One Cat Day

Great cat toilet

2011-02-07T08:18:00.000-08:00

Cat clock

2011-02-06T08:17:00.000-08:00

Cat mania

2010-01-06T09:56:00.000-08:00

These are the first stages of cat mania which is actually intolerant of what the spouse thinks of your current phsicological condition. All spelling errors permited! All mania and depression allowed! Pure medicine for a broken heart..

1 stage - imagening of telling people how you feel
2 stage – playing with the idea of telling people what you actually think
3 stage – starting to draw simple images of the object
4 stage – thinking of committing to a good deed
5 stage – starting to tell some strange things about yourself and the object
6 stage – starting to create stories that never happened and try them on your friends
7 stage – depression – who is listening?
8 stage – the birth of an idea
9 stage – plans in development
10 stage – the first problems
11 stage – turns out that great things are not easy
12 stage – repetition of the project title… infinetly…

Cyrillic L cat letters

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T cat Letters

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V cat Letters

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L cat Letters

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E cat Letters

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A cat letters

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B cat letters

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C cat Letters

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Q cat Letters

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O cat letters

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K cat letters

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New book

2010-01-03T10:36:00.000-08:00

I would like to share with you the contents of my future book. It will be the following:

chapters:

1. cat

2. cat

3. cat

and so on...

In the first i will be disscussing the idea of cat as the master of the human, the seccond chapter will go about the problems of intuition and finding the right person to posess. The third chapter will begin with some smart saying about the nature of being special and will capture the basics of the main idea - humans are desperate when it comes to their cats.

Mom said

2009-12-18T14:09:00.001-08:00

I always wanted a dog, but my mom says they fart and they have to stay outside. Grandpa farts as well but he never stays outside. Mom says that cats are much cleaner animals and that they make less trouble, she says that one of the main differences between cats and men is that cats manage to piss in the toilet. She said when you grow up you will have a better understanding of people if we get a cat. Which is strange because miss Thomson next door has 2 cats but her husband run away last week and got killed in a train crush on his way to Mexico. I don’t think mom gets it right. This has nothing to do with the cats.

Max

wire cat

2009-12-18T13:47:00.000-08:00

I created this cat out of wire. I don't have many photoes of it but you can see what i've tryed. I bought once a donkey that was made of quite harder to bent wire and i was impressed so i tryed. And to be honest it is fun to try new things, especially when it kind of gets somewhere. As you can see in the back of the picture i made also a dog. Actually i made as well a mouse, but i dont have a photo of it.

Witz

2009-12-18T13:36:00.000-08:00

What makes the cat better than the husband?
You don’t have to spend long hours with her mother!

An engineer, an accountant, a chemistry expert and a state employee

2009-12-18T13:35:00.000-08:00

An engineer, an accountant, a chemistry expert and a state employee began arguing whose cat is the smartest. The engineer called his cat:
- X2, Demonstrate!
The cat called X2 climbed on the table, took paper and pencil and drew a circle, a square and a triangle. Everyone agreed that this is an intelligent cat.
The accountant told his cat:
- Interest, demonstrate!
The cat Interest went to the kitchen and came back with 12 meat balls. He put them In 4 separate plates, 3 meat balls per plate and everybody agreed that this is an intelligent cat as well.
The chemistry expert called his cat:
- Test-tube, demonstrate!
The cat Test-tube went to the kitchen, brought milk and pored precisely 150 grams in a glass. They all agreed this is one intelligent cat as well.
At the end it was time for the cat of the state employee and he called it:
- Pamper, demonstrate!
The cat pamper ate the meatballs, drunk the milk, pissed on the drawings, raped the other tree cats, lamented his back hearts, wrote a complaint for the awful conditions of work, sent it to the municipality and took one month vacation because of health issues.

The small kitten

2009-12-18T13:32:00.000-08:00

A kitten asked his bigger brother:
- What is this thing “fucking”?
- Come with me tonight and you’ll see. – said the big brother and when the evening came they went to a special spot where all the young cats gathered. But it was winter and it was extremely cold. They sat and they waited for the other cats to arrive. They waited and waited until the kitten said to his big brother:
- You know, I’m gonna fuck some more and I’m going home.

