuating the same system that has dis-empowered most of us to date.
Artists, creators, and designers build the world we live in & collectors, advocates, & buyers help to bring the visions to life. Cohart is a place for these relationships to be made — for community to be fostered.
Join the conversation — share your values, perspectives, artwork, collections, designs, half-baked ideas, feedback, critiques, comments, and stories with one another.
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