The Thousands

We live in tiny apartments on tiny budgets. We can’t afford giant works of art selling for giant sums of money.  

What we can afford are small, beautifully crafted books and zines, cataloguing more works of art in a six-inch stretch of bookshelf than we could ever afford in wall space. Though more expensive than a Whopper value meal, as far as luxury goes, these are our "tiny" vices.

Started in 2005 by Tim Barber, Tiny Vices is an online photo gallery. They now publish zines, books, and posters, featuring offbeat art, photography, comics, and anthologies, each ensuring hours of happy flipping, fondling, and daydreaming. For a slice of their printed output, check out these paintings by Chris Dorland, this great photo anthology, comic anthology, and some Jason Matthew Lee’s minimalist, psychedelic collages.**TV are now collaborating with non-profit NYC arts organization Aperture on a series of killer coffee table books, with essays by curators and critics (including Aaron Rose and Ali Subotnick), that can be purchased as a limited edition box set. We particularly heart the inimitable wild stylings of Jaimie Warren.

In a world where holding, touching, and feeling things is becoming obsolete, nice to see some people still makes stuff worth hanging on to.