Catfight #02

Female Graff Update - Oktober 2005 - Issue #2

Reports: The Two Towers, The City of Names and more...

Specials: Klub 7, Lowlita, Nincompoop

Intro

Catfight #2 is here!!!

In this issue we report on some events that took place over the summer. There is also a crew special of Klub7 from Germany. and as usual we have an update of recent stickers, drawings, bombings and trains.

It’s so sad the summer is over. The days are getting shorter but: the nights are getiing longer! To celebrate the past summer we invited you to send your holiday photos, so stop reading and start looking at all the fresh photos inside this issue!

Next issue will hit the internet in Februari.

NOTE: Thanks to the people who bought a Catfight shirt we are able to move the website to: www.catfightmagazine.com Editor: F.Lady Advertisement hunter: Eva Design: new in town.nl You have the right to © this magazine at all time.

Catfight Magazine, Issue #2 October 2005

If you want to support Catfight and place an advertisement, please contact us at: eva@catfightmag.tk Send your artwork, reactions/suggestions to: Catfight HQ Spoorlaan 340 5038 CC Tilburg The Netherlands

or email to: info@catfightmag.tk

- Send us good quality photos of recent artwork.

- Let us know where the picture was taken and who made the piece. >If you sent us photos that weren’t published... don’t hate, just try again

Special thanks for your support: S, Soma, Lady Wave, Ephameron, SSLL, Me Love, Mushi, Hariet, P.Bloem, Cash7.

Places to go & Sites to see

ARTBEAT. On November 5th, during the official Museum Night in Amsterdam, Red Bull and a group of progressive cultural producers from the Post CS building will be throwing a guerrilla event called ART BEAT. ART BEAT celebrates the kind of arts & contemporary culture that is made by the ‘young and the unstoppable’ world wide, with or without the approval or recognition of the official art world.

Art Beat will be photographing and documenting the slide show and can send selected participants digital photos of their work as it is beamed on the building.

Artwork can be mailed to mo@bestcompanyamsterdam.com. Work should be at least 300 dpi.

THE PONY PROJECT. An exhibition of art inspired by every girl’s favorite toy.

Opening Reception: Friday, October 21, 2005. From 7pm to 10 pm On view: October 21-25, 2005 Location: Milk Gallery 450 W 15 St (corner of 10th Ave), New York, NY 110011 For more information visit: http://www.theponyproject.com

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Nevertheless you have a resp onsibility of that, what you make out there. Som etimes you must act sensitive, sometimes furious, othe rwise the effect is lost.“ How important is it for you to be in a Crew, how does it influence your work?

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AEM, CACTUS CREW, LINDA’S-EX to name, 6@rtist and NOMAD. If it concerns writing, BLAZE and THIEF momentarily have a strong influence on us, because they are taking over Halle/Saale in Berlin-style! Our influences change however. In 1999 it were painters from Prague, like CODE, PUZE, CAKES, ROMEO and PATHE21 that strongly inspired us. Pull that on the basis of we however out of our characteristic crew.“ What do you do in everyday life?

“Most of us study design. The others are already artists, freelancers and unemployed.”

What is your favorite music when you are making graffiti/stickers?

“I really like THE DOORS if I am creative. Most of us listen to electronic music: Aphex Twin, Autechre, Erlend Oye, Yards of all ions, GusGus, internationally pony Peter light, Pitchtuner, The streets, GRAFFITI07, but also Isaac Hayes And Curtis Mayfield are good too.“

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The idea was to put lit billboards on one sid e of a small alley running next to the river Rotte , because of the unsafe feeling the residents had when walking there.

Hence, the project theme was: “safety”.

My artwork was chos en to be featured, alo ng with 17 other designs . It’s title is “Curfew”, and it shows a night scene with a street in the background, and a pa ir of arms gesturing at a wristwatch. I though t it would be funny to draw something about curfe ws, because I feel relat ed to the fear of walking somewhere at night.

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Cover: Me Love(DE) 2 Intro, Photo: Inside the U-bahnhof of “The City Of Names” 3 Places to go & Sites to see 4 Background: Ephameron, F.Lady(NL), AMK(PL), Angel(IT), Numi(ES), Tiger(SE), Ephameron(BE) 5 Angel(IT), SusieQ(NL), Claw(US), Hariet(DE), Wave(DE), Must(NL), Fever(CAN), Jain-Diva(NL) 6 Dona(DE), Mushi(FR), Me Love(DE), Elise(NL), Ladybug(IT), Elise(NL), Dona(DE), Mushi(FR), Mosta(AT), Microbo(IT), Elise(NL) 7 Nincompoop(FR) 8-9 Klub7(DE) 10 -11 Melina Rodrigo(US), Hariet(DE), Hariet-Nomad(DE), Microbo(IT), Hariet(DE), Me Love(DE), Amyck(PL), Nincompoop(FR), Stoul(FR), Hariet(DE) 12 Mosta(AT), El(LT), Laïa(ES), Meg(NL), F.lady-Mickey-Meg(NL), Numi(ES), Mushi(DFR), Mosta(AT), Indie(CAN), MSX(NL), Laïa(ES), Waleska(UK) 13 Laïa(ES), Candi(FR), Dona(DE), Laïa(ES), Numi(ES), Daphne(NL), Dona(DE), Foxy(DE), Mosta(AT), Numi(ES), Jain(NL) 14 Lowlita(NL) 15 Action 16 Soma-Mace(CH), Angel(IT), Jain-Diva(NL), Else(FR), Bule(FR), Angel(IT), H2O(PT), Else(FR), H2O(PT) 17 Claw(US), Candi(FR), Else(FR), Claw(US), H20(PT), Monie(DE), Fifl(SE), H20(PT), Angel(IT) 18 Ephameron&Friends(NL), Fiona&Babbo(DE), Ephameron-..-..-Miss Van(NL), SSLL(NL) 20-21 Spice-Duna-Wax, MadC(DE) Dunya(PT), Mickey(NL), Fever(CAN), Burn(RUS), Wave(DE), Junek(DE), Bule(FR), Junek(DE), Wave-Fany-Ream(DE) 22 Olive(US), Ephameron(BE), Elise(NL), Mosta(AT), Wiggah(UK), Microbo(IT), SSLL(NL), Hariet(DE), Olive(US), Elise(NL), Soma-Mace(CH), Amyck(PL) 23 Contents 24 H20(PT), Must(..), Must(..), Girl(NL), Laia(ES), Angel(IT), Angel(IT), Bule(ES), Angel(IT), TRW(IT), Duna(AUS?)

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