the continuing adventures of cats with cameras

Last month, I wrote about Mr. Lee and his cat camera. One of the cats I noticed in the gallery on Mr. Lee’s site was Cooper from Seattle. Now Cooper is having his own brush with stardom, or at least as much stardom as a cat wearing a camera around its neck can garner. He made the front page of his local Seattle Post-Intelligencer

and appeared on Animal Planet’s new Cats 101 series.

Cooper’s owners, who are filmmakers themselves, have a flickr set of his photos, some of which are actually kind of beautiful, like these:

Someone should give Cooper a gallery show!

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mr. lee’s magic cat camera

This is Mr. Lee, and that silly-looking box around his neck is his cat cam, designed to snap pictures throughout Mr. Lee’s day. On this day, for example, he crawled through some grass, watched a bird house, and met up with another cat underneath a car.

Now, since Jack is an indoor cat, it would be quite boring if I were to get him one of these–basically just bed, couch, litter box, etc. But if you have an outdoor cat, you can order one here, and let your cat become just like the cats in the CatCam User Gallery, which includes Kirk from Germany, Cooper from Seattle, and Kikki from Australia. (Mr. Lee himself is a native of South Carolina).

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