calendarmania vi, etc. (#90)

Ooookay, here go the choices.

Dogs All Dressed Up
Dogs Gone Wild (mini)
Best in Show (only shows 6 images for some damn stupid reason)
Pawsmopolitan
Living the Dream (only shows 5 images for some damn stupid reason; there is never any excuse for not printing them all on the back*)
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Poods (+most of usual fave breeds we've noted since 2018)
Gr8 Interiors
Joyful Landscapes
Cottage Life
Cabin Life/Cabins
Cunt Tree Living/Welcome/Sampler/Road
Simple Cunt Tree (Michael Humphries)
Wall Art
Postcard
As usual tremendous mushroom/fungi love
Kitchen Table, Gud Enuff 2 Eet
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THG mini
Arthur (VERY cute, but neither regular nor mini shows the whole thing, only 5 or 6 months--nor appears to include the best ones, Fern & Prunella)
Singin' in the Rain, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Killer Klowns
TMNT!
Rainbow Brite
Pikmin
Betty Boop (w&g & many others from last time)
Michael Buble, Dolly Parton, Barbra Streisand
Men w/ Hens
(Crocheted) Houseplants
Airstream, Treehouses, Jewels; "ranch," pathwayz, porches, bikes, fruit, fux
Snakes (precious beautiful babies), beautiful buggies
Snarcatstic, asking 4 a friend
Picasso, Mucha, Engelbreit, Klimt, Wyeth, tous les artistes (esp those painting redheads, displaying superior taste)
 ~all saved pics in 10/10/24+11/9/24 grimmages (oh, +Workman 365 Dogs)

*They're "forwarding my suggestion (request!) to the editing department immediately," but I know better than to hope for the rest to appear. D;

Otter Olympics, Kama Sutra sloths, Star Trek and all kindsa other cats including the vintage images of anthropomorphic ones doing stuff...there should be more of this with DOGS, man! Especially the Olympics, 'cause instead of just bloody otters, imagine an Animalympics set--a Pawsmopolitan/Avanti-esque assortment of animal-people, and a different dozen sports each year. Or Doggolympics. Dynamic, non-awkward posing and scenes. The ideal style of anthropomorphism that maintains the animal's key traits and essence in a well-proportioned humanoid silhouette/frame. (Not to mention my suggestions made to an artist requesting ideas for "pokegirls doing different Olympic sports"--guess I gotta put that after the calendar pics.)
And like, the Star Trek Cats has so much potential as an idea, but the breeds/types could be improved, you could include more characters and DS9+Voyager+Enterprise...B-Crush would so be a ginger Oriental longhair, c'mon...use as diverse a variety as possible and make it very clear who everyone is...
Plus dogs (or fish) are always the best animals to use for anybody & anything. x-}

Also sticking a few Pennsy pics after the calendar art, and below that the updated photo masterlist + another shot that goes with that 10/7/23 entry. #glorygloryhallepoodjah

 

calendarmania v

• SHEDS
• STEWART
• SMALL WORLD
• SEARCHING 4 BIGFOOT
• AGGRETSUKO
• BLUEY
• PRINTHETH
• DAWG GALLERY [maybe next time regular workman], CRAZY, PORTRAIT, AS ANIMALS, IN WIND
• PAWPARAZZI; GOOD BOIZ
  
• POODZ!
• TROPICAL FISH, our oceans
• art grid
• letterpress
• ultimate motorcycle
• pokey mans
• victoriana
• destination rainbow
• mineralogie
• cottage core/love
• ikebana
• keep growing
• shroomage
• napple pie (pie napple)
• tropicale
• seed packets

Other Didnee: Fro-fro (zen), Kinky (kade), Alice & Cindy again; daily, pickthar (pixar)

Villains: Funny but only uses a small handful of them—Evil Queen, Maleficent, Ursula, Cruella, Hades, Scar. Sooo many great male ones, favorite girls are probably Gothel and Yzma. Cruella a bit weirdly prettified sometimes.

