We have not one, not two, but three features for a dreary Caturday (at least in Chicago). First up, the famous Popcorn Kittens:
From Erica Camp:
These are just some kittens I rescued who went crazy after they felt a plastic tarp on their feet for the first time. I was just trying to make them a bigger place to be able to run around, but instead it ended up being a playpen! That is why I chose the music of Scott Joplin, because it reminded me of one of those old movies they play ragtime music to, while funny things are happening. It was too hilarious not to record, so I tried to capture the funniest moments in this video compilation. =) Enjoy!
From the Guardian, fifty bazillion pictures of cats in cardboard boxes, including these (TRIGGER WARNING: there are some d-gs, too):
Why do cats do this? My theory, which is mine, is that it expresses an ancestral desire to “den”—to rest in an enclosed space to protect you from predators and the elements.
Finally, from Boredpanda.com, “A beautiful friendship story between a girl and her cat.“
Economist by profession and photographer by calling, Andy Prokh takes charming black-and-white photos of his 4-year-old daughter and their cat. He’s been capturing the beautiful friendship ever since his offspring Katherine was born. At that time the pet was already two years old, so Katherine has spent her entire life with LiLu Blue Royal Lada. The British Shorthair seems to enjoy playing with the girl as much as she does.
There are nineteen cute and fanciful photos; here are but four:
h/t: Matthew Cobb, Richard, Su
I love the sensible kittens that are waiting patiently for the door to open: get me out of here, my brothers and sisters have gone crazy.
The Katherine & Lada photos are wonderful!
If I’d seen the Popcorn Kittens a couple of years ago, my monstrous polydactyl black cat might now be called Popcorn instead of Cricket. He would do this on the tapestry bedspread, catching some of its threads on his 27 claws with every bounce until it looked like terry cloth.
What?!
Not Kitten on the Keys, Zez Confrey’s immortal masterpiece?
(There’s a good recording of it in modern sound on Naxos, but but you can hear the composer himself in a dubbing from 78 rpm discs on the Pearl label, in suitably scratchy period sound.)
My mom would have said that the popcorn kittehs reminded her my brothers and me when we were all pre-school.
It’s a very well done photorealistic illustration essay. Some obviously-fanciful Photoshop work in there, but it looks very natural. I’d appreciate a “making of” supplement.
There’s a lot of attention to detail in there. For example, they’re all shot against the same background; compare the cracks in the walls. But it’s not the same stock photo used over and over, as you can tell by the different perspectives (most easily spotted by the angles made by the floorboards).
If I had to guess, each final image was carefully pre-visualized, and then he made green-screen (or similar) photographs of the different elements (and he paid close attention to the light to keep it consistent) and then composited the elements together.
Again, impressive work.
Cheers,
b&
Props for the Monty Python reference.