Here are stuffed critters with names like Biteme Spears, Angelina Grrrowlie and Brad Pitbull, and plush objects like a Chewy Vuitton handbag and a Bark Jacobs shoe.
The resulting art object, entitled "Plush," is basically a bush book, a visual compendium of hair down there in a variety of textures, colors and coifs.
She also cast a pig's skull as a porcelain teapot, covered it in surprisingly plush rat fur and made the finished object look much less sinister than it sounds.
And what about the only other object in the gallery, a large plush-toy orca, Tilikum Body Pillow, named after the animal performer at SeaWorld who killed three people?
What struck me in this case were the actual objects I found scattered between Hungary and Serbia: plush toys, medicine, boat tickets, sanitary products, food, and clothing all things you'd never find abandoned on the side of the street in poor countries like Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, or Morocco.
The enriched environment contained many additional objects (a running wheel, plastic tubing, rubber balls, scented plush balls, a bell-ball, Velcro strips and high-contrast visual stimuli).
The eponymous Octobo is a plush octopus with which kids can interact by touches or by placing objects between its tentacles; it's powered by an iPad mini that slips behind its face and provides animated features.
A numbered list of a hundred arbitrary objects was drawn up: No. 3 was "paintbrush," No. 18 was "plush ottoman," No. 25 was "roaring lion," and so on.
Five different objects that varied both in size (e.g. a pen, a CD, a trainer, a large box) and in contrast (a white shirt rolled into a ball, a gray plush mouse) to the cloth were used for each testing period, with new objects selected for each session.
Elegant and airy, lit by skylights and chandeliers, warmed by wood paneling, plush seating and a central fireplace and decorated with contemporary art, books and rare objects: This quietly luxe first impression of the renovated Hotel Figueroa was not what the real-estate developer Bradley Hall had in mind when he purchased the property in 2014.
In this study, we also examined pesticide levels on nontreated surfaces such as plush toys because children living within pesticide-treated homes may come into contact with contaminated objects, such as toys, within a home environment (Gurunathan et al. 1998).
