Today's Formal Cat Portrait features my viewer Bill and his cats Spike and Zsa Zsa. I enjoy Bill's studied elegance, but I do think he could have improved this photo by wearing a tuxedo. After all, he is Palm Springs' top interior designer. (Could one of my viewers please Photoshop some lasers, chandeliers, and/or a white tiger into this picture. Thanks.) (UPDATE: The first Photoshop has arrived.)
hey!this picture is waw!!!!!
Posted by: mokona | November 07, 2007 at 01:52 AM
I do feel rather sorry for the small cat in the side who's head only appears...
It makes me wondah...
What it has for a body.
Posted by: Elizabeth | November 07, 2007 at 03:29 AM
The other cat wants to be noticed and looooved.
Posted by: Elizabeth | November 07, 2007 at 06:14 AM
How cute...he even built a bird's nest in his light for his cats' enjoyment.
Posted by: Laurie | November 07, 2007 at 06:43 AM
I'm quite sure that the star cat's name is Zsa Zsa, i don't know why...(very stylish pic by the way).
Posted by: Nic | November 07, 2007 at 07:16 AM
Love. It. (!!!!!)
Little kitty: "I'd like to be front and center too, but I just don't have that Zsa Zsa cattitude..."
Posted by: AJ | November 07, 2007 at 08:03 AM
Wonderful!
Posted by: Dick Cheney | November 07, 2007 at 08:17 AM
Wow. experimenting with the classic themes of cat portraiture...for a second i thought his chandelier was made of antlers like the one in the A&F stores...i thankfully saw they were just branches.
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Posted by: lynne | November 07, 2007 at 08:37 AM
ill work on this
Posted by: yohualli | November 07, 2007 at 12:14 PM
slightly odd
Posted by: Deirdre | November 07, 2007 at 01:15 PM
Five hours later at dinner, the guests wondered why there was cat fur in the soup - "get the bloody cat of your table for god's sake, its a cat, it licks its bum, it poos in the garden, and now you let him rub his anus on your 10,000 dollar table!"
Posted by: Jan Porter | November 07, 2007 at 03:33 PM
Oh my gosh! I want a branch-elier! Do you suppose he made it...or purchased it? I want instructions! Now!
Posted by: Karena Jane | November 07, 2007 at 03:39 PM
Oh my gosh! I want a branch-elier! Do you suppose he made it...or purchased it? I want instructions! Now!
Posted by: Karena Jane | November 07, 2007 at 03:40 PM
Oh my gosh! I want a branch-elier! Do you suppose he made it...or purchased it? I want instructions! Now!
Posted by: Karena Jane | November 07, 2007 at 03:42 PM
The 32 gay bears have some (fabulous) company?
Posted by: John in IL | November 07, 2007 at 07:13 PM
I guess we all know who Zsa zsa ia don't we!
Posted by: jackie | November 08, 2007 at 07:43 AM
I LOVE the photo-shopped images! Our dining room is so improved with the laser eyes! Thanks, Chris, we've been laughing at these all day and sharing them with our (Bill's) clients. Is there any way we can work MORE OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN into the images? By the way, the smaller cat is Zsa-Zsa...
Posted by: Matthew | November 08, 2007 at 01:58 PM
I remember "Space: 1999". It was shite. This, however, is awesome. As is the song "Xanadu".
# Xanadu.... oh, Xanadu...... now we are here..... in Xanadu.......
Posted by: Niall | November 08, 2007 at 03:14 PM
That made my day. The photoshops were great and I love the branch chandelier. I'd get/make one, but I live in east tennessee and I think here it would be considered redneck.
Posted by: Hannah | November 08, 2007 at 04:49 PM
fab-u-lous. i love it!
Posted by: tinaNYC | November 08, 2007 at 08:54 PM
As an artist,My first thought when I saw this, "ooh, this guy has good taste!" And then I saw the interior design stuff and it all made sense.
Not a fan of animals on the table either...my former room mate used to let her cat do that and it put me slightly on the far side of angry every time. Oh well...I guess if that's the way you roll, that's the way you roll. Just not in my house!
Posted by: GaijinGirl | November 08, 2007 at 10:37 PM
Gah.. I LOVE the photoshops of this!!
And I also LOVE how the smaller car only has a head :S The table is made of glass (or of ice, or of the worlds largest diamond) and you can see the rest of the chair through it and Bills knee resting on the chair. But where is the cats body?
Anyone else see this? It is clearly not the reflection of the chair as it goes narrower, not wider as the reflection should. It's almost a cat head in a jar without the jar!
Posted by: ancelyna | November 09, 2007 at 02:03 AM
Everyone, take note: Zsa Zsa does have a body. In fact, I will send Chris a photo of her head along with her body to prove it!
Posted by: Matthew | November 09, 2007 at 08:51 AM
this man seems quite creepy.
the cat on the table looks not cute.
and that cat on the chair(that can barley be seen) should shoot his/her kitty lasers at the other not so cute kitty.
Posted by: Paula | November 15, 2007 at 02:42 PM
Who is this ? What are the twigs doing in his light fittings? Does the man wish to be fried in the middle of the evening? The cat on the table looks like it has been cut and pasted there.
p.s thank you for giving Olivia the zap eyes. Next you should pick on her ugly daughter who has had plastique and she isn't 20 yet.
Posted by: chris | December 29, 2007 at 09:37 PM