From Vivre.com comes this set of Zebra dinner plates:
A playful take on white dinnerware, these gold and black zebras will add flair to your table setting.
November 2008 Archives
From ModCats.com:
Original 1963 Mod Zebra from Arabia (Finland) designed by Taisto Kaasinen. Matt Black stripes over white porcelain. Greenish hue to back.
See more at ModCats.com, where you can see close-up of the amputated legs!
From Wildlifewonders.com:
Correia Art Glass Zebra Face Vase. This beautiful, hand blown zebra vase is made in the USA! Comes complete with signed certificate of authenticity.
From GoAntiques.com:
Breathtaking large porcelain figurine of running zebra. Hand painted in naturalistic colors. Royal Dux Bohemia on raised pink triangle mark. Please note, this is older piece - NOT recent production made in Czech Republic.
This photo from Yderoux's Flickr Photostream is simply called Zebras. I feel like this picture deserves an exclamation mark. Zebras!
Guida Daniele's Handimals and Painthands include zebras, butterflies, dolphins, and other animals.
Evaxebra, seen here in a picture called Zebra Camouflage, has a thing for zebra patterns:
Yes, I have a zebra couch with zebra pillows. I also have zebra bedspread and zebra soap dispensers and zebra car seat covers and inflatable zebras. I even use a zebra hairdryer. I walk the thin line between collection and obsession.
This captive albino zebra was seen at Maasai Mara, Kenya, East Africa. This picture, by Rhett Butler, is from Mongabay.com.
Have you met Eclyse? Eclyse, according to the UK's Daily Mail, is a Zorse: a cross between a zebra and a horse:
It looks as if someone tried to give a zebra a respray. . . then ran out of white paint halfway through the job.
But in reality there is no artificial colouring on display here. This amazing but natural coat belongs to Eclyse the zorse.
Her father is a zebra, while her mother is a horse. And she's walking proof of how a child inherits genes from both parents.
Read more at dailymail.co.uk
Piñata Boy offers instructions for how to make your own Rainbow Zebra Piñata:
I painted the nose gray instead of black because I thought that too much black in one place like that would look too "heavy." The hooves were painted silver instead of black because it's a rainbow zebra, and everybody knows that rainbow zebras have silver hooves.
I spotted Helmut Koller's American Zebra sculpture at the Chisolm Gallery web site.
A Photoshop Caption Content at Mechapixel.com attracted some interesting entries.
Timothy K. Hamilton says this is an "An Extreemely Rare Rainbow Zebra" from his Flickr photostream.
This National Geographic photo (by Chris Johns) is called Zebra in the Mist. National Geographic tells us:
Theories about the purpose of the zebra's famous stripes include camouflage, sunscreen, or tsetse fly deterrent. Each zebra has a unique pattern, which may help individuals identify each other.
Now this is a little more like it. Unlike yesterday's assembly line zebra product for which every one is identical, Ballard Designs promises that each piece of its 16-Piece Zebra Dinnerware Set is "one-of-a-kind." That's the zebra sprit! Every zebra's stripes are unique, like a human's fingerprints. Zebra products should follow that principle of one-of-a-kindedness.
The stylish zebra stripe and matching solid trim are painted entirely by hand, so each piece is one-of-a-kind. Crafted of microwave and dishwasher safe ironstone. Set includes four each of Dinner Plates, Salad/Dessert Plates, Bowls and Pedestal Mugs.
The promise of zebra-themed products is their uniqueness. Product developrs who choose zebra themes might do so for the potential of creating which are, like every zebra's stripes, individually unique. This assembly-line produced Zebra Mouse by Logitech, unfortunately, does not appear to fulfill that promise, but it's kinda cute.
No picture today. Instead, let's look at a famous logic puzzle which involves a zebra (or does it?).
1. There are five houses.
2. The Englishman lives in the red house.
3. The Spaniard owns the dog.
4. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
5. The Ukrainian drinks tea.
6. The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
7. The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
8. Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
9. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
12. Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.
13. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
14. The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
15. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
Now, who drinks water? Who owns the zebra?
This puzzle was taken from Wikipedia. You can read more about this puzzle, including solutions, at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Puzzle.
From brancusi7's Flickr Photostream comes Zebra Crossing:
Poseidon is often compared or combined with the Roman god of the sea, Neptune. In addition to creating horses, he is also credited with the creation of the Zebra, believed to be one of his early experiments in equine engineering.
Don't miss the rest of John Seven's amazing art at his Flick photostream
