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Crazy Cat Castle for Sale: 20 Acres of Terror in the Arizona Desert

16 Jun

[ By SA Rogers in Destinations & Sights & Travel. ]

Are you one of the 3 billion people worldwide estimated to be infected with toxoplasmosis, the brain-controlling parasite passed onto humans by our feline overlords? This protozoa invades the host’s brain and makes it do things that are counterproductive to survival – and apparently good taste. How else would you explain this Arizona real estate listing for a dream home only a crazed cat mom could love? “If you love cats this is the home for you!” reads the Caldwell Banker description. “If not bring your sandblaster!”

The first important thing to note is that the former owners actually only had two cats. This isn’t an out-of-control animal hoarding situation. It’s just an extremely bonkers decorating scheme carried out by people who are really, really into cats. You might think – “So, what, they’ve got some built-in cat walkways and cat castles?”

Oh, they’ve got those things, all right. Including a three-story Medieval cat castle made of stone. Upstairs, in what was apparently the cat overlords’ bedroom, every single surface is plastered with stuffed cats, photos of cats, oversized posters of cats, cat toys, cat houses, stockings full of cat treats. But that’s not all.

Continue going through the photos and you’ll see that the theme carries throughout the rest of the house. The kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedrooms are all similarly decorated (on top of log cabin wall surfaces painted a garish mix of colors.) There’s even a cat-shaped chandelier.

The 2,500-square-foot home is listed for $ 240,000, and it comes with 20 acres of land in the town of Concho, about 200 miles northeast of Phoenix. The town itself has a population of just 38. So really, what we’re looking at is the perfect place for mind-controlled cat slaves to establish their very own cat-worshipping compound. Or, you know, just a really great sanctuary for cats that need a safe and loving home.

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[ By SA Rogers in Destinations & Sights & Travel. ]

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Terror

24 Jan

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Terror
visual art
Image by PATRICK BOEHNER
I was assigned to revisit the subject of terror again (the first time I had to re-title them Fear and Hope).

I have mixed feelings about the work, less about the final result (though granted it has many flaws) but by the process it to get to this final image. It ended up being a last minuet endeavor. To keep a long story short I let myself, as I keep doing, get dragged down by trying to prefect a concept for the image rather than the image itself. I drew blanks as to how to visualize the things that terrify me and those that I did come up with were vague. Its something I keep doing to myself. In the end I through out the concept all together, kept some visual ideas that had been floating around and set my self the task of making an image that expressed "terror" only from what I could scan or recycle from past projects.

This is what came out. Its always isolation, lack of definition and thus control or sense of self.

Comments and critiques are always appreciated

Made in Photoshop CS,
Brown paper, inject prints, charcoal, acrylic, clay, string, nails, wood, digital photographs.

Output: 11”x14” (300dpi)

No stock is used. All photos, scans and textures were made by me.
© copyright Patrick Boehner 2008

24 things
visual art
Image by hownowdesign
A photo from an exhibition I’m participating in called Festival of 24 Things at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY.

 
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