Healing Through Tragicrafting™: Hurricane Sandy Edition
As you may know, one of our favorite topics around here is the feeding frenzy that kicks in on Etsy whenever something terrible happens. We call it, TragiCrafting™.
But let’s be clear about one thing: TragiCrafting™ is not fueled by the desire to make a buck off of tragedy. That would be so very cynical and wrong, and not at all chippy and muted and covered with mass produced cabochons.
No, this is all about healing. And here are some Etsy crafters getting their healing on right now!
Celebrate the loss of life and property with cute earrings!
Don’t like turquoise? No problem! The Chocolate Opal has tagged two pages of earrings with “HURRICANE SANDY,” and isn’t giving one cent to the relief effort, so you can be sure that no one is doing a fucking thing.
Not in the mood for earrings? How about these?
Eat dessert first! Your house may be gone before dinner!
No better way to honor displaced storm victims living on emergency rations than with cookies, am I right? I CAN ALMOST TASTE YOUR SUFFERING
Have peanut allergies? Then get your storm on with these!
If you don’t feel like crafting, you can tie them together and float to Connecticut!
Is there anything owls love more than hurricanes?
This handy journal makes it easy to write down everything that was destroyed, so you can argue with your insurance company until 2015!
Well to be fair, this is actually somewhat relevant. It is a jacket, after all.
Plus when I think of the cruelty of nature and the ravages of time, I think of John Travolta.
- Click here to see the growing coil of Sandicrafts clogging up the Etsy colon
NOTE: We are aware that many crafters are donating a portion of their sales to the Red Cross. But that’s not as funny.
UPDATE:
SINCERELY,
SOMEONEONE SPAECIAL
October 30, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Turquoise howlite? In other words, cheap dyed howlite that is NOT turquoise. It’s actually called turquenite and if the maker of those earrings was honest, it would say FAKE turquoise. Or cheap crap. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
October 30, 2012 at 4:12 pm
I thought that was implied with most Etsy items.
October 30, 2012 at 5:20 pm
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October 30, 2012 at 7:33 pm
I only feel “spaecial” when I’m watching Star Trek. That’s why I come to Regretsy and make fun of people, to get some more of that sweet, sweet, “spaecial” feeling.
October 30, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Did someone say “wine”?
October 30, 2012 at 7:59 pm
I complain so much better with wine.
October 30, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Instead of cursing the darkness I’d rather light one of my farts.
October 31, 2012 at 7:47 am
hurt someoneone? I only hurt someoneone when I’m schizophrenicphrenic.
If you’re going to admonish someone, please learn to spell first.
October 31, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Don’t order the mahi-mahi-mahi with the couscouscous. It’s only sososo.
November 1, 2012 at 8:21 am
I heard this in the goose voice from the cartoon Charlotte’s Web.
October 31, 2012 at 5:32 pm
I prefer to Scotch and complain.
October 30, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Unless you are bailing out the Battery Tunnel or removing downed trees from my street, you can bite me.
October 30, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Not sure if trolling or just very spaecial.
October 30, 2012 at 11:10 pm
“You just don’t get it” (turns around walks away shaking his head in disgust/puzzlement)
October 31, 2012 at 1:18 am
Wine and complain? You know us only all too well. BRING ON THE MERLOT AND SPARKLY GIFS
October 31, 2012 at 6:48 am
sounds like someone’s ‘ blow out ‘ sale didn’t go as well as they’d hoped
join with us , accept the healing
October 31, 2012 at 7:19 am
If your so offended or worried about the tradgedy go do something to help the people rather than wine and complain of who sells what and where.
Jesus. I’m more offended at this utter disregard for any grammatical effort whatsoever. Sure ‘where’ is correct, but that’s a small victory.
November 1, 2012 at 7:39 am
Yeah, because if I BS and some dares to point it out, it breaks my oh-so-delicate psyche. It causes my RUINATION! RUINATION, I TELL YOU!
November 1, 2012 at 10:48 am
Nothing like trying to make a point but spelling almost EVERY word wrong and using horrible grammar—FAIL
November 3, 2012 at 10:53 am
Is it OK to combine wine, complaining, making a living and helping out? Or is that too complex?
November 16, 2012 at 6:14 am
This. This. Oh this is why I keep coming back here. Also, the things shaped like penises. Never fails to get my happy on.
