Give yourself horse legs

Seattle artist Kim Graham made herself a pair of horsey legs, and now she's making more to sell. They'll cost you about $1000 with the optional spring loaded hooves.

Digigrade leg extensions (Via TYWKIWDBI)

[#1 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 2:04 PM]

The horse leg bit was kinda creepy.

[#2 posted by GeekMan, April 30, 2009 2:09 PM]

On the one hand: the thought of running across an open field at break-neck speed in the spring-loaded version of these legs is a wonderful thought.

On the other hand, the idea of how excited the furry crowd is getting over these legs completely ruins that thought.

[#3 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 2:18 PM]

How long until these start showing up at Fur Cons?

[#4 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 2:21 PM]

What, no running?

[#5 posted by Phikus, April 30, 2009 2:23 PM]

Why not? I frequently give myself a hoarse voice... *whinny cough cough*

[#6 posted by the_boy, April 30, 2009 2:24 PM]

I give it two years before "centauring" becomes a thing.

[#7 posted by Phikus, April 30, 2009 2:29 PM]

It would behoove you to get yourself a pair...

[#8 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 2:36 PM]

The fetish crowd just went bananas.

[#9 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 2:36 PM]

Them will say; Not intended for actual use.

Unless she wants to be litigated.

[#10 posted by Steiny, April 30, 2009 2:38 PM]

First thing that sprang to mind for me was "The Arrival"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrival_(film)

[#11 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 2:39 PM]

"Calling all centaur fetishists!"

"Calling ALL CENTAUR FETISHISTS!"

oh wait.. they're already on it I'm sure.

[#12 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 2:39 PM]

This video is almost its own unicorn chaser

[#13 posted by Felix Mitchell, April 30, 2009 2:39 PM]

that skirt does nothing for her thighs

[#14 posted by Random_Tangent, April 30, 2009 2:47 PM]

How are these good for Centuar fetishists? HELLO! These are obviously most useful for Minotaurphilliacs.

[#15 posted by Antinous / Moderator, April 30, 2009 2:48 PM]

Did someone say Centaur fetish? Mildly NSFW.

[#16 posted by erindipity, April 30, 2009 2:53 PM]

heh heh heh!

[#17 posted by Duffong, April 30, 2009 2:53 PM]

This might sound kinda mean, but I want a horse to calmly walk up to her - shake its head in dismay - turn around - and then kick her into that lake.

[#18 posted by nutbastard, April 30, 2009 2:55 PM]

oh man it'd be a blast to show up to an LSD party with these things on!

[#19 posted by Egypt Urnash, April 30, 2009 2:56 PM]

Damn, I want some of these with big articulated claws instead of hooves.

[#20 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 3:05 PM]

I have always wanted cloven hooves.

Horses don't have the split hooves though, so this is really more like cow legs or Pan legs.

[#21 posted by TJ S, April 30, 2009 3:05 PM]

Are these for me? I say "neigh".

[#22 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 3:10 PM]

Am I the only one who finds these really disturbingly wrong?

[#23 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 3:18 PM]

Oh, God.
Xavier, Renegade Angel in real life!
We are dead.

[#24 posted by Hanglyman, April 30, 2009 3:18 PM]

They're more satyr than centaur.

Antinous, I'll be forever left wondering what a horny centaur version of Mr. T has to do with folk music now.

[#25 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 3:20 PM]

The Centaur Fetish thing is ascendant.
Dan Savage has been going on about it on his podcast for the last few installments.

Sex Columnists: ONE
Cultural zeitgeist: ZERO

On a barely related note; this kind of weirdness in my world makes me glad to be alive right now.

[#26 posted by Hanglyman, April 30, 2009 3:22 PM]

Oh man, and he's actually not part horse, but part bull, so that makes him a minotaur? Except not, because minotaurs only have two legs?

[#27 posted by nutbastard, April 30, 2009 3:22 PM]

"things like this really get my goat."

"why does she have to be the centaur of attention?"

"i wonder if this idea will Pan out"

-nutty b

[#28 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 3:23 PM]

These are great for anyone who wants to dress up like the Tauren from World of Warcraft - the horse like species in the game. Are there conventions for those people too?

[#29 posted by Sekino, April 30, 2009 3:26 PM]

These aren't 'digigrade' though. Horses are unguligrades.

Am I the only one who finds these really disturbingly wrong?

I gather you don't celebrate Halloween much: These would be SO awesome for a devil costume! Or a post-apocalyptic satyr...

