Found Me Volume Two Available on Bandcamp. Website Now Live Worldwide.
It's Bandcamp Friday. You know what to do.
The second volume of Found Me — the art book curated, edited, and published by Houston-born musician, artist, and writer Anthony Obi, aka Fat Tony, alongside journalist and writer Matthew Ramirez — has finally hit the streets (and Bandcamp) after six years.
Found Me is a periodic tome whose mission remains spotlighting the work of Black, Indigenous, and POC creators, artists, writers, thinkers, musicians, and anyone with a story to tell who either calls Houston home or has ties to the community.
Volume Two features a career-spanning conversation with noise icon B L A C K I E; new artwork from Phillip Pyle, II, Bria Lauren, and Sebastien Boncy; essays by The Suffers frontwoman Kam Franklin, visual artist Jasmine Zelaya, and journalist Zach McKenzie; a history of Third Ward blues by Christian Taylor; a short story by artist Ronald Llewellyn Jones; an artist’s statement from actor Alia Shawkat; and much more.
Found Me–Volume Two takes everything about the first book and turns the knob to ten — more art, more stories, more conversations, more life. It is a journal of some of Houston’s most creative people and a diaristic collage of the past six years, the amount of time since Volume One hit shelves in 2017.
The book is designed by Rob Carmichael of SEEN Studio, based in Los Angeles. The ability to tap the talented Carmichael to design the book was a privilege, and his work is tremendous. (seenstudio.com)
Our website, foundmemag.com, has also landed, helmed by the talented Mr. Stephen Wilson. We could not be more thrilled with his vision, and the website fully complements the mission of Found Me as a physical object.
Found Me was borne out of a need to platform underrepresented creators in Houston, the most diverse city in the country. Independently produced, it sits at the intersection of a book, a magazine, and an art piece; it is a chronicle of BIPOC artists, writers, creators, and thinkers who live in, have lived in, or otherwise have ties to Houston. It is an art book that asks people to express themselves how they see fit.
If you’d like to purchase Found Me, it is available on our Bandcamp page at https://foundmemag.bandcamp.com, along with limited run logo tees. On this Bandcamp Friday, please consider supporting an independent print publication fueled by passion.
For Houston folks, we are hosting a launch party Saturday, February 11, from 6 pm til midnight at Axelrad Beer Garden. There will be surprises. Come through!
As always, thank you for supporting FOUND ME.