October 30, 2012 at 6:19 pm
While $12 is expensive for those earrings (they would have taken her literally ten minutes to make – I sometimes make similar things for myself – and the supplies would have cost pennies)…
…if it was real turquoise they would cost far more. Far, far more.
So at least she’s not charging turquoise prices for howlite crap.
October 31, 2012 at 9:20 am
Those are the kind of earrings I make when I can’t find anything to go with my outfit.
October 30, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Huh. I’ve learned something today!
November 2, 2012 at 5:32 am
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November 4, 2012 at 12:04 am
No, it isn’t. It’s a stone often used in jewelry-making but it’s not “semi-precious”. I make jewelry (for myself as a hobby, I don’t sell) and I can tell you that those two pieces of howlite are worth about fifty cents retail, far less wholesale. I live in Taiwan where I can get them for half that. “turquoise howlite” means the howlite was dyed, not that it is turquoise in color.
That’s not “semi-precious”. Do you honestly think you could get two opals that size, or two garnets, or two pieces of malachite or even two (relatively inexpensive) moonstones or tiger’s eye? Or two pieces of amber, coral, actual turquoise or lapis for that? Those are “semi-precious stones” and they cost more. Howlite is not in the same category no matter how much you want to pretend it is.
No harm or shame in selling it – I make howlite pieces because they’re just for fun – but don’t pretend you’re selling fine stones. You ain’t.
November 9, 2012 at 1:14 pm
“Semi-precious” has nothing to do with a stone’s price. It’s just the classification for everything left over after the “Precious” gemstones (diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds…)
October 30, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Why would anyone make hurricane-suffering-themed crafts?
It just… *Sunglasses*
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Blows me away.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
October 30, 2012 at 6:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMPAH67f4o
just because
October 30, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Is that a phone app yet?
October 30, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Can I just say that I love how I learn shit on Regretsy? Seriously.
October 30, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Honest to fuck, American Apparel has a 20% off sale for Hurricane Sandy.
October 30, 2012 at 4:45 pm
American Apparel can always find a new low. I think it’s their CEO’s mission statement.
October 30, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Well, they’re not likely to make much money off it because most people affected by Hurricane Sandy CAN’T FUCKING MAKE IT TO AMERICAN APPAREL!
October 30, 2012 at 6:26 pm
It’s online.
October 30, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Doesn’t matter!
October 31, 2012 at 7:31 am
My home is under water, my car is in the next zip code, my tap water is from the sewer lines, and I won’t have power for a week…but I’m going to use the last of my iPad battery to buy $50 tights for 20% off!
October 31, 2012 at 10:09 am
You forgot to mention your hairdo is not all it could be. Damn wind!
October 30, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Its because most everything at AA blows (YES!)
October 30, 2012 at 4:14 pm
It’s sad that it bothers me that the cookies are peanut butter – and not pecan sandies. That would be more fitting, yanno? That TragiCrafter wasn’t even trying.
October 30, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Oh my gosh! I have pecan sandies in my pantry! And some chocolate I was going to hand out to the kids tomorrow night, but fuck them. Off to become a Etsy millionaire, brb!
October 30, 2012 at 4:31 pm
It bothered me too!
October 30, 2012 at 7:30 pm
I was looking for that, too. Regretsbians of a pleather mock together.
October 31, 2012 at 7:25 am
I honest to god laughed so fucking hard at the pecan sandies line that I farted. Thanks. It is super hard to pass of a laughter fart in the office.
October 30, 2012 at 4:20 pm
For your benefit performance of The Tempest…
http://www.etsy.com/listing/70959372/hurricane-sandy-sale-elizabethan-style?ref=sr_gallery_19&ga_search_query=hurricane+sandy&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all
October 30, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Most of this isn’t even tragicrafting, it’s the extra-lazy, extra-exploitative tragi-tagging. Just when you thought they’d scraped the bottom of the barrel, they manage to go even lower.
October 30, 2012 at 4:42 pm
“Tragging”?
October 31, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Yeah, at least the crying eagle guy and the other tragiwhores worked for their money.
October 30, 2012 at 4:29 pm
I shouldn’t be amazed at this stuff. But I’m always amazed.