[#30 posted by Antinous / Moderator, April 30, 2009 3:28 PM]

After looking through many Google images for 'centaur', I have to report that of all the horrible ways to create an image of a centaur, creating it and then photoshopping your own head onto it is the worst.

[#31 posted by Brainspore, April 30, 2009 3:28 PM]

I'm sure the fetishists are working on a sexual position where two people in those getups would resemble one centaur. And no, I don't need to see the link.

[#32 posted by nutbastard, April 30, 2009 3:30 PM]

for the record:

centaur - human torso/head/arms, horse body/legs

minotaur - human legs, bull/ram head/upper body

anyone know if there's a 'taur' for what Pan is? (goat legs, man upper body)

[#33 posted by Antinous / Moderator, April 30, 2009 3:35 PM]

Pan is a faun.

[#34 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 3:48 PM]

I absolutely saw a couple with these things at SakuraCon. I don't think they opted for the hooves, though.
http://i41.tinypic.com/axk3sl.jpg

We spent most of our time wondering how they poop with those on. Do they remove them? Do they just pray they don't fall?

[#35 posted by nutbastard, April 30, 2009 3:49 PM]

@Anitous

ok... in that case:

"these look like a lot of faun"

[#36 posted by Brainspore, April 30, 2009 3:50 PM]

Anybody know the difference between a faun and a satyr? Does it just depend on how much they've been drinking?

[#37 posted by Tdawwg, April 30, 2009 3:54 PM]

Satyrs are Greek; Fauns, Roman. Otherwise, there's a lot of overlapping. They both drink a lot, a lot of the time.

[#38 posted by Tonamel, April 30, 2009 3:54 PM]

Fauns are Roman, satyrs are Greek. They're both half-goat folk, though.

[#39 posted by philoponia, April 30, 2009 3:55 PM]

Can we please get some "legs" for our arms?

[#40 posted by Antinous / Moderator, April 30, 2009 3:55 PM]

Satyrs are also highly sexualized. Fauns not so much.

[#41 posted by nutbastard, April 30, 2009 3:55 PM]

so when assessing the amount of agility imparted on the wearer, would one say this has good panhandling?

[#42 posted by Tdawwg, April 30, 2009 4:00 PM]

Anyone interested in a good Centaur story should turn to the locus classicus, Ovid's story of the battle between the Lapiths and Centaurs, in book 12 of the Metamorphoses. Lotsa drinkin', lotsa killin', lotsa (readerly) laughin'.

[#43 posted by Brainspore, April 30, 2009 4:01 PM]

@ Aninous #40:

Ah, that explains why the Narnia books were suspiciously devoid of orgies.

[#44 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 4:05 PM]

Me need dinosaur version.

[#45 posted by jimh, April 30, 2009 4:06 PM]

I know a lot of people will be fauning over these and making their own. But I hope she doesn't try to copyright this idea- because you know... satyr is fair use.

[#46 posted by nutbastard, April 30, 2009 4:07 PM]

@#40 Antinous

"Satyrs are also highly sexualized. Fauns not so much."

With Pan being the glaring exception??

[#47 posted by Antinous / Moderator, April 30, 2009 4:08 PM]

Ah, that explains why the Narnia books were suspiciously devoid of orgies.

Did you miss Voyage of the Dong Treader and The Horse and His......oh never mind.

[#48 posted by Teller, April 30, 2009 4:30 PM]

Palominolo Blahnik.

[#49 posted by quiksilvrm, April 30, 2009 4:30 PM]

@28

I take it you haven't heard of BlizzCon's Costume Contests

[#50 posted by High On Markers, April 30, 2009 4:44 PM]

So, what, you BB readers are not also Cracked readers? That must be why you're so woefully ignorant of Boytaur (back onto the centaur love theme, here)
http://www.cracked.com/article_15250_p2.html

[#51 posted by fnc, April 30, 2009 5:12 PM]

And you won't need someone to follow you around clacking coconuts together either.

[#52 posted by BadStoryDan, April 30, 2009 5:36 PM]

This + BigDog = epic halloween costume.

[#53 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 5:54 PM]

Do these legs make me look fat?

[#54 posted by EH, April 30, 2009 6:06 PM]

Do they come in cordovan?

[#55 posted by misshouseunited, April 30, 2009 6:18 PM]

@28:

OR Dranei!

[#56 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 6:39 PM]

You're using coconuts. You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're banging them together.