Cat woman dreamer

2009-12-18T09:50:00.001-08:00

When I was younger I wanted to be cat sexy. I mean al these roles in the movies, I wanted to play in a movie and be the cat woman – sexy and hot. I thought men like it and it turned out to be true. It is sexy but I never got a chance to play a cat woman. So instead I have a huge collection of cat woman posters and I have even a bigger collection of cat images and cat woman cutouts from newspapers and magazines, so I am kind of an expert about cat woman design. I even made myself a cat woman costume but I over grew and when the Halloween came I couldn’t fit in it. So it was a waste. So I have kind of disappointing experience with cat woman dreams, and clothing and posters and even thought I will never be a cat woman on the outside, I intend to be such on the inside. Gentlemen, be careful with me. Especially you, Andreas.

Lisy

Cat food lover

2009-12-18T09:13:00.001-08:00

I must admit there is probably something wrong with me, but actually not with me. There is something wrong with cat food, because I find it tasty. Well yes, it is a kind of a problem actually because to buy cat food sometimes I need to explain some stuff about my cat. But I don’t have a cat. Imagine me answering the following questions: “How often does your cat eat? Does it take proteins? Since it is taking proteins you shouldn’t buy the chicken flavor, better take the pork with fish and vegetables one.” No, - I used to answer – my cat prefers the chicken flavor best! “Well then, Mister, I must say your cat is suffering from your intolerable lack of interest for it’s health!
A? A? Are you talking to me? I just wanted to buy some chicken flavored cat food. Ass!

Anonymous

Tom hater

2009-12-18T09:00:00.001-08:00

I’m bored to death by my mother’s cat Tom. Tom is the biggest piece of shit in the whole universe! No, seriously. She doesn’t care if I have eaten but Tom needs his special food in his little special plate. With his little special toys that always seam to stay in front of my door. That’s why every time Tom tries to sneak in to my room I throw things at him. The nasty creature thinks he is more powerful and important and as soon as I go out he goes in my room. I wanted to lock the door, but mom said no. Why? Because I would be doing things… So since I’m not allowed to do THINGS, Tom Is allowed to do whatever he wants. So, do I like cats? – NO! Especially Tom!

Math

Love weapon

2009-12-18T08:39:00.001-08:00

The greatest thing about cats is the fact that women love them. If you pick the right cat you will lay as many chicks as you like. Well why lie to each other. Women like to thouch them, they find cats sweet and gentle and men who like them as well are a good match. That’s the truth! Ladies, you’re mine!

Andreas

Next Species

2009-12-18T08:34:00.001-08:00

I believe that when the human race is extict the cats will rule. Because cats are fast, smart, they have structure, they use their instincts. And humans they don’t have half of these things, but have intelligence. I think cats can develop intelligence. I mean – they show it. They show self-sufficiency, they make complicated decisions how to react, you can see them think. That’s what I believe.

John

Enjoy, don’t touch

2009-12-18T08:22:00.000-08:00

I confess I like cats, but dare not touch them. When I was little I played with a cat and I hadn’t obviously noticed that the cat was bored with me and suddenly the cat cut my veins with it’s claws. Well there was blood, and the owner began chasing the cat explaining to me that I obviously did something wrong to it. So although I like them, I prefer the observation technique.

Tommy

Respect

2009-12-18T08:15:00.001-08:00

I think that the word that we should remember when we speak of cats is RESPECT! If you don’t respect a cat it doesn’t feel good, brings you trouble. If you respect the cat It will respect you back. That’s what I have to say.

Dona

Cat lover

2009-12-18T08:12:00.001-08:00

I confess I have 7 cats and I can’t afford to loose or give away any of them. People have told me many times “do something about it, this thing can not go on!” My mom told me “I will not come at your place” but I don’t care. People think of my cats as a problem, I think that this is the only thing that keeps me happy after the long day. If I want I will have 12, no, 20 cats because I love them!

Tania

Cat fear

2009-12-18T08:05:00.000-08:00

I admit I was a very funny person some 30 years ago. As soon as any cat neared the table in a restaurant I used to climb on the chair or directly on the table and start crying. And there was no actual explanation of that. Cats never did anything to me, it was just a product of my feelings. So I decided to face the enemy and stop climbing around in restaurants. They couldn’t stop cats from entering the garden parts of the restaurants. For a while we used to sit only inside, but that was not always possible, so I had to do something about it. I decided to look strait at the cat and as I began doing it they usually used to stop for a while and then run away. That was the beginning. Later on I learned not to notice them and I admit – Lately I am a great fan actually of the cat beauty. Because cats are simply beautiful! I even started painting. Guess what? – Cats! Cats allover the place! I’m not ready to have one, but I sure love them. All this happened for a short period of time – it took only 30 years of my life to change. It’s hard to change, but people do change, believe me.