• busy town (“big busy family” scarry)
• chocolate
• hocus pocus
• ozard of wiz
• noir, golden age of movie theaters
• futurama
• trek (TOS through Enterprise)
• unsplained mysteries
• sperngeberb
• mars perseverance ^^
• ofa gardening/country
• 90s—they'll never end
• the queen (misread as “the queer” xD)
• dude w/ sign, donny o
• classic cruisin' & chrome; bonsai; in2 das woods; wicca; goddesses; flower fairies; fireweed; enlightenment; horoscope; shakespeare; austen; nuck chorris; unspirational, demotivational, everyday sass, subversive cross-stitch; kawaii or die; ocean unseen--trillions of other repeat goodies
• gennine zlatkis, joan metcalf, bonnie white, william s. rice, kulig (giana lighthouses); kruskamp (home sweet home!); anybody who paints redheads, curlies, beauty...;]
• arts & crafts tiles

Asgard pinball, motels/diners/service stations, etc. 

other shit I done doodled for some reason: ghost, leaf, water, cube, lily pad

 

The next pin after Halloween has tons more images...will see when it's pinnable...ah, now 'tis. (11/26) || Dissun be noice. || And boyyyy howdy, has this blog gotten some excellent good shit this year...

 

calendarmania iv

 

(Lang digital)
SHEDS
FINDING WEEDO
BONSAI
"Can't Kill Me" plants
LAVENDER

DISNEY:
Kinkade (SAVE...L&tT, B&tB, TLM, Peter Pan, AiW, Cindy, Pooh, etc...x0x...and just all Kinkade ofc. Bragg's site is so much better though.)
Frozen (SAVE)
Dowdle (SAVE--cinderella, b&tb, mickey gang, mulan, sleeping beauty, pinocchio, tlm, aladdin, pooh, peter pan, snow white)
Princess (ARIEL-SAVE)
Raya ^v^ (could be so much better though)
Bluey (watermelon rug :3)
Alice in Wonderland
Cinderella (nice collaging, concept art)

*Good Boys (SAVE 3)
*Front Porch (SAVE 2)
*Just Plain Weird (SAVE 3)
*PS Letterpress (SAVE)
*Wall Art (SAVE)
*Pop Art (SAVE)
*Colorcrush (SAVE)
*Mid-Century Modern (CHAIRS)
*Mini Accordion Easel (windmill+flamingo)
*Seed Packets (SAVE)
*Farmers Market/Fresh (SAVE)
*Crystals (SAVE)
*Elements (adding bismuth+astatine to faves i reckon)
*Yoga Puppies, Dogs, Cats, Kittens
*Flower Crown Animals
*Pokemon: Immensely disappointing. They could do two daily calendars in a row before needing to repeat a single one, but the sample pages shown are ones from this year's. Is it just a reprint? Appalling. Same as the Goosebumps--could've done several years before needing to repeat a cover, but they only did one. Seems the second didn't actually get printed, which is just as well because it unfathomably didn't use the original covers. And no third Yearbook Dogs (too much effort to make?), no second weekly ocean...yuck.

ARTISTS: *CHARLES LYNN BRAGG (OMFG SAVE!) John Sloane (4 Seasons.) Abraham Hunter. Julia Rothman. Chad Barrett. Wolf Kahn. Beckman. Billy Hassell. Mike Wilks. Marion Russell. Heath Robinson. Molly Hashimoto. Lawren S. Harris. Charley Harper. CJ Hurley (Lure of the Land.) Sergey Krasovskiy (Dinosaurs.) Paul Bond (Dreamscapes.) Catrin Welz-Stein (Curious World.) Robert Bissell (Spirit.) Gustave Baumann. Emily Carr. Aimee Stewart. Thiebauld. Addams. Engeldark. Bastin. Rob Gonsalves (MoI.) Arcimboldi. Bosch. O'Keefe. Rockwell. Rothko. Kandinsky. Hopper. Chihuly. art galleries, fine artistes.