[#57 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 6:58 PM]

Saw this about two years ago...Or something similar.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadphotography/2395480584/in/set-72157604424205645/

[#58 posted by dross1260, April 30, 2009 7:05 PM]

Where the Lapithaen women at?

[#59 posted by Phikus, April 30, 2009 7:20 PM]

More Halloween possibilities:

Darkness (Tim Curry in Legend)

Killface

[#60 posted by Xopher, April 30, 2009 7:36 PM]

Excuse me, but Pan is a god. Fauns and satyrs resemble him, not the other way around.

Io! Pan! Io! Pan!

[#61 posted by cans, April 30, 2009 7:54 PM]

Done before! http://www.naodesign.net/digi.htm

And I think these folks were 'boinged, as well...

[#62 posted by Bret, April 30, 2009 8:32 PM]

Everybody google Pony Play.

[#63 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 8:37 PM]

Put em on backwards and you can be Torgo.

[#64 posted by Torley, April 30, 2009 8:52 PM]

You gotta see the Second Life version.

[#65 posted by nzruss, April 30, 2009 9:02 PM]

I don't want horse hoves....

I want bear arms. I have rights!!!!

[#66 posted by jfrancis, April 30, 2009 9:34 PM]

My daughter invented a centaur that is human on top and unicorn on bottom.

:D

[#67 posted by jfrancis, April 30, 2009 9:35 PM]

When I was a kid I used to think the knees went backwards, but they actually just have normal knees and ankles and very long feet.

[#68 posted by natch, April 30, 2009 10:06 PM]

Cool! But I want to see the crowd reaction shots... please? Take a stroll around Pike's Market?

[#69 posted by aoi, April 30, 2009 11:25 PM]

@ #34 Anonymous
I saw them at sakuracon too.
They seemed to be fairly agile moving around in them, but man did they tower above everyone else. I wouldn't mind taking some for a test drive myself, I'm wondering if they work more like stilts or just a balanced extension of the leg.

[#70 posted by Anonymous, May 1, 2009 1:58 AM]

Felix Mitchell said chauvinistically:

"that skirt does nothing for her thighs"

So, an artist creates something unique for the universe, and instead of critiquing, appreciating, or commenting on it, you resort to sexism. It makes me feel awesome, that as a woman engineer, everything I ever create will be judged by men like YOU based on my appearance.

[#71 posted by Anonymous, May 1, 2009 2:41 AM]

Wow. You could totally make a Doom Cyberdemon outfit with those.

[#72 posted by Dewi Morgan, May 1, 2009 5:51 AM]

#66: Unicorn on bottom? Where does the horn go?

[#73 posted by Marshall, May 1, 2009 7:44 AM]

I've seen folks wearing gadgets like this before, and the downside is always that they end up being too tall to do stuff. Kim's seem to be just about the right height to be practical, which is why they're so damn cool.

[#74 posted by Anonymous, May 1, 2009 9:31 AM]

$1000???? I made a similar set from junk salvaged from the dumpster at my apartment:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cibomahto/3377592619/

I was following the wonderful directions from these folk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JeJ1LimPAk

[#75 posted by lakelady, May 1, 2009 10:13 AM]

these would be sooo awesome for a production of Equus!

[#76 posted by Anonymous, May 1, 2009 10:41 AM]

reminds me of portal's spring loaded fall breaking thingies.

[#77 posted by Brett Burton, May 1, 2009 11:57 AM]

This is who you market these to:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapper-montag/173044858/

[#78 posted by jfrancis, May 1, 2009 1:56 PM]

@66: It would go on the top, except that's where the human part is

[#79 posted by jfrancis, May 1, 2009 1:59 PM]

(I meant @72)

...at least that's what he keeps insisting. For the movie, we're thinking Ben Stiller.

:D

[#80 posted by Anonymous, May 1, 2009 5:13 PM]

Yeah, I'm thinking that would work well with that dinosaur show for the veloceraptors. Pretty cool and nice work. (Not sure I'd want to wear the furry legs.)

[#81 posted by Anonymous, May 2, 2009 8:07 AM]

If you were a contestant on Mantracker, this would throw him TOTALLY off your trail... LMAO!! Kinda cool...

[#82 posted by Anonymous, May 3, 2009 6:24 PM]

Hey Hurk!

[#83 posted by Dewi Morgan, May 3, 2009 7:06 PM]

JFrancis: My mind is simply too dirty to envisage a suitable location for the horn. So, I'll be first in line for the movie!