Lora

Fear & Aggression

2009-12-18T08:03:00.001-08:00

I confess I once hit a cat really bad. We decided to visit our country house and because the cat was always getting anxious when we all left together we decided to take it with us. So I took it and held it while leaving the apartment, but as soon as the cat realized it was outside it stuck it’s claws in my chest and I tried to pull the cat away but it went even worst. So I started screaming and hit it in the head… The cat was alright after that but it never liked me as much as before. And I’m sorry for all that, I should have been smarter and just leave it alone in the apartment or put it in these boxes for animals.

Mike

Evolution

2009-12-18T06:33:00.001-08:00

The first time miss Patty fed the cats under her window they seamed to like that and she felt they were kind of smiling at her. So she decided to give them food every day until a whole week had passed and she heard a strange voice underneath her window:
- This crazy woman is an awful cook.
- Pretend you like it – answered the other cat and the two cats continued to eat.
Miss Patty was shocked and thought it’s rather time to visit her psychiatrist then admit that she actually heard real cat talking.
The doctor told Miss Patty to avoid any contact with the cats and that all the voices come from her head. She obeyed what she was told and ceased going downstairs. But from time to time she had food that she couldn’t eat because it was too much or because it was a bit old so she began throwing it from the window. And as she threw it she run rapidly inside to avoid any contact with the cats.
But one morning as she was throwing some peaces of bread from the window she heard a voice.
- Hey, Lady!
She froze at the window and began turning her eyes around.
- Yea, you, on the third floor, with the white hair and big glasses that don’t fit on your face!
- Me? – Asked Miss Patty and her hands were trembling.
- Yea, you.
Miss Patty saw one of the cats in the neighborhood right underneath her window:
- Hey, Lady! If you continue to throw food under your window please throw something tasty! Not this smelly garbage! Even the street dogs wouldn’t eat it! Please learn to cook!
And Miss Patty fainted. Thanks god she fell on the inside of her window. When she woke up she decided not to tell anyone because everybody were going to think she had finally lost her mind.
She sat at her living room and tried to calm down, but what was there to calm about – it was just a talking cat under her window who thought she was a bad cook. What the hell! And at that moment the doorbell rang. Miss Patty fixed her hair, pulled her blouse and opened the door just to find there the cat.
- Hello.
- Hello? – answered miss Patty as she was trembling but at the same time telling her self “Its just a cat who rung at my doorbell. It even said Hello to me”
- I am sorry to bother you, but may I have some milk?
- But of course, dear, let me take it from the kitchen…Do you want to come in?
- No, I’d rather stay outside.
- Very well then.
And miss Patty went to the kitchen and came back with a plate and some milk she pored in it.
- But how is it possible. You can talk? You speak like a human…
- Evolution, lady. Cold you give me some more milk? Miau…
The cat drunk three tee plates with milk and left miss Patty in deep thoughts. As the new day was dawning she was still sitting on her couch looking at the wall as if the wall was telling her some incredible things. At eight o’clock in the morning the postman rang at her door but she didn’t open it. He rang again but Miss Patty couldn’t open because she had died at the very instant the door bell rang.
Two days later she was buried at the cemetery and she couldn’t tell anyone about her discovery. Well what the hell, they would have taken her for crazy. May be they didn’t deserve to know. May be the time has come? Who knows… Miss Patty left this world, but she finally realized that it was hell fast changing and whatever you know is oldnews…

