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Rod McRae Born Free (2013)
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Soheila Sokhanvari Moje Sabz 2011
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David R. Harper Embroideries (2014)
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Crawley Creatures Dying Sparrow (2009)
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Polly Morgan various (2010 – 2016)
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Nicola Costantino Cajas (2000)
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Pascal Bernier various (2010)
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Géza Szöllősi My Pets (2009)
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Joseph G. Cruz If one looks down at the earth from the moon, there is no virtual distance between the louvre and the zoo. (2010)
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Brooke Weston various (2016)
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Alastair Mackie Metamorphoses (Goshawk) (2011)
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Nicholas Galanin Inert (2009)
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Scott Bibus various (2008 – 2015)
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Jonny Poole Tawny Owl (2014)
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Kimberly Withal various (2015)
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Harriet Horton Sleep Subjects (2015)
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Berlinde de Bruyckere K36 (The Black Horse) (2003) & K21 (2006)
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David Shrigley Cat with No Head (2006)
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Julia deVille various (2008 – 2016)
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Nina Katchadourian Chloe (1994)
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Peter Gronquist Untitled (Leopard) (2014) & Untitled (2015)
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Sophie Kate Morton Animatronic Taxidermy Fox (2015)
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David Cranmer made this deceased badger even creepier by turning it into a functioning, and playable, theremin. He calls it the Badgermin. The Badgermin’s guts are now composed of electronics from a PAiA Theremax theremin kit, with an 8mm removable antenna sticking out of the back of its neck.
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Petah Coyne various (2008 – 2012)
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Deborah Sengl Killed to Be Dressed (2013)
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Les Deux Garcons various (2012 – 2014)
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Erick Swensen Untitled (2001)
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Pim Palsgraaf various (2009 – 2012)
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Robert Rauschenberg Monogram (1955-1959)
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Maurizio Cattelan Untitled (2007)
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Meet the 12-Year-Old Taxidermist Who Keeps 75 Dead Animals in His Room
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Angela Singer various (2010 – 2013)
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Tinkerbell My Little Pony (2012)
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Idiots Art Collective various (2012)
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Igor K-Chm Robot squirrel (2013)
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Abbas Akhavan Fatigues (2014)
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I have films that insinuate into me too, obviously. Objectively odd ones, even. ** Rewritedept, Hey, buddy. First, both of your comments registered. The blog has some kind of utterly mysterious bug or something whereby some people comment and then don’t see their comments. Don’t know why. Some say if you enter the blog through the daily link on Facebook, that solves the problem, but even that doesn’t work for everybody. Stuff’s good here, very busy with work, etc., the usual, I guess. Big Bear! Wow, that’s wild. Cool. I used to go to Big bear with my family for mini-mountainous nature vacations. It’s quite pretty and peaceful, if I’m remembering. Huge change from Las Vegas, that’s for sure. Cool, man. Report in from there. ‘PGL’ will get some kind of limited theatre release early next year. Then it’ll go onto streaming platforms, and then DVD/BluRay. No timeline yet. I think it’s going to have a screening in LA in the first couple of weeks in February, but I’ll confirm. Very good to see you, pal! I hope the move west goes super smoothly. ** Sypha, Stumping is fun. I’ve had Puce Mary and Amnesia Scanner in a few previous gigs, so you’ve at least seen them here before. I’ve never been able to get with Dead Can Dance. Just severely not my thing, I guess. Daughters … I don’t think I know them. I’ll get on that thanks. Great about you starting the post. Well, just send it when you’re ready. I can set it up early if it comes to that. Thank you! ** Steve Erickson, I hope your dad gets good news from the doctor today. I’m not wildly familiar with Thou’s history apart from a collab. with The Body, which I liked. Yes, the script Zac and I are finishing is the haunted house film script. Other than maybe making a short film while we’re waiting for the funding for the feature, that’s our only film project in the pipeline for the time being. ** Shane Christmass, Hey, Shane! Oh, wow, cool about Primitive Calculators being active and extant. I’ll watch that video when I’m out of p.s.-ville. That is awesome about the piece about your work. I’ll have to wait a bit to read it, but it looks pretty. Everyone, Shane Christmass, superb and singular writer, one of whose recent books was in a ‘4 books I loved’ post not long ago, is the subject of a very interesting looking article-cum-think piece on his work that I highly recommend to you. It’s here. And the Fire Toolz remixes, whoa. You’re on fire. I’ll greedily get those listened to asap. thanks, man! ** Kier, Hey, Kier!!!! Oh, man, the itching, Jesus, of course, I forgot about that temporary but ultra-vexing post-surgery problem. Can you use, like, calamine lotion or anything? That sucks. I hope that phase is an extreme quickie. My day? Okay, let me think back. Well, I woke up about 7:10 AM, started my coffee, read the blog comments while coffeeing and then did little searches for future escorts and slaves for future posts, which I tend to do while I’m coffeeing because it doesn’t take much brain power. Then I did the p.s. Then I worked a little on the TV script. Then Gisele called me to ask if she could call me this morning because ARTE wants some kind of trailer for the TV series that Gisele will have to shoot by next spring, and we need to decide which scenes to pre-shoot for that. Then I went out and bought cigarettes and food. Then I did correspondence: A young guy in Morocco is writing his PhD thesis on Burroughs and asked if I would send him the obit I wrote on Burroughs for Spin Magazine ages ago, and I did. Also a guy who interviewed Zac and me about PGL for this magazine MASTERMIND recently had a few more questions, also I answered those. Also I wrote to a filmmaker/curator based in Dublin to see if he was into helping us set up a screening of PGL in Dublin, and he’s totally into doing that, so that’s cool. Then I worked on the TV script more. Then I ate some food for dinner, and … I can’t remember what I did after that. Not much I guess. Then I went to sleep. So there was my yesterday in all its (non)excitement. What did you do yesterday? I hope it involved a lot less itching. Magically itch-repairing hugs from Zac and me, and love too! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. That Young Paint EP is pretty sweet. Wonderful news about the successful intro of your short story to the workshop! So they’re smart, tasteful people! Excellent! Ooh, you know how I love those UK Xmas disasters. I’ll be all over those links in just a short bit. Thanks a lot! ** Bill, The new Rabit is really terrific. Ah, Philly. Yeah, the Mutter is a mustt. Anything else cool there that you’ve managed to dig out? Enjoy! ** Okay. I thought I would check around to see what taxidermists are doing these days and share the outcome with you. See you tomorrow.
