No Soup for Us

The results are in regarding the past month's application to the Sprout Fund. STBD was being considered for a $10,000 grant.

We didn't get it.

Nor did new STBD cast member (and excellent photographer) Hans Rosemond, whose Art Starved? project is getting off the ground this month.

Who did? We're not sure. Since the grants aren't an "either-or" thing, but a "yes-no" thing, it's actually possible no one got a grant this month. The $250,000 or so that Sprout has to work with will be doled out in due time, presumably to the deserving.

Nevertheless, no fear. STBD (and Art Starved?) will carry on as normal, secure in the knowledge that, although we don't currently offer an experience the powers-that-be consider to be worth an influx of cash, we enjoy our work and will continue to improve and keep ourselves afloat through alternate means.

Besides, when someone says "no," there are really only two responses: saying "thanks anyway" and slinking away in shame, or saying "thanks anyway" and then doing what you were going to do without them. There's a certain satisfaction in succeeding despite the expectations of others. And here at STBD, we're big on ignoring conventional wisdom.

After all, it wasn't so long ago that people were asking us, "Why would you put video online?"