She Calls It "art", You Call It What You Like

Kitzy · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:

<3 animals to death, and love the art, too!

There's nothing wrong with recycling ; )
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heylorlass · Member Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 71

I suppose

.... but it still doesn't make me like it. I just like to see them alive and cute ... not all withered and wrinkled ... like that mermaid thing. That one really freaked me out. WTF?

After I saw it, it made me think ... what if after your great aunt died ... or whoever .... and someone turned her into one of those pieces of ... art. Now that would be looked opon compleatly differently. Or would it? :huh:

reityhe · Elder In Training Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 3356

i call it FREE LUNCH!...

Squidman · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 10:52 am Post subject:

[quote="heylorlass (Kirsteen)"] I suppose . . . .

.... but it still doesn't make me like it. I just like to see them alive and cute ... not all withered and wrinkled ... like that mermaid thing. That one really freaked me out. WTF?

After I saw it, it made me think ... what if after your great aunt died ... or whoever .... and someone turned her into one of those pieces of ... art. Now that would be looked opon compleatly differently. Or would it? :huh: [/quote]
Obviously you've never heard of Bodyworlds. It's a show made up of plasticized human (and some animal) corpses with the skin peeled away posed in interesting manners so you can see the way all the muscles and organs fit together. Plus a few cut up in artistic ways, like one where they separate every muscle, organ, and bone in the body and suspended them all with a proportional distance between them so it was sort of like the man was expanding and all his bodyparts were coming apart. Or another where a man essentially had shelves cut into him and pieces were pushed and pulled through his torso to show cubes of organs.

It's immensely popular and a huge cash cow. I went when it was in Toronto and stayed for eight hours, just drawing figures and muscles all day. The place was so packed with people I could barely find a place to stand. And it's not like it was a one-day-only thing and everyone was rushing to see it while they could, It had been there for months already and had another month left before it moved on to the next city.

People readily donate their bodies to the show becasue they find it so amazing.

So if someone took your dead Great Aunt, preserved her in an interesting manner and showed her off to the public, people would probably be exceedingly impressed by it and drop some serious cash to go look at her.
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atikira · Still very bored Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 273

I'd sure pay something to go see figures like that. o.o
And I entirely agree with you/know what you're talking about, squidman.

And if you want my opinion on the great aunt thing heylorlass, I think it would be neat. :3 Just about all of my family is addicted to the not-traditional-media art.
But your opinions are up to you, so I won't criticize.

Squidman · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject:

Oh, Bodyworlds is TOTALLY worth it if it's ever close to you.

It was great. It would have been something like $11.20 for a round trip ticket to Toronto, another five or ten dollars for bus fare to get around the city and find the exhibit, and then about $30 to actually get in and see the show, but I snuck into the trip that res was running so I only had to pay $20 to get there, get into the exhibit, get home, plus get a free meal.
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heylorlass · Member Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 71

Hey!

I have never heard of anything like that! I would definatly prefer that to the animals anyday! That does sound kinda interesting. Weird, but interesting. I don't think I'd ever see something like that on an island in the middle of the north sea... unless you include drying smoked fish- in the traditional houses of some of the older population? ^_^ Nope, I didn't think you would.

But then I would probably be too squeemish to go and see something like that. . . . .

Inu-chan_rox_mah_sox · Has No Life Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 452

I'd get the marine toad. I wuv toads! <3 And I'd buy the tarantula just to put it on my mom's friend's pillow. XD She loathes spiders, imagine if she'd find a dead tarantula next to her in the morning >:3 She'd probably s**t herself! XD

anime-junkie · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 1:51 am Post subject:

she is using road kill and stuff? coz she said that she didnt kill any animals for this? i know this might sound really cruel, but the animals are already dead. and we eat animals, dont we? coz we kill them with our hands, but she takes stuff already dead and uses that.
in her Bio, it says that she never uses animals that she has killed, they are discarded life stock, road kill, nuciance animals that have been killed, Ect.
im not sticking up for her doing this, but proving that she didnt kill them herself
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GollumDragon · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 12:15 pm Post subject:

Those are actually really interesting, I especially like Capricorn, Chimeria, Griffon, and the squirrels. What makes me wonder is how people get into "weird" professions like that...what makes them decide to especially.

Orlando_Hamar · Very bored Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 120

They probably watched Frankenstein as a kid and hoped to emulate the doctor...