What's kittypr0n?

A show comprised entirely of cats. There are no human faces, except in the occasional archival footage or pictures in the background. Over the video we put unusual music and sounds, not the sort of thing you'd associate with cats; see the episode guide for more details on the soundtracks of individual episodes. We never use quote-clever-unquote sound effects, and seldom if ever anything which could be considered pop music.

"Kitty-PRAWN," not "kitty-PORN." And that's the numeral zero in "pr0n," not the letter O.

Derived from a mistyping of "porn," "pr0n" is a hacker joke. Not everyone gets it, but those who do think we're much cooler than we actually are. Neat trick, eh? The title is also all lowercase, which only adds to our indie/alt cred. It's all about keepin' it real, yo.

Old-timers know the "kitty porn" joke has been going around since the web's nascent days (whatever happened to The Corporation, anyway?), and probably before then. We certainly don't claim to have originated the name, or even this particular spelling, but we're pretty sure we're the first people to have used it for the name of a public access show in San Francisco.

It is no longer on cable, and has yet to find its way online.

The black and white cat is Oscar (also known as The Dude), and the tabby is Mina.

No. They're just very good friends. And, yes, they're fixed.

It's all about being ready to grab the camcorder at a moment's notice, and hoping they haven't stopped doing whatever it was that caught our attention in the first place by the time we're actually recording. (We have a lot of footage consisting of two seconds of Oscar doing something interesting, then deciding to groom himself.) Very little is staged, since you can't really stage anything with cats. It just doesn't work that way.

Usually at least six hours of studio time at Access San Francisco, four or five of which is editing the footage. The rest is creating the titles and recording the music. In other words, a lot longer than you might expect for such a simple concept. It's a good thing we aren't perfectionists.

Is the music yours?

No. Admittedly, it's a gray legal area, as we don't pay for it or obtain any sort of copyright clearance. The reactions of the relatively few artists we've spoken to have ranged from flattered to amused, and none seem to view an obscure public access show about cats as a threat to their livelihood. We use their material out of our love for it and a desire to share it, and even though we sell tapes of the show, we don't make anything resembling a profit, nor are we ever likely to.