B-Word (SO TRUE), Daily Bitch, Bitchin' Cross-Stitchin'
Maxine <3
Auntie Acid <3
Garfield+Grumpy Cat=me
Dilbert xD
People of Wal*Mart ;)
Anti-Affirmations--HELL YEAH!
Demotivational--HELL YEAH!
Unspirational
U Don't Got This
U Had 1 Job
Taintor
Paint Chip ^^
Puns
Punctuation Saves Lives
Awkward Family Photos (& other funny ha-has)
Ocean Unseen/Life, Coral Reef
Jellyfish
Whippet, [Just] Poods*, Dog(s): page/dog-a-days, Crazy, in Wind, as Animals, etc. (saved some noice pix of gr8 breeds/doggos)
Friesian, Arabian, Paint, Racing, Hunter & Jumper/Dressage
Prehistoric Predators
Cactus/Succulent, desert blooms/blossoms; Mushrooms
Shoreline
Fractals
Mario Kart
Waldo
Wegman
Retro Vibes
Vintage Toys
Lionel
Roadside Attractions
Roller Coasters
Hot Air Balloons
Cynthia Harts Victoriana (collages)
Illuminated Manuscripts
Tiffany
Kitchen (Spices, etc.), Gooseberry Patch
Symptoms of Gravity (melting flowers+butterflies)
Ur Creative Year (colors; graphics everywhere)
Toucan Do It (doodles of doughnuts, flamingo floatie, gems, veggies, plants)
Tiny Treasures/Totems (cacti & shit I could draw)
Workman/Galleries (page/pic-a-days...dogs/puppers, etc. Doodles=funny faces on thins. Monopoly.)
Mr. potato head, growing together, indoor jungle, kaleidoscope (planners.) lego. netherlands. labyrinth. japanese shit. seahawks. ^^ zombies. cocktails. cakes. "boring"=not so, actually. 80s <3. true crime.
"L.U.C."--WTF WAS THIS??

 ~LANG/LEGACY. Gazillions. Nostalgic Main Street, Folk ART/LIFE/Song, Blessings (OF THE HOME), Land of Blessings, Bountiful Blessings, Everyday Life, Feels Like Home, Joy in Bloom, Simple Treasures, Sampler Stouffer, Robert Duncan Simple Thangs, Peace/Tranquility, Life Itself, Journey Home, Heartland, Heart & Home, Home on the Range, Old Glory, Bygone Days, Bohemian Garden/Designs, Birbhouses, Legends in Gray, etc. Country ROAD[S], LIVING, WELCOME, WALK, Sampler, Path, Music, Gardens, Churches, Chic, Pleasures. Farm(s): & Barns, Quilts, House, Yoga, to Table; (Beckoning) Barns. October+November usually get the best images. All glorious scenes: harvest, rural/countryside, farm, prairie, woods/cabins, backroads, Americana/'murica, cowboys/girls, etc. <333 Precious Moments. Old Farmer's Almanac.
 ~"The Months." Astrology [crab!]/astronomy. Seasons, nature, weather, camping/hiking, lakes/rivers/waves, docks/shore/islands, sunrise/set, seashells, rainbows, outdoors, nat'l parx, mountains, auroras, moon, mars, universe/space. Art Forms of Nature. (House)plants/lady, "Pretty & Poisonous." Trees, palms, woods/(rain)forests, forest critchers. Flowers/blooms, herbs, (illustrated, growing) gardens/botanical(s) [NYBG], printed florals, tulips, orchids, roses, lotus. New Victory Garden. (Tropical/Exotic, Dumb) Birbs (feat. flamingos, crowned pigeons, spoonbills, peacocks, toucans, cardinals, [smol] owls, raptors, tanagers, buntings, orioles, waxwings, loons, crane/heron/egret/storks, schickens/roostors, peckawoods, parrots, penguies [yay rockhopper], humminbirb, bluebirb/jay.) "Feathered Friends"=beauty. Nests. Woodland badger, (secret life of/gettin') squirrel(s/ly.) Greenwitch Botanical=badger, owl, swan, squirrel, hare, etc. "Planet Earth"=frog, parrot, etc. Dragonflies. Rats, chipmunx, rabbits, coons, jyeraifes. "Field Guide," "Flora & Fauna." "Joyful Landscapes" disappeared.
 ~More repeats & similar ones... bungalows, cottages. frogs (poison especially <3.) cruisin' & chrome <33. covered bridges. mermaids. haunts, haunted realm, ghost stories, wicca, (dragon) witches [MEL<3], seasons of the witch, tarot, alchemy, [night] fair[ies/land/houses!], k@td, celestial journey, mystic cats, magickal shit. midnight children. celtic stuff. sea/play w/ ur food. modern art. dance/ballet, figure skating. <3 "eat sleep theatre" (hey i know all those quotes! ;b) musique. movie posters. cult attack/movies/cinema. bob ross. coke, classic shit. elvis. beatles. chuck norris! ;D <3 john wayne. andy griffith. sesame st. popeye. stooges. south park. king of hill. trains. art deco. bauhaus. mackintosh. gr8 smokies/blue ridge pkwy/stonehenge/israel/particular places. blue dog (flying on pop-tart.)
 ~image specifix--Tangs+sea turtles, tropical fish, salmon, poods. acorns, pumpkins, shrooooooms, pretty fruit/produce (sdawburrs), schmackarons, cuppitykekz, icy careams, baked gudz, shoesch, everything prettiful. terrariums, potted plants, cool chairs & cat beds & shite. daisies, poppies, hibiscus, morning glory, etc. sailboats. pentacles.
 *Same breeds noted in the previous years--e.g. greyhound, dox, scottie, gsp, acd, etc. jrts who look a lil' like harryboboyoboy. belton pups & more of different-than-usual colors.

