A while ago a company called Necomimi combined some sort of transcutaneous
sensor with a few other things to create these apparently thought-controlled
cat ears:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMwB6p25QYU&feature=related
Now
they've taken the same idea and linked it to a tail, plus a smart-phone
geo-tagging system of some description:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvHcBq7UaY0&feature=player_embedded
Personally
I can't watch either without laughing out loud; both look utterly silly, but
a nice way to lighten an afternoon.
The thought also occurs that a
certain Barry Tadcaster's act might be greatly improved were he to wear these
whilst on stage...
--
Dan Holdsworth
Friday, October 05, 2012
WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Today's Fortean bird news
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that - whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot, or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean Zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.TODAY'S BIG CAT ROUND UP
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012, Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.Here is the latest tranche of news...
DALE DRINNON: Bigfoot issues/Cedar and Willow/Benny's blog
New on the Frontiers of Zoology:
And a special edition of Cedar and Willow:
And on Benny's Second Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
Best
Wishes, Dale D.
I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
Well, another working week has come and gone. Richard arrived here yesterday evening, and the two of us will be giving a lecture at Appledore Library tomorrow evening at about 7:30. Please come along if you feel like it. We also send all our good wishes and healing thoughts to Annie Haslam of Renaissance who has just had to cancel some dates of the new tour because of a back injury. In the meantime I am reading Neil Young's autobiography which is a complete shambles but oddly rivetting, and am still massively amused by the latest trailcam pictures of a big cat (probably a jaguar) in Arizona:
Corinna is still in Staffordshire, but will be returning on tuesday with her mother and a breeding pair of Chinese spiny toads in tow! And today marks the second anniversary of Biggles going to the great kennel in the sky. Life, truly is a bit surreal at times...
We start off with our daily visit to Thom the World Poet, who today is talking about Charles Bukowski.
OK, the Magick Brothers tour came and went last month, and it could be argued that it is pretty much redundant to be posting the flyer for it now. However, the artwork and design of the flyer (which I actually found on Facebook for the first time yesterday) is so unutterably groovy (and we seem to be on a Gong jag here at the Gonzo Daily) that I really couldn't resist posting it...
Michael Des Barres is getting more and more spot on with every day that passes. His commentaries upon the state of the rock and roll nation are unmissable - check him out on the subject of rock biographies...
Yesterday I pinched a couple of pieces from the blog of the multi-talented Ms McCookerybook, about her recent John Peel memorial gig in Brighton. Then, as I was posting the notifications to all and sundry on Facebook I saw these pics from the same show, and being a thieving magpie I nicked them...
Once again, I found this on Facebook whilst pootling about with the notifications yesterday. The vast majority of today's stuff has come through the medium of Facebook, and I have a sneaking suspicion that this is true for lots of journalistic types in these degenerate days. However, at least I have the good grace to admit it.
I was as shocked as anyone else when I read this letter from Annie on the Renaissance blog this morning. I only interviewed her a few weeks ago, and was captivated by her personality and sense of humour. I hope you feel better soon my dear, and I look forward to being able to post some more positive news very soon.
The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
On this
day in 1969 the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was
shown.
And now
the news:
- Unusual marine life found around the coast of Corn...
- Japan urged to stop squandering public cash on dyi...
- Dartford and Gravesend families encouraged to get ...
- Skunk Cabbage invades Scotland
- FISH FINGER: Man's lost digit turns up in trout
- Wood Ape Sightings: Correlations to Annual Rainfal...
- The Great New England Vampire Panic
- Migrant dragonflies and damselflies colonising sou...
- APNewsBreak: NY pet cemetery deemed historic
A
classic scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
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