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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This weekend, we present some of the cats featured in the Macy’s SF/SPCA Holiday Windows. Every year during the holidays, San Francisco SPCA teams up with Macy’s in San Francisco to feature adoptable pets in the holiday window displays at their main store in Union Square.
Here are couple of kittens in one window:
and this handsome black cat:
Many passers-by in this busy shopping district were surprised and delighted by the live animals in the displays. We at CatSynth certainly hope that some of these animals, including the cats featured above, find new homes as a result of this program.
To find out more about the program, including when to see the animals and how you can contribute, please visit the official Macy’s SF/SPCA Holiday Windows site.
Weekend Cat Blogging #238 will be hosted by our friends at the House of the (Mostly) Black Cats.
Carnival of the Cats will be going up this Sunday at When Cats Attack!.
And of course the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
Happy Holidays!
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.
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.
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.
Here Luna watches as I work on some more art and music reviews to post later this weekend.
It is a good day for indoor activities, as it has been cold and rainy the last few days:
Perfect weather for drifting off to sleep.
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.
Today I had a rehearsal for next week’s Pmocatat Ensemble performance at the Luggage Store Gallery. Pmocatat stands for “prerecorded music on cds and tapes and things”, and among the prerecorded sounds I plan to use this time are some recordings of Luna:
The name of the microphone I used this morning to record her is also called Luna. It is a pretty decent microphone, though recording a cat is going to be challenging with any equipment. Here is a recording of her purring:
You can hear a recording here.
I also used the audio from Luna’s chattering videos.
For those “in the business,” I would like to mention that using Pro Tools (my default option) to extract the sounds from the video did not work at all – it was difficult to do and produced really noisy results – while using Final Cut Pro plus the free program Audacity worked great.
All this preparation work got us rather tired, so time for a nap:
Weekend Cat Blogging #235 will be hosted by Kashim, who stepped in at the last minute.
And don’t forget that Carnival of Cats will be hosted tomorrow right here at CatSynth! To participate, please submit your post here.
While I am away in New York this week, Luna is back at her deluxe boarding facility. She seemed to adjust relatively quickly after reacquainting herself with the place:
Of course, she quickly found her little alcove where she can peer out.
It’s always a little bittersweet to drop her off, but I know she will be well cared for. And I have a sense this trip to New York will be good. I expect to post some art and music reviews as time permits.
Meanwhile Weekend Cat Blogging #233 is being hosted by Samantha at Life from a Cat’s perspective. We still hope that Mr. Tigger comes home.
The Carnival of the Cats returns this Sunday to Pet’s Garden Blog.
And of course Friday Ark is at the modulator.