As you probably know, it's an undeniable fact that I'm nuts about Maneki Neko statues. I mean, I bawled out my eyes the day the neighbor's dog ripped down my T-Shirt with one on it.
So I've been waiting for years for the day I'd stop resisting buying one of the million solar-powered statues from the chinese shops. I mean, they're cheap, but I wanted to wait until I found one with the calico-pattern, or a simply too-adorable-to-even-consider-resisting version of it.
Nope. The day I gave in to buying one of the chinese shop ones was a random day where we entered a shop in order to buy my coworker a belt because his pants kept falling all day long, last week when we were still near the eastern border to collect some research materials.
And, so far, I do not regret it one tiny bit! I MEAN LOOK AT IT, HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE MANEKI NEKO.
In other news, I also changed the blog template. It's been some time since I wanted to incorporate the artwork of one of my favorite artists, Pascal Campion, into something. Anything. Well, blog template it is! The palette of the banner is a bit off, but that's because I couldn't resist using these two pictures, who are among my favorites of his.
What I like about his stuff is that he doesn't try to baffle the world with any complex technique, but manages to make his art feeling like it has more life than many realistic, heavy on technique, artworks. There's a warm, bubbly, jazzy feeling to it, and it's like each image has a story to tell. Not to mention that, for me, the star in his paintings isn't really the human figure(s) on it but rather the whole scenery. The way he makes the scenery is what takes my breath away.
Also he uses cats often, so that's an extra bonus.
Mentioning cats, one of my four cats just dashed into my room and started purring and cuddling 2 seconds after I heard a loud bang somewhere else in the house. Nice try. Let's find out what you broke this time.
