Doo-Doo free beatch

I think i've found out why Parisians let their dogs shit everywhere. I've noticed that it's been improving since a new ad campaign showing a dog crapping next to a woman in a bath came out but the truth of it hit me when a fellow ex-pat espoused her theory.   Owners think they have a right to do it because someone else will come and clean it up.  It's a simple as that.  Anyway, that's been bugging me for 3.5 years so now I'll lay it to rest. 

So I've added this little artifact to my christmas list becasue i don't have time to feed or walk my own pup, (a dog is not just for Christmas.........)

via We Make Money Not Art

For her Baby Bunnie project, TINKEBELL. is making stuffed animals from actual animal skin. Her radio-controlled hamster and musical-box cat are bound to raise a few eyebrows, which is exactly the point. TINKEBELL.: “The project makes a statement. People give their young kids animals all the time and these kids view them as mere toys and sometimes, unwillingly, treat them horribly. That to me is the real outrage, not the work I make.”

There seems to be quite a taxidermy craze going on these past few years.  The first time I noticed it was about two year's ago when I saw an exhibition at KokonToZai in rue Tiquetonne by another Dutch artist Afke Golsteijn - "It is difficult not to think about death when looking at stuffed animals, but in this case, the morbid is transformed into something beautiful." 

I'd agree with this too, I particularly remember seeing a stuffed Hare in amongst the Raf Simons at the shop, it was a bizarre display.  They always seem to me to be beautiful, poetic creatures.

Comments

[Polly]

My favorite store in all of Paris is Deyrolle on rue du Bac. They currently have a stuffed ostrich in the vitrine. Upstairs are -- well, you just have to go see for yourself. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. There is also the deratisation store near les Halles, with century-old dead rats hanging from traps. Wild.

[susie]

Yeah, the rat shop is quite something!
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