Results tagged “art” from South Bay Pets

Thumper, Ocho, Gigi and Jake.

They're all rescued pets who found a place in artist Nancy Webber's collage now on permanent display at San Pedro's new animal shelter.

Webber, a longtime San Pedro resident and Harbor College faculty member who was awarded the $55,000 arts grant from the city, took animal-themed paintings and incorporated images of real pets from snapshots mailed in to her.

Reporter Jim Farber writes about the project in today's Daily Breeze. "I wanted to do something for the animal shelter that would combine the history of animals in art," Webber told Farber.

************** Also in today's Daily Breeze is an update on efforts  to get a water mister system installed at the shelter at 597 N. Gaffey St. Seems the city process could take months. Volunteer Theresa Sardisco is working to do it all on private money, confident the misters could be in place within weeks. The city is still hoping to find the funds, though, and is consulting with a firm that set up a similar system at one of the shelters in the San Fernando Valley.

Theresa will be at the shelter from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday collecting donations should those still be needed for the project. You can also call her at 310-386-7932 or call the shelter at 888-452-7381, Ext. 143. 

You don't really expect an animal to be self aware. I suspect my dog doesn't really know he's a dog. When he looks in the mirror, he doesn't recognize himself. Instead, he barks at his own reflection for hours at a time because he thinks there's another dog in the room.

My cat, well, he doesn't even recognize ME and I feed the little monster.

That's what makes this video so strange. It's an elephant painting a picture of an elephant. And he did a better job than I did. I know this because I actually tried drawing a picture of an elephant after watching the clip and couldn't do half the job it did.

I've heard elepants were smart, but artistic? Who knew?

While watching the video here at work, people gathered around me and gasped in awe. Being cynics, several of my colleagues assured me it was a fake. One editor laughed at me and said it was clearly computer generated.

It looks real to me. And there are dozens of videos and Web sites dedicated to artistic elephants. You decide.

Here's what happens when you give a paintbrush to a dog. But like the old saying goes, it's not that he does it well, it's that he does it at all.