October 30, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I can’t believe that leather jacket whore of a seller is trying to make a sale via a “Sandy from Grease” joke. Nothing is funny about Grease!
October 30, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Grease changed my opinion of depictions of 50′s culture and musicals in general from ambivalence to virulent hatred in one showing. And both those things have just gotten suckier since then. (I might be biased).
October 30, 2012 at 5:52 pm
My sister was an actual teenager in the 1950s, and she says it sucked big time (especially if you lived in a small midwestern town and your father was a minister). I gather that Elvis and Little Richard were about all that made it bearable.
November 3, 2012 at 10:57 am
Us Boomers adore people like you. Please, rescue us: we had to live through it and we’re still traumatized.
October 30, 2012 at 11:15 pm
but there is something funny about John Travoltas hair he now has Lego-man hair…
October 30, 2012 at 4:42 pm
YES. I have been wanting for those goddamned earrings, cookies and jacket (and by association, the greed-weasels trying to ride this disaster all the way to the bank) to get the shaming they deserve. I never thought peanut butter cookies could piss me off before this.
October 30, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Hate the cook, not the cookie!
October 30, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Sampler!
October 30, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Seeing as how the cookie baker is located in New Jersey, I wonder if the “special” is because she’s stuck inside because of the hurricane and baking her ass off. Hmmmm, do tragicrafters get any points back if they’re trying to earn some money to buy a new roof? One batch at a time.
October 30, 2012 at 8:40 pm
Will Bake For Food
(that isn’t a goddamn cookie)
November 1, 2012 at 12:04 am
Exactly. It’s all about barter crafting.
October 31, 2012 at 8:40 am
We’ve got to draw the line somewhere; we can’t just leave off our usual vitriol for just anyone.
October 30, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Then there is this: http://www.etsy.com/listing/113437010/el-chicharron-vs-frankenstorm?ref=sr_gallery_35&ga_search_query=hurricane+sandy&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all
October 31, 2012 at 5:56 am
I love that picture, and he’s giving to Hurricane relief.
This is the best of tragi-crafting.
October 30, 2012 at 4:51 pm
OK… My Etsy shop will be selling pieces of the lovely pine tree that was KILLED BY HURRICANE SANDY. The tree also crushed THREE CARS. And a completely innocent Wheelbarrow that wasn’t bothering anyone.
Scores of birds and squirrels have been rendered homeless due to this senseless act of nature. All proceeds will go to fixing the fence and the satellite dish that were also destroyed in this heinous wind event. Also for propane to fuel the generator so the Crying Glitter Eagles can continue to have food and Internet service until power has been restored to this devastated NJ community.
October 30, 2012 at 4:54 pm
90-year-old, 75-foot pine tree, in fact.
October 30, 2012 at 5:06 pm
If any eagle had reason to shed any kind of tears, it is you on this sad day, PBCGE!
October 30, 2012 at 7:21 pm
You need to hurry up so I can buy that shit.
October 30, 2012 at 7:29 pm
And you are saying that earrings WON’T heal your pain?
October 30, 2012 at 7:30 pm
I also would buy a piece of your frankenpine
October 30, 2012 at 8:48 pm
No one cries for the dead wheelbarrow.
October 30, 2012 at 11:00 pm
I do.
October 31, 2012 at 5:39 pm
my 14 year old daughter (herafter reffered to as bunnutti because she refuses to be called bunny(her childhood nick-name) or snafutti junior)just squee’d and demanded purchasing info.
Appearantly she wants a piece of frankenpine in support of the cause. (and because she just found out why i started calling her princess crying glitter eagle when she whines. i am so busted.)
anywhoo…awaiting purchaseing info. next to a very pissed off teenage girl.
October 31, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Oh fucknuts! Grammar, spelling, punctuation… I’m just going to claim I was trashed on MD 40/40 for all the internet and my youngest child to see, and put this hot mess behind me.
October 30, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Here’s something that’s confusing the hell out of me: A mug that says “Frankenstorm- Spankenstorm” (which sounds like a German S&M club to me, just sayin’), and then, “stupid hybrid 2012″. Is “stupid hybrid” some cultural touchstone I’m just not getting?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/113561687/frankenstorm-coffee-mug-storm-sandy-2012?ref=sr_gallery_24&ga_search_query=hurricane+sandy&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all
October 30, 2012 at 4:55 pm
well the meteorologists have been calling Sandy a combination of a hurricane and a nor’easter, so maybe it has something to do with that.
