From sduck409 on flickr, via matrixsynth:
“Fishpants is about a year old in this picture. She has decided that living in my studio is a good idea.”
We at CatSynth agree.
Category: Cats
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Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt: Electric
This weekend we at CatSynth sing the body electric (with apologies to Walt Whitman) and present another combined Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt.
Electricity and electronics are a central part of our existence:
Luna poses with an electric guitar, cables and our Mr. Echo delay pedal. Below we see Luna posing with another of our electronic devices, a Korg Kaos Pad:
Electricity permeates not only our music but art as well. Here we see a piece entitled Reflective by artist Roy Forest. It contains a red neon light running the length of bamboo tube.
For WCB, note the Suzhou cat and maneki neko on the shelf about the sculpture.
It’s interesting how there is a black and red theme throughout the images in this post. I only noticed that after completing it. It has a suggestion of fire to it, and fire and electricity have a strong connection.
More electricity. This morning, we were awakened by a large electrical storm with loud thunder and flashes of lightening. It’s a remarkable coincidence, as thunderstorms are quite rare in San Francisco. They lasted most of the morning, and some neighborhoods lost electricity. Our area was not affected by the outages, and in the end things just got a little damp.
Weekend Cat Blogging is hosted by our friends LB and Breadchick at The Sour Dough. We know they will appreciate the audio and music gear featured in this article.
Photo Hunt #178 at tnchick features the theme of electric, with the prototype image being an electric guitar.
Kashim, Othello and Salome are hosting the Carnival of the Cats this Sunday.
And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
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Three Keyboard Cat Moon
Submitted by fellow Reconnaissance Fly band-member Bill Wolter, the Three Keyboard Cat Moon T-Shirt:
You can see the some of the Keyboard Cat videos here and here.
You can also visit the original Keyboard Cat site.
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CatSynth pic: Millie and Polysix
From Russ, via matrixsynth:
“Our 4-month old cat, Millie, ticking the ivories on a friend’s Polysix I’m fixing.”
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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.
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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.htmlplease enjoy ^-^
papercraft, artwork, animation, music and photography by tubbypaws”
[click to enlarge]
I’m going to try this out…or more specifically, at it to the queue of still-uncompleted DIY projects…
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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_catA 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!
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CatSynth video: cat massage
YouTube via lactatingwalrus, as seen on matrixsynth
“when to cat massage? whenever!”
I am of course reminded by this catsynth video from a couple of weeks ago.
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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!