Trapped in the cellar

2009-12-15T06:53:00.000-08:00

We went to the neighborhood of an old friend and called him. He suddenly invited us at his home laughing about some cat problem. When we arrived we saw some neighbors of his having a big scandal in front of their building about “THE CAT”. So out of curiosity we stayed there and listened as to what exactly was the problem.
Some street cat had obviously entered the cellar of our friend while some workers were doing something to fix the door. The cellar was filled with iron, wood and whatever there is that could be put into a cellar and now the cat was hiding somewhere in the back angry and frightened.
Apparently there weren’t many ways to take the cat out. First there was the option of waiting. And they waited for some half an hour in silence, but the poor animal didn’t run away so the neighbors began discussing the other options. First of which is to call the “animal problem” social workers and let them deal with the cat. But there was a slight problem. When they come they will most probably capture the cat and then put the poor animal to sleep for good. And that was a bit of a problem actually because it was not only one cat, there was a whole family of sweet small and bigger cats and the social workers will take all animals and put them to sleep. So half of the neighbors were against the social workers and the other half said: Then, ok. We also like the cats, but what shall we do with this one? Let it die inside? Start smelling? And never the less, they might not kill the animals…
And it went on and on… We left and we called a few days later asking what happened with the poor animal. Our friend said: We locked the door and went home leaving the cat inside. In two days – he said – without food the cat was probably more anxious to get out. So I unlocked the door and as soon as I opened it the cat flew out as if the devil was chasing it. It was a huge male cat with beautiful tale, angry and hungry. I suppose the curiosity didn’t kill the cat this time.
Well - we asked - what are you going to do with all these cats? You can not keep them all…
And he wondered for a second. I suppose – he said – all of my neighbors feel like me. I can’t call the social services and get all these animals killed so I wait for someone else to do it. We all wait for someone else to do it.
And he laughed again although it was not funny at all. But what could he do…

These photoes of kittens i took while the people were arguing about the trapped cat. The elder cats run away so i couldn't take a picture of them as well.

Simon's Cat 'Fly Guy' -

2009-12-10T13:55:00.000-08:00

Simon's Cat "Fly Guy" is a short animation with a very nice humor and if by chance you haven't seen it please enjoy! This 2.23 minutes animation has been wached over 4,565,472 times!

To make it even better i could tell you that there are a few animations more by the same autor.

Me personaly i enjoyed it so much that i wached it some ten times at least.

Drawings of cat

2009-12-10T02:13:00.000-08:00

If you like drawings of cat you could go to the folowing pages which are not in english, but there are some 30 or 40 drawings of cat and some are quite likable.

page 1

page 2

page 3

Joe playing - 10 sec animation

2009-09-17T16:14:00.000-07:00

The animation is only 10 sec. but is nice, I made it a few hours ago and i kind of like it.

Catcerto 2009

2009-09-17T07:58:00.000-07:00

I would like to share with you a revelation, an inspiration…

We always admire animals that have a human behavior towards specific things and are capable to capture a piece of human culture because we all know it is not that easy for an animal to blend in human nature. For that reason we admire the animals that kind of comprehend pieces of us.

So now as I find Nora, a piano playing cat, I am impressed and deeply touched. But I am much more impressed by the spirit of the people who created Nora by trying to here her voice, by trying to capture that piece of time in which Nora is being very special. And we believe Nora as we believe in what these people are telling us. It is not certain Nora is creating art for we don’t know how Nora feels about her playing the piano. Art begins to exist in the moment the appreciation of Nora starts.

So what we have here is the concept that art is not solely a human terrain and including Nora in a concert presents the creative as an interspecies quality and enriches us in a very powerful way. Because Nora is being creative and the humans do not hesitate to acknowledge it. It doesn’t matter if Nora understands her creativeness, we do and this is what’s important.

So giving so much attention to Nora and including her in a concert as a solo player is a recognition of uniqueness and a cultural reach beyond all that is conventional. Because Nora is unconventional. Nora is reaching her paws towards humanity and we can’t resist to enjoy it.

Pay attention, by the way that I keep calling this cat “Nora” all the time instead of saying “the cat Nora”. Quite interesting because it is not the cat Nora I am talking about, but it is Nora who is a cat I am speaking of.

It is amazing how a human composer shares his composition with Nora the cat. He follows Nora’s ideas, he enriches the feeling, composes trough listening and trough listening we trust his judgment that all this is what it is – unique.

It is as well the multilinguistic project we enjoy. The multimedia is a very powerful tool in art and it has been used very carefully and thoughtfully in the Catcerto. We can try to segment the piece buy pointing some contrasts used here.

