Caitlin Burke

Thanksgiving comet, Long Beach Island. —Photo: Josh Karpf

Kitten play is centered around predatory-like behavior. Kittens learn the specifics how to be cats mostly by imitation of their mother and other cats (and will, for example, prefer the prey their mother trained them on or start stalking a new prey animal after seeing another cat catch one—although they don’t actually need to be trained in order to become good predators). A cat will not usually attack prey while on its back, with its prey object on its tummy, but this kitten is improving its paw-eye coordination, and ‘hugging’ its target, and, apparently, imitating its … you know … next best thing to mom.

Oh, and did I mention it’s also the cutest thing in the universe?

Can you imagine Kellogg’s running the Special K “Pinch an Inch” campaign today? What kind of response would it get?

Oh, and happy American Stuff-Yourself Holiday!

More at Ian Hill Art.

I really love Scott C, and I would post something of his here pretty much every day if it were not for my vanishingly small sense of self-preservation. It’s been over a year, though, so I think I can get away with another one. This is from a series of illustrations he did for an ad campaign by Portuguese film group Show Off! (Fuel Lisbon), about what happens to great ideas when Marketing gets ahold of them.

Many more at his post about this project.

(Also, Advertolog has a couple more on its Fuel Lisbon page, notably The Toilet One and The Shark One.)

Blind children studying a hippopotamus, by Julius Kirschner, May 1914

Many more at the American Museum of Natural History website.

This brief biographical sketch was done for Ada Lovelace Day, organized by my good buddy Suw Charman. I think I in was a pub at the time. And this is but a small and not very important part of it. Go and read the rest!