I am not exactly sure who or what God is, so I present this in a nondenominational way. It made me smile…
Hat tip to my friend Katy McMullen Burke for sending me this video. Visit GoDandDoG.org for more from Wendy Francisco who believes that religion often masks the character of God.
“The Wiener Dog Song” by Yet Another String Band is perhaps the most brilliant Doxie song ever written. Truly, it says it all!
View it on YouTube.
Hat tip to A. Marks, Dog Art Today reader and fellow Doxie lover, for sending me the link.
I stopped watching Sesame Street in the early 70’s so I missed some great segments from the later years like William Wegman’s Weimaraners baking bread. Sometimes I think his dogs look like they’re not into the whole dressing up thing, but they look like they’re having fun here, especially the dog at the end. Enjoy!
Sesame Street continues to amaze.
Via Taxing Tennessee.
I owe you all an apology, especially those who like Japanese-contemporary-dog-art-live-drawing-to-Tom-Waits exhibitions. I love them. But in the flurry of Christmas gift guides, I missed telling you about Seitaro Kuroda's Mad Dog Show at the hpgrp gallery in NYC last October.
Kuroda did a weekend-long live drawing session exploring the idea that dogs might not be that into domestication by humans, and perhaps they are mad about this. How would we know, since we are too busy obsessing over their cuteness. Kuroda produced dozens of Mad Dog drawings as he listened to the soulful songs of one of my favorite singers, Tom Waits, "whose music has been compared by the artist to barking dog."
This event sounds like perfection to me. If they had a tasty cheese platter, fresh-baked baguettes and a Shiraz served in crystal stemware, it I would consider it Nirvana, because dogs were welcome too.
So, since I can't undo letting this dog art news slip through the cracks, I am attempting to recreate it for you. First, click on the YouTube video of Tom Waits singing Ol' 55…
…then scroll down and enjoy the Mad Dogs and the photos of Kuroda at work. You might also want to pour yourself a glass of wine and snuggle up with your dog and ask him if he's mad.
I going going to put on Tom Waits: The Early Years, Vol. 2, and make some art. I feel very lucky that this is my life.
Via Moco Loco.
Several months in the making, my new film Dogs in Art was a true labor of love. It was such a pleasure working so closely with all these spectacular pet portraits and charting the history of dogs in art over 5,000 years. The art and the artists were, and still are, endlessly inspiring. Hope you enjoy it!
View Dogs in Art on a "wide screen" at YouTube.
See a list of all the art (full images) and links to the artists here.
As a favor, if you'd like to leave a comment, please click on this YouTube link and leave it there. I'm moving up the charts as "Most Discussed" video in the Pets & Animals category and feeling very competitive.
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P.P.S. Music is Parlez-Moi D'Amour by CharlElie Couture from The Moderns soundtrack by Mark Isham. I couldn't find it on iTunes but you can get the CD here
P.P.S. In case you haven't seen it, this film was inspired by Philip Scott Johnson's masterful "Women in Art" video blockbuster of last year. Click here to see it.
LOL! I heart Mo Rocca!!!
See the “wide screen” version and lots more from Mo on YouTube.
…and my dog is too.
My sister Sheila Cameron designed these T-shirts. She is the only person I know who actually witnessed Lauren Caitlin Upton’s response live on the Miss Teen USA Pageant. She laughed so hard she nearly went into early labor (she’s due in October.) In case you missed it, click here to see the helpful subtitled version on YouTube.
In Lauren’s defense, I think we’ve all been there, just not on national TV. I can recall a espcially brutal charades game where I drew a complete blank and just stood there for a very long minute. (Clue was Daniel Deronda, title character in George Eliot novel.)