What affects us affects cats
About 11 years ago there was quite a lot of discussion and frankly disgust at the release of a comedy cat photo book by author Burton Silver and illustrator Heather Busch called Why Paint Cats: The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics“. An enigmatic title which does point to the ethics of what they did and …
This picture caught my eye on the Reddit website (u/Comrade_Vodka). Apparently, it has been around quite a while but I have never seen it before. The title of the picture is “To make a cute panorama picture”. I don’t understand that at all! But I do understand how it was made. The original photograph …
The reason why I have used the word “real” is because there is a well-known surrealist artist who created ‘The Topiary Cat’ and he’s on Facebook and he has his own website. His name is Richard Saunders. His creations are unreal; they are expert examples of photo-editing, and I briefly discuss his work below. …
There’s not much you can say about these Bengal cat pictures except to question whether they are genuine. It is both hard to believe that they are genuine and to believe that they are not. I’ll explain what I mean. In the photographs you can see the breeder’s hand and the wall behind the …
This is a cat photo that was used in an advert for Newman’s Own Organic pet food. Apparently it’s been online since 2013. There is a discussion as to whether the photo is genuine and whether is depicts a Toyger kitten. A Toyger is a fancy breed of cat selectively bred to look like …
There is probably nothing psychologically significant going on here but when the Swiss photographer/artist, Sebastian Magnani, merged – I suppose using Photoshop – photographs of the cat caretaker’s clothes (appearance) and his/her cat we end up with an image that is more sinister than amusing. Perhaps it is the way he did it. He …
