Monsieur Chat

About a year and a half ago, Mister Cat was arrested for tagging a building. He has been tagging places starting from Paris to Geneva and New York for over 10 years, with the most endearing yellow cat with sardonic smile. Personally, I don't think it's fancy graffiti but it would brighten up my day if I saw the cat on the gray walls of asbestos filled buildings in Tokyo. Anyway this former fine arts student actually runs an art workshop for disadvantaged children!

Apparently in the 2002 protests in Paris against the war in Iraq, the cat's image was used in the protesters' placards! A documentary made by French artist Chris Marker entitled Chats Perchés ('The Case of the Grinning Cat') brought international recognition to the yellow cat. Read more about it here.



Now I can't wait to get me a yellow Murphey cat!

Coraline

Here's a pretty cool work of art, in the making, turning Phil Knight (of Nike) into a moviemaker. Set behind the anonymous walls of Hillsboro where animators hunch over miniscule dolls on sets, manipulating figures frame-by-frame that produces a few seconds of footage in a full day's worth of work. It is adapted from a popular book by Neil Gaiman.