{"id":2298,"date":"2012-08-31T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/31\/via-colorful-pigeons-amongst-a-flock-of-grey-at\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:57","slug":"via-colorful-pigeons-amongst-a-flock-of-grey-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/31\/via-colorful-pigeons-amongst-a-flock-of-grey-at\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2298 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/31\/via-colorful-pigeons-amongst-a-flock-of-grey-at\/attachment\/2299\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"59\" src=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9m7bsIWM31rrwkloo1_1280-100x59.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9m7bsIWM31rrwkloo1_1280-100x59.jpg 100w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9m7bsIWM31rrwkloo1_1280-500x294.jpg 500w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9m7bsIWM31rrwkloo1_1280.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/10\/view\/23293\/colorful-pigeons-amongst-a-flock-of-grey-at-the-venice-biennale.html\">colorful pigeons amongst a flock of grey at the venice biennale<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Artists messing with animals \u2013 it seems like a never ending theme. The commentary in this blog post is worth browsing through.\u00a0Julian Charriere and Julius von Bismarck have died pigeons in Venice so that people don\u2019t consider them flying rats anymore\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The blog post notes they\u2019ve painted these animals without harming them. Some of the commenters say painting these animals is harmful in itself. Reasons given include: camouflage and procreation. Other commenters are offended by artists seeking fame by exploiting these animals. I find the image striking and would like to learn more about the actual process the artists uses to achieve this effect. I\u2019m also curious about the scientific basis for some of the claims made by those commenters taking offense.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via colorful pigeons amongst a flock of grey at the venice biennale) Artists messing with animals \u2013 it seems like a never ending theme. The commentary in this blog post is worth browsing through.\u00a0Julian Charriere and Julius von Bismarck have died pigeons in Venice so that people don\u2019t consider them flying rats anymore\u2026 The blog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/31\/via-colorful-pigeons-amongst-a-flock-of-grey-at\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[925],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-animals","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}