So someone messaged me on flickr asking if they could post some of my photos of taxidermy on their blog, as they'd seen some posted elsewhere (these people didn't ask, I don't think, but they credited me, so it's plenty fine). I was charmed, and checked out the Ravishing Beasts blog. In a recent post, I found a link to this taxidermy art piece, on ( Read more... )

Animal-based cultural artifacts:

Banksy art installation; I'm pretty indifferent to most of these, but the leopard and sausage displays I approve of.

Rattus Norvegicus Rex porcelain rat chandelier.

A pretty cute set of shadow puppets on etsy.

Some kinda fun animalish prints also on etsy. I rather enjoy this dude's style ( Read more... )

We've been watching ST:TNG episodes lately, and, since we broke through the first season and it started getting good, we've been inhaling a lot of them (it's been a while since I've seen some of these, especially in order). We just finished with the two first Locutus episodes, and they made me wonder a bit about a couple of things ( Read more... )

The man with the slightly suspect url has got a sweet post with sketches from Night on Bald Mountain.

Collection of westernized-Japan prints so awesome, you'll... slap Dan Aykroyd. If he's around.

Many of these prints are supposedly from the collection of the MFA here. HMMMM.

The best sculptures I've seen all day.

Look, look! Squidfingers has some new patterns up!

Fun Henry Jenkins article that, apart from the agenda he's after, gave me some useful information on how bollywood deals with guy-friend relationships. Also, the term 'homosocial', which I intend to use way too much. Maybe now we can, globally, finally get over the fear of displaying any sort of affection towards friends or emotions warmer than ( Read more... )

Anyone got a preference?


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Okay, here's the beetle pattern I eventually came up with (originally I was trying to force a floral type shape from bug-repetition, but it looked stupid and was hard to read. So, here we are) and also some flower thing I did for some reason. Line up, sign up, and vote me some votes so I can pretend that my foolishness might be applied to some ( Read more... )