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Internet Cat Video Festival draws 10,000 (!) to Walker Art Center
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| 9-1-12
| Amy Carlson Gustafson
Posted on 09/01/2012 4:24:33 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
The Walker Art Center truly did go to the cats, and the world meowed its approval.
On Thursday, Aug. 30, more than 10,000 folks turned up for the outdoor Internet Cat Video Festival at the museum's Open Field area. Organizers had expected 2,500 to 3,000.
By Friday afternoon, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, Slate.com, Buzzfeed and Mashable had all contributed articles to the viral purrs going around the Internet.
And those stories were shared hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter.
"Internet cat video stories galore today," wrote technology journalist and former New York Times "Bits" blogger Verne Kopytoff. "Bigger than Pinterest + Instagram. Insert cat pun here."
Even the website of the venerable Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., wrote: "It is the dawn of a new era. ... A reputable institution has accepted that ridiculous cat videos may count as art."
(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cats; internet; kittyping; minneapolis; minnnesota; video; walker
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We Minnesotans are on the cutting edge of art.
To: TurboZamboni; Slings and Arrows
LOL, we love catz, yes we do!
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posted on
09/01/2012 4:27:57 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: TurboZamboni; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
09/01/2012 4:35:12 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Romney, why do you have to be on the ticket?!)
To: jocon307
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posted on
09/01/2012 4:41:25 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
To: TurboZamboni
"...wat ladder?'
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posted on
09/01/2012 4:49:54 PM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
09/01/2012 4:55:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: TurboZamboni
That is intense!
I love cats. they are weird.
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posted on
09/01/2012 5:35:29 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: jocon307; KC_Lion; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...
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posted on
09/01/2012 5:47:04 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: TurboZamboni
LOL, I wish I had been there!
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posted on
09/01/2012 5:54:05 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
To: TurboZamboni
LOL, I wish I had been there!
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posted on
09/01/2012 5:54:11 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
To: TurboZamboni
LOL, I wish I had been there!
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posted on
09/01/2012 5:54:16 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
To: CatherineofAragon
I hate this touchpad...sheesh
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posted on
09/01/2012 5:55:40 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
09/01/2012 5:59:35 PM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
09/01/2012 6:01:23 PM PDT
by
MissyMa
To: Doogle
"I got it, I got it..aw chit..ain't got it"
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posted on
09/01/2012 6:10:16 PM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
09/01/2012 6:10:38 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(June 28, 2012 -- 9/11 From Within)
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
09/01/2012 6:18:24 PM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
To: TurboZamboni
Menri won.
But he was not impressed with the competition.
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posted on
09/01/2012 6:28:25 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Cardinal Dolan's DNC prayer is titled "Ritus exorcizandi obsessor a daemonio")
To: KarlInOhio
Menri won. Henri, Henri, Henri.
I must be one of the idiots Henri is surrounded by.
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posted on
09/01/2012 6:29:35 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Cardinal Dolan's DNC prayer is titled "Ritus exorcizandi obsessor a daemonio")
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
09/01/2012 7:01:40 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("OF COURSE I TALK TO MYSELF - Sometimes I need an expert opinion")
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