Better than Dogs Playing Poker

God it's been AGES since I've blogged on a regular basis. The world has changed. Sarah Palin resigned! By computer broke! Our cat ran away! I got a new computer! Our cat came back! My new computer also broke! Michael Jackson continues to be dead! But more importantly I have not been keeping up with important CATS PLAYING PIANO news. I already showed you the Piecatis CATcerto back in June, but here is, via I forget who, the piece in its entirety: Also, via (IRONICALLY) SoHo the Dog, CATS PLAYING SCHOENBERG. Op. 11, I: II: III: Artist Cory Arcangel explains here how he created the piece.

Piano Concerto No. 1 ("Play Him Off")

Clicking here will make you immensely happy. (I wish I could find footage of this piece without people speaking over it. It looks pretty great.)

She's a Talker

Sometimes, in great art, there's a moment of terrifying self-recognition, as if the artist had allowed you to lift your own skull up off of a dusty shelf and gaze directly into its hollow sockets. The following video, She's a Talker by Neil Goldberg, offers me just such a sublime encounter. UPDATE: Neil Goldberg just sent me a very, very kind and polite email asking me to un-YouTube his work, so I've gone ahead and done so. Thanks and apologies to Mr. Goldberg! From the remarkable UBUWEB, via Cute with Chris.