Last Sunday Improv Everywhere teamed up with with The Invisible Dog art space (housed in the former invisible dog leash factory) to coordinate 2,000 invisible dog walkers blanketing Brooklyn for fun and mayhem. Here are some great photos from Agent Chad Nicholson. See more on flickr.
P.S. The Invisible Dog art space is having a fundraising dinner on October 1, 2009, and their No Longer Empty exhibition opens on October 3, 2009. Click here for more information. I dig their groovy poster:
Photo by Erika June Christina Laing
My sister Regan lives in Pittsburgh where the G-20 just wrapped up on Friday. She sent me this photo by Erika June Christina Laing from her flickr site of one of the security dogs. What a shot. She also reported that several of the protests turned into sports rallies, with chants breaking out of “Go Pens!” and “Here we go Steelers, here we go!” That’s Pittsburgh for your. It’s all about the sports.
Photograph of John Singer Sargent in his Paris studio circa 1885. Photographer unknown via the Smithsonian Institution photostream on flickr. Note the large dog portrait in the upper left hand corner.
I wonder if this is where he seduced Louise Burckhardt (or she seduced him)…
Louise Burckhardt, Lady With The Rose, by Sargent, 1882
…and also painted Louise's dog, Pointy. IMO, one of the greatest dog art works of all time…
Pointy by John Singer Sargent, early 1880's
Read more about the bittersweet love story here. Pointy is also one of the stars in my short film, Dogs in Art.
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Gina Catching Leaves by nigul2002 via flickr
Fall officially begins today at 11:44 am EST. So today, I am featuring some autumnal dog art to usher in a season I spend the summer dreading, then enthusiastically embrace when it arrives. Stew, fireplaces, football, yes, as a kid, I even liked going back to school, fresh notebooks and finding out whom I would sit next too. Spring is thought to be the season of rebirth, but in many ways it's Fall. Every team is perfect, and every student has an A. Feels nice.
Pitbulls for Obama via littlepretty
So it turns out Porties aren’t the only dogs for Obama. Look at all these canine Obama fans I found on flickr:
Marley for Obama via tkruiter
Chihuahuas for Obama via Rob G1914
Kyla for Obama via pbredow
Puggles for Obama (Fergie) via djwhelan
Get your Bark Obama dog t-shirts, button, dog bowls, and bumper stickers here.
Also, my friend Tom Turley went to Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver and took these amazing photos (click on images for larger size) :
And I just discovered the Baltimore Sun’s John Woestendiek’s Mutts blog where he, too, compares all the candidates to dogs.
Now, it’s finally time to add the last piece of the puzzle to my own dog/candidate comparison and decide what Sarah Palin is…
The Yoshitomo Nara + graph A-Z Project at Baltic in the northern England town of Gateshead sounds like an intriguing experience. The renowned Japanese pop artist worked with the Osaka-based design company to create 26 houses, one for each street named for the alphabet, aiming to explore “the relationship between the individual, the space they inhabit and objects within their surroundings.”
While his iconic little girl drawings appear dominant, Pup King, his equally well-known dog, makes appearances too.
Can you find the single Pup King in this pile of plushies? Click on image for larger view.
photo by gilsteph via flickr
And, a limited edition Pup King plush toy (pictured at top) is available in the gift shop or online. Great Christmas gift for Nara-philes.
Related links:
Read more about the show here.
More Yoshitomo Nara Pup King art, t-shirts, posters and toys are here.
Order Nara’s Children’s book The Lonesome Puppy here.
Read Matthew Rose’s excellent analysis of Japanese pop art and Nara here.
Great flickr set of Nara’s work from Tigerlily here.
Pop dog art friend, Rebecca Collins, suggested I check out Flickr for some more in my Dog on Chair series. Look who I found, one of my all time favorite dogs, Morran, artist Camilla Engman's iconic dog sitting on iconic Swedish modern Sjuan chair.
See more Flickr dogs on chairs here. There are some awesome shots. I could do a whole Dog on Chair blog!
All the cool dogs have one. And yours can too for the very reasonable price of $12. Order online from Your Dog Will Dig It.
Ignore your dog’s high tech needs at your own risk. He might take a liking to one of your fun toys…
(iBone spotted on the talented dog artist Rebecca Collins’s Art Dog Blog. “My Dog Ate My iPod Shuffle” courtesy of laughtonb’s Flickr site.
