Web Site Offers Unique Gifts For The Starving Artist

The Web’s number one financial and career planning site for artists opens an online store with unique gifts for “starving artist” within.

Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) June 6, 2006 -- The Internet's guru for starving artists, ThePauper.com, has opened up its new online store called, The Pauper's Shoppe, providing unique and funny gifts for the struggling artist.

"It all started with The Day Job mug," states co-founder of The Pauper, John Brindle. "I've worked lots of day jobs, and I've disliked them all. And I think if you were to ask most artists, they'd tell you the same. So, I had this idea for a coffee mug that would help remind me this whole day job thing was temporary. It was also a great way to let my boss and co-workers know that I was soon going to be moving on to bigger and better things. After that, the ideas started snowballing for various t-shirts, clocks, etc. that artists could relate to and buy for themselves and/or their friends."

Items in the Shoppe include an "Audition Clock" to remind actors not to forget their auditions, a "Keep Writing Clock" to inspire writers to keep writing no matter what time it is, or how bad their writer's block might be, and a "Musician Time Clock", which is set one hour early, so that musicians will, "never be late again." "Musicians are notoriously late for everything," says Mark Stancato, another co-founder and musician, "and this was a funny way for musicians or, more importantly, their non-musician friends and colleagues, to poke fun of the stereotype." Other items in the Shoppe include t-shirts for method actors (waiters), screenwriters (yeah, you too?), playwrights (unemployed), poets (unemployable), and starving artists of all types to label themselves with tongues firmly planted in their cheeks.

Customers can visit The Pauper's Shoppe here at http://www.cafepress.com/thepauper

About ThePauper.com
The Pauper is all about helping artists with the art of success. It's the Net's number one career and financial planning Web site for artists, and is dedicated to becoming the leading networking portal for artists and musicians in the 21st century.

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