Here’s another mashup of images from an idealized landscape and the the horror of the deeps.

If anyone has a paper anniversary coming up, such as a year of blogging or a year since a creationist promised to “get back to you” about their debunked claim, one of Joseph Wu’s origami octopods might be the perfect gift—to themselves.

Clever people are using their skills plus the web to generate publicity and resources to pay for the care and adoption of rescued cats in the Factory Cats Project. The first project, Foreclosure Cats, was to rescue sixty cats perforce abandoned when a man was evicted from his home. I hope that someone helped him, too! That encouraged the people to use the same plan for the Factory Cats project, a colony of forty feral cats.

Adopt a cat

Local artists have created artworks that represent the cats, and the money is being used to pay for the cats’ care. Click on the link for the Animal Rescue Art Project. The original artworks are being auctioned on eBay and you can buy copies of the images on Cafepress.

You are looking at an Anasazi Bowl from around 1100-1250 CE. So it was made several hundred years ago. But it looks both modern and sophisticated. The pattern uses repetitive elements and gently teases the eyes to rove over it.

It’s in the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian at Evanston, Illinois, U.S.

Larryfire posted an article about two artists who make unusual art using models, cut-outs, etc. In this case he focused on their scary snow-globes, which contain tiny scenes of fantasy and strangeness. Read the article and then click through to the artists’ Web site.  The globes are fairly large, 15cm x 15cm x 22cm.  On the Web site there are also small images of scenes that are rendered at about 2m x 1m and printed in small editions of 5 or 6 copies. They are also weird and thought-provoking.

"Traveller 63 at Night, 2003" by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz