CATSYNTH

cats synthesizers music art opinion

Category: Cats

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: SF SPCA Macy’s Holiday Windows

    Every year, the San Francisco SPCA teams up with Macy’s to produce Holiday Windows featuring adoptable pets at the flagship store in downtown San Francisco. It’s a great holiday tradition here, and an opportunity to find new homes for pets over the holidays.

    Over the past seven years, the Holiday Windows have helped the SF SPCA raise nearly $400,000 and find homes for over 2,300 animals. Thank you to our friends at Macy’s for their commitment to helping us find loving homes for San Francisco’s cats and dogs.

    There were mostly kittens and adolescent cats on display when I visited the windows earlier today. I was particularly taken with this pair of black-furred brothers.

    There is always a theme to the windows, and this year it appeared to be gift boxes, as if these kittens were to both be a gift and to receive a gift.

    But the windows also often feature a city vibe as well.

    To find out more about SF SPCA Macy’s Holiday Windows, follow this link. And if you happen to be in the San Francisco area this holiday season, I recommend stopping by Union Square to see the pets.

    Weekend Cat Blogging #394 is hosted by pam and sidewalk shoes.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted this Sunday by Nikita and Elvira at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat.

    And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • CatSynth pic: Tangelo

    Tangelo, a real “keyboard cat”.  Submitted by Ari Fox Lauren via our Facebook page.

     

  • CatSynth pic: Chewie on Ensoniq EPS

    Chewie the cat posing handsomely behind an Ensoniq EPS sampling synthesizer. Submitted by Kiki Cameron via our Facebook page.

    The Ensoniq EPS and its successor, the ASR-10, were longtime workhorses in my synth collection. Even though the ASR-10 mostly sits in the closet now, I still use some of the sounds from it. You can hear an example here.

  • Weekend Cat Blogging #392

    We at CatSynth are hosting Weekend Cat Blogging #392. To participate, please add you link to the list below, or leave us a comment, and we will add you to the big round-up.

    Long-time participants of Weekend Cat Blogging have undoubtedly noticed that participation has dropped off. So WCB will cease to be a hosted event as of the end of the year. It’s a bit sad, having participated since the early days of this blog. But we will continue to have posts titled “Weekend Cat Blogging” here as a showcase for Luna’s adventures and other non-musical stories about cats.

    But for today, let’s continue with the round-up.

    Our friends at Animal Shelter Volunteer present two of the cats at PAWS waiting to be adopted into their forever homes. First up is Roamer, who is the December “Cat of the Month” at PAWS. Follow his link to find out what that honor entails. And then we have Oscar taking it easy.

    At Mind of Mog, we learn that Ritzi is a fractious cat, though she certainly doesn’t look that way in her photo. In the blogging-geekery department, they have also updated to WordPress 3.5, something we at CatSynth haven’t yet attempted to do.

    It is sometimes hard to express thoughts in words in the wake of a tragedy like the one in Newtown, Connecticut, this past Friday. Sometimes, sharing our thoughts and sympathies and hopes through pictures is all we can do. That it was Beau Beau and Angie have done with this beautiful picture of love and light and bokeh.

    The sunrise, too, can be beautiful, as we can see in the picture of Georgia in the morning sun. Visit our friends at Mickey’s Musings for more great sunrise and feline photography.



  • CatSynth pic: Cat vs Modular Synth

    From Peter Gorges on flickr, via matrixsynth.

    Modular synth aside, that chair would be perfect at CatSynth HQ 🙂

  • CatSynth video: JJ reacts to Vinyl Cat

    You may recall the cute turntable cat we posted on Friday. Well, it turns out JJ, who lives with our friends Georgia, Tillie, and the rest of the cats in Nova Scotia, was quite fascinated with the video.

    You can see his video response at their blog.

  • CatSynth pic: Samantha and Akai AX80

    Submitted by Andrew Wayne, who appeared at this year’s Outsound Music Summit Touch the Gear event.

    “Here is my cat, Samantha, taking a little nap by my Akai AX80.”

    This Samantha looks surprisingly like another Samantha that we have featured on this site before.

  • Carnival of the Cats #456

    We at CatSynth are happy to be hosting Carnival of the Cats #456, a weekly round-up of cat-related blog articles submitted by authors.  If you want to participate, leave a comment below or follow this link for more info.

    First up, we present the cute white kitten Levon and his crystal bowl antics, courtesy of Lost in the Cheese Aisle.  It is, after all, Bowl Game season is it not?

    Our friends Nikita and Elvira and their dad Keeril resume their Seen and Heard series from their new home in Houston.  Their first entry features “Grumpy Goats”, but there are other critters as well when Keeril visits the Southeast Transit Center. (As fellow transit geeks, we like the location.)

    A bittersweet entry from StrangeRanger, as they remember Ivy this holiday season.  “It’s our companions who make the holiday very, very special.  Even if they are no longer with us.”

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: Contentment

    Things are settling down into a more quiet rhythm here at CatSynth after New York and the recent shows back here in San Francisco. Here Luna basks in the sun near a pile of books.

    And here is Luna licking her chops.

    And she has plenty of reason to do so, especially after a yummy dinner of fish-cakes that we shared last weekend.

    We will be hosting the Carnival of the Cats tomorrow. We are looking forward to a good turnout from those who blog about cats occasionally or all the time. You can send your links to carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com or submit using the sometimes handy carnival submission form.

    Weekend Cat Blogging is hosted this week by the late Meowza.

    And the Friday Ark is at the modulator

  • CatSynth pic: Vinyl Cat

    From corbo on YouTube.