Archive for June, 2012

GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY presents Max Presneill’s THE LIMINAL EGYPTIAN: tall tales of fact & fiction

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

Celebrated artist Max Presneill brings his third exhibition to GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY beginning Friday, June 29th, 2012. With painting that is as beautifully colorful as it is elegantly thought provoking, Presneill’s work sum all that is great modern art.
Max Presneill's <i>The Raft (Sphinx)</i>, on display at GARBOUSHIAN through July
Come see this fantastic body of work at GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY in Beverly Hills throughout July 2012.

CoinSniper.com Numismatic “Penny Auction” Live

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

It’s a penny Penny Auction live on the Internet.
CoinSniper.com is the first numismatic Penny Auction on the Internet
Right now, there’s a few ways for Coin Collectors (Numismatists) to buy coins. They can go to a coin show and meet their favorite dealers live, they can go to the ever-disappearing local coin shop and pick up what they’re craving, or they can buy coins on-line, through dealer web sites or through on-line numismatic auctions.

The margins are tight for dealers and the market is well-saturated for collectors, so the chances of getting a coin for less than “book” value is slim or none.

Rusty Scropper, proprietor of CoinSniper.com, had the idea to apply the “Penny Auction format” to numismatics to a) make it more fun for collectors and b) allow them to potentially buy coins for less than their normal value with a mix of skill and luck.

Here’s how it works (and you can read about it on the CoinSniper.com site here or watch a video about it here):

Coin buyers buy packs of bids. The bids cost about $1.00 each. When they see a coin they want, they place a bid on it. This increases the cost of the coin $0.01 and adds 10 seconds to the clock to allow any other “CoinSnipers” an opportunity to out-bid. When time runs off the clock, the winner gets the coin shipped to their address for free.

Rusty explains how he came upon the idea: “When I got tired of waiting for the big show to come my way and found all the dealers I like closing up shop, I turned to the Internet, to eBay. I found I had a great time buying coins by ‘sniping’ the auction. I’d put a bid in at the last second and hope it was enough to get the coin I couldn’t live without. With the penny auction format, that whole experience is condensed and magnified.”

Unfortunately, there are some bad players in the penny auction business. “I have no interest in running anything but a completely legitimate, honest business.”

And if you read Scropper’s articles in the CoinSniper.com Numismatic Learning Center, you’ll see he has a lot of experience and great advice he’s willing to freely share with both the experienced and inexperienced numismatist alike.

“Theoretically, this whole thing should be cheap for buyers and over time, I should be able to eek out a small profit.”, says Scropper. “The trick for the buyers is to make sure they win once in a while using a bit of patience. If you watch your competition carefully, you can figure out when to put your bid in. The whole process is a lot more fun.”

The first auctions are set to end on July 4th, 2012, with four coins per day selling until demand requires more. On July 4th alone, there’s well over $100 up for grabs, and since all of the users are new, there’s a good chance that they could win the coins with their free first 25 bids.

We wish Rusty the best of luck with his new venture and the bidders the best of luck winning some great coins. Congrats on your new site, Rusty! It was a lot of work, but we’re all sure it’s going to pay off.

Farus, LLC: Producing Medical Breakthroughs

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Farus, LLC (at FarusLLC.com) is a medical device innovation company that is focused on developing unique solutions to a variety of clinical problems.
Farus, LLC - Innovative Imaging and Sensing Solutions
Farus identifies new innovations through partnerships with small businesses and academic groups, and then uses non-dilutive funding to assess the innovations and to fund research & development.

Based in San Diego, Farus has developed a comprehensive and agile process to translate multiple innovations in parallel from the research stage through the development and clinical validation stages. Farus seeks partners for spin-off and commercialization of innovations once the technical, clinical, and commercial risk have been reduced. To learn more about Farus, LLC, check out their projects on FarusLLC.com.