Pet Monologues

Caw to art! is an effort to showcase pets and animals in an ARTFUL manner. A photograph, fine art, a scribble, sculpture. A poem, a monologue, a short story, motion.

Submissions: Beginning Wednesday 1/9/08 thru Friday—and maybe
a bit longer…

•Thea Burger submits Pigs.
•Paintalicious submits Janet Skiles
•Paintalicious submits Mark Fredrickson
•Diane Clancy submits Freckles in flowers. II
•petmonologues submits 2 elephants and a ladey. Avedon
•Kiana Fecteau submits Jake

Pigs

Janet Skiles

Mark Fredrickson

Freckles in flowers. II

2 elephants and a ladey. Avedon

Still steeping…

…in the meantime. Questions? Comments? Editor’s note: please look at Comment 1 below for more C2a! details as well as look at the previous editions of Caw to art!…

and while you are curating your submissions don’t forget Friday Ark roster for this weekend. And Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday.

This photo/text borrowed from our friend at Animals as Friends…

polyodon spathula—OMG!

NG has a Gallery of world’s gigant freshwater fishes and there I found this incredible creature you see on this photo. If it was not NG, I would never believe it’s a real fish. I would think it’s or pre-historic animal or maybe computer-invention. But NG writes it’s Mississippi paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) 221 centimeters long with population about 1,353, based on a 2001 study.

What is this? A graphic of the Pet Monologues site. If you click on Websites as Graphs you can fill out your URL and the programm will make an unique graph of your site.

At Flickr.com you can see other examples.

What’s a mandala? Any of various ritualistic geometric designs symbolic of the universe, used in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation.

What do the colors mean?

blue: for links (the A tag)

red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)

green: for the DIV tag

violet: for images (the IMG tag)

yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)

orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)

black: the HTML tag, the root node

gray: all other tags

Found at Mandalas and more.

They said I’d get turtles if I kept the pieces
of broken streetlights in warm water.
So I put the magic shards in a bucket
in the basement and spent the evening in a vigil.
Down and up the stairs, changing the water
and keeping the powerful fragments
at an encouraging temperature.
I was old enough—ten–to know better,
but hope was stronger than sense.

It got late, time for bed.
The water would get cold during the night.
And that’s when I knew this precarious act
of spontaneous generation wasn’t going to work.
My need for sleep was stronger
than my need for turtles.

Lucia Blinn

“Curiosity” artist Jeff Jordan

“Hurry home” artist Jeff Jordan

It is fair to say (North-coast,US) artist Jeff Jordan is one of the pioneers of “lowbrow aesthetics”, with his unique and peculiar imaginary and otherworldly realm. As you may know, in the past few years “Lowbrow Aesthetics” has become a sizzling “new” art movement and is all the rage among hip young urban artists and a new breed of art collectors. In fact, most of the content you view daily on paintalicious is based around much of this lowbrow genre that has its roots in the pop culture of the 1960s: including comic books, B-movies, Pop Art, California Funk, rock `n’ roll, psychedelia, graffiti, tattoos, surf art and so on.

But don’t look to me for answers. Like somebody really famous (we all know who) said, the answers are all “blowin’ in the wind.” - Jeff Jordan April 2004

via Paintalicious.org

artist Florentijn Hofman

Title: Rubber duck
Year: 2007
Location: river the Loire, France
Dimensions: 26 x 20 x 32 meters
Materials: inflatable, rubber coated PVC, pontoon and generator
Production: le Lieu Unique and the Biennial Estuaire

A yellow spot on the horizon slowly approaches the coast. People have gatherd and watch in amazement as a giant yellow Rubber Duck approaches. The spectators are greeted by the duck, which slowly nods its head. The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn’t discriminate people and doesn’t have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!

via Paintalicious.org

I am snug as a bug in a rug working at home today. On the lakefront in Chicago with the sun shining and no wind and the lake keeping the air temp a warm 5 degrees F. The walk to get my vente triple non-fat white moca at Starbuck’s is treacherous.

Andi, thank you for the photo today. Timing is everything.