Submitted by Cesar Ulloa via our facebook page.
“CatSynth diabolicos.. — with korg X50, cat.korg and Madre.cat”
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CatSynth pic: Theo’s Lullaby
Another from Julian Dreißig via our facebook page.
“Since Theo made it right into the blog, here’s another picture featuring his favorite musical activity: practicing Lullabies :).”
Weekend Cat Blogging: Talking and Heatwave
Luna is often quite talkative in the morning. Recently, she started launching into a long monologue while I had my iPhone handy to capture it.
Of course, she gets some scritches at the end. I am always curious what it is she is trying to say.
It has been quite warm the last few days in San Francisco, and CatSynth HQ always tends to run a bit hotter than its surroundings.
Luna tries to balance lying in the sun while trying to stay a bit cool in her fur suit.
Tomorrow (October 16) is National Feral Cat Day (who knew?).
Alley Cat Allies launched National Feral Cat Day on our 10th anniversary in 2001 to raise awareness about feral cats, promote Trap-Neuter-Return, and recognize the millions of compassionate Americans who care for them.
Events will be taking place around the United States to demonstrate compassion and support humane treatment of all cats. Follow the link to the map to see if there is an event near you. I also like the poster.
Weekend Cat Blogging #332 is hosted by Jules and Vincent at Judi’s Mind Over Matter. Jules is looking very Luna-like in his black-and-white portrait 🙂
The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at iMeowza.
CatSynth pic: Thor, Korg and Nord
CatSynth pic: Stella meets the Monotron, Part 1
First of two videos submitted by vlern via facebook. It looks like he has a new kitten, Stella. Looks like she’s a bit wary of the Monotron, though.
CatSynth pic: Theo
Submitted by Julian Dreißig on facebook.
“Scales exercises for four paws.
Theo from Berlin says Hello.”
Weekend Cat Blogging: Luna and Apple
The influence of Apple and Steve Jobs extends deep into this site and into our lives at CatSynth HQ. For today’s Weekend Cat Blogging, we look at a few of the many photos of Luna with Apple computers and devices:
This last photo is one of our many taken with the Hipstamatic app on the iPhone. Indeed, most of the photos, even those not taken with an iPhone, are processed on a MacBook or Mac Pro. Nearly all of the writing is done on a MacBook, and occasionally on an iPad. The technology of Apple has become ubiquitous, even down to blogs featuring cats.
Weekend Cat Blogging #331, is hosted by pam at Sidewalk Shoes, where Smudge says Happy Fall to everyone.
Carnival of the Cats will be up tomorrow at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
CatSynth video: circuit bent doomsday device analog synth
From SuperRoss007 on YouTube, via matrixsynth:
Warning: the sound from this circuit-bent device is quite loud and high-pitched. But the cat seems quite nonchalant about the whole thing, casually cleaning herself/himself during the performance.
Luna is a bit like that as well when I fire up even the more esoteric musical gear.
CatSynth pic: RITM Soviet Synthesizer (Con Moto)
Via matrixsynth, an image of a rare Soviet synthesizer RITM-2, and with a cat. The original post from 2010 is here. The recent post features a performance using the RITM-2.
“16. Con motto VL147 (1897)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911)
Edan Gillen performing on the RITM-2 synthesizer.”
Carnival of the Cats 394
We welcome everyone to Carnival of the Cats #394, a weekly round-up of cat articles from a variety of blogs. New participants are always welcome; and you can find out more at the official Carnival of the Cats site.
Many cat bloggers are marking LIVESTRONG Day, to recognize those who are currently fighting cancer and to remember those who have lost their lives to these terrible diseases. So we are dedicating this week’s Carnival to that effort. Cancer is complex and diverse and affects felines as well as humans, and we hope we continue to find ways to help people survive.
And so let us begin with the round-up.
Cats love resting in the sunshine. And the cats at The Second Half are no different. Above, we see Ed getting a little solar action. Follow the link to see Lizzie in the window.
At Gattina’s My Cats and Funny Stories, Arthur has not been feeling well of late. But he is on the mend and feeling like a king. And as such, he is regally demanding to be served chicken, liver and mortadella. We’re glad to see he is doing well!
Catsparella introduces us to The Cats of Disneyland. Inspired by an interview with Ryan Gosling, the article discusses the presence of feral cats at the Anaheim theme park, and the complex relationship as out-of-side rodent control (and the obvious irony of this for Disney).
If you can’t get enough feline news, Nikita and Elvira are launching the World Mews Repurrt. “We consider it our mission to bring you the news that possibly no-one but our fellow Felines, and their Humans, could give a fig about!”
Our friends at Animal Shelter Volunteer are marking LIVESTRONG Day by honoring family members who are battling cancer and remembering their human and feline loved ones who have lost the battle. We love their graphic for today!
Samantha, Clementine and “honorary cat” Maverick are also marking LIVESTRONG by hosting this year’s slideshow. We encourage readers to check it out. We thank them are their Mom Chandra for all the effort putting this together.
Cokie is a self-described “Bohemian cat blogging from his Hollywood Boulevard apartment”. We’re always happy to hear from more urban cats.
That’s the round-up so far. We will continue to post new entries the end of Sunday US Pacific Time. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Although not officially participating this time, Mog of Mind of Mog and coordinator of the Carnival of the Cats is also recognizing LIVESTRONG Day in honor both human and cat family members who have lost the battle with cancer, and we wanted to give her a mention here today.