October 30, 2012 at 4:59 pm
True, everybody here was calling it a Frankenstorm because apparently it was a nexus of shit that had never happened before. I don’t know, I’m probably just drunk, but the wording of that product just seems really weird to me.
Also, I’m totally renaming my apartment “Das Spankenstorm” until I come up with something better. I plan to get it on gold-plated stationary or something.
October 30, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Das Spankenstorm Apartment will have to do until I can move up to at least “Frottage Cottage”.
October 30, 2012 at 10:39 pm
I kind of thing “nexus of shit that has never happened before” should be one of our mottoes here at Regretsy.
October 31, 2012 at 5:11 am
“nexus of shit that has never happened before” I’ve got to find a way to work that into everyday conversation from here on out
November 1, 2012 at 4:11 pm
I’m making a sampler with this on it. As soon as I can pry myself away from the computer, that is.
November 13, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Easier to just use the already available (and penned) lyrics;
“It’s the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms”
October 30, 2012 at 11:17 pm
The Frankenstorm had an enormous schvanstukka
October 30, 2012 at 11:28 pm
A lot of people felt it, so it must be true.
October 31, 2012 at 10:14 am
I blame “Das Hottenuppen Globische”
October 30, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Now would have probably been a great time to sell furniture made from reclaimed Balinese boats….or to at least own one.
October 31, 2012 at 1:31 am
This is totally off topic, but I’ve meaning to find a place to mention it, and here seems as good as any. I was pleased to find that Marina’s (that was her name, wasn’t it?) unique offerings continue to find their way around the world – there’s a bunch of fugly as heck painted furniture now on sale at the tourist market in Abu Dhabi! She really must work her fingers to the bone…
October 30, 2012 at 5:15 pm
this really rustles my jimmies
October 30, 2012 at 5:15 pm
I hope everyone who had their homes destroyed remembers to keep every scrap of soaked wood that used to be the kitchen table, and every scrap of charred possession, and every sewage-soaked piece of clothing. That stuff’s gonna be hipster catnip!
Hold a “help me meet my deductible” sale on etsy, featuring “Earth, Fire, and Water” instant collections, and you’ll be sitting pretty. That is, provided you have the stomach to cupcake the shit out of the ruins of your former life.
October 30, 2012 at 6:00 pm
“No, officer, I’m not a looter! I’m a tragicrafter!”
October 30, 2012 at 9:07 pm
I love how you use “cupcake” as a verb.
October 30, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Tragicrafters in NJ are collecting the next wave of photographic backgrounds as we type: Boardwalk Planks™, the new Barnwood!
October 31, 2012 at 7:32 pm
We should all send glitter to those affected by the hurricane, so they can cupcake away at their now driftwood ex-possessions. It’s the only humane thing to do.
October 30, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Now I want peanut butter cookies, DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT.
October 30, 2012 at 5:38 pm
I’m pretty shocked that this exploitation is happening WHILE THE TRAGEDY IS STILL OCCURRING but I can’t help myself: those cookies look freakin’ awesome.
October 30, 2012 at 5:23 pm
This is my favorite.
And profits go to charity. GO El Chicarron!
October 30, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Should we get our favorite energetic fivr dancer to make a short video for loading on phones and sell those?
Regretsy presents the “Handy Dandy Spandy Andy i Candy 4 Sandy” ap.
October 30, 2012 at 5:36 pm
I have loads of stuff I dragged from my storm-battered, collapsing, looted house in Louisiana, but alas, Katrina is SO seven years ago.
October 30, 2012 at 6:14 pm
you could always play the hipster angle
October 30, 2012 at 7:00 pm
In etsy terms that makes it vintage.
October 30, 2012 at 7:38 pm
throw some barnwood in and you’ll make a fortune
October 30, 2012 at 10:08 pm
“I had wreckage before wreckage was all New York City and shit.”
October 31, 2012 at 5:06 pm
“Mah wreckage is BONA FIDE!!!”
October 30, 2012 at 5:43 pm
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October 30, 2012 at 7:41 pm
You assume we can’t do both.
October 30, 2012 at 7:57 pm
These comments ARE helping me.
