Two of my favorite things, together at last! (via )
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Even if you don’t know Salvador Dali by name you’re probably familiar with his work. You likely have a vague melty recollection of his most famous painting, The Persistence of Memory. Dali is notable here at Snuzzy because, like us, he was inspired by animals; his paintings often contained weird abstracted mammalian forms, soaring birds and hatching eggs. He was also photographed doing normal things with weird animals and doing weird things with normal animals.
This relatively famous photograph of Dali was a collaboration between himself and artist Philippe Halsman. It’s part of a series of photographs called “Dalí Atomica” inspired by Dali’s own painting Leda Atomic. The photograph of Dali with the flying cats and water attempts to capture the dynamic weightlessness of Leda Atomica’s image of a floating woman entangled with a swan:
For a period he was obsessed with the form of anteaters. Many of his paintings feature long slender figures with strange proportions that seem both alien and organic. To achieve this he studied live anteaters and was even seen walking around New York City in the ’60s with an anteater on a leash.
Dali even observed how the forms of animals match the work of others. In this movie, he notes how the shape of the woman in Vermeer’s The Lacemaker mimics a rhinoceros’s horn:
Can’t see the video in your reader? Watch it here.
It’s a real shame he died in the ’80s, before the Internet’s obsession with animals came to fruition. Who knows how high he could have soared with Keyboard Cat on his side. As fellow animal lovers, Snuzzy salutes him!
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Those kittens look happier than I have ever been in my entire life. (via JuliaSegal)
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Back in the 20th century, the Internet was comprised of a series of horseback riders. It could take up to 42 months to deliver a single funny animal picture and packets were often lost in transit due to flux or consumption. Luckily for us, a few of these artifacts were preserved on microfilm–a type of myspace used b4 ppl lrn2txt–and have since been uploaded to Internet 2 for our viewing pleasure. Forsooth:
And last, but not least…
Play them off, Vintage Keyboard Cat.
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Ceiling cat is real, I know he is! (via bestrooftalkever)
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