It has come to our attention that this blog lacks a revenue strategy. Before we have to turn to begging like our poor West Seattle neighbors, we’ve come up with a brilliant idea.

Coffee shop art.

Here’s the plan. We’re going to buy pieces from the up and coming artists featured at neighborhood coffee joints like Fuel, Victrola and Caffe Ladro. We’ll then pump up the buzz for these up and comers by featuring their work on the famous CHS blog. This will, in turn, create a massive surge in demand for the art, make the artists extremely popular, push values through the roof, and make us super rich when we flip the pieces at the top of the market.

It’s kind of like a pump and dump scam only this involves the high quality work of artists like Graham Fracha so it’s no scam — just the pump and dump part. Graham’s art was recently on the walls of Fuel Capitol Hill. His art was just selected for the 2007 Northwest Fine Arts Competition and will be on display at the Phinney Center Gallery October 5 – October 26, 2007. We estimate one of his early pieces from his Fuel period must be worth about $1 million by now. Same goes for Clare von Cupcake — though we expect that her valuation fell when she moved back to San Francisco.

So get out there and start buying their art. CHS needs some new blogging stuff.

Full disclosure: At the time of writing this post, CHS held long positions in the art of Graham Fracha and Clare von Cupcake and short positions in Dale Chihuly and Pigs on Parade.