Photography

Request Print  

Happy New Year, 2009 » Sun, Jan 4th 2009 12:15 am

Happy New Year, folks. Here’s a photo of Boo in celebration.

This shot, though it is staged (your search for a real booze-drinking cat will have to continue), required nothing more than to slide the shot glass in frame. She sits with her rear on the top step of the stairs, then rests her upper half on the floor above. I planted my camera on the floor while Paul (I believe it was) slid the shot glass in front of her.

I suspect the fumes of absinthe from the glass are to thank for keeping her calm enough to take the shot with my lens so close to her; the non-sedated Boo would’ve pounced at my face as soon as I got near enough to swat. There’s another shot of her with her nose up to the glass, and you’d swear she was smiling… But this shot won.

PS: Pete, you’re welcome to turn this into a lolcat :P

Tip Jar

  1. 1 Tyler on Sun, Jan 4th 2009 8:35 am

    Happy new year!
    I love the shot.

    Absinthe eh? Who was drinking the paint thinner? blah

  2. 2 Aaron on Mon, Jan 5th 2009 12:50 am

    Haha. That’d be Chris’ paint thinner sticking out tongue

  3. 3 Chris on Mon, Jan 5th 2009 1:18 pm

    It was delicious.

    :S

  4. 4 josh on Thu, Jan 8th 2009 2:37 pm

    Booze drinking cat eh? Well, there is a french fry pizza loving cat in my house.

  5. 5 Stephanie Wace on Mon, Jan 12th 2009 9:11 am

    I believe you forgot to mention to me that you posted mister! This is so cute, and I saw all the others on facebook. Very good. Anyway, sorry I wasn’t there :$ Haha, next New Years i’ll be theresmiling face I love you!

    P.s. doesn’t that drink make you crazy hallucinate and basically lay you out? Haha, I’m sure that was a great new years for Chris sticking out tongue

  6. 6 Tyler on Mon, Jan 12th 2009 1:22 pm

    Absinthe does not cause people to hallucinate. Thujone, the “active chemical” in absinthe, can result in muscle spasms if taken in large doses, but there is no evidence that it causes hallucinations.

    The hallucinations myth started in the early 19th centuries, when poisonous chemicals were being added to cheaper versions of the drink to get it to shine green.

    Anyone who clams to have seen hallucinations while drinking modern day absinthe is simply, really drunk.

Feel free to leave some kind of feedback or pose a question. Most links will be parsed on their own, so you can avoid writing <a> tags. I’ve even taken measures to ensure that long links don’t fubar the page layout. Also, you can get fancy with Markdown syntax if you want.

The e-mail address is required to ID you. I’ll keep it secret. I pinky promise.

 
 

Randomly Generated Image