{"id":802,"date":"2006-03-25T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2008-08-27T17:14:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:14:43","slug":"niche-distribution-the-art-o-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Niche Distribution: The Art-o-mat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pic\/art-o-mat-w.jpg\" alt=\"art-o-mat-w\" hspace=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Via a <a href=\"http:\/\/mocoloco.com\/archives\/002323.php\" target=\"blank\">MoCo Loco entry (Link)<\/a> I happened across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artomat.org\/home.html\" target=\"blank\">&#8220;Art-o-mat&#8221; website<\/a>. I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve heard of this before; probably via MSM. But that might have been a while ago. Besides, this seems so much more applicable now when you consider a potential mash-up with a site like Etsy (which I happened to be surfing through yesterday evening &#8211; check out the &#8220;precious metal clay&#8221; jewelry of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=22759\" target=\"blank\">Sue Quigley &#8211; Link<\/a>). Funny how this reminds me of vendors in <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Second Life<\/a>. Kind of.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe what we&#8217;re witnessing are the emerging pieces of the system that will eventually give physical birth to William Gibson&#8217;s virtual pop star. Hmmm. What if the physical form it takes is based on an urban vinyl? or a furry? &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083658\/quotes\" target=\"blank\">Gooood Evening, JF!<\/a>&#8220;. I can see it now: <em>Vending Machine Buddies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>{Image Copyright \u00a9 Artists in Cellophane}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a MoCo Loco entry (Link) I happened across the &#8220;Art-o-mat&#8221; website. I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve heard of this before; probably via MSM. But that might have been a while ago. Besides, this seems so much more applicable now when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}