FatCap is an interestingly GLOBAL group of artists, photographers, commentators that have joined together to share their interest in all forms of GRAFFITI. Just recently GRAFFITIdawg joined the throng to share the love. I am a novice in their group so the dawg has joined as a photographer (which is what dawg does, happy snapping all the graffiti, paste ups, throw ups, walls.... etc, spray spray spray).
dawg has joined their blogging throng, and asked a pertinent question.. (WHAT ABOUT US HOBART!) ................................well not so bluntly put and with a few more big words thrown in... as the FatCap community is a "closed" blog, you may not be able to see the
post....and if you can - IGNORE the photo because realistically online '
nobody knows your a dog', yup.. one of those photos.. if not,, keep reading because...TA DAAAAAAA.... their blog and mine..
THE FATCAP BLOG POST by Lindsay T
It’s been a while since we posted on the FatCap blog, so we decided to give you an update on the changes that have been going on over on our side. Since we
launched the new FatCap, we have been managing both English and French content. With the addition of a few key players in the US we’re going to be better able to bring you content from the French site in English and visa versa. If you didn’t catch them, we’ve published a whole bunch of articles that were both originally written in French, now published in English for you to read.
Actually being in America has made a difference for our site, but do not fret, we keep our focus on covering artists and crews worldwide. In addition to expanding in the US, we have also reached out to writers from Latin America to start bringing us more than stories on Chilean Miners. Not that those men didn’t give us all an epic tale to recount, but we preferred
El Mural Ferroviario that Denegro1 reported on from
Santiago.
The FatCap team has also been hard at work forming key partnerships with teams of photographers and artists that are making paramount contributions to the graffiti and street-art scenes. This means more coverage, shared news and exclusive content. For instance, you may have noticed that we ran an article from
The Street Spot, the home to photographer’s
Becki Fuller and
Luna Park.
And so I can tell you a story about how this all came about. Our first encounter with Becki was for an afternoon as she gave us a tour of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Syd was in
New York from
Barcelona, and I trained up from
Philly to meet this dedicated, quirky and prolific package of a person. On a rainy, but perfectly NY fall afternoon, we walked the streets, past abandoned buildings, art galleries, and workshops. Though the entire FatCap team has been in NY plenty of times, it was exciting to see her pages and pages of photos on Flickr coming alive. We even happened upon Julius from
Laid Back. After that choice afternoon, the ladies of The Street Spot have lent us their photos for our article on
The Underbelly Project and for
Community Serviced, and put us in contact with Sina from
Papergirl NYC. If you haven’t checked out these articles, you’re really missing out.
The team is also hard at work to bring more artist interviews to your eyes and ears. We listen to our readers, and those of you that have
reached out have told us that these interviews are what you like the most. This fall we’ve given you the juice on
M-City,
Mark Bode,
Mr Puppet,
Sea and
Roa. We couldn’t have asked for a better lineup, but you’ll want to stay tuned through the winter, because we got it!
Things did not slow down from there because, if you didn’t catch it, we were let in to a world of artist residencies by following
AM & DCAP on their own in
Paris. Documenting the real experience of American and French artists as they collide, and from a female perspective, brought a whole new twist to what FatCap is trying to bring to you on the daily. This is a community that we’re all a part of if you haven’t noticed, and it seemed to come full circle that AM would sync up with Banga, and eventually Vince when he returned to Paris from Casablanca.
We’re on the move, but always thinking of you dear. Promise to keep you posted more often.
dawgs words..
Behind the scenes: What an amazing journey you are undertaking within the world of graffiti, through the brightly sprayed spaces of France to the techno coloured iconic imagery of America. The intertextuality/hypertextuality of your post has allowed my Internet graffiti journey to be all that more exciting and allows others and myself to feel included within an online community.
I am interested to know if you will be relating a few more of your blog posts to the graffiti communities within the boundaries of Oceania and in particular Australia? I live within a little melting pot island, Tasmania (known as the Apple Isle) but still considered a state of Australia, isolated and unique with our own versions of graffiti, highly prolific with our urge to be known for our own take on the side of art.
I am also interested in photographing the work of others, there are many nooks and crannies where I am that seem to be prolific in paint, and documenting that work is of great interest to me, I blog.. I am a student; I am a blogging student interested in your work.
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HEY READERS..yeah you.. dawg-blog readers.. if you have any comments.. photos etc.. places for the GRAFFITIdawg to visit to photograph, events and stuff..COMMENT ...
email me.. ALWAYS interested, need fodder for blog and I will always give credit where credit is due.. leave a comment and don't forget to tick ✓ the email box