Boi/family-type ones: Tractors. Caterpillar. Trucks/Pickups, Jeeps, fartrux. Cars. Motorcycles. Aircraft, planes, jets, hellyacopters. Boats. (#vehicles) Marines. Pizza. History/wars. "Holy Toledo!" (quoth Pokey.) Foxworthy. Hunt/fish. DT. Beags, Britts, BMDs, etc. (breeds from the pet list.)

...and okay okay okay OMG...whewww...favorite paintings by Bragg:

Water's Edge
California Roll
Rainbow Reef >;3
Tales of Tavarua
Rescue the Reef
Manatee Moments
Beauty and the Reef
Octopus' Garden
Orca Blues
Space Race!!!! #hmmfg #srslymfr
Musical Fish!
Happy Earth Day!!
Water Space!!!
Circle of Life!!!!
Wonders of the Sea stamps
Dolphin Symphony
Dolphins and Baby Turtle
Dolphin Family
Victoria Falls
Six Frogs
Toucan Twins/Lookout
Full Moon Dive
Penguin Paradise
Sunrise
Rainforest Magic
Secrets of the Rainforest
City Limits
Jungle Story
The Skins Game
Animal Magnetism
Bon Voyage
The Little Miracle
The Ark
Stardust
Blaze
Purple Queen
Peruvian Apple Cactus
Aloe
Nasturtiums
Legend of Aurora 8'D
Penguin Light Parade
Humpback Whale Family Gathering
(trees!)
The Little Farm
African Watering Hole
Dolphins Nose to Nose
faces (frog, owl, zebra, hamster, cat, etc.)
kickin' back; corporate takeover; museum of natural history; tourist season; in the water/stream/creek; cats etc.
*just all ocean ones (so much like Lassen and McClure! <3333)

Favorite Disney Kinkades:

Lady and the Tramp Falling in Love
Lady and the Tramp
Beauty and the Beast Winter Enchantment
Beauty and the Beast Dancing in the Moonlight
Beauty and the Beast Falling in Love
Beauty and the Beast II
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid Falling in Love
The Little Mermaid II
Peter Pan's Never Land
Tinker Bell and Peter Pan Fly to Neverland
The Lion King Return to Pride Rock
The Lion King
Tangled Up in Love
Tangled
Alice in Wonderland
Winnie the Pooh II
Winnie the Pooh I
Fantasia
The AristoCats
The AristoCats Love Under the Moon
Sleeping Beauty Dancing in the Enchanted Light
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White Dancing in the Sunlight
Snow White Discovers the Cottage
Cinderella Wishes Upon a Dream
Cinderella Dancing in the Starlight
Mulan Blossoms of Love
Jasmine Dancing in the Desert Sunset
Aladdin
The Jungle Book
Pinocchio Wishes Upon a Star
101 Dalmatians
101 Dalmatians on the Run
Pocahontas
The Princess and the Frog

All the Mickey & Minnie (Donald & Daisy Duck Day Afternoon, Sweetheart Campfire/Holiday/Cafe, 90 Years, Outback, Alps, Ireland, Paris, et. al.)
Love how they work practically the whole cast of characters into most of them. *w*

Back to the left, to the left! AW MAN, this song perfectly captures the longing to permanently return to any better time... "The past is all I'm after, how I get there I don't care...just take me back, and leave me there..."

calendarmania iii: some years...

...there's just  no clear  winner...

