Entries Tagged 'ANIMALS' ↓

Ginny sent me this FAKE looking photo – apparently it’s a real Dumbo Octopus. Look at these weird animals!

Seven found this holiday dress at the Dollar Store. I retouched her eye boogers.

This is a picture I “made” of Seven at the emergency vet this weekend. When I came home from work Friday she was scooting about and her ass was a mess (literally). She’s had trouble like this before so off to the emergency vet we went. They fixed her anal glands and shaved her butt – she has a monkey butt now.

A couple weekends ago Mackie (the “Pitbull”) drove himself to Virginia Beach to celebrate his 1st birthday with the family. It was a grand occasion complete with cake, candles, and tennis balls. Rocky Balboa even flew in on his magic cardboard carpet for this special occasion.

Here is Seven hanging with the latest addition to my room. I have Ginny to thank for pretty much everything on my walls. Coming soon: boring pictures of my fancy new mattress.

One reason concerts are alive and records are dead is that there’s a new value in things which can’t be uploaded as digital content to the internet. I call this phenomenon “the post-bit atom”. It also explains why the art market is booming. Art and music have become social occasions. An art opening or a concert (or, even better, an art opening with a concert included) is a chance for people who spend all day in front of computer screens to see their fellow human beings and share an intense, loud, colourful, real experience with them.

Art and music are also “distinction machines”: efficient ways for people to sum up complex clusters of values — social, political, aesthetic and ethical — and connect with like-minded souls. None of this is going to become less important any time soon.

Photo: Tim Walker, from his current exhibition at the Design Museum London. Song: “Orphans” (lightly feat. the Cat) off the new Beck album Modern Guilt (links to neat video)

Gorgeous prints by Catherine Ledner.

(Uncle?) Flza gave Seven clothes! Tomorrow she’s going to wear the tank top and wind dance.