October 30, 2012 at 8:47 pm
I’m sorry, angry purple toast but aren’t you p&s to some extent, too?
October 31, 2012 at 9:05 am
“Angry purple toast” and “stupid hybrid 2012″ = my two new favorite put-downs!
October 30, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Pssshhh. I’m in WV, trapped in the dark in a blizzard thanks to Frankenstorm. I’m in need, and posting and searching on Regretsy is helping me. We’ll deal with tragedy in our way, you deal with it in yours…Oh, wait…Your here posting too, so you’re doing it our way.
October 30, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Good that you have a diversion! Been through many hurricanes and days on end without power in the past. I reckon it’s time to go back to a smart phone so I can get my daily dose of Regretsy, huh? And the fact that you’re posting means you’re safe and sound. Good news.
October 30, 2012 at 10:47 pm
I’m in NYC doing the same thing. Happy my power/internet is back, BORED AS HELL and actually wishing work would reopen. Regretsy posts to laugh at=helping!
October 30, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Yesssssssssssss…embrace your hate. Your hate is powah. If you’re on the East Coast, it’s the only powah you have. Sssssssssssssssss…
October 30, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Do you include yourself in that statement?
October 30, 2012 at 11:20 pm
You AGAIN?! Can’t you tell we aren’t listening “LALALALALALA – CAN’T HEAR YOU pltz….”
October 31, 2012 at 7:52 am
Oh just go away, Frankenstorm seller.
October 31, 2012 at 11:42 am
Yo Mookie! How come there’s no brothas on the wall?
October 31, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Yeah, it’s only gonna make me look A. late to the party (because, Halloween) and B. like a snob/self-righteous (I’m not) but I’ve just got through donating a chunk of the money I’ve earned this month to the hurricane relief efforts, and I thought what you said was hilariously dumb, and I’m relaxing and going through Regretsy.
Even if people can’t get out to help or afford to donate, potentially because they were IN THE STORM, you can’t make the argument they aren’t allowed to use the Internet for fun and also to point out the ridiculous exploitation of a human tragedy where 30+ people died. End rant, I’m drunk. HAPPY HALLOWEEN
October 30, 2012 at 5:56 pm
I can feel the healing waves all they way over here in the U.K
Feels strangely like the time I almost choked on a softmint …
October 30, 2012 at 7:21 pm
That’s called a “healing crisis”.
You’ll be just fine!
October 31, 2012 at 6:18 am
Wasn’t that my fault?
October 31, 2012 at 6:44 am
I believe so yes , good times
October 30, 2012 at 6:04 pm
I do not want to live on this planet anymore.
I think I’ll open a shop just for tragicrafting. Yup. That ought to do it.
October 30, 2012 at 6:26 pm
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tragicrafting
WE at REGRETSY put it there folks… be PROUD!
October 30, 2012 at 7:33 pm
I love us.
October 30, 2012 at 10:11 pm
I want to give all of us a big hug and maybe sometimes an inappropriate grope. Regretsy meet-up at the “Frottage Cottage”?
October 31, 2012 at 6:01 pm
I’ll see you there Zippy! I’ll be wearing a shirt I bought from etsy that says ‘gluten free cupcakes’ on it!
October 30, 2012 at 11:24 pm
We aren’t just snarky FJLs we serve a purpose! (but not on purpose of course)
October 30, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Dear tragicrafters,
Go fuck yourselves.
from this girl, in NYC
PS:
October 30, 2012 at 7:29 pm
ITEM! Some of these listings have been changed to just “sale”.
Also, all of these folks are/were in Sandy’s path*, so I’m not sure if they need the money, are trying to push things though before the mail stops (hah!), or what.
I HAVE MANY FEELINGS!
*except the jacket seller. Doesn’t list where she is. Woman of Mystery.
October 30, 2012 at 11:13 pm
There are scores more to choose from!
Wow. A few even seem to plan on donating to the Red Cross or such.
October 31, 2012 at 7:51 am
Yeah, I should have been clearer; I meant the sellers featured here were in Sandy’s path.
I don’t know about the scores more in the link… didn’t click as I was already depressed.
October 30, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Im going to save all of my shingles and flashing that blew off my house while I sat here and cowered in a corner in fetal position during 75 mph gusts.
