Browsing Posts in Art

Happy New Year! Get your cre­ative juices flow­ing for 2012 by draw­ing pixel art. Last year, blogged about an 8-bit dog sculp­ture, now bring­ing you a way to cre­ate your own art in the retro style of pixel com­puter art – for free! Zoom on over to MakePixelArt.com. If you get hooked, it’s avail­able as an Apple app […]

When ambling through the aisles of antique malls, I keep an eye out for any vin­tage Frenchie or near-Frenchie items. Peer­ing around cor­ners and into the backs of shelves, it feels like a dif­fer­ent type of Easter egg hunt try­ing not to over­look hid­den bull­dog trea­sures. While in an antique mall this sum­mer, I glanced […]

Today Ghost turns two and in the past two weeks, Ghost has raked in the points at local shows. He won a total of four points at the Octo­ber Bel­ton, Texas shows, then this week­end he snabbed his first major in Austin for another 3 points! Quite the birth­day treat, a few days early, for […]

Every squared-headed crea­ture needs a square-headed pet! Video cre­ated by San Fran­cisco sketch com­edy troop “Killing My Lob­ster.” Learn more about them and their efforts to find a home here: A Home for Killing My Lobster

A web­site named The Burn­ing House rings rather true these days in light of recent wild­fires in Texas. The site poses this one ques­tion, “If your house was burn­ing, what would you take with you?” Some­thing we’ve been ask­ing our­selves quite a bit lately. Answers are pro­vided by var­i­ous peo­ple in thought­ful photo essay form. […]

            Flip, flop, fly! You’ll want to check out these won­der­ful stop-motion pho­tos of dogs doing their best head shake. Some are funny, some are goofy, and some will make you go ewww!because of the fly­ing slob­ber fac­tor. Head over to Carli Davidson’s web­site to view the entire series in their […]

Food­ies around the world have heard of, and dream of din­ing at El Bulli, a restau­rant in Spain named for the orig­i­nal owner’s French Bull­dogs. This is a restau­rant which breaks the rules of fine din­ing and con­ven­tional gas­tron­omy world-wide. The word din­ing doesn’t even cover what peo­ple expe­ri­ence at El Bulli. Per­for­mance art may […]

Tragedy on the Sea Nymph is a 10-minute silent film star­ring an all-dog cast (with a Frenchie cast in a star role!). The film made its debut in May at The Machine Project in Los Ange­les and while the film is silent, the music and singing cer­tainly are not. As the film plays, live opera […]

Is it just us, or does this NYC street art look very much like a Frenchie? Lego bricks meets 8-bit art! Artist unknown. Photo taken by Allan Molho and found on Flickr. To learn more about 8-bit art, also called pixel art, go here: 8-bit art at This Blog Rules Pixel Art at Wikipedia 8bit.com — (check out […]

Nor­mally, only dogs under 25 pounds are allowed to stay at The New York Palace, but they def­i­nitely made an except for this guy! Weigh­ing in at 1,500 pounds, Doggy John is guard­ing The New York Palace’s out­door din­ing venue, Palace Gate, from…super-sized dog treats? A Godzilla pigeon inva­sion? Naw, his true pur­pose is obviously […]