Painting of the week: Hömersip

Check tiny dog web sites near you for information about Mini-donuts, the forthecoming book of paintings by tiny dog and quirky works. It features, among other works, this interpretation of the plastic sports bottle known as Homer Sippy.

The joint venture known as Mini-donuts takes its inspiration from a recent viewing of the works of Piet Mondrian in the Seattle Art Museum. Mondrian, if you are not aware, was a painter of easily reproducable lines and boxes, which have been elevated to the status of high art through some strange accident of misperception. Thus, it became apparent to tiny dog and friend that the arts should be taken up immediately in the hope of achieving groundless fame.

Drawing of the week

At some point in the 90's, myself and The Nup decided that we had to purchase the faddish, shouting, faux-fur simu-pets known as Furbys, and struck pay dirt after lurking at Wal Mart in the early mornings for several consecutive days at the height of the craze.

We rapidly discovered that the creaky-motored, parrot-beaked beasts had no volume setting with with which to dim repeat phrases like YOM! and ME! NO! LIGHT! Also, famously, the Furby has no off switch, allegedly in homage to actual living pets. Thus after a few futile cycles of waking, squawking, and smothering with a pillow, the furby sat, and eventually calcified in Sleep mode, only to be wakened during infrequent earthquake incidents, and moving days.

One day years later, tiny dog decides to draw a portrait of the slumbering simu-beast with a ball point pen and some long-dormant watercolor pencils in the pages of a notebook last used to record cryptic work-related launch date information about a video game console. The portrait thus came to be in a futile attempt to distract readers from the fact that there is no actual content to post on the site.

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