Confuzzled. Be. I.  ._.
Well, maybe eventually I can work out which '21 calendars belong where. 'Tis a big honkin' hollerin' heckin' deal, after all...;-;

blue dog
[toy+mini] POODS (x2; would be stuck betwixt)
tropical fish (x2)
tropical underworld
ocean unseen
under sea
elements--best ones=neon, cobalt, sulfur...argon, xenon...the whole noble gas club...yanno ;}
crystals (no rear images, wtfff)
COLORFUL CONFECTIONS
colorcrush
travel trailers (x2)
stewart
arcimboldi
thiebaud
bosch
haeckel
surrealscapes (yerka; strawberry beach)
HOT ROD B=] (grossman)
diners <3, cruisin' & chrome <33
(sweet) succulents, cactus <3, saguaros <3 ; deserts; mushy-mushy <3
plant love/(house)plants/produce/flowersch/herbz/jardins/gardens
faeries (cactus, mushroom!)
houses
cottage country/living
cabin porn/*life*/view
craftsman bungalows
art nouveau (GORGEOUS HOUSE)
midcentury modern
mackintosh designs
LUCY sp. ed.
golden goyles
uninspirational <3 <3 ; demotivators
lil' mermaid
mermaids (green, blue, purple hair <3 +red ofc)
"find weedo" xD
ELEGANT MF PIE
DRINKING. WITH. MF. CHICKENS
frogs (me bright'uns)
zoo portraits (ostrich; penguin, gazelle, koala...)
wild masterpieces (swan, buck-buck-bigock)
peacocks; parrots
songbirds (& snakes)
mario ^-^
donkey kong
disney/pixar <3<3
tango, opera ^^
cupcakes ^_^, cakes, patisserie, desserts
harley (TRIKE <33)
2 wheels
VWs <3
microcars
tulips
pinball
maxine xD
man up XD
herro kitteh (those stupid quidd stickers--snow globe etc.)
haunted realm, tarot, strangeling, sirens, witches, astrological, celestial journey, myth & magic <3
vintage country
[ALL lang/legacy; folk art/americana; camping, nature, docks; 'bygone days,' 'nostalgic' ish]
country SEASONS, *walk*, welcome, sampler, roads, path, music, living, pleasures, gardens, fresh, farmhouse, churches, chic, blessings
une promenade (giana)
redlin
covered bridges
home (?), farm-fresh; *farms*; markets
space cats (w/ candy/fewd/wigs); mystical kittehs
elvis <3
"just plain weird?"
wwpe?
ppl o' wal*mart
365 POKEMON [wall=G1 pixelated]
365 dogs/gallery, puppies, Irish stuff, shoes, etc.
greyhounds <3 <3 <3 (& usual breeds; whippets for instance weren't there when I went thru, impossible)
doxies
schnauz

pomeranian
eskie
heelers/acd
gsp
beagles
---
lionel trains
great old trucks
colorful chargers
classic cars, etc.
great outdoors
fairyland/shrooms/houses/tales
extraordinary/glamorous/artful/moar chickenth
loons  
boibz, exotic birbs
effin'/dumb birbs
grumpy cat=me
crazy cats
composers
coke
beatles
awkward family photos [daily]
andy griffith
larsson
modigliani
abe hunter
[fine artistes]
coral reef
celtic stuff
hasui
ikebana
sprinkles (planner)

dressage; friesians
comforts/coming home
in the kitchen
manga girls
"if we knew then" (weird)
fat cats XD
brp (?)

 

 

...and, finally...my hugantic Photobucket summary...

...why's it only showing up on desktop... 

 

the whole revolting pb sagugghhhh

 

*~*~*

also dis

n dis again...

Calendarmania II

 That time o' year again...to list out all the favorites & decide on next year's.

