"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
Casting Call for "The Black Cat" (Tales of Terror), 1961
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Kute Korat!
Move over Havana Brown, there's a new cat in town! This steely beauty is the Korat and boy is it a stunner!
AND apparently, if you're Thai and getting hitched- this kitty is a good luck wedding gift!
Tavi Cat
The little darling of fashion blogging is, surprise surprise, a fan o' the Cat... as she aptly states it:
kitty delights via stylerookie
of greater importance though- artenergyalchemy's self professed kitschy handcrafted nicknack's are a pretty darn quirky find, and a tad catty too!!
Black Cat Earrings
Black Cat Pin Brooch
Toodles Wanted to Drum cat pin
Crazy Cat Earrings
now these here are some quirky cool cats!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Of Women, Cats and Nigerian Mobsters...
The Nigerian Tribune, 22 MAY 2008
http://www.tribune.com.ng/22052008/news/news2.html
http://www.tribune.com.ng/22052008/news/news2.html
What could be described as a fairy tale turned real on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as a cat allegedly turned into a middle-aged woman after being hit by a commercial motorcycle (Okada) on Aba/Port Harcourt Expressway.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that three cats were crossing the busy road when the okada ran over one of them which immediately turned into a woman. This strange occurrence quickly attracted people around who descended on the animals. One of them, it was learnt, was able to escape while the third one was beaten to death, still as a cat though.
According to a source who witnessed what happened, the cat-woman said she and the two other cat-fellows had travelled from Abuja to Port Harcourt to kill three people. “The woman said they came to Port Harcourt from Abuja and that they came to kill three people. She said they had succeeded in killing two people, but the third person, whom I guess might be a pastor, was difficult for them and that they were preparing to go back to Abuja,” said the source.
Another witness, who gave his name as James, said the woman started faking when she saw that many people were gathering around her. “I have never seen anything like this in my life. I saw a woman lying on the road instead of a cat. Blood did not come out of her body at that time. When people gathered and started asking her questions, she pretended that she did not know what had happened,” he said.
When the Nigerian Tribune got to the scene of the incident near Garrison Junction, the cat-woman was seen sitting on the ground with blood all over her body. The right side of her face had a deep cut from what was gathered to be from a cutlass.
She was later taken to a hospital for medical attention. It took the intervention of policemen to prevent the mob from killing her.
When reached for information from the police, the Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State police command, Mrs. Rita Inoma-Abbey, said she had been taken to the hospital.
“She has been taken to Teme Clinic. Police will still be guarding her so that she will not disappear,” he said. In another development, at least five people have been confirmed dead while four others were said to be receiving medical treatment following a suspected cult clash in Aluu, one of the host communities of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Nigerian Tribune gathered from sources around UNIPORT that the clash, which led to the loss of lives and injury to others, was between two cult groups; Vikings and Black Axe Confraternity, a spill over of the struggle between the two cult groups on the RSUST campus, Port Harcourt.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Havanah Brown
We were delighted to learn of a breed we'd not known of before, the Havanah Brown... apparently a rare breed, but a wonderful companion. And what a handsome cat!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Modern Cat Favourites
Here now, a collection of favourite goodies currently available from ModernCat Studio
Silhouette 18 Inch Cut Paper Mini-garland
Never be alone again...
Look out for tummy-bound Flying Black Cat, about half way through the video...
Monday, June 28, 2010
The lesser known connection: Godard and The Cat...
The first image in “Film Socialism,” Jean-Luc Godard's latest, is of two red-headed parrots, side by side on a tree limb. The parrots are among a handful of animals that appear in the movie, including a pair of hilariously talkative cats (whose meows are, in turn, parroted by a young woman watching them on a laptop), as well as a llama and a donkey.
Surrounding these animals is a menagerie of talking, quoting, babbling human beings, speaking in French, German, Russian, English and Arabic, among other tongues.
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"Genesis of a Camera: Jean-Pierre Beauviala and Jean-Luc Godard
Camera Obscura Vol. 5, No. 13/14 (Spring-Summer 1985): 163-193.
