Other Spot Chasers

Since the challenge has been going on since early January, I could read up on the adventures of some of the others out there, which has been fun. It's fascinating to see the different people, approaches and ways to write about it.

I set up a Facebook group for all of us, join if you're doing the challenge: https://www.facebook.com/groups/spotchallenge


Below I collect links to blogs, articles, Twitter and profiles of other spot chasers, let me know by comment or email (veit@hospitalityclub.org) if I overlooked you and you want to be added, or if you want something changed or added to your entry. Spot challenge user names are in bold.

Gagosian has a photo gallery of most challenge finishers on Facebook.
Twitter tag #spotchallenge is where most action is happening there.


Met in real life:
- galfromdownunder (Lynette) from NYC. Had seen her blog before I even left home, and ran into her in the Beverly Hills gallery. She's sharing her thoughts and the trip on her blog Chelsea Gallerista and also posting photos and notes on Facebook. She also issued a side challenge to herself - doing the trip with just a  tiny self designed traffic cone bag.
- tonkatoytruck (Jason) from NYC. Also met him in the Beverly Hills gallery, no online presence though.
- Sohavealook (Jos Bauer) and Diddy II (Dirk den Hartog) have a little gallery on lockerz and another one on Facebook, and are also on Twitter: @josbauer and @GalerieMJoosten. We actually managed to meet up on the day I finished the challenge in Athens and talk and celebrate a bit together - a very nice meeting, great guys!

Fellow spot chasers:
- imgwt (Eduardo) and Seeingspots (Helena) are keeping a great blog with lots of photos of their trip. Twitter: @LookSeeSpots.
- Princessnowflake from LA just finished the challenge. He filled a helpful blog with his experiences called RAspotchallenge and is on Twitter @RAspotchallenge.
- CFalvey and Ryan Falvey (Cherie and Ryan) are doing the trip on frequent flier miles (so essentially for free!), their extensive blog is at chasingspots.tumblr.com and they are tweeting @Ryan_Falvey and @CherieFalvey.
- Sur (Stacie) is blogging about her trip at surstudios.tumblr.com and on Twitter @SURstudios.
- artruby (Valentine Uhovski) was actually the first to complete the challenge - his posts are on artruby and on Twitter @ARTRUBY.
- Cristina is blogging about her adventures on the site of The Art Newspaper.
- jtwchu (Jeff) was the second to finish a few hours after artruby. He wrote an article about his trip for the Wall Street Journal and is on Twitter @jeffchu.
- Aaron Ricchio is doing the challenge on weekends, blogging about it and tweeting @OddMenOut.
- AverageJoe (Josef Valentino) is doing his project with a twist: he collected 500 donations of 20 pounds and will share ownership of his Hirst with his investors. josefvalentino.com and @JosefValentino.
- Rob is @ElevenSpots.
- juggernut3 (and some others?) from Arrested Motion finished the challenge and put up a blog with lots of pictures.
- Nicholas Wai is @nickwai.
- Trunk Magazine is @trunkmag.
- Seth Stolbun has a dedicated blog and is on Twitter @sethstolbun.
- Artcaste is doing the challenge and tweeting a bit @Artcaste.
- Huw Lougher just pinged me on Twitter - he is is doing the challenge and tweeting @Art_Informer.
- Ross is at @_Ross_Ross_Ross.
- Lameteodujour - if my school French serves me right this post he/she sent me on Twitter means he/she couldn't really attempt or complete the challenge but treasures the experience and the card nonetheless.
- gago11 has a dedicated blog and is on Twitter @gago11usa.
- The Count finished the challenge, and while I don't really understand who he is, and what the connection is, @KatHands was tweeting updates throughout his trip.
- jessica h. is doing the challenge, since she seems to be a hyper-tweeter her tweets about it are hard to spot in the stream @tuckerbaileyco.
- Alex Noschese is a young film maker and working on a documentary about his trip - the trailer looks very promising. He also is on Twitter @akn220, but the feed is protected. And there's also an interview with him on artspot.it.
- 9RG (Kenneth Spriggs) got in touch through the comments below. He is from Colorado, finished in Rome, and posted some photos on Facebook.
- durrette (Elisa Durette) introduced herself in this post in our Facebook group. She's a law student and was the 9th to finish the challenge.
- JasonIsBatmanNow and he kept an awesomly entertaining tumblr blog to prove it.
- wendiroyal also blogged very nicely at tumblr. Warning: do not go to the blog if you're hungry - it looks like she tracked down some of the nicest food in all the places on her trip (and eating all this probably would have doubled my budget ;-).
- Malina Arevalo has been tweeting @Bellainthesky, don't know how I missed her before.
- TimboBrowne apparently also did the challenge, according to this tweet.