Cats

Weekend Cat Blogging: Luna and mouse

This weekend we have a video of Luna playing with one of her mouse toys.

She can get quite intense in her play. It is a delight to watch.

Visit Mind of Mog for Weekend Cat Blogging.

The Carnival of Cats will be happening this Sunday at Artsy Catsy.

The now monthly Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos will be hosted by Kashim, Othello and Salome.

And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

CatSynth pic and video: keyboard cat papercraft tribute.

From tubbypaws on YouTube, via matrixsynth:

From the video description:

This is the happy papercraft keyboard cat assembly instruction video. please watch the happy video for instructions and things to see and do and scary, please don’t blink.

(warning this video contains flashing imagery)

you can find the papercraft pattern here-
http://tubbypaws.blogspot.com/2009/08/meow-again-its-time-for-papercraft.html

please enjoy ^-^

papercraft, artwork, animation, music and photography by tubbypaws”


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I’m going to try this out…or more specifically, at it to the queue of still-uncompleted DIY projects…

CatSynth pic: Woody, Keyboard Cat

From Cardigan Lane on flickr, via matrixsynth:


“Woody chilling out with the Yamaha CS01.”

From the comments on matrixsynth:

Hey guys, that cat is my little friend Woody.
He’s a Bengal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_cat

A very cool little guy, a little crazy but lots of fun. He belongs to my friends. He is actually my friends cat, whenever I crash on their couch I usually wake up with him sleeping on my legs.

He got a little freaked out by the CS1… once I turned it on and started playing some keys from it, he didn’t find it such a great pillow any more and started attacking the speaker. He didn’t have any problem with the casio CT310 we were also fooling around with, so I guess I should have named him Casio Cat!

Weekend Cat Blogging: Enjoying the outdoors.

Our weather continues to be unusually warm and sunny (considering the reputation of San Francisco summers from Mark Twain’s apocryphal comment). And Luna continues to enjoy time out in our little urban garden.

Here we see her strolling:

And stopping to pose in front a metal screen sculpture:

Right now, we have two sculptures outdoors: the black metal screen, and the rusted metal work Pierced Screen by J. Michael Smiley.

This weekend is looking to be exceptionally warm again (well into the 90s in this neighborhood), so Luna has wisely retreated indoors.

Weekend Cat Blogging #221 is being hosted by Mr. Tigger at the M-Cats Club.

The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at When Cats Attack.

And of course the Friday Ark is the modulator. But it looks like they are moving to a new “Modulator Manor”. Recalling the chaos but subsequent rewards when we moved to the new CatSynth HQ, we wish them well!

CatSynth video: Kittysleep Roland SH-101

Another video this Friday: Kittysleep on Roland SH-101 via matrixsynth.

From organfairy on YouTube.

“Lately I have been transferring some of my old tapes to my computer and one of the tapes was a collection of original melodies I made in 1994. At that time I had just got my first two professional instruments: The Roland SH-2000 and the Roland CR-1000 – in fact this is the first melody I ever recorded using the CR-1000. The other sounds are made on toy keyboards: Bontempi KS3400, Kawai MS-20, and the bass was played on a CASIO SA-3 runned through a Boss OC-2 pedal.”