Archive for the ‘Animals in Art’ Category
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
My friend, photographer Douglas Sandberg, alerted me to a unique musical purrformance. CATcerto, a collaboration between Nora the Piano Cat and Lithuanian conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis is performed by the Klaipėda chamber orchestra, featuring piano soloist Nora the Cat:
Four-year old Nora is a prodigy by anyone's standards. From humble beginnings, baby ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Those Tasmanians are enterprising little devils. Creative Paper in the coastal city of Burnie, Australia, in Tasmania's Northwest, is making handmade paper out of wombat droppings.
The wombat is a herbivorous marsupial (pouched mammal). Its vegetarian diet results in fibrous waste that can be boiled and molded into sheets of ...
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
In a post-election press conference in November 2008, Barack Obama was asked a hardball question about what breed of puppy his family would be adopting. In his response, he made reference to that fact that a lot of shelter dogs are "mutts like me." With this throw-away line, the President-elect ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
A cup of coffee is particularly welcome on the morning after Thanksgiving. My artist friend Herb Ranharter sent this photograph from Vienna. The cat enjoys looking at Herb's sketches while Herb enjoys a cuppa joe.
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
The trip from Vienna, Austria to the Vienna International Airport is a 16-minute ride on the City Airport Train (CAT). You can even check in for your flight where you catch the CAT at City Air Terminal. It is located only ten minutes from St. Stephen's Cathedral at the Wien-Mitte ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
My artist friend, Herb Ranharter, shot this photo of Waldi having a mocha at his favorite café in Berkeley, California.
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
In a postcard ad compaign to publicize its new non-emergency phone number, Scotland's Tayside Police Force used an image of a popular new recruit named Rebel, a six-month old German Shepherd puppy. Howls of protest were raised by Dundee councilor Mohammed Asif, who admonished police that the image would ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
George Carlin was born in New York on May 12, 1937. On Sunday, June 23, 2008, he died of heart failure in Los Angeles. Mr. Carlin had been selected on June 17 as the 11th recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He will be the ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Several years ago, artist Stephen Huneck, now 59, was in a coma, suffering from Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Although his wife Gwen never gave up on him, his doctors did not expect him to survive. When he finally awoke after two months, this 45-year old man had to learn to ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The video An Engineer's Guide to Cats is an internet sensation. It was written, produced and directed by Paul Klusman, a 39-year old aerospace engineer from Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Klusman, who also stars in the video with cats Zoey, Ginger and Oscar, has been described by a fan as "the ...
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