💸 Speculative? Special? Specious? Spectacles? Spectrums? Specimens? Yes. 💸 Spec Shop is ecommerce as art practice. Interrogating notions of sales and storefronts. Injecting confusion into the disjuncture between consumer and consumed. &c. A stage for playing improvisational music with financial instruments. Experiments with money: baroque, playful, theoretical, convoluted, absurd. Nonsensensical pricing, imaginary products, delicious jokes and riddles. Innovations for the gift / grift / shift economy. 💸 BEHOLD OUR MANIFESTO Spec Shop is… for those interested in WEIRD AND RISKY EXPERIMENTS by which we might PLAY WITH THE VERY NATURE OF MONEY manufacturing e.g. BAFFLING DIGITAL PRODUCTS aimed at e.g. SUBVERTING COMMERCE and TRANSMUTING TRANSACTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS perhaps you too mean to transact in WEBSITES AND EMAILS, or purvey SPREADSHEETS AND FILES, in unconventional manners? become a MERCHANT OF LISTS or a PEDDLER OF VIRTUAL SURPRISES? build or break THRESHOLDS, WINDOWS, AND WALLS to architect DELIGHTFUL DIGITAL PAYMENT EXPERIENCES? LET US NOW refactor ECONOMIC PERCEPTIONS manifest new MEDIUMS OF EXCHANGE sound the depths of the NEW SOUL OF MONEY beyond POISONED RHETORIC THAT SHROUDS A HOLLOW CORE pursue NUANCED INFLECTIONS of GIFT EXCHANGE with ECHOES OF MUTUALISM and RHYTHMS OF RECIPROCITY 💸