We are reprinting this discussion between Jean-Pierre Beauviala and
Jean-Luc Godard because it represents one of the most unusual exchanges on the relationship between aesthetics and technology that we have seen. It is highly unlikely that an interview witht his kind of emotional tenor would ever find its way into a journal like AMERICAN
CINEMATOGRAPHER, for example, even though it is concerned throughout with the development of a new 35mm camera and its potential uses. Jeane-Pierre Beauviala is responsible for a series of inventions that resulted in the Aaton 16mm camera, nicknamed “the cat” because of the way it is designed to balance on the shoulder (hence the references to the camera as an animal); the perfection of super-16 (made to be blown up to 35mm without image distortion); and the PALUCHE, which is referred to frequently in the discussion below. The PALUCHE is a small video camera that is held in the hand like a microphone or a flashlight. Because of its size and mobility, the PALUCHE becomes an extension of the hand rather than the eye.
Jean-Luc Godard because it represents one of the most unusual exchanges on the relationship between aesthetics and technology that we have seen. It is highly unlikely that an interview witht his kind of emotional tenor would ever find its way into a journal like AMERICAN
CINEMATOGRAPHER, for example, even though it is concerned throughout with the development of a new 35mm camera and its potential uses. Jeane-Pierre Beauviala is responsible for a series of inventions that resulted in the Aaton 16mm camera, nicknamed “the cat” because of the way it is designed to balance on the shoulder (hence the references to the camera as an animal); the perfection of super-16 (made to be blown up to 35mm without image distortion); and the PALUCHE, which is referred to frequently in the discussion below. The PALUCHE is a small video camera that is held in the hand like a microphone or a flashlight. Because of its size and mobility, the PALUCHE becomes an extension of the hand rather than the eye.
In Grenoble, where Aaton is located, Beauviala worked with Godard for
several years on the development of specialized video and film
equipment, while Godard was living just across the French border in
Rolle, Switzerland. They intended to create a new 35mm camera that would
have the technical simplicity and flexibility of super-8, so that a
non-specialist, a director like Godard, could use it for spontaneous,
brief shots that could be intercut with 35mm work done by professional
cinematographers. A camera called the Aaton 35-8 was subsequently
marketed, but not exactly in the form originally envisioned by either of
them. Just how the technology would develop-according to whose
needs-took on an increasingly personal dimension as time went on,
culminating in a major dispute between filmmaker and inventor. At the
meeting chronicled below, Godard and Beauviala voice their complaints in
language that mixes metaphors about art, love and technology. It quickly
becomes evident that their friendship is being contested as much as the
merits of one camera design over another."
several years on the development of specialized video and film
equipment, while Godard was living just across the French border in
Rolle, Switzerland. They intended to create a new 35mm camera that would
have the technical simplicity and flexibility of super-8, so that a
non-specialist, a director like Godard, could use it for spontaneous,
brief shots that could be intercut with 35mm work done by professional
cinematographers. A camera called the Aaton 35-8 was subsequently
marketed, but not exactly in the form originally envisioned by either of
them. Just how the technology would develop-according to whose
needs-took on an increasingly personal dimension as time went on,
culminating in a major dispute between filmmaker and inventor. At the
meeting chronicled below, Godard and Beauviala voice their complaints in
language that mixes metaphors about art, love and technology. It quickly
becomes evident that their friendship is being contested as much as the
merits of one camera design over another."
Courtesy of Cinema=Godard=Cinema
Erin's New Tattoo
Erin, the darling soul behind Calivintage, is a vintage muse of the highest order. The cool girl in the class. The las everyone wants to hang out with. And one stylish chic...
All that aside, she has the COOLEST tattoo yet! Ink stamps aren't my thing, purely for the ominously permanent nature of them. And the ikky blood and stuff. Yuk. Here now though, is the second of only two tattoos I would ever consider imprinting on my squeemish self:
"Cattitude!"
Cute :)
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