CrappyTaxidermy.com is what its title suggests, but not entirely. The blog features a mix of badly-executed mounts and also just curious stuffed critters. Those shoes at above left are, er, something else. Crappy Taxidermy (via Morbid Anatomy)
Blog about bad and odd taxidermy
CrappyTaxidermy.com is what its title suggests, but not entirely. The blog features a mix of badly-executed mounts and also just curious stuffed critters. Those shoes at above left are, er, something else. Crappy Taxidermy (via Morbid Anatomy)
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I love "cyborg chicken" on page 1.
My father once gave me a half of a squirrel taxidermied and mounted on a plaque. The squirrel came complete with tiny replica machine gun, military-esque hat, and bandolier. It remains one of the best gifts I have ever received.
Like my loafers?
Former gophers.
It was that or skin my chauffeur...
You too can have moles on your feet!
#4 Damnit you beat me to it.
Erict@~6: Nickelrocket beat everyone to it.
OMG i need to recover from that thing on the first page.
Plz move it!
(also the captcha does not work with opera)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms_pqumzZGM
There are a group of artist's based out of Minneapolis that do some wonderfully strange work.
http://www.roguetaxidermy.com/
You too can have moles on your feet!
I thought that it was a pair of shrews.
The Taming of the Shoe
The deer with the woman's face from June 29 is so haunting. Does anyone know who put that one together? I'd like to see more of that artist's work. It looks like a life cast was done of someone's face and then animal skins were attached to it.
WTF is this ? That can't be real taxidermy.
Does GOOD taxidermy exist? I've never walked into a room and thought, "You know what this place needs? Some preserved dead animals."
http://www.instructables.com/id/Compubeaver---%3E-How-to-case-mod-a-beaver---in-29-e/
@ #14
That's an example of the "Fee-jee Mermaid." It's a monkey attached to either a fish or alligator. I've seen them online before. They go back to the days of P. T. Barnum.
It's interesting enough, but very repetitive - I've had my fill of fiji mermaids and two-faced kittens. There's also a lot of the crocheted-around animals, the ones with human faces (Supremely Creepy), and TONS of the work of Walter Potter (which I don't consider 'crappy', but oh well).
There's some genuinely cool stuff, mixed with a lot of funny 'crap', mixed with a lot of doubles.
Gaucho, have a look at NoseHat's beaver. While I'm not a big fan of taxidermy, that's one fine looking rodent.
Banana Dan got a pair of kittens (God knows why). He constantly pretended to be annoyed by them. He asked my suggestion for names. "Left Slipper and Right Slipper." I replied. "It's a name, and it's a warning!" He used it.
No discussion of crappy taxidermy can be complete without mentioning Jake The Alligator Man! A favorite attraction in Long Beach, Washington!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kamui4u/2702136787/
I can't get more than a few pages into it before it creeps me out. Two things that give me the heebie-jeebies are taxidermy and antique dolls (especially broken ones).
@nosehat, 16:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml
I'd think it'd make a neat "Art Gallery" exhibition. Of course, round my neck of the woods there are tons of GOOD taxidermists who'd be up in arms over it...
It'd be neat to see all the bed-wetting nightmares it'd give kids who ended up seeing it, tho... Probably more than the "Pirate Movie" I'll make if I ever get the opportunity...
A friend was given this deer-to-monkey, um, thing. Beautifully done, but creepy...
http://picasaweb.google.ca/lh/photo/062QgG4T1X_ughCZFnHIig
I believe the final word on this link might be: You couldn't make this stuff up.
"Gaucho, have a look at NoseHat's beaver."
Are you sure the gender is correct for that?
Troof: Ever since that glimpse of Janis, you've never been the same, eh? Can't blame ya.
#26, Phik', beat me to it :)