1. GOOSEBUMPS
2. OCEAN PAGE-A-WEEK
3. Vintage Pinball
4. Blue Dog
5. Lucy
6. Aimee Stewart (new favorite artist, omfg <33)
7. Colorful Confections (Peeps+jelly beans, candy, macarons, bonbons, cookies, doughnuts, sherbet, rainbow cake, rw&b popsicles, etc.)
8. Encyclopedia of Rainbows (doughnuts, macarons, polished stones, phones, etc.)
9. Mushrooms/Funghi (x3)
10. Balloon Text (VideoSmarts vibes)
11. Mermaids (esp. clownfish mermaid + ones w/ sea dragons)
12. Succulents
13. Cactus
14. Desert in Bloom
15. Sit Stay Selfie (Bedlington + Italian Greyhound)
16. Dynasties (African Wild Doggos)
17. Avanti Dogs (Toy Pood reindogs)
18. Tropical Fish, Coral Reef, Exotic Ocean
19. Shark Week (Horn, nurse, zebra labeled as leopard--disgusting!!)
20. WAYNE THIEBAUD <3 (reminds me a bit of my old favorite Ralph Goings)
21. Master of Illusion (Rob Gonsalves)
22. Surrealscapes (Yerka Jacek)
23. Crump (Matt; pretty photos)
24. Arcimboldo/i, Bosch, Dali, Kinkade, Terry Redlin, Linda Nelson Stocks
25. Houses
26. Travel Trailers
27. Hot Rod (classic diners, gas stations, drive-ins <3)
28. Cruisin' & Chrome
29. Route 66/Diners [also easel Diners]
30. Bungalows
31. Mid-Century Modern
32. Saguaros
33. Southwest Wildlife
34. Super Mario
35. Tulips
36. Sexy kilt dudes
37. Plant Life, Crazy Plant Lady
38. "Wall Art" (mushrooms, trees, fruit+cheese)
39. Art Forms in Nature, Curiosities
40. "Pooch"
41. Poodles, Greyhounds, Whippets, Iggies
42. Exquisite Creatures (fish, urchins, brittlestars...)
43. Frogs
44. Fruit
45. Spirit Guides, Spellbound, Strangeling, Steampunk, Alchemy, Celestial Journeys, Dragon Witches, Stokes' Dragons, fairy/faerie shit, Gothic Art, Haunted Realm
46. John Wayne; Elvis, Beatles, Johnny Cash
47. Friesians
48. Little Mermaid, Frozen II, Lion King
49. Simpsons
50. Popeye
51. Peanuts/cocks
52. Seuss
53. MST3K
54. Man Up xD
55. Patisserie (smackarons), Cupcakes
56. Crayola
57. Nuns Having Fun
58. "Barbarian" (butterflyfish/fruit/toucan art)
59. VW Buses/Beetles
60. Teddy Bears
61. Lionel
62. Future Vintage
63. Killer Flamingos
64. Loons
65. Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth
66. "Road Home," "Country Welcome/Walk," "Hometown"
67. Remote Locations
68. Livin' Aloha
69. Gardens, Waterfalls, Geometrics, Galaxy of Stars (reminded me of that one elementary school dream...)
70. Enchanted Pathways, Deep Forest, farmer's market shit
71. Grumpy Cat (=ME), "Fuck This Shit," Fauxspirations, Anti-Affirmations (365)
72. "Mind Your Own Dam Business" (cartoons)
73. Saved By the Bell
74. Dachshunds, Schnauzers, Pomeranians, Wire Fox Terriers, Scotties, etc.
75. Pokemon (but there's only the one month w/ clipart Umbeon & Espeon, so no way)

Page-a-Day: Chuck Norris (also wall), Shakespearean Insults, Game of Thrones, Year of Animation, People of Wal*Mart (<3! XDD), Dogs (x2), Garfield

...etc., etc. 8-3

Calendarmania

Started browsing the 5500+ 2019 calendars around the last week of August, I think...finished just now. 56 pages. x_x Virtually everything in existence has a calendar dedicated to it. ;)
And for the second year in a row it's a TOUGH choice. Here be all the favorites...

