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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Visual Art And Now Let's Just Discuss This Picture

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:34 PM

GUESS WHICH ONE AIN’T RIGHT One ocelot taxidermied by someone who’d never seen an ocelot, and the other by someone who had.

Courtesy of Museum fÜr Naturkunde, Berlin
GUESS WHICH ONE AIN’T RIGHT One ocelot taxidermied by someone who’d never seen an ocelot, and the other by someone who had.

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It's the Monkey Boy Jesus Fresco of taxidermy.

Posted by YakHerder on January 23, 2013 at 12:51 PM

Good one.

Sad/rage-y?

Posted by Sandiai on January 23, 2013 at 1:13 PM

The next Andrew W.K. album cover.

Posted by Paul Pearson on January 23, 2013 at 1:21 PM

Nice post. I love it. I hope to see more. Thanks for sharing with us.

Art

Posted by FOP on January 23, 2013 at 1:21 PM

I voted "creepy," but it is creepy in a good way.

Posted by Senor Guy on January 23, 2013 at 1:49 PM

You left off the Gripsholm Lion:

http://www.eversostrange.com/wp-content/…

Posted by Joe Szilagyi

on January 23, 2013 at 2:04 PM

I don't think the problem with the taxidermist who made the left one isn't that he'd never seen an ocelot. It's that he's a shitty taxidermist.

Posted by MRM on January 23, 2013 at 2:11 PM

I don't think he's ever seen an animal.

Posted by Cracker Jack on January 23, 2013 at 2:40 PM

I think it's evidence that taxidermy is a skilled art, and like all skilled arts it's something that takes time and practice.

Think of your favorite illustrator. Now if you go look at everything he/she drew for the first couple of years at it, it would all look wonky, out of proportion, and fucked up. Much like this.

Posted by GermanSausage on January 23, 2013 at 3:06 PM

Best caption for that cat that I've seen:

Meth. Not even once.

Posted by Knat on January 23, 2013 at 3:13 PM

Awesome

Posted by Philly on January 23, 2013 at 4:44 PM

Back in the 50's there was a big push to promote taxidermy as a hobby. I read many old magazines and am always seeing advertisments for taxidermy schools as well as learn taxidermy at home courses. I suspect that most of the shitty looking taxidermy pieces we see today are a direct result of those courses. Another thing that should be taken into consideration is that the animal skins dry out and warp over time, some of those pieces may have looked OK when they were freshly made, only to turn really horrific with the passage of decades.

Posted by Badger on January 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM

I wonder if that one on the left was someone's first attempt (at something bigger than a crow they found in the woods). If I were to stuff an ocelot, I think it would look a lot like poor old Janky.

Posted by originalcinner on January 23, 2013 at 6:46 PM

ocelot after meth

Posted by carsten coolage on January 23, 2013 at 7:14 PM