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Fifty years ago, before launching what would soon become the country's leading political journal, writer and chronic smartass Irving Howe famously remarked that "when intellectuals can do nothing else, they start a magazine."

In 2008, we think this statement needs an update. When artists and writers can do nothing else, they start a website.

So meet FatWeb.

FatWeb was created with the aim of being an open-ended website geared towards promoting high quality original content. We solicit material from smart and creative people (sorry if this sounds like a Craigslist ad) who are pursuing projects that may or may not fit in anywhere else. Work can be academic or creative, narrative or experimental, or entirely off in its own realm, so long as we like it. If you're blogging about pizza in Naples, recording atonal music, designing Atari-style video games or making short films about hemorrhoids, we want your stuff. The site is halfway between an archive and a publication, and if we like your work and you want to keep producing it for us, we'll designate an artist's page for you on the site. If not, and you only want to submit once, that's cool too. For now, our only restriction is quality: FatWeb isn't a forum or a blog, but a space designed for people to feature the best of what they're doing. Think of it as a new media artists' colony. Don't send us anything you're not proud of-- we'll delete it.

On a structural level, FatWeb is organized around five main genres: writing, film, photography, music, and miscellaneous stuff, and the content on the main page will rotate depending on the most recent submission. Although the site is designed around categories, don't let this put you off-- where things go is entirely up to you. If you're writing film criticism, you're free to put your work either in the film or writing categories, but keep in mind that these boundaries are deliberately superficial. The site is designed to encourage interdisciplinary browsing, and watching a short documentary should lead you to a related essay or photo spread and introduce you to new artists and new kinds of work. Networking is built into both the site's mindset and its DNA.

FatWeb grew out of the realization that while we're all busy pursuing our own projects, many of us are failing to take advantage of the biggest resource we have at our disposal: an enormous network of talented and technologically literate people. We hope that in addition to catalyzing conversation, FatWeb can also help people pool resources and eventually kickstart some careers.

If you're interested in contributing, please email your submission or a link to your work to info@fatweb.biz . While we accept older work, we'd prefer submissions that have been more recently completed. All contributors will be asked to include a 3-4 sentence biography and a contact email along with their work for their bio page.

Regardless of whatever it is you're into, if it's smart and well done, we'll find a place for it on FatWeb. We hope you'll consider submitting some of your work, and while we can't tell you right now what it'll look like at launch, and the very least, we can promise you'll be in good company.

- The Editors