Vintage Pinball
Lonely Dog
Blue Dog
MOBA (Museum of Bad Art)
365: People of Wal*Mart
I Love Lucy
Flamingos
Craftsman Bungalows
Classic Cruisin' & Chrome
Cabin Country/Life/View
Cacti/Deserts/Succulents (Saguaros)
[Miraculous] Mushrooms
Model Railroad
[dog breed/sea life ones listed separately below] 
Sit Stay Selfie: Goorrrgeous March Saluki!! (& April, Jan, June)
Super Mario: May for Piranha Plant! (& Toad, Bob-omb, Dry Bones...)
NICKELODEON: December group pic w/ Sheena, Rhonda, & Nadine
Upside-Down Dogs: January Greyhound
Pokemon: April for Suicune! (Then August/Xerneas, November/Tornadus...)
Peanuts: Frieda!
NatGeo Photo Arks: flamingos, pangolin, vulture; armadillo, hyena, crab; frog, sea star
No Bad Days: mushroom, cactus, flamingo, pineapple, ice cream art
Treats: German Wirehair...
Yoga Dogs: 2 or 3 cute pics but feels like last year's...
Golden Girls
Kitchen Kitsch
Windmills
Disney/Pixar (Merida, Dory/Nemo, Incredibles), Disney Villains (Gothel)
Peacocks
Bob Ross  
Fairy Houses
Figure Skating
Frogs
Friesians
Feast Your Eyes!
Sweet Treats!
Frutta & Verdura
Farmer's Market
Farm Fresh
Farm to Table
Farmer's Almanac
Gothic Art, Haunted Realm, Knock @ the Door/magickal faerie mythological stuff
Kinkades
Knowledge of Things
Maxine
Mixed Greens
Num Noms
Old Hollywood
On Broadway
Patisserie
RHPS (Magenta ;)
Rocks & Minerals
The Road Home
Shark Week (Port Jackson, tasseled wobbegong, etc.)
She Sheds
Shoes
Someecards (lmfao)
Surrealscapes (Yerka Jacek)
Tulips
Wyland Visions of the Sea
Wysocki Americana
VW Bus/Campervans & Beetles
Demotivational (ripoff of Despair Inc.)
Cobblestone Way. Houses. Icebergs/Antarctica. Cardinals/Songbirds.

DOG BREEDS:
Poodles!
Bedlingtons
Greyhounds
Italian Greyhounds
Whippets
Dachshunds
German Shorthair
Mini-Schnauz
Lhasa
Pomeranian
~
McCartney Dogs
Lisa Frank (still pretty much the same thing reprinted yet again but with a few newish images, mainly the giraffes)

SEA LIFE:
Coral Reef
Blue Planet II: Garibaldi, weedy seadragon, cuttlefish, Dumbo octopus
Exotic Oceans: mandarinfish, anemonefish, manta
Under the Sea: clown trigger, maroon clownfish, cuttlefish, nudibranchs, angels/butterflies
Tropical Fish: blue spotted boxfish! (Ostracion meleagris), pink skunk anemonefish, longnose hawkfish, powder blue surgeons, clown, etc.
Tropical Underworld: mandarin, manta, clown, bannerfish, red star, cuttle, powder blue!, yellow-tailed anemones (clarkii maybe?)
WWF Sea: clowns, mantas, morays, seahorse

Barkitecture

Book by Fred Albert

List of houses, ranked approximately from favorite to least, as best I could atm:

1. Villa Dog
2. Red Rover
3. A Doghouse for Hobie & Ryely
4. On the Road to Zanzibar
5. Fido's Amazing Technicolor Dreamhouse
6. Muttropolitan Opera House
7. Chuck's & Lily's Campaign Tent
8. Gypsy Caravan
9. Foreign Correspondent
10. Hawaiian Doghouse
11. Rover's Rad Retreat
12. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
13. Chateau Neuf de Pup
14. !!!*SIT*!!!
15. Dog Cabin (should be made of artificial bones/treats)
16. Lassie Come Home
17. Budapet
18. Canine/Bone Order of Architecture
19. Upper Canada Doghouse
20. Chessie's Doghouse
21. Chateau du Chien
22. Reki
23. House for a Labrador Retriever
24. Niche a Chien
25. House of Coco
26. French Chateau
27. Growler's Grove
28. Capitol Hill Doghouse
29. Stella Dome
30. Trojan Dog
31. Doggy Bag
32. Gate of Labs
33. Bird/Dog House
34. Stealth Doghouse
35. Eddie's House
36. Villa Buster
37. Pet-a-Porter
38. House for a Modernist Mutt
39. Hut Dog
40. Untitled No. 2
41. The Soloist
42. All-Seeing "Eye" Doghouse
43. Garden Pavilion for Dave
44. Dog Tower

FROM INTRO:

1. Atlanta Humane Society
2. Bangor, ME
3. Marie Antoinette Niche-a-chien
4. Washington Irving Estate, Sunnyside 

Collages of some faves:

Flip-through video showing all:

Ooh, I think I've found my calendar for next year!

