July 02, 2005
karate chop
karate chop
Originally uploaded by Colleen S..
puptastic brings you this sneak preview of the all-canine kung fu movie you've been waiting for!
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July 01, 2005
Ugliest dog I've ever seen
Thanks to Yukino for this delightful treat. [Backstory here]
posted by miranda at 08:32 PM
June 27, 2005
nanodog!
Hard to take care of, but oh so cute! Shufeng Bai's entry in Princeton's 2005 Art of Science Competition.
posted by ranjit at 07:10 PM
June 25, 2005
Is your dog suffering from alopecia?
You can get all kinds of disgusting things for free on Craigslist. From an anonymous Seattleite:
"This 'item' is a big pile of his hair. All 'harvested' last night. Seriously, this all came out of his undercoat LAST NIGHT. I was just going to throw it away, but Kai seemed to be trying to tell me something as I headed for the garbage. 'Don't be wasteful... we can help other less fortunate dogs,' his eyes seemed to say."
I know lots of pups who are smaller than that crazy dog's hair-pile.
LINK: [Best of Craiglist]
posted by miranda at 06:36 PM
May 14, 2005
puptastic welcomes samson!
Ranjit finally got himself a new dog! Welcome to the family, Samson!
posted by lia at 11:35 PM
April 22, 2005
take the 'poop'
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February 22, 2005
puptastic loves chachi
I think my friend Yimay's dog Chachi is the most stylish chihuahua I've ever seen -- I mean, check out his little striped mohawk! Williamsburg hipsters wish they were half as cool as he is, but they probably never will be.
You can see more of Chachi on Flickr or his very own website, chachiversace.com.
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February 21, 2005
corrugated dog
I wish my house looked like this.
How come New Zealand gets all the cool architecture?
photo by Tanya's Tabloid on flickr
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February 16, 2005
pet er
Poor Pedro Williams! We at Puptastic HQ wish him the speediest of recoveries.
This photo is from casualsoul's brief but poignant Pet ER set. All the photographs were taken within a few hours in the evening at their local ER vet practice.
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February 15, 2005
betty the chocolate lab puppy
Don't you just want to give Betty a cookie? Look at her beautiful eyes!
Photo by Kenny Ferguson.
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February 11, 2005
people who look like their dogs
The Economist put an article from their print edition up online yesterday, Love me, love my dog, about the paper published by Christina Payne and Klaus Jaffe (of Venezuela's Simón Bolívar University) in the Journal of Ethology a while back.
Payne and Jaffe went to a dog show, photographed 36 purebred dogs and their owners (separately), and then had volunteers guess which dogs belonged to which dog. The volunteers sorted out the right answer more often than chance, just like in a previous study by other researchers which found that human couples tend to look alike. The phenomenon Payne and Jaffe are studying is associated mating characterized as "self seeking like", in which people prefer faces that resemble their own.
I got Jarvis as a present, he was picked out of a litter by a friend of my mom so we don't look anything alike, although I do know many people who definitely resemble their dogs. I bet Payne and Jaffe would get a good laugh out of the winners of the Cesar Select Dinners I Look Like My Dog contest, like these two fellows:
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February 03, 2005
sky dogs!
Exploring the skydog tag on flickr.
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February 02, 2005
derek powazek is dog crazy
If you've been noodling around the web for any length of time chances are you've already run across one of Derek Powazek's many projects, like Fray, the magazine of true stories he's been running since 1996, or his photoblog Ephemera.
All of his work on there is beautiful, of course, but I find his dog portraits to be especially arresting, each one just bursting with the individual personality of the pup. I love this one of usually sassy Chieka Chiquita Banana Champ, caught unawares:
Ephemera has a special section called Dog Crazy, where you can purchase lovely full color calendars and even a book of his dog photos. If you live in or around San Francisco, he's available to shoot custom portraits of your four-legged friend.
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February 01, 2005
a call to arms
Something in Daniel Terdiman's recent Wired piece, "Folksonomies Tap People Power", really bugs me and if you're reading this I suspect it might get you too:
If the photo-sharing site Flickr is any indication, the world of digital photographers is dominated by cat people.
Dog owners would probably object. But because of Flickr's tagging system, which allows the photographers or other users to assign identifying tags to most photos on the service, we know that Flickr hosts 23,081 images tagged with "cat" or "cats" and only 17,463 with "dog" or "dogs."
As both the dog person and avid Flickr user that I am, these numbers make me feel sad, perhaps even sadder than Jarvis in a t-shirt:
Clearly, Flickr's system was not set up to motivate a feline-canine supremacy contest.
Excuse me, but I beg to disagree.
Fellow dog-loving Flickrers, this is a call to arms! Take, upload and tag as many photos of dogs as you can! At least one a day if that's possible, but more is always better. We might've lost the battles so far, but together we will win the war.
[ via Waxy.org ]
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