The Secret Life of Cows

By Glen Wexler

Book Overview

Let's face it, if you don't find these pictures funny on first sight, no amount of forewords will persuade you otherwise." --- from the Foreword by Eric Idle

Look at those cows and remember that the greatest scientists have never discovered how to turn grass into milk." --Michael Pupin

* Never has the divine bovine aspired to such a laudable art form.

In one of the most imaginative books you'll pick up this year, digital slight-of-hand artist Glen Wexler creates a vibrant counterculture that merges fantasy and reality.

* Recipient of the International Photography Association's Gold Medal and Best of Show Awards, Wexler's digitally enhanced photo-illustrations are paired with udderly funny musings from the likes of Dave Barry, Ogden Nash, and Eric Idle, who authors the book's foreword and happens to "know a bit about cows in comedy."

* Wexler put more than 600 creative hours into this book, working with Muppet wardrobe designer James Hayes and pyrotechnic extraordinaire Joe Viskocil. No detail or pixel has been overlooked in the creation of this "mooving" photographic expose.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740763113
• ISBN13: 9780740763113
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.5" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Any collection specializing in 'alternate reality' color photos will relish THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS

Full-page color photos of cows are anything but your usual field grazers: they present an alternate form of cow reality and depict cows in strange circumstances indeed, from science lab neo-robots and in secret agent dress to cows dressed for construction work and various kinds of jobs. Any collection specializing in 'alternate reality' color photos will relish THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS, with its zany and oddball cow photos and the potentials of truly odd lifestyles. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Love It!

I have been a fan of the California Cheese commerical cows for years and this book was an "added-upon" appreciation for the beautiful cow. The book was so funny and I loved the imagination used to create the photos. A great talent! The new book "The Secret Life of Cows" sits with a place on honor on the coffee table in my living room to share with all that come to visit.

Cowabunga Mooed

Glen Wexler sees things a bit differently than the rest of us....and thank god for that. Glen's work has always been discribed as 'visionary.' As in, have you seen Glen's 'visionary' Van Halen Album cover? In "The Secret Life of Cows" he harnesses his 'visionary' powers to bring out only the very best in bovine humor. If you don't smile, laugh out loud or even snort milk out of your nose when you read this book, you better call 911, because you proably don't have a pulse. And if that wasn't enough to get you to part with ten-dollars-and-seventeen-cents, it turns out that Eric Idle fella is pretty funny, too...

A New Breed of Cow

I know a little bit about photography, and have considered myself a purest in my enthusiasm for the "traditional" medium. But this book has opened my eyes, and shown me a new way of "seeing." I am impressed with not only the creative genius and technical expertise of Glen Wexler, but with how detailed, imaginative and outright funny his work is. It boggles my mind when I ponder how he came up with and then executed the ideas which he so skillfully depicts here; I can't help asking myself, How did he do this? I really enjoy this book, and think it makes a great gift. Each image is not only visionary, but a state-of-the-art result of what can happen when you cross a camera with a computer.

Everyone Needs To Own This Book

For all of those who've ever wondered what cows were doing when not chewing their cud, this book offers the viewer entree into the very busy lives of these seemingly placid creatures. The photo-illustrations are perfectly executed, the text is very funny and more importantly you'll spend a lot of time smiling even after the book has been closed. I cannot think of Casino Cow without laughing.