As a start we can say that the classical music has been conventionally presented by a system of visual signs like – seriousness, official clothing, elevated emotions triggered by the presence of the orchestra, probably the composer himself – all that pointing to a highly elevated art no one would dare to call unserious in any way. You go to a concert, you enter the hall and there is this total silence, everyone is expecting the MUSIC to start. At the same time lets look at the visual system of the cat playing the piano. Cats are one of the sweetest species in the world. They are playful, child like, they can look pretty innocent, and quite unserious as they start and stop and lie down, and agin begin to play – a very free sign system when you try to compare it with classical music performance. So here we have a beautiful visual linguistic contrast - the cat with it’s free behavior opposed to the concert musicians who are very strict in what they are doing. Beautiful contrast!

Then again in the visual part of the performance – the musicians are many, are people and there is this one cat Nora presenting the cat species and maybe presenting the whole animal kingdom – strong effect again. There is more – the cat has been always considered as an elegant creature, we admire cats for their looks very much. We admire the elegance of the musicians performing as well but this is a different kind of elegance – so here you have again a contrast but this time there is this both side elegance standing there to unite the symbols. So you see the exotic idea to place a cat in to a concert hall is getting more and more interesting.

I am thinking now of the rich lady who is going to a concert with a fur collar of a wild cat listening to a concert where the main performer is a cat. Wow… Must be a very complicated situation.

And if we try to continue with the former line of thoughts there is the sound in the Catcerto which is again build in a wonderful line of contrast and harmony. There is this big number of instruments introducing us to the solo of Nora, and the instruments go around the piano solo enriching it, protecting it from loosing the way, and building such a solid base that the single notes start to dance in a wonderful music.

Now I would like to stop here and invite you to see this amazing piece of art by visiting the Catcerto website – http://www.catcerto.com/ There you could watch the whole piece of the concert.

Digital art experiment

2009-09-15T12:45:00.000-07:00

An interesting experiment was the liquefier tool that I used to create these images. At first there was a simple image of thread rolls and then something began shaping up. So just moments away was that close to cat looking image which of course isn’t the best but is not that bad after all. So taking journeys in experimenting over various kinds of materials is one of my favorite stuff to do in my spare time. And there are many programs with as many tools to do such things.

Another image I tried was the blue one again with thread rolls and it kind of looks maybe better than the first one. So I am continuing my exploration journey until I find it.

Stamping cats all over!

2009-09-15T10:45:00.000-07:00

What I tried today is to create a cat stamping tool. When I was a kid we used to buy these and they seamed to be all over the place. We were stamping all the pages in our textbooks and it was fun. We were stamping even our favorite books to show everybody that they are ours. So I came up with an idea to buy a present to a little fellow who Is just starting with that kind of toys and what a surprise!

I went to a big shop with all these toys and found just one box and it included just 6 stamping blocks - a bear, a duck, a dog, an elephant, a dear and a mouse. Well, I thought, it shouldn’t be that hard to create your own…

Whatever design you like!

So I took my silicon pistol and began. Here is my silicon pistol – may be the cheapest one on the market. I drew my first design idea with a pencil and then covered it with silicon on a sheet of rice paper. Now the thing is that I began as if I am a Michelangelo and I can begin drawing from the toe and then continue with the rest of the body step by step. But I am no Michelangelo and I messed all up by melting my silicon lines every time I added something. Somehow I managed to create the stamping surface but I didn’t have a wooden block to use as a base and made one again from silicon and the result was more than unsatisfying. And then I tried to level all the lines for silicon doesn’t spread equally and It went even worst:)

So after some trouble getting the silicon stamping area relevantly equal so that it can carry the ink equally I received these results. Not bad for a start, but not good enough. And I have taken a picture of the first stamp and the result images to give you a hint of my disappointment.

So after all the hesitation and trouble I realized that I was doing some very stupid things and a single wooden block with a single silicon drawing is going to be faster, easier and much smarter. So now I was almost happy but didn’t have a wooden block and couldn’t take this project to the end so I decided to try something else.

I took some pieces of isolation material (5 mm) that I have around and after I drew with a pencil what I imagined I took a knife and cut it. So this is what I created and tried the stamping qualities of the material and they actually are not that bad. It’s just you can stamp only 3 times before inking again and although it is equally flat and can be easily glued to an wooden block it is kind of too fragile for a kid. Because we all know how kids like to scratch with their cute little fingers everything and they like to know how things work and this material won’t last more than a minute. So the stamping result is better but it is not hard enough to face the moment of children playing with it.

So this is what I received as a result of the stamping with the isolation material cutouts and they are actually not that bad. So I had to think of something easier and more capable of withstanding children play. And suddenly it hit me.

