It all started on a Monday in the West Village, NYC. Conor and I had just had lunch at Barbuto and were looking for a good coffee spot to cap it off. As we walked into Kava Cafe on Washington street, John — the owner, who has developed hotels like The Standard and Ace Hotel — greeted us with a smile. Conor thought it would be a good idea to put up some of his art there with a weekly rotation and I thought we should make a printed art paper and an art blog to extend his brand and have a physical artifact for people to hold on to. Conor agreed, as he thinks physical artifacts are lost in today’s digital age and need to be boldly re-introduced and unashamedly appreciated. In the art world, this of course would become a collector’s item.

A silent auction.

We had just printed the first edition of MccreedyWeekly and were standing outside Kava Cafe proudly handing the paper out. The print edition is a tall poster-size one-piece which is folded through the horizontal middle and once again through the vertical. Holding at least 25 papers under each hand, we looked like 50’s paper boys in the Bowery. As we directed the multi-cultural foot traffic of the West Village into the cafe to view the hung original photograph prints which graced in inaugural print issue, it was clear that Conor’s next step would be to auction off the original one-of-a-kind photographs which all had his signature blue pigment somewhere on them. All four sold in under 20 minutes.