io9: taxidermy

Taxidermist Brings Flying Monkeys and Frankensquirrels to Unlife

Lauren Davis — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:45:00 PST

Need an unusual gift for the cryptozoologist in your life? Sculptor Sabrina Brewer's medium is dead animals, which she mixes and matches to create fantastical creatures, from the more traditional griffins and unicorns to El Chupacabra and undead three-headed squirrels.

[Custom Creature Taxidermy via Super Punch]

Three-headed Frankensquirrel
Capricorn
Chimera
El Chupcabra
Feejee Mermaid
Flying Monkey
Frankensquirrel
Gold Griffin
Unicorn
Vampire Squirrel
Two-headed Chick
Two-headed Squirrel

The Morbid Anatomy of Infant Werewolves, Vampire Pharohs, and Eldritch Horrors

Lauren Davis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:30:00 PDT

If your anatomical collection is shy a demon child or cursed monkey's paw, then you're in luck. Artist Alex CF crafts macabre sculptures styled after dead scientific specimens. Only the deceased creatures in his cases are demons and monsters

Alex CF includes a story to accompany each piece, which is available for sale. And if monster killing is more your thing than monster collecting, he also offers some classic vampire hunting kits, and a collection of useful research on European lycanthropes.

[The Art of Alex CF via Super Punch]

Menes - The Vampyr Pharaoh of Egypt
Golem; life from inanimate clay
R'lyeh expedition case and Cthulhu spawn specimen
The triceratops catalyst
"L'enfant Diabolique" - The devil child
Experiments in extra dimensions; The Cheshire cat
Edward Harrell's Infant Lycanthrope specimen
The Monkey's paw
Dantes descent into the pit
The collected Eldritch horrors of Merrylin

Creative Taxidermy Fuels Your Cryptozoological Nightmares

Lauren Davis — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:19:16 PDT

While some taxidermists are meticulously preserving our animals for future generations, others prefer to color outside the lines of their chosen art form, creating bizarre and monstrous creatures better suited to nightmares than museums.

Crappy Taxidermy, the latest on the ever-growing list of one-note Tumblr blogs, logs the most egregious crimes against dead animal skins. In addition to pumps made from former hedgehogs and a truly disturbing number of kitten tea parties, there are the creature-makers, who transform once-normal animals into mermen, deer people, double headed critters, and cryptozoological monsters, with varying degrees of expertise.

[via Morbid Anatomy]

Cute Time Machine Overload

Annalee Newitz — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:22:10 PDT

Meet Chuffy the mouse and his cyborg guinea pig time machine. This taxidermy creation is a BoingBoing find, and it captures the best of a new scifi subgenre I hope will soon catch on: Techie Cutie Creepy. Has Pokemon already been there?

Basically all I want is something that brings together my freakish addiction to Cute Overload with the weirdness of dead animal parts converted into time machines. Here you can see a closeup of Chuffy, who even has a name tag and hat. Where could they be going? The Cuteness Dimension? To defeat the pretender to the throne of the Cuteocracy?

Mouse Rides Guinea Pig Time Machine [Top Hat Taxidermy via BoingBoing]