TEEEEENY Caturday paw danglage

Puh-lease. Too, too moshe:

black and white?
miniscules and striped?
ear flappage and paw danglage?

This language is the glue of a ‘club of cute’ which drives the site’s popularity and makes for a hugely entertaining read. A similar tactic was once deployed by Perez Hilton before he vanilla-ed out for the sake of ad dollars (for example, the gleeful insult ‘whoreanus’ has been dropped). Celebrity snarking site GoFugYourself, however, continues to address its audience as a teenage confidante. To whit, a comment on a photo of Alice Dellal (no, me neither) which reads:

This is one of those photos that I would put in a 2008 time capsule, so that in 30 years people will go, “Ripped nylons as pants? Are you f’ing KIDDING ME?” And I’ll be like, “I KNOW, it didn’t make any sense THEN, EITHER, and yet it HAPPENED.”

Creating new languages and forms of expression, and giving import to supposedly trivial matters such as dress sense and the cuteness of furry things are just a few of the myriad ways in which bloggers are creating a new media. And this stuff really *talks* to us in a way that traditional media never has. It talks to us as fans, as politicos, as gossips, as snarks… as ourselves. And, of course, it’s a two way conversation.

Anyways… we’re off to buy our calendar. Later!

Picture of Iggi to compensate for never having made it onto the shiny lights of either Cute Overload or Stuffonmycat despite numerous attempts.

Within the world of micro-art, we are particularly fond of Willard Wigan and not just because he’s from our home town. The maker of the world’s smallest sculptures, Willard claims to work between heartbeats to avoid hand tremors. He spent months crafting a miniature figure of Muhammad Ali fighting Sonny Liston on a pin head, whilst the film “An Eye of X” follows his attempts to craft a tiny figure of Malcolm X.

And, in these days of CG and airbrushing, it’s great to see art that is genuinely crafty and downright weird.

Story from the BBC.

Get your daily baby panda fix at San Diego Zoo’s wonderful pandacams. Despite being useless at everything (surviving, eating, breeding, hiding) pandas actually have opposable thumbs — see what we mean about the fecklessness?