While searching for any updates on Princess Chunk, a story of a missing cat, named Dipity, caught my attention. She’s been missing since June 24. Last seen sporting a smashing pink dress in South Edmonton Commons, Canada. It is suspected that Dipity has been snatched up by a young woman disgusted by Dipity’s wardrobe.

“…the kitty, which loves car rides, had squeezed out of her car through a window, while she was in the coffee shop for a business meeting. (Her owner) explained that Dipity — who’s been known to dash from the car — was wearing a pink dress at the time because it makes it easier to spot the grey cat against asphalt.

A witness told Abercrombie that a blonde, petite woman between 17 and 21 years old scooped the cat up, remarked that a feline shouldn’t be wearing a dress, and said she would take the animal to a relative’s farm.”

There is a $1,000 Canadian Dollar reward.
If you think you may have seen her, there is more information about how you can help here.

In the to-good-to-be-true department, a 44 pound tabby cat was found in Blackwood, New Jersey. While officials are perplexed how someone could lose such an enormous cat, we’re excited to hear that the shelter has renamed her “Princess Chunk.”

She might also be moving to a new home in Brooklyn, if she’s not claimed by Saturday. From the article:

“Shelter volunteer Deborah Wright tells The Courier Post of Cherry Hill the cat is built like a quarterback. The cat’s owner has until Saturday to reclaim her. After that, “Chunk” will be eligible for adoption.”

This was my small contribution to the Polaroid Kissing Wall.

Louise Sturges & Katharine Barthelme pulled off a great opening for The Instant, a show embracing the polaroid, last Saturday night. My digital camera is very sick, but luckily there were plenty of picture snappers there.

Photos of the evening by Andrew DeFrancesco.

Some more images of the Kissing Polaroid Wall by the adorable Elizabeth Spiridakis.

Congratulations goes out to Scott, for being awarded this years Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communications Design. Here he is below, accepting the award from the First Lady. I’d like to think that he’s purposefully placed himself as far off to the left (from our point of view) as possible in protest of the current administration, and as a show of his support for the change that is hopefully on it’s way.

Feist on Sesame Street, I love it so much!

Photo by Pete Erickson/The Bulletin

From the Week In Review:

“Once you’re up, it’s really pleasant,” [Couch] said. “It’s so serene. That’s a word I never used before this.” … Although Mr. Couch is largely self-taught, cluster balloonists like Jonathan Trappe, who went aloft for four hours on June 7 with 55 huge helium balloons, prefer to take no chances. “Cluster ballooning is something people can do,” Mr. Trappe said. “They just need to do it safely. I’m very concerned that people will do it without the appropriate training.” … Mr. Trappe’s gondola was actually his office chair. “It represents a contrast between the normal mundane world,” he said, “and the world of my dreams.”

I wonder how my office chair would do.

Plans to close two lanes of traffic on Broadway between 42nd and 35th streets, to make way for a public esplanade, were discussed in the New York Times today. The short 7 block-long bike path that you enter from busy traffic and exit back into it not 5 minutes later makes this esplanade feel more like a rest area along the NJ Turnpike than a safe place to ride. And, while I have similar feelings about the bike path on 14th and 8th, it’s a great sign of the changes being made around the city. And, cycling aside, this space is way more about people having more public space allotted for just sitting around, eating lunch and taking a short walk. From the article:

“Broadway is not famous because there are a gazillion cars going through it,” [Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan] said. “We’re trying to have the public space match the name.”

My vote for the next underused plot of city land to be turned into a bike path and park would be the median running along Delancey Street, which would be much better utilized as a continuation of the cycling and pedestrian path coming off the bridge. Read the article here.

Kiss, Kiss, Kiss (1964)

Kachi Kachi Kachi (1965)

Tokuten Eizou Anthology No. 1 (1964)