Aurora Borealis Sad Kitten Cupcake Moonscape

['shopped by Xeni Jardin / click for grande ]

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Anonymous

That’s….um, lovely, Xeni.
You can help me put it on the fridge. Not on the front, on the side
Felton

The Astrocats!
FutureNerd

Xeni you have defined our zeitgeist, or weltkÃ¤tzchen. And may I say, gesundheit.
danwarning

Aw Xeni, I like it with the little cupcake in the background above the astronaut! It’s super cute and balances the piece out wonderfully.
- Xeni Jardin
  
  Oh, I forgot about that layer. It felt too distracting to me at full saturation, I’ll pull it down a little and blur and darken, to simulate distance, then re-upload here.
Anonymous

i know it’s shopped because there are no crosshairs in the sky, what are you trying to hide? Also there are more stars in your moon’s horizon than NASA’s moon.
alphabomb

Aurora Borealis Kitteh animated and remixed:

http://www.vimeo.com/14128915

As it’s been a full 24hrs since the post, it’s far too old for anyone to see this. .
Phlip

http://fav.me/d2urt4l
Steiny

IM CONFUS
Michael Smith

Gene really should have written Tracy on that rock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%27s_Rock
kuanes

I am 12 years old and what is this?
Anonymous

what is this? i don’t even
cjp

Xeni – This is pure genius. I’ll bet you could get a federal arts grant. Clearly, the black and white portion represents the rape of history by future Info-Miners and that the kitten is symbolizing your reaction to the loss of man’s technological innocence. And those cupcakes are obviously a strong feminist statement. You could get $12,000 for this. Another $5K if you manage to work in 9/11.
- Phlip
  
  FUUUUUUUU…
  
  I saw it FRIST!!
- http://www.xeni.net Xeni Jardin
  
  Jesus, man — HOW DID YOU KNOW?
IronEdithKidd

This is an appropriate chaser to Sock Monkey Centipede. Thank you, Xeni. I may actually sleep tonight thanks to your meme-y artistry.
cjp

One small step for meme. One giant leap for memekind.
holtt

One small step for a meme…
irksome

“Houston, we have a…awwwww”
Phlip

This looks like a shop. I can tell by the pixels, and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
- cjp
  
  Actually, the only shopped part is the moon landing.
  - Phlip
    
    Some conspiracy theories are history, written by the conquered.
    
    But some aren’t…
    - cjp
      
      If tiny Neil there tried to do battle with Sad Kitten-Lunar Defender, he would lose. Just look at the size of those cupcake missiles. And all Armstrong has is a golf club back in the trunk next to the spare.
      - Phlip
        
        If that were /really/ a vacuum, then the frosting on the cupcakes would sizzle & freeze-dry!
        
        (Like I was cringing, during, the movie Wall-E when they exposed that fragile little plant to hard vacuum..!)
      - cratermoon
        
        @cjp That’s not Neil Armstrong. It’s Scientist-Astronaut Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt, on the Apollo 17 mission, taken during the 3rd EVA at Taurus-Littrow.
        
        One way you can tell it’s not Apollo 11 or any mission prior to Apollo 15 is that the earlier landings all targetted completely flat, open sites, out of safety concerns. It wasn’t until Apollo 15 that that crews and mission planners had gained enough confidence to target rugged, mountainous areas.
Antinous / Moderator

Somewhere, Tom Selleck is crying into a damp Reuben.
- Xeni Jardin
  
  hahaha win.
- Anonymous
  
  full of the awesome.
- evilpyrate
  
  Somewhere, Tom Selleck is crying into a damp Reuben
  
  My mind totally turned Reuben into Paul Reubens…
  
  Think it’s time to change my meds.
VagabondAstronomer

This needs to be on velvet…
Gutierrez

It is missing a rainbow… Better make that a double.
Orchestra Spy

nope, still no intelligent life.
Anonymous

Why?
Phlip

My art teacher told us not to put red on the border of a composition. Does pink count?
- Xeni Jardin
  
  not when it’s not art.
  - Phlip
    
    Only the true artist denies her art.
    
    > Well what sort of a chance does THAT give me??! Okay, it IS art
    
    IT IS IT IS HUZZAH!!
    - Xeni Jardin
      
      Both of my parents were working artists, and I actually did go to art school, and a very good one. But I dropped out to learn internets. True story.
GuidoMescalito

you can tell the kitty was in a studio, the shadows from the cupcakes are all wrong.
Dean Putney

I am here to inform you that this is a pretty smashing iPad lock screen.
Bryan3000000

Yep, just found my new wallpaper. Why go with just plain old Aurora or Hubble images, when you can get a sad kitten, cupcakes, and a moonscape with an astronaut in the mix!
Chupacabara

The trouble with Tribbles…
GeekMan

Xeni, you have jumped the shark.
alphabomb

Is this a Xeni original?

Credit / Source / Link to layered source file?
- Xeni Jardin
  
  yes, i shooped it myself. that’s why it sucks so bad!
  - alphabomb
    
    Requesting layered (PSD?) file for remix.
    - Xeni Jardin
      
      Here is the PSD for your remixing funtime. Attribution/noncommercial if you please!
evilpyrate

Yo Dawg, I heard you like memes. So we put a meme in your meme…
Bryan3000000

It needs something…

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=5ybxip&s=4

There, fixed it!
Susannah Breslin

Where is kitteh’s dry erase board?
- Xeni Jardin
  
  I eated it.