Then I am going to glue them to the branches that fell off my (probably) 60+ foot tree.
THEN ADD GLITTER.
I will sell them for $50 a piece. I’ve got a lot so let me know how many to hold for you guys, I’ll give you the CF4L discount…you can have them for $20.
October 30, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Well, to be fair about the jacket, Travolta did sing a song in Grease entitled “Sandy”.
So it’s at least appropriate, even if still tasteless
October 30, 2012 at 8:48 pm
And someone is doing the double dip…Tragicrafting about the “frankenstorm”, AND copyright infringing by using a pic of Karloff as the Monster.
October 30, 2012 at 10:16 pm
I wanna be spaecial!
October 31, 2012 at 5:01 am
Isn’t Etsy’s headquarters in Brooklyn? I wonder if the storm did any damage to their cushy cupcake kingdom?
October 31, 2012 at 10:17 am
And will they be able to tell?
November 1, 2012 at 10:19 am
I really can’t even wait for the inevitable ETSY BLOG post about how crafting helped them feel normal again…and getting back together with friends to take instagram pictures of the damage really made them stop and think about what was REALLY important, you know? And then they went and got cupcakes and tea and made jewelry out of mildewed drywall.
October 31, 2012 at 8:12 am
Not to be reasonable or anything, but can we really blame Philadelphia-based Wolfbait for trying to move her (adorable) paper/cloth-based inventory a little faster, given the circumstances?
October 31, 2012 at 8:32 am
What’s really sad is the level of desperation. People that “quit their day jobs” (as encouraged by Etsy) and are trying to make a living are so desperate for sales that they throw their dignity out the window without a second thought (sorry for the serious post, I’m waiting for my snark tank to refill)
October 31, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Needs more relevant titles. I’ll take the Ocean Blue Over My Fucking House earrings and the Partially Submerged Cookies.
November 1, 2012 at 3:36 pm
How about the “I got blown by Hurricane Sandy” T-shirts?
October 31, 2012 at 5:27 pm
I would like to wine and complain. Or maybe just the wine.
October 31, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Give it a couple of days and Etsy will be overflowing with “driftwood” and “barnwood” “crafts.”
October 31, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Right, so I am dressed as Sandy from Grease, I’m wearing cheap blue earrings and am eating a cookie that I’m pretending is a Pecan Sandy. Come in New York: IS THIS HELPING?
November 1, 2012 at 10:17 am
I think what I like best about this: http://www.etsy.com/listing/113424812/hurricane-sandy-clock?ref=sr_gallery_8&ga_search_query=hurricane+sandy&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all
Hurricane Sandy Clock! is how they conveniently sliced off the artists name at the bottom before parlaying the painting into a healing tool for NYC.
November 2, 2012 at 5:36 am
haha what a dick
November 2, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Yeah, I emailed that guy noting that it was kind of lame to name something after the tragedy if it wasn’t benefitting victims. His response:
I live in the lower east side. I am a victim of hurricane sandy. Thank you. I don’t care if you buy the clock, how’s that sound?
So apparently victims can tragicraft because it benefits them?
November 2, 2012 at 5:38 am
http://www.etsy.com/listing/113701413/keep-calm-and-i-survived-hurricane-sandy?ref=sr_gallery_18&ga_search_query=hurricane+sandy&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all
http://www.etsy.com/listing/113427164/frankenstorm-hurricane-sandy-support-t?ref=sr_gallery_7&ga_search_query=hurricane+sandy&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all
yeah it was pretty funny that people died but whatever makes a profit I guess
November 2, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Hey, I defend the second guy (Frankenstorm) because he is actually donating his profits. People will buy weird crap anyways, so I am glad it is going to a good cause. The first dude is just tragicrafting for profit.
November 2, 2012 at 6:07 am
also did anyone else notice the fact during that monday, etsy’s front page featured a treasury on storms?
November 2, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Hah, I amused myself by sending snarky emails to several non-donating sellers. “Are you donating the profits? I wouldn’t buy something named after a tragedy unless it was aiding the victims. Think about names, please.” I got one reply thanking me for pointing that out and a name change (success!) and then a couple of “Who do you think you are? Don’t buy the clock then” kind of answers. Pretty fun.
Also, most of these names have been changed already, probably because we shamed them out of existence.