No, kids, I'm talking about a newly discovered print-making method: which I can't embed right now:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/newport_when_marine_mammalogis.html
The real story is actually about a book coming out - summer 2009?!but that ends today! - featuring one of my favorite topics
OF ALL TIME:
ANIMALS MAKING ART.
one of those things that makes you wonder what it even means to be human anymore.
am i right?
not to mention that this is written by Tifane Grayce - that's right, spell it - the author of
such life-saving tomes as Horse Tales - that's right, spell it - for the Soul. Tifane was inspired by watching Koko the gorilla pull her own fur out of a painting in frustration. No kidding. What artist can't empathize with that? Tifane also paints portraits of animals on ostrich eggs and distributes them world-wide.
Anyways, furinmypaint.com won't let me steal the pictures. Luckily, though, the press releases provide a glimpse of the magic:
Then there's the wide wide world of elephant art, which includes a National Geographic website hosting hundreds of works for sale, as well as this lovely piece:
(Detail from a painting by Noppakhao, an elephant from Thailand, at the SAW Gallery in Ottowa. I sure as hell couldn't do that.)
Here's a star of that show:
I don't know if this counts, but it kinda counts:
Then there's turtle art, from turtlekiss.com:
made by this guy Koopa, who is clearly slowly slowly making his way across the page:
He is assisted in this endeavor by his human collaborator Kira, who makes surprisingly similar art:
(entitled "New Hope 217").
The real difference here, though, is that Kira makes art with her BREASTS. for a good cause. And in the end, it is creating with one's mammalian appendages to raise money for medical research that is ultimately what makes us human.
At least for 2k9, anyways.
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