Calling Walter Potter obsessed with taxidermy would be a bit of an understatement. Potter, who lived from 1835 to 1918, created incredible anthropomorphic scenes of squirrels playing cards, kittens playing croquet, bunnies attending elementary school, and even bird funerals (not kidding), and eight-legged kittens with four tails. More »
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I like knowing that I live in a world where someone can create a crazy-jawed pig pull toy only to have someone else say, “Yup, mechanical swine is exactly what my life has been missing.” More »
Its poor little punched-out eyes blink red with the horror of having LEDs shoved in them, every time it makes a data transfer. Video of the post-life torture after the jump. More »
Say your pet rat dies. Instead of trashing it, you could shove LED throwie lights into its eye-sockets in a decorative taxidermy experiment that’s as creative as it is graphically morbid. It might be what little Snowy would have wanted. More »
Stuffed animals are creepy enough as is — there are few better ways to make people uncomfortable in your home than having a dead animal propped up next to the sofa — but this just takes it to the next level. The “Fixed – Fawn” by New Zealand artist Lisa Black crams gears and mechanics into the cadaver of a dead baby deer, making it look like it had surgery performed on it by a mad scientist. And if you think that’s unsettling, you should check out the ferret on her website. You’ll thank me for sparing you this early in the morning.
[Lisa Black via NotCot]
The Text-O-Possum is a Bluetooth laser-projected keyboard that’s been…modded…into the back leg of an opossum. You know what they say: One man’s trash is another artist’s response to the lack of a technological utopia in the year 2007. Or something like that. The artist isn’t actually selling the Text-O-Possum (despite a shopping link) but if you really want one, I’m sure we can…dig something up.
[Product Page via crave] More »
