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Our store/gallery is located at:

2847 Cherokee Street
Saint Louis, MO
63118

Visit us online at: http://www.crankyyellow.com

CrankyYellow is an organization that builds its financial basis on the selling of art, music, and literature. However, as most companies and organizations stop at the bottom-line CrankyYellow uses this black-ink to fulfill community and political endeavors that it supports. We are not, we will never be money-grubbing penny-pinchers looking to fill our wallets. We want food, clothing, shelter, and a few video-games and dvds here and there; otherwise what we want the most is to enrich the community around us (Currently St. Louis) as well as the world as a whole.

We are people, CrankyYellow is made up of real human beings, and as such we want to keep our human face clearly visible. We blog, we chat, we post our ideas in our forum, we want people to know who we are, personally, and what we are about. As such, CrankyYellow is not protected by an army of lawyers, politicians, sycophants, spin-doctors, or public-relations experts. We are not guarded by a mouse, a clown, a rabbit, a symbol, or a catchy slogan, we are who we are and we are not afraid to show it.

Not only that, we want to know more about other people, who they are and what they want. We want to help them, we want to help you. We will protest with you, grow trees with you, eat and cook with you, drawn and paint with you, we'll sing, we'll dance, we'll work, we'll play together; that is what we want. CrankyYellow is an organization that wants to be a part of the community, an integral and helpful slice of a delicious people-pie (without the cannibalistic overtones).

Cranky Yellow is always looking for dedicated artistic individuals whom are willing to create various projects independently and in collaboration with the current members. We strive to do things the hard way; to get the word spread by mouth and to offer things that are not easily created or mass produced. Many aspects of our products are hand created/printed/packaged to create a more "grassroots" production without the over bearing exploitation of artists and the human experience. We are looking for artistic persons from around the world whom sit three feet left of ordinary to help organize, produce, and promote the innovative creations of Cranky Yellow.

Cranky Yellow offers an alternative source of publishing/producing for artistic talents that are often overlooked or shunned due to the ignorance of mainstream culture. We strive to find artists who would be avoided by conventional publishing firms for lack of substantial commercial value, regardless of their talent and future potential. We then work along side them to promote their work and harness their vision for future endeavors with the team.

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