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Elliott Erwitt, Third Avenue El, 1955
Does not die!
(via ThinkGeek :: Electronic Butterfly in a Jar)
I don’t actually know what to say about this.
Official Ojai Valley Taxidermy TV Commercial (by ojaivalleytaxidermy)
This place! OMG! sneak peek: hollister & porter hovey | Design*Sponge
I just think this project is genius:
Teddy bears at first appear trivial. They are toys—playthings for children and symbols of innocence, comfort, and nostalgia. But the teddy bear is also a metaphor for the way humans manipulate the natural world to our own ends. The teddy bear is an idea: a docile, cute, friendly invention far removed from the wild animal that inspired it. I create teddy bear anatomical specimens with a pretense of realness to emphasize the artifice of a familiar but unconsidered subject.
To create my teddy bear natural history pieces I start with found teddy bears and reverse engineer the physical ‘evidence’ of their biological history in needle-felted wool: a material perfectly suited to representing fuzzy and soft yet firm and structural bones and tissues of stuffed animals. My process and technique add to believability: the actual production of felted wool is difficult to discern through observation, and I borrow heavily from real anatomy.
Like museum collections my work aims to educate, classify, and make sense of the world around us by presenting information in a rational and scientific way, but the teddy bear is an irrational and emotionally loaded subject by design. The anatomy of the teddy bear is wholly planned by its creator to appeal to the biological response of human adults to care for their cute, round-featured, helpless babies. The manufacture of teddy bears is a blueprint for bioengineering trends that are taking place today—without the biology. But the sharp canine teeth in a teddy bear skull serve as a reminder that nature can only be tamed to a point. My teddy bear anatomical specimens hold a mirror to the collective human conceit that we can and should improve on and re-shape the natural world to suit our desires.(via NEVVER )
My wonderful taxidermy partner-in-crime, Michael, brought this amazing old film about Potters Museum of Animal Fantasy to my attention earlier.
I have a card with a photo of the kittens on it here somewhere that Bethan sent me just before the museum was closed and the exhibits auctioned off a few years ago. I don’t think the auctions went too well. I remember having a conversation with her at the time about how nice it would be to have some of them (!), and how sad it was that nobody was interested in saving it. How times have changed!
DaltonTowers is delighted to provide space for this rather special loaned exhibit. Say hello to the badger, everyone!
It’s quite something. I’ve never been this close to a badger. They’re bloody enormous. Almost as big as a corgi in fact. (She’s not convinced, mind). He’s old, and very crudely stuffed. And frankly, freaky. He’s ACE!
I’m still trying to work out where would be a nice place for him to hang out here… At the moment my front room looks a bit mad totally mental with all these dead creatures littering my seating…
Unfortunately this isn’t my headline or story, I wish it was though. Its really nice.
Take me here! Looks like Ministry of Stories and Museum have been talking to each other…
The work is by Oliver Munday and, let me tell you, is pretty much all lovely.
This is where i’m heading. I love this. It’s a perfect mix of classicism & bonkers-ness all rolled into one.
(via sweethomestyle)
Genius: feltidermy from Girl Savage
