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Category: Luna

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: Luna and Monome

    This weekend we present a photo of Luna posing with the monome interface:

    I like the desaturated grayscale version, but also the original color photo as well:

    Notice that there is very little difference in the monome itself between the two photos. It is the new grayscale edition, with a silver front panel, white LED buttons and a black case. The monomes interface all have a very elegant minimalist design, but this edition is particularly well suited for our aesthetics.

    I am hoping to use it tonight in a performance I am doing at a Lunar New Year party here in San Francisco.

    Monome is a very small operation in the New York’s Catskills region. They design the interfaces and produce limited runs of each edition. We were fortunate to get one when they went on sale at the beginning of January. I thought this photo from their website, showing the team hard at work filling the orders, is quite appropriate:

    Weekend Cat Blogging is hosted by breadchick and LB at The Sour Dough.

    Carnival of the Cats will be hosted by Nikita Cat on his blog Meowings of an Opinionated Pussycat.

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • Weekend Cat Blogging #244

    Weekend Cat Blogging #244 is hosted by Kashim, Othello and Salome together at Paulchens FoodBlog?!

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

    The monthy Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos will be hosted by Nikita Cat

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: Roll

    Luna obliged with some cuteness for this photo series. She really is a fantastic photography model, when she chooses to be.

    Weekend Cat Blogging #243 is hosted this week by Jules and Vincent at Judi’s Mind Over Matter.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted on Sunday at Kashim, Othello and Salome.

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: Rain

    It’s been very stormy week here, with sometimes violent winds and heavy rain, and flash floods. Indeed, it has been raining at least once every few hours continuously since I departed from Los Angeles last Sunday. It’s the kind of weather where one really just wants to curl up and stay warm:

    In additional to seeing Luna napping on one of her favorite chairs, I liked the way the clothing draped on top formed this perfect triangle above her. This image has a very symbolic quality – the triangle is a very powerful element in my own visual ideas, and I have often talked about juxtaposing geometric elements against more natural organic shapes.

    This morning, the sun has appeared at CatSynth HQ for the first time in over a week, and Luna peers out into the world:

    Weekend Cat Blogging #242 is hosted by Nikita Cat.

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

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: Works of Art

    I managed to get this photo of Luna sitting in front of a ledge overlooking the downstairs. I think she matches the works of art on the wall quite well.

    Astute readers may recognize the large black painting from one of our reviews last October. See if you can pick out the artist.

    Weekend Cat Blogging is being hosted this weekend by The Meezers.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be up on Sunday at iMeowza.

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: Desaturation

    Our first Weekend Cat Blogging of 2010 begins in grayscale:

    Luna is on her favorite beanbag chair in a relatively clean studio. Nearby is a crate full of old audio interfaces – it seems we have quite a few E-MU, M-Audio and Digidesign interfaces, some in various states of disrepair or obsolescence.  We rely on one or another of these portable interfaces for live shows.

    Meanwhile, Luna drifts off to sleep…

    Weekend Cat Blogging will be hosted by Pam at Sidewalk Shoes.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at Mind of Mog.

    The monthly Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos will be hosted on Sunday by Samantha and The Orange Kitty at Life from a Cat’s Perspective.

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • Wordless Wednesday: Morning Sunshine

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: Hannukah

    For this holiday edition of Weekend Cat Blogging, we present some of our images from Hunnukah, the Jewish festival that concludes at sundown tonight. Our menorah, not surprisingly, has both musical and modernist elements, with a band of musicians behind the candles.

    Menorah with musicians

    As one can see, this was taken on the seventh night, which for a variety of scheduling reasons ended up being the main night on which we were able to celebrate. Luna received her gift, a blue fish toy – it is our personal tradition that designated Hannukah gifts have to be blue.

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    She seem to quite enjoy this toy, and immediately took to batting it around th floor; and play hunting with it by pushing it underneath the table and then pouncing on it. I was able to get some videos of her play:

    Weekend Cat Blogging #237, Holiday Edition is being hosted by Samantha at Life from a Cat’s Perspective.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted by Kashim, Othello and Salome. We wish Kashim a happy 11th birthday.

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • Weekend Cat Blogging: a rainy morning

    Here Luna watches as I work on some more art and music reviews to post later this weekend.

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    It is a good day for indoor activities, as it has been cold and rainy the last few days:

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    Perfect weather for drifting off to sleep.

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    especially for Luna who has been recovering from a cold (cats can get colds, too). Fortunately, she is feeling much better this weekend, and ready for the adventures ahead on this cold day…

    Weekend Cat Blogging is hosted by LB and breadchick at The Sour Dough.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted this Sunday at The Carnival of the Cats home.

    And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • 1000th Post

    Today we at CatSynth publish our  1000th Post!

    To mark this milestone, I created this mosaic featuring a few of Luna’s appearances:

    Mosiac of Luna's appearances on CatSynth

    [click to enlarge]

    A few fun statistical facts about our first 1000 posts:

    • Luna has appeared in 238 posts almost 25%.
    • To date, there 270 cat-and-synthesizer posts.
    • As of this writing there are 5439 comments, or an average of 5 comments per post.
    • Over 150 Weekend  Cat Blogging posts.
    • 115 Wordless Wednesday posts.
    • Approximately 10% of posts feature our current hometown of San Francisco.

    Here are the top 25 terms:

    Cats 582
    cat 414
    Synthesizers 348
    Luna 238
    Music 200
    weekend cat blogging 153
    WCB 152
    News 149
    Art 145
    Personal 133
    Wordless Wednesday 115
    San Francisco 97
    Modernism 88
    Photography 86
    Reviews 77
    Highways 70
    synth 62
    electronic music 59
    cats on tuesday 56
    analog 45
    carnival of the cats 43
    video 43
    Music 40
    Travel 38
    midnight monday 36