day three-hundred-and-sixty-five - ???

a few people have asked me what i was going to draw for the final animal. and i had no idea. i sure wasn't going to put in any extra effort - why should i draw something special? it's just another day. obviously this project comes across as way more meaningful than it is.

but then i had a great idea. until now i have depicted animals i like. why not depict one i hate? i would art-ify the most evil and destructive of all animals...

humans. truly despicable characters.

but then i thought. who am i, the adelaide zoo? i'm not that lame. i'm lamer. and so i end with just another animal...

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a mountain gazelle. just another antelope (and no i am not nude [and no, if you really need to know i am not actually an antelope {NOR do i really look like one - a failure all 'round}])

farewell no-one. i am a scientist now, and thus must give up on art.

xj

day one-hundred-and-sixty-seven - animal party (red panda)

hiiii. i had a fancy animal party yesterday (as you do), and here is what i dressed as:

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a red panda in a suit. unfortunately i didn't take photos myself (as i was busy partying and hosting) so i don't have a good close-up of the face paint. this is the best i could scrounge...

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it's creepy alright, but you can kind of get the idea. although my black panda lips had rubbed off by this stage. rubbed off on what you may ask? how dare you! that is private information.

hmm, i certainly have made that sound unnecessarily rude. sploops!

xj

day thirty-eight - cheetah

who else is sad that the rift valley doco is over? me too. boo hoo etc. especially since the last episode had some pretty great cheetah action in it.

speaking of cheetah action...

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as much as i don't like photos of myself, i do like any excuse to paint myself as an animal. so they balance each other out. it's also arguable whether this is art but it DID involve paint, so...

so far i have been a raccoon, a panda, a tiger and now a cheetah. maybe i could paint myself as every mammal in the world? that would be cool. not as cool as cheetah cubs though. they are some kind of wonderful mix of badassery and super cuteness with an air of superiority.

xj