One more thing I did this week to be happy was visit DogWoman at Open Salon, where I contracted the Extreme Sheep bug. What can I say? My immune system doesn’t stand a chance against viral marketing videos that feature Welsh shepherds making extremely geeky art. Symptoms include wide eyes, slack jaw, random tittering, and the compulsion to hit play over and over.
I hope to beat Very Short List to the punch by declaring this video the sweet chewy center of a delicious Venn diagram flavored with Wallace and Gromit, Andy Goldsworthy, and Wooster Collective.
Go on then. Watch the video and the BBC News making of. And three cheers for DogWoman, those “good dogs and sensible sheep,” and sexy British shepherding geek artists everywhere!
Oh bliss, oh ruddy giddy trip up memory mount! Remember, oh giggly girl, the sheep who gladly permitted us to pet their lanolin rich curls in New Zealand? Was that at Hobbiton, and then again at the end of the boat cruise down south at the lovely restaurant and farm? I seem to connect both those spots with sheep.
I also trip back to the week in Wales on the shore in the lee of hills populated with sheep and their amazing clever dogs with their whistling human managers who are smokin’ hot men due to their aforementioned amazing clever dogs. Men take note: Train dogs, win hearts.
If memory serves, we both contemplated staying down under to become shepherdesses. I’m pretty sure it was the dogs and their boys. Right with you on the replay button.
I LOVED this!! I’ve done a bit of sheepherding in my time, but have never imagined that folks would be inspired to take it to this level… I’m going to share this with my dad who is a shepherd to 42 ewes and lambs – he will appreciate this, too!