Pet Monologues

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Nyctanassa violacea

Free Performance
Our resident Yellow Crowned Night Heron
perched on the pier at dusk and posed patiently
while I memorized her theatrical black mask.
After a time, she turned full circle, fluttered
an operatic fan of dark spiky wings,
opened a long pointy beak,
spat something that bounced hard
–a brown ruby, perhaps—
and flew off to another engagement,
charging absolutely nothing for the show.

Poem by Lucia Blinn

Phylum:Chordata Class:Aves Order:Ciconiiformes Family:Ardeidae Genus:Nyctanassa Source by New Hampshire Public Television/NatureWorks

Holiday shopping. Here come the animal products!

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Tipi designed by Eero Aarnio, 2002

Nearly 30 years after the pony a new animal pops up in Eero’s mind. “…a seat does not necessarily have to be a chair.”

Seen at unicaHome

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Adopt a pet? On credit? Why not?

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Where rock meets country.

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A new category: critter labels.
A leading market-research company, ACNielsen, has decided to define a wine category by its label design. A “critter label” is any label that features an animal, from a hippo to a frog to a penguin. They say 438 viable table-wine brands have been introduced in the past three years, and 18 percent— nearly one in five— feature an animal on the label. “Combined with existing critter labels,” the firm said in a summation of its research on this matter, “sales of critter-branded wine have reached more than $600 million.”

Finishing touches on billboard

Yellow Tail has recently launched one of its largest ad campaigns in the brand’s history, created by Cramer-Krasselt (New York). Featuring a tag line that reads “Tails, you win,” the ads include a variety of three-dimensional billboards and interactive print advertisements, including massive replicas of the famous 1930s Kit-Cat Clocks, glowing fireflies and temporary tattoos. The campaign also includes TV ads and event sponsorships and runs through December 2007.

Creative background: the distributor
WILLIAM J. DEUTSCH was apprehensive when he first agreed to import an unknown Australian wine called Yellow Tail into the United States in 2001. Its handsome black-and-yellow label featured what looked like a kangaroo, and he felt that animals had no place on wine labels. But he liked the wine. “So,” he said recently, “I agreed to take 25,000 cases.”

His son Peter disagreed about the animal. “That label is fabulous,” he told his dad. Read the rest of this entry »

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Here is a Chicago artist who does animal portraits and murals.

Portrait: Cat#29

Mural: Zebras

Animal art: fine art portraits in acrylic latex. Each piece is a “close-up” likeness focusing on distinct markings or characteristics unique to the subject; freckles, fur patterns, scars, eye color, etc. Matthew likes to say that “these are portraits of your animal the way you see them first thing in the morning as you open your eyes.” Also, murals featuring superb trompe l’oeil with a specialization in figurative work as well as landscapes, whimsy and fantasy.

Source: Matthew Owens © Copyright 2007 by Matthew Owens

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Page 1 ad reads: “Juicy Couture. Lift to smell.” Page 2-3 ad reads: “Juicy Crittoure. The first couture fragrance for dogs. Pawfum. Shampoo. Conditioner. Nail pawlish.”

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Photographer: not available at this time. Client: Juicy Couture Ad placed in Vogue Magazine November 2007

This post was placed in response to the World Animal Day 2008 initiative. All images can be seen at Bless Animals.

This post celebrates World Animal Day and Bless the Animals. Follow the links to learn more about PM’s initiative which started on October 4.

The following photos are from Andrew Zuckerman’s new book, Creature.

Cat

African Crested Porcupine

Chimpanzee
Here is the opening paragraph in the epilogue…The images you see in this book are the end product of a journey of discover and learning how to connect with the soul and essence of all creatures. In animals, as in humans, the eye connects the creature to the outside world and centres our focus to see deeper into the heart and very nature of the creature. The goal of these images is to intensify the viewers connection to the animals and inspire new perspectives on the familiar and immediate linkage to creatures we have never seen before. Like all journeys, early life experiences and chance occurances along the way shape the evolution of ones approach to art.

Source: creaturebook.com Andrew Zuckerman. All rights reserved.

This post was placed in response to the World Animal Day 2008 initiative. All images can be seen at Bless Animals.

This post celebrates World Animal Day and Bless the Animals. Follow the links to learn more about PM’s initiative which started on October 4.

Clever doesn’t begin to describe
the canny soul who, for nearly seventeen
years, walked and wagged among us,
affecting the affect of the duke of all dogdom,
a dachshund, but who, in fact,
worked the world like a room and got mail.

Sly his disguise as this most glorious
of canines; peerless, flawless, albeit
not immune to vanity–that ravishing red coat.

The question remains: Who was Harvey?
Moses back with a bark?
The Babe without a bat?
Gandhi with a growl?
MR. PRESLEY?

Come on, Harvey, speak!
We know you’re up there emailing.

Written by Lucia Blinn