 

Reviewing the 2016 "World of The Hunger Games" calendar: ****/5

It's always a tough pick, so I'll still want to choose at least one other for another room...but yeah. This is good. At first I was disappointed by the other Hunger Games calendar--which featured pretty much just D13 propaganda posters of the most popular members of Squad 451. This is MUCH closer to what I'd been hoping for.

The BrownTrout name means quality, especially with regard to the paper stock, printing, and date box sizes. The design is awesome. Most entertainment-category calendars don't seem to have much thought put into them. Each month gets a big stock photo of one or two characters, or a random still slapped onto it, and that's about it; they tend to look a bit cheap. The only one I recall using is my Kill Bill one. But this collage style is eye-pleasing and far more artistic than average. I like the backgrounds--part flames, part honeycomb grid (like the arena domes...getting consumed.) The whole thing has a really slick, coordinated, deluxe look to it.

Had I designed this, I might have balanced each image set by placing two more small circular ones in the other corners (hey, the more pics, the better, right?!) Or, if there wasn't room for that, maybe alternatingly place one in the upper right/lower left and upper left/lower right, instead of all the right-hand sides? I might also have tried to use images from all the films in chronological order, or even matched them to the months as much as possible (Snow/snow and Effie's "Snow Queen" dress in the winter? The butterflies or woodsy shots in the spring? Flaming outfits in summer? Etc.?) Okay, maybe the latter is a little cutesy and wouldn't always be necessarily appropriate, but it's a thought. The pictures aren't all scattered randomly; there's some logical sense to parts of the arrangement. The REAL issue I have here is the lack of certain people.

I mean, to look at it, you immediately think, "Wow! Everybody must be in there!" But upon closer inspection, you find that a few major people are strangely and notably missing. How in the world do Finnick and Johanna not appear once? I get that Katniss and Peeta are the main characters, but do they need to be there 18 and 10 times respectively while Finn, Jo, Cinna, and Rue couldn't be sneaked in at all? Everybody's favorite love-triangle trio is still actually the main focus--it's rather Gale-heavy with 6 counts of him.
I'm grateful for two shots of Haymitch two months in a row (though they're in the smallest circles), since he and Effie are my favorites, and he's frequently and unfairly overlooked. (*cough cough Funko with the four Katnisses and leaving out a member of the team cough!!!*) If he'd been omitted, I would have raged--all the more given some of the other people included. I'd gladly take more than three Effie-inclusive pics, likewise, but I guess that's not TOO shabby. 'Specially since two are the big center images for the months, & all three come from different films. Hell, you could do a whole calendar of Hayffie moments & every Effie ensemble/look...there are at least 15 of the latter for ya, plus all the Haymitch...x~D In the past I've noted that November and December tend to get the best calendar images, but not this time. ;3
Prim, Plutarch, Caesar, Beetee, Boggs, Cressida, Pollux, Jackson, Coin, & Snow round it out with one or two inserts apiece. Basically...needs more Finnick & Johanna and possibly others; a little too Katniss/Peeta/Gale-heavy. It's definitely diverse, but could stand to be even more so. 

They did a pretty good job of selecting images from all four films (well, as many as they could from MJ2 considering how early it was completed.) Truthfully, from movies so LOADED UP with gorgeous and iconic scenes and costumes, you could've grabbed out a bunch of random handfuls and been able to assemble a nice calendar. So they worked in lots of key people and important events, and as many more as they could've potentially chosen, it came out looking pretty great. Well done.

I also appreciate the new "World of" title they're now applying to everything--virtually promising us that although Part 2 will conclude the series as it's written so far, we can certainly expect more out of Panem in the future. ;) 
Most of the time I go with dog breed calendars, but I've had many of my favorites by now, and apparently they're never going to give me a Saluki one...so maybe I'll just pick up one of the doggy page-a-days and get 365 for the price of 12. This year it's Lisa Frank; most other times it'll be something nature- or travel- or vintage-themed, art/architecture, sea life, demotivational posters, etc. Next year? Going to Panem!

Edit: Just got it. The layout of the pics makes more sense now--they cycle through each of the four films three times, taking 3 shots/stills from each per month. :) [THG>CF>MJ1>MJ2, x3]
Review: "Where's Finnick? Odair he...wait, no..." 
Review #2 
Review of "Yearbook Dogs" 
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