am i safe in assuming that everyone knows about puppycam?
http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.45.swf?cid=317016
what i love about puppycam:
1-the puppies. i love that they have 2 states of being: chewing and sleeping. sometimes they even sort of combine the two, as in when they’re 1/2 asleep but still chewing on the stuffed pumpkin toy. or when one puppy is asleep but one of his brothers/sisters is chewing on his leg. i don’t know what kind of puppies these are, but they’re my new role models.
2-i also love that in a world of web 2.0 and flash web sites and high-tech etc this web sit is a lo-res non-moving camera mounted in the corner of a homemade puppy kennel. there’s no plot, there are no graphics, there are just a bunch of yelping, chewing, sleeping little puppies.
3-back to the puppies. i love that the puppies are utterly careless. well, maybe that’s not true. they seem to care a lot about chewing on things. but they don’t really care if they’re falling down or being fallen on, even when they’re sleeping. how is it that puppies can fall so heavily and effortlessly? are their little puppy bones made out of bouncy lead?
puppycam is like a perfect little utopia(which is probably why every person i know checks it a few times a day). they eat. they sleep. they chew. they fall down. and that’s about it. so for every stressed office worker or graphic designer there exists this puppy utopia, representing the life that everyone kind of wishes they had.
i have a feeling that a few million people are going to need ptsd therapy when/if some of the puppies end up being sold/adopted, or even when they grow up. dogs are great, but they’re not puppies, and they do a lot less adorable stuff. for now there are the puppies. as i write this: some of the puppies are sleeping. some of the puppies are chewing on each other. and one puppy is alternating between chewing on the stuffed pumpkin toy and another puppies leg. i mean, these puppies are never going to invent a segway or write a hilarious sitcom, but they seem to be as perfectly happy as any creature could ever hope to be.
moby