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Cute as a Frug

Here is Zeke, a french bulldog-pug mix, available in Vermont.

I'm torturing myself here. All the cutest dogs are in shelters in another country. Darn it.

Another face in a tree

Here's another tree face in the Conservatory (the Arid Garden this time; behind it is the Butterfly Room).

It's a funny bulldog smile on some sort of cactus tree. Maybe it was laughing at me because in order to get the shot I had to stand in the middle of a lot of spiny things which were all seemingly anxious to make my acquaintance. Ouch!

Kitty with Mouse Toy...or is it?

This is one of my favorite valentines that didn't quite make the Truly Disturbing cut. The innocent expression, the pinafore, the mouse with a ribbon on its tail...what the heck?!

Cute as a Bug

Sometimes when I get to missing my dog Boris (who still lives in Seattle) I cruise the interwebs looking at the cutest of shelter dogs. Here's a Bug (Boston Terrier/Pug mix) in Idaho who is adorable as all get out.

Zoo Tuesday: Tree Face

You can see all sorts of odd things in the Conservatory if you look hard enough.

Spam Art: Disciplinarian Custodian

New spam!

For this one I did some very interesting research. Nipple clamps and cats, no biggie, but things took a sideways turn when it came to the hip boots.

Don't believe me? Do a google with "safe search" off, and see what you come up with.

Images of Heaven (Part 4)

Another image of Heaven, with a cassowary, a monorail, and some stuff I saw at work.

Zoo Tuesday: Butterfly!

A Scarlet Swallowtail. Here's another, and a Tailed Jay and a Great Mormon, too.

The Men in the Walls

I was invited to participate in the 2nd Annual Bird Dog Silent Auction, a show of movie posters. Artists were asked to produce a poster for an existing or fictitious movie, and who could resist that challenge?

Digging through my stacks of well-loved science fiction paperbacks, I came across one of my all-time favorites, Of Men and Monsters by William Tenn (1968). Originally published as The Men in the Walls (Galaxy Publishing Corp. 1963), this is one of the best “man as cockroach” novels ever written.

For this piece I was inspired by the art of Richard Powers, who did a lot of Tenn covers for Ballantine, and Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley’s use of salt with watercolor.

Finished poster here.

Bird Dog Video
1333 16 Avenue SW
Calgary, AB T3C 0Z7
(403) 398-2283
Silent auction Thursday June 19th, 7-10pm.
All proceeds from the auction will be donated to a local charity (tba).

Endless Flight Part 3

First it was an old album, then it was paint-enhanced insanity, and now it is shoes! I cut Leo out of the equation entirely on these, because I wasn't sure what the copyright issues would be (not something that seems to bother more than a few of the contributors in the design contest), but you know he's still there in spirit!

By the way, not much posting going on here due to day job workload and extremely frustrating "upgrades" on the part of Typepad, which means it takes F O R E V E R to upload new content. Between all the little glitches and the "won't load images on Safari, only on Firefox" nonsense, it's starting to seem like work. Hopefully they'll get that fixed soon, it's annoying.