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I absolutely loved all of these. If I had enough money and suitable space I’d buy them all. No idea what this says about me. Maybe part of it is that I still haven’t gotten over hipster culture from the turn of the decade?
I grew up with the diorama-mounted taxidermy in the American Museum of Natural History, but I was surprised and delighted by the approach at the natural history museum in Berlin, which was to mount and stack samples really high in a clear case with white background that made you feel like you were aboard some kind of ark spaceship.
I also really enjoyed yesterday’s gig post. especially Agnarkea and Bamba Pana. It was good to see Hila Ruach perform live after I’ve been obsessing over her for months but on stage it was more of a garage band whereas on the album it’s more of a synth mix. I admit to being put off by the band drinking beer on stage. I don’t expect every band to meet Zappa’s sobriety standards, but at least keep it off stage so I don’t feel like I paid to see a garage band. Am I just being puritan on this one? What do you think?
Weird coincidence with the route ciphers, wow. I haven’t placed my book order yet. I really prefer to buy in bookstores but the English selection only goes so far here.
You Forgot Norman Bates!
Like I told you, what I said. Steal your face right off your head. I think of the beaver from Lost Boys. I guess like Willy’s license plate, EatMorePossum. I’m from the roadkill taxidermy capital of the world saw my first roadkill gator it seemed sad. I have this bad memory that we were going to pose with my dead grandpa because there were no photos of him. Skin is like boys nice when it’s alive and gross sometimes. Haha there’s a great variety of trees now. I want to get robed and stand beside the black one it’s the SunnO))) tree. That kid he’s so hot. I seem a hard match and although it’s not too close it’s right on not as image but like blob. Off to the beach. I’ve rumor of turkeys around my blog haven’t seen any yet tho. :: strips naked with turkey call and loads 20 gauge::
David Shirley, cat with no head, 2006 should be David Shrigley. He is serious… and don’t call him Shirley.
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yeah, it’s weird. when i checked the post in facebook, it showed the first comment i posted, but then any time after that that i pulled the blog up, it showed 0 comments. all is well now i guess though.
so will you be going to LA for the screening in february? i’m only an hour away, so i can probably come down. i’m so excited for this move. i have two more days off and then two nights of work and then sunday morning, i’ll get off work, load the car, have to make a stop to pick up my roommate’s son to ride back up with us, and then head up to the mountains. will definitely keep you updated.
my favorite taxidermy is bad taxidermy. hope yr day is great. talk soon.
-c.
Daughters began as a hardcore band and moved towards a sound that’s equally menacing in a more Swans/Birthday Party/Jesus Lizard vein, with keyboards as loud as guitars and drumming heavy on the tom-toms.
My dad saw the doctor yesterday and got a two-week regimen of antibiotics. That’s supposed to clear up his pain. I hope it works quickly and effectively. I will talk to him tomorrow.
Do you have any Thanksgiving plans? I’m not thrilled to be spending it alone – I tried connecting with friends who are staying in New York, but it didn’t work out. I plan to see CREED II tomorrow afternoon.
I talked to my film’s editor tonight. She’s near completion on the second cut, with sound synched and color correction done according to my instructions. We’re planning to meet on the 29th, after she has sent it to me, to discuss where things should go. I need to send her the credits, which I think are lying on my hard drive so far.
I’ve been thinking of writing a piece on the concept of “genre-less music.” I made a tentative 2018 album top 10 list, with a few sentences on each one, for Gay City News (it’s due Dec. 13th), and I was struck by how many of my choices span styles. But one could say the same thing about a lot of my least favorite contemporary music. I happened to watch a YouTube video about this concept and saw that the dreadful Imagine Dragons insist that they’re not a rock band, and their music belongs to no category. I guess the difference is that someone like Yves Tumor, Rosalia or Dos Santos makes it sound either organic or jarring in an interesting way whereas Imagine Dragons or the 1975 just sound they’re putting together elements of pop, rock, EDM and hip-hop in order to reach the broadest audience possible. (Whenever I read about a new album by a rock artist that “experiments with electronics and dance beats,” I grimace because it seems like trend-hopping, although the results aren’t always bad.) At the same time, I feel like writing about music often consists of putting it into boxes instead of doing justice to how it sounds because there’s a greater element of abstraction to it than film. At least that’s an impasse for me.
Love the new taxidermy gallery, Dennis! So many lovely pieces: the Sengl, Les Deux Garcons, just for starters. I laughed out loud at My Little Pony.
You probably know this already, but I loved this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17621037-taxidermy
Saw the Rina Banerjee show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art:
https://www.pafa.org/exhibitions/rina-banerjee-make-me-summary-world
The photos don’t do her justice. Some of the installations are very big, incredibly detailed and chaotic.
Also stopped by Joseph Fox books. They have a Dorothy Projects section! I’ll be back.
Bill