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06/02/2009

My New Favourite Site

Jumpinginartmuseums. What's not to love? Just a girl who loves art and loves to take pictures of herself and her friends jumping in front of great art. Beautiful.

And, it's a snowball. After months of slowly building a loyal user base, the site got picked up by the site coolhunting.com and the New York Post and even nytimes.com.

The best part is that MOMA was smart and invited the art jumpers in after hours to take all the photos they wanted. Cool.

Jun 2, 2009 9:48:53 PM | Weblogs

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