Catlanta Stalks Decatur
Decatur Metro | April 26, 2011
According to the Visit Decatur, GA blog, “Catlanta” came to Decatur this past Saturday.
Who or what is Catlanta you ask? Mary’s got the deets…
Catlanta is a guerrilla street artist. He plants his original works throughout the alleys, main streets and gardens of the metropolitan area, a few at a time, and allows his growing legion of followers to find them and adopt them (at last count, about 3500 on Twitter and Facebook.) The pieces are generally a stylized image of a cat with a heart on its chest , a mask across its eyes, and the Catlanta signature.
…Saturday Catlanta hit Decatur, placing his prizes at Agnes Scott College, the junction box on Commerce, and on the front lawn of St.Thomas More Catholic Church. Not even the most cat-like passerby would have spotted them without a hint.
According to Mary, followers get hints from Catlanta of his next target area via Facebook and Twitter and he then posts pics of the hidden location on Flickr (like this one at Commerce/Trinity) so that folks can rush off and claim their prize.
Photo courtesy of Visit Decatur, GA
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I have a Catlanta kitten magnet that was left near Fellini’s a few weeks ago. I adore it and this whole project.
So jealous!
I happened to be on Twitter at the moment he tweeted something about a kitten in Decatur. Checked the picture, knew exactly where it was (not terribly far from where I live), and RAN RAN RAN. Now it lives on my fridge!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cat_lanta/5525946351/
I call first pick from Catlanta’s and Pete’s litter!
Catlanta and Pete– catfight!
Well, kitty’s cute, all right, but I swear, if I hadn’t read the description, I’d have thought he was wearing a pig’s snout instead of a face mask…
BBQCatlanta?
Darn, I always miss them! But you can still see where one was (barely) painted over on the MARTA tracks pillar on DeKalb Avenue. Cuteness every morning!
I too was thinking Pig – so the 2 dots on the cat’s face are eyes not nostrils, right?
Is this the same person who is spray painting “Wank” everywhere?
I believe Wanker is correct term they should be spraying. My daughter picked up that word in Europe last year and thinks it’s hysterical. LOL The handwriting doesn’t match hers, I checked.
Noooooooooooo! He’s also not Hense or Vomet or Mr. E or the geist (well, that one was a favorite of mine). I don’t think.