Last night I felt a glimmer of insight into the nascent, boundary-straining field of zooethnography. It came as a relief, as I had arrived in Sweden’s old university town of Uppsala for a conference on it four days earlier. After staying in bed sick for the second of the conference’s two days, I feared [...]
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What is zooethnography?
Posted in Art and curiosities, Travel on October 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
How to Handle House Mice, Humanely!
Posted in Art and curiosities, tagged Chris Glass, detecting mice, how to catch a mouse, humane pest control, live traps, mouse traps, non-lethal mouse control, Paul Levitas on March 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A jaunty instructional video made by Sentient Cincinnati, to help solve ethical quandaries arising in the pantry:
“The Elephant in the Living Room” opens Friday for 1 week
Posted in Art and curiosities on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Harrison is a police officer in Oakwood, Ohio, who captures escaped wild pets across Ohio and runs the advocacy group Outreach for Animals. Terry Brumfield of Piketon hand-raised two lions in his home, one of whom made headlines in 2007 after escaping and chasing cars down US-23. Both men have devoted their adult lives [...]
Heard on Thursday: jazzmen at The Redmoor
Posted in Art and curiosities, tagged Art Deco, Eddie Bayard Quintet, Eddie Brookshire, Edwin Bayard, improvization, jazz, Melvin Broach, Mike Wade, Mt. Lookout, The Redmoor, Wilbert Longmire on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hot damn. Tonight I heard a group of musicians billed as The Eddie Bayard Quintet, fill Mt. Lookout’s capacious Art Deco music hall, The Redmoor, with virtuosic and heartful improvisations. Without added showmanship or jazzy theatrics, their notes sang, sultered, and pressed upon me in the way notes do, when musicians say what they have [...]
Seen on Sunday: Ganesh
Posted in Art and curiosities, tagged Buddha, elephant god, Ganesh, Hanuman, Hindu, Hindu Center of Greater Cincinnati, monkey god on March 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I joined some Hindu friends on Sunday for a trip to the Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati, at the end of a rural road in Union Township. They began their worship service seated cross-legged atop ornate rugs beneath plain, soaring ceilings, chanting call-and-response songs before a row of 10 or 15 painted, bejeweled, Paul Bunyan-sized [...]
Gamboling animals and fine design, with a cup of tea
Posted in Art and curiosities, tagged animals, anthropomorphism, cardinals, charley harper, cincinnati, contemporary art center, minimal realism, o'bryonville, puns, raccoons, stendhal syndrome, the coffee shop on madison, wildlife art on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The magic of Charley Harper’s wildlife paintings crouches between his precise descriptions of animals’ bodies, gestures, and personalities, and the baby’s-first-blocks simplicity of his style. If either geometry or animal-watching quickens your pulse, you might brave a touch of Stendhal Syndrome to visit a collection of Harper’s prints on display in O’Bryonville. Pat Wynne opened [...]
