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  • Weekend Cat Blogging with Luna: Under the Glass

    Luna under the glass

    We’re in the midst of a heatwave in San Francisco, and CatSynth HQ gets exceptionally warm on these days. It’s on warm sunny days like this that Luna is especially of fond of napping underneath glass tables.

    It’s been nice featuring Luna three times in the past week on the blog, but hopefully I will have some time for other posts as well, including getting through the backlog of music and art reviews from the past month or so.

    Carnival of the Cats will be coming to Pet’s Garden Blog this Sunday.

  • Wordless Wednesday: Chrome Jungle Cat

    Wordless Wednesday: Chrome Jungle Cat

    Luna and Chrome

  • CatSynth pic: Cat and Buchla

    CatSynth pic: Cat and Buchla

    cat and buchla

    From muff’s forum, where cats often lurk amongst the synth posts.

  • CatSynth video: Coco Keravos Music Live Improvised

    From Meng Qi on YouTube, via matrixsynth.

    “Live Improvised by Meng Qi and Xiaodaner

    mengqimusic.com”

  • Weekend Cat Blogging with Luna: The camera that you have

    Weekend Cat Blogging with Luna: The camera that you have

    It’s always about the camera that one has on hand, especially with cat portraits that are in the moment. When Luna jumped on my lap for some affection the other day, the only camera I had was the iPad.

    Luna on lap - iPad Photo

    It is lower resolution and optics compared to the iPhone or my DSLR, but pointed correctly it still captures Luna’s features and essence.

    This morning, I happened to have the DSLR on hand, and Luna was quite well posed. So it was time for an impromptu photo shoot.

    Luna closeup portrait

    The photos were a good reminder of what the good camera and lenses can do and the “iThingies” cannot. Here, one can control the optics to get a particularly rich and detailed portrait. Of course, it helps that Luna cooperated by staying relatively still, only moving her head into different poses like a professional model.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at Life from a Cat’s Perspective.

    And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • CatSynth video: Cat Percussionist!

    Sometimes we feature cats with instruments that are more analog than analog.

    If you have cat-and-music videos, you can share them with us via facebook, Twitter @catsynth, or by contacting us.

  • CatSynth pic: Dr J looks worried

    Dr J the Cat with modular synth

    From Derek Morton on flickr, via matrixsynth.

    “Dr J synth cat & eurorack modular.”

    Quite a few of those modules look familiar.

  • CatSynth pic: Brian Eno Purina ad

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    Yes, Brian Eno and his cat starred in a Purina cat-food ad (presumably from the 1970s). Reported by Xeni Jardin on Boing Boing, and submitted to us by reader Karen Martakos via our Facebook page.

  • Weekend Cat Blogging with Luna: Gotcha Day Report

    As regular readers know, last Monday, June 10, was Luna’s Gotcha Day. Thanks to everyone who sent her warm wishes. She certainly enjoyed her day.

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    We also made a special dinner that we could share together. These fish cakes, from the book Meow Chow are both quite delicious and safe for cats:

    fishcakes_c

    Luna was quite excited by the aroma of the fish cooking. And then it was time for her to enjoy her share:

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

    And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • CatSynth video: one kay (Eurorack modular live set)

    From donaldjasoncrunk on YouTube, via matrixsynth. With Eurorack modular and a cat!

    “live set – 3 seperate noises in one video for your convenience! happy to be celebrating my 1000th post on the best internet community in the world, Muffwiggler. thanks to my fellow wigglers for the awesome advice and the awesome music that i listen to constantly!

    the first two sounds are more percussion oriented, the last more sequency. i premade the vocal loops to save some time and to save you from hearing too much of my lovely boyvoice.”