I could just draw a cat however complicated - one or ten - and just go to an office where people create stamping tools like firm stamps. And it sounds so nice when you say it – the perfectly working stamping tool can be ready in 5 minutes and can make over 50 000 copies of the image! Wow! And this is precisely what I am going to do when I think of a drawing I like enough and I am going to draw some projects now for I actually like the idea very much and am certain I have to try it.

So I will continue though with the search of other ways to create a stamping tool. One of cource could be a wooden block with engraving in it, but this takes time. Another possibility is to create a gypsum matrix and then lay silicon on it. There are many options and all sound like fun.

Stamps from Poland

2009-09-14T13:41:00.001-07:00

Stamps from Yemen

2009-09-14T13:40:00.002-07:00

Three cat stamps

2009-09-14T13:40:00.001-07:00

Cats

2009-09-14T13:39:00.002-07:00

Cat stamps

2009-09-14T13:39:00.001-07:00

Bulgarian stamps

2009-09-14T13:36:00.000-07:00

Bulgarian stamps - cats

2009-09-14T13:35:00.000-07:00

Bulgarian stamps

2009-09-14T13:34:00.000-07:00

Stamps from Mongolia

2009-09-14T13:33:00.000-07:00

Russian tiger stamp

2009-09-14T13:31:00.002-07:00

Well I'm not sure that it is single, but that is what i have.

Bulgarian stamps of wild cats

2009-09-14T13:31:00.001-07:00

Romanian Stamps

2009-09-14T13:30:00.001-07:00

Bulgarian stamps of cats

2009-09-14T13:27:00.001-07:00

Paper cut out cats

2009-09-14T12:36:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I asked my grandmother what kind of a kid I was. I am observing closely the children of my friends and I kind of feel some curiosity as to what kind of trouble I was to the grownups. And my grandmother told me I was that kind smiling creature, almost always agreeing with the others and I was that super extra good mannered kid… You know memories are a strange thing they obviously can change… So I am that wonderful person as a kid and suddenly and most surprisingly my grandmother says:
- But there was that thing about you…

Wow! Wait a minute! What thing?!

Well there was that thing of you making so much trash that we just couldn’t clean whatever we did. Awful! And what was that thing with the scissors… You destroyed thousands of thons of paper cutting and cutting and then again and again… We were giving you the scissors and people were asking where is the kid in this house?! Why is it so quiet?

Now I must admit I have started to plant trees, I am not joking. I have planted at least 10 trees and I assume this is quite insufficient, but it is a start. It is something. It’s just I didn’t realize how insufficient it is by now.

But let me say it - once you’ve tried the pair of scissors you could never give up whatever you do…

A moment in space and time

2009-09-14T06:50:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest things about humanity is the capability to capture moments of time. Life, some say, are the moments we live, we remember. They can last and they can exist in just a fracture of time. Now the picture I’ve taken is not of something extra important, precious or worthy but it is of something that existed only a few moments and it just makes you think about it.

What if I hadn’t taken this photo? I would have remembered something about it, may be the moment of creation, or the moment of extinction, destruction – the moment I thought “I cant keep it” or may be just the feeling “I could have made it better”. Well why can’t I make it better? I can build it every day, five times a day, every five minutes… But will it be exactly the same as before?

So this is just a glimpse of the idea that we live now and we feel now and can live and feel tomorrow as well but it will be something different. For you know that is something that has been said before as well – you could never step into the same river twice. And it’s quite true.

So what I did is that I captured a piece of time, a piece of me playing with stones today. I wonder what I would have done yesterday if I was playing with those stones. So enjoy your life and your personal fractures of time, take a picture of the things you love and don’t do it necessarily with a camera, do it in your mind. Look at your cat and feel the moment for it will not last forever. But that again is what makes it so precious.

Cat Toys – Flat and easy

2009-09-14T06:41:00.001-07:00

As you can see it is quite a pleasure to create your own cat looking toy. To be honest it is not that hard as well for if you’ve got any textile in hand you could create a personal and therefore unique toy. You could use a sew machine or you could sew with your own hands and a single needle.

It is true that industrialization can provide us with numerous copies of a great variety of fantastic toys – soft textile, long fur, nice design, all that easy to get, minutes away from you and at a relatively low price. But what about art and uniqueness? And what about creative mind pleasure and solving problem issues that can pull us into new and special. Special is the word I was looking for.

To create something special can give you wings and energy. And it doesn’t matter weather you’re going to give that toy to a child that doesn’t understand it’s uniqueness or you’re going to keep it. The process of creating new is the one that matters.

So now what do we need to start? We need textile as we said, we need a needle, sewing cotton thread, buttons, electric sewing machine (if available), pair of scissors, some wadding and that’s about all.

What about design? Where do we start with the most intriguing part of our doll creation process? Well one way is to sit down and draw your project on a sheet of paper. That’s ok. That means we have a plan. But we can start by creating directly a model with the textile and believe me it is quite more interesting with all the mistakes that come up and the fact that mistakes turn to new ideas. Well, yes, there is going to be some material thrown away but is that a problem actually? No, usually it isn’t.

But having a sheet of paper with drawing or not we need an idea as for where exactly to start from. If we try to create the most simple model we will imagine what kinds of pieces we have to create. We know we need the body of the cat, we need the head, the tail and the legs. And that’s it – body, tail, head, four legs.

The doll you see is my first experiment and although it looks rather too simple it is actually quite sweet and nice to hug. Now sewing the pieces is rather clear to you. As shown below you can cut 8 pieces of textile for the legs and sew them in pairs, the head also two pieces and the body again two pieces and the tail again the same.

After you sew the legs, because I always start from the legs, you fill them with wadding and see if you like them. If not you create them again. Now there is this thing about liking. The estimation that we have of what we do – do I like it the way it is? Shouldn’t it be longer, or fatter, or less filled with wadding? Now – that’s part of the joy. As you can see this blue cat doll is rather flat because I didn’t put enough wadding. Now it was suppose to be like that and one of my next dolls Is rather filled quite well to try a different effect. This flat doll can bent and can sit and although I forgot to sew a tail (which is quite funny actually) is a doll you can play with. Funny as it sounds. It falls, it bents, it’s head is ruled by gravity and is always looking down at the ground and that makes it very sweet. You pick the head up and in five minutes it is looking down.

After we have finished with the legs – we have turned them upside down and we have filled them - we could sew them to the body before it is sewed or we could create the body, fill it and then sew the legs by hand with a needle hiding all that shouldn’t be seen. And after we are ready with the body and legs we can create the head and sew it by hand or carefully with the electric sewing machine to the body. Quite easy actually all that.

In the next material you could see another model I have tried.

Flat cat with drawing

2009-09-14T06:38:00.001-07:00

As you can see this is another model I have tried and it is again rather flat. That means that I have used little wadding to fill it. The doll is made of two pieces sewed on an electric machine together and then filled from a small hole left on the head. After filling the hole on the head it is sewed by hand.

Now what is special about this little one is that the front side is made of hard unstretchable textile and the back side is made of soft stretchable textile. The reason is complicated. First because of the turning upside down of the sewed material. Because the doll is quite small – not more that 10 cm height – the front viewable side is after the sewing inside and when you try to turn this around it doesn’t go as smooth as you would like it to. So when you put a stretchable textile that turning process goes more easily. But if you put stretch textile on both sides of the doll it will be ( it depends of course of the stretch material) too stretchy. It will not stand the way you want it to, but rather it will stand at the way the stretch material allows it to. And that’s the reason why I have put on the front side a material that will not stretch and will keep the doll just the way I want it to be.

So that’s about all concerning the front and back side of the doll. – one side soft material, the other side harder material. That’s it.

There is another thing about the two materials and it has to do with variety. One textile doll is pretty but combinations of textile – that’s even more interesting and can give you various esthetics. You could mix different tones of one color, different colors and so on. It’s fun.

But what about the painting? Water paint will not do, because simply if you would like to wash the doll it will end up looking like hell with no eyes and nothing of what you meant it to be. So you should use textile paint if you could find such. But textile paint must be ironed i think and that is a little bit, just a little bit of a problem. It’s not impossible but there are easier ways like acrylic paint. After you place the paint on the textile ready doll you just wait and when it is dry it is ready. It will not melt in to water, it will not fall – it’s even irremovable i think when it is dry. So be careful when you paint or what the hell – free your imagination!

So that’s about all of this little cat like doll. I’m sure you can make it more pretty.

Christmas cat doll

2009-09-14T06:33:00.001-07:00

And what about this little fellow here! Now this doll is again rather flat like the former one. It is made again with two materials but this time the back material has turned in to the feet and is viewable in the front side as well. That is made by simply sewing a piece to the front side and then is sew as shown below.

It is rather simple this one. Now here we have a perfect Christmas toy and you can make it red, and green and yellow and you could paint it with acrylic paint and you could put ribbon on it and you can create many and give them to friends as a Christmas “best wishes” presents. Small and cute, most importantly made by your hands and unique due to color combination and form, because you could easily change the form.

Now here I used buttons for eyes and instead of sewing them i used silicon glue. You can find silicon glue in most building materials shop. You need a silicon pistol and a silicon stick. It’s simple, It’s safe but do not let children play with it if you are not around because it gets hot and they could make a big big trouble out of it if not watched.

So that’s about it with this little fellow here, I wish you pleasant moments with it.

Big blue cat

2009-09-14T06:25:00.000-07:00

As you can see I definitely prefer the blue colors for all my cats are blue. No, I have a yellow one but I don’t have a picture of it. So this is maybe my favorite cat doll because it is so soft and so pleasant to touch and it was fun creating it. And it has a mouse fellow and they sit together on the couch and they really look like friends made out of similar materials. The mouse is brown.

So what about this one. I used more wadding to fill it. The model is similar to the first one I told you about and let’s see what is different. As a first i took two textile materials – one for detail – ears, mouth area and feet and the other textile for the whole body. The legs are a little more complicated but are actually very easy to make. You can see how i made it on the images below.

All the segments were prepared, filled and then sewed together by hand. The eyes are buttons, this time not glued, but sewed. And another difference is that this time I did not forget the tail, because a tailless cat looks a little bit sad. And I was happy that day and the cat got to have a tail. And that’s about all I can tell you of the big blue cat on my couch.

But you can create millions of different models and free your imagination due to shape and color, decorations and drawing. Imagine all the possibilities there are and just start. See where your mind will take you. Whether it is going to be the biggest cat you’ve seen or a tiny little one or it is going to be angry or look sad – imagine all the options available and leave that industrialization of thinking to people who can not free their minds and produce something new themselves.

Whatever doll you create – you did it and it is great!

Children drawings

2009-09-13T07:32:00.000-07:00

Often children like to draw by filling with color pencils or with pastels images that have been drawn with black lines. I prepared such raster images from the cad models on archiforge.com 2d cad gallery animals and I would like to share them with you. By the way there you could find many more 2d cad images of animals like these but they are in *.dwg format. Only the tumb images are raster.

So if you like these images and you would like to give them to children to play you simply need to click on them and then print the ones you like. Images from http://www.archiforge.com/

Special ingredient special smokes

2008-12-15T07:42:00.000-08:00

I had a friend once, a real good friend, and our friendship began fading out because she started to get high too often. She was smoking the special ingredient special smokes every day. But before we lost all traces of our friendship she told me about her cats. When she was coming back from lectures she found a sealed bag next to the trash can that sounded cat like. So she opened the bag and found two little kittens left there sealed in the bag to die of suffocation and eventually to end at the garbage. So she took the kittens home and actually took good care of them and they grew to become sweet and gentle.
One night - she said – I took some grass and decided to relax to the maximum and get relevantly high. So I smoked and even started dancing around, put some music on and made myself a good time. One of the cats was eating in the kitchen, the other cat was lying on the bed and was kind of smiling to me until I noticed that there are many cats on the bed. And I whispered to myself – My god! I am so fucking high! I see kittens on the bed! And I went closer to get sure that this is all a figure of my imagination, but it wasn’t! A third kitten was getting out and I run to the other end of the room to get my thoughts at one place, but I was drugged and I thought - that’s it! I have started hallucinating. I went again closer to observe if this is real and it was as real as it gets. So I went to the other end of the room and started talking to the cat: When did you grow up to become a mommy? And you, I turned to my other cat that was just coming into the room, why did you turn out to be a boy! Why are you doing this to me? She is your sister! And you, how could you have babies with your own brother? Shame on you!
She began sobering up and slept on the couch that night. I don’t think she smoked from her special ingredient special smokes that much after this night. Now she had 6 cats and didn’t know what to do with them. Later she used to tell her male cat – You should be ashamed of yourself, you know? - And she laughed.

Image taken from http://www.archiforge.com/ animal cut out gallery.