Today Cooper has his national print debut in People Magazine! Holy jumping up and down kitty cat! That’s big news all right.
For those of you visiting us for the first time, here’s the story of the Cat Camera: Michael and I are filmmakers, so for us it was only natural that our cat would take up the family business. We purchased a Cat-Cam kit online and put it together and started sending him outside once a week with the light weight collar camera attached. When he would return at the end of the day with as many as 400 pictures, we had the answer to that age-old question, “what does my cat do all day?” We also had some surprisingly beautiful photos. We saw lush underbrush and even the sculptures in the back yards of our Seattle neighbors.
He has been shooting photos for about a year and a half now and we had been publishing them on Flickr. We were astounded when his minor online celebrity ballooned in December with his appearance on Animal Planet’s Cats 101 program and the front page article about Cooper’s photography in the Seattle Post-Intellegencer. Following his big media blitz on December 6th, we have had over 1.5 million hits on our Flickr. Since then Cooper has had a successful gallery exhibit here in Seattle, which was visited by over a thousand people and Cooper even sold a few prints. Clearly there is something about Cooper that strikes a chord with people!
For those of you interested in buying a Cooper Original photo for your home or office, you can visit Urban Light Studios online. View TV news clips about cooper at Cross Films. And you can check out Cooper’s Flickr set featuring 139 pictures by Cooper and of Cooper wearing his Cat Cam.
The above picture is one of my personal all time favorites. We call it “Neighborhood Watch” and it’s available for sale in the gallery store. Cooper has been a busy bee this week and he will have more artistic photos to share with his internet friends soon.
Our cat Cooper appeared in recent publications of Encore Insider, a Seattle arts magazine found at symphonies and theaters. Apparently his collar camera photos are on the must-see list!
Cooper’s popularity has recently skyrocketed in China! An article about Cooper and his collar camera photography appeared in the Shanghai Morning Post a couple weeks after they interviewed Deirdre. The headline translates to: “Even a Cat Can Have Its Own Exhibition.”
Love is in the air in our neighborhood! The flowers are beginning to push their way up through the soil, the rain breaks are getting longer, and I think Cooper even got some sun this week.
The last week has been dreary and cold in Seattle. It even snowed one day! Cooper spent most of his time inside sleeping and recovering from all the fun he had the week before. Today he’s back outside with his camera! It’s a beautiful sunny day (56 F).
Last night’s opening of Cooper’s photography at Urban Light Studios was a great sucess!
We are so excited and proud of our little Cooper the cat photographer. He did such a tremendous job at the sneak preview on Wednesday that he’s sold his first photo and the show hasn’t officially opened yet! And we are looking forward to meeting his fans and neighbors at the 
Today Cooper visited Urban Light Studios for a press preview of his gallery exhibit. We were nervous he would be uncomfortable with all the reporters and their flashbulbs, but Cooper did great! He sat there like a pro, seemingly proud of the framed photos hanging behind him.