Free on Craigslist Friday – 02-29-08
February 29, 2008
It’s friday, a leap year Friday to be more exact, and what better way to celebrate a day that comes once every 4 years but with free crap off of the Spokane Craigslist. Today’s selection is:
Yes folks a camper. A free abandoned camper, it comes in a variety of colors (as in, a variety of colors all at once) and it’s free too the first person willing to move it. The potential is really astounding for such a high quality item. Now don’t you all go rushing to nab it at once you hear?
New Gig For Me.
February 12, 2008
I started a new job. Therefore as I get settled in I may slow a bit in posting. By no means will I be going away, but with my day gig and my branding work on the side. I am a very busy dude. (As my friend Scooter would say, I am “hella busy.”) So give me a few weeks, and let me find my pace and I’ll be back up to steam in no time.
Free on Craigslist Friday – 2-01-08
February 1, 2008
Back in the saddle again! Welcome to Free on Craiglist Friday for the first of February, the weekly post where we scour the Spokane Craigslist Free section and post the best find right here on subpar! I figured with all the snow everyone would be at home posting all sorts of crazy free stuff. A lot of stuff was posted but as a rule, we only look at post with pictures, and there wasn’t a lot to be found. However… this one struck a cord:
While not hilarious, or creepy, or just odd… it’s awesome. The dude is plowing out old and poor people’s driveways. As long as your within 2 miles of the intersection of Starr and Wellesley roads. That is just awesome and goes to show how cool the people in this fine city and surrounding area are to each other. Guy with a tractor! Subpar salutes you!
Where’s Your Art Spokane?
January 28, 2008
Subpar wants to know, we want to attend your gallery openings. We want to see your paintings, we want to get involved, but we can’t unless you let us know.
We know your reading us, we see you lurking, don’t try to hide it, we can only listen to NPR so many hours out of the day. We can only read that creepy spokanearts.org page, the one with the big-screamy-mouth, yeah we can only read that so many times a day.
Help us, help you.
Free on Craigslist – MONDAY???
January 28, 2008
Little late on our tradition here, and by late i mean really late. For that I apologize. So this week we’re going to cap the FoCLF by posting one on Monday and one on Friday. A WINNER IS YOU! This weeks selection brings with it the creepy, which why it was picked I mean after all, who wouldn’t want a free:
Free Medical Exam & Surgical Tables
Yes folks, free old medical tables. Opening up a doctors office? Reduce some of that expensive overhead, or… indulge your inner Robert Lee Yates, for FREE. What could be better? Maybe replace that love seat in your living room with something a little more… interesting? Its your call. But the inherite creepiness cannot be denied.
Free on Craigslist Friday – 1-18-08
January 18, 2008
In case you are new to the subpar experience, we have a weekly ritual here, you see Spokane has it’s very own Craigslist and like most Craigslists it is chock full of amazing and odd things. Once a week on Friday we peruse the FREE section for the oddest giveaway we can find and pass the… er… savings onto you!
There’s very little in the science behind the selection, we do seek out free items with pictures if only to aid in your experience, and thats about it. It’s a whim thing. Okay enough chatter lets get on with this weeks winner.
Today’s choice is: Free Styrofoam
It was a tossup this week. We had some interesting things, a machine called a Mangler, a coffee table with a wobbly leg, but what got us was the Free Styrofoam, and according to the post, it’s styrofoam of “various sizes and pieces” too. It’s a great choice, because someone unpacked some item, and then took a picture of the packing materials and posted it on the Spokane Craigslist. So if you are in need of styrofoam… and you want to drive to Newman Lake, well… there you go.
Free on Craigslist Friday
January 11, 2008
Starting a new weekly tradition is always a good thing, and without pomp and circumstance I announce, FREE ON CRAIGSLIST FRIDAY! Yes Spokane has it’s very own craigslist and it’s always chock full of hilarity, be it a tranny looking for carpools, or someone trying to unload boxes of junk on an unsuspecting public. Spokane’s rich diversity always means there is a lot of interesting choices. We will celebrate the latter, reviewing the free list for the past week looking for the bizarre and unusual.
Today’s choice is “FREE WASHERS AND DRYERS – - 4 dry/3wash”
While seemingly boring, the amount of free dryers and free washers is the bewildering and intriguing, and the subsequent picture showing the units in the cold northwest winter just ads to the fun. Which work? Which do not? Why so many? What would one man need 4 dryers and 3 washers for, does he run a laundry mat? These questions and more loom, which is why “FREE WASHERS AND DRYERS – - 4 dry/3wash” is our choice for Free on Craigslist Friday!
Having a show? Let us know.
January 10, 2008
I didn’t mean for the title to rhyme. But it does, I refuse to change it, and now we must live with the cheesiness of it.
We can only do so much here at subpar, and we want to do so much more. We need you essentially, if you have a gallery opening, an art show, or anything remotely similar let us know. We’ll post it, get it out for all to see and maybe even show up ourselves. Just email myself or any other contributor at subpar@subpar.net we’ll do our best to let the world, or our little chunk of it, know.
the birth of subpar
January 7, 2008
I founded subpar when I was in college as a creative contingent (The fancy buzzword for a designer club.) Maybe it’s the genuine collegiate experience but going to a tiny northwest school I saw a lack of serious peer critiques and that really frustrated me. I got fed up. I remember forgetting to do an assignment, showing up ten minutes before class and banging out trite crap and receiving general words of praise for my “flowing style” and my “freedom of expression.” This wasn’t the words I craved, nor the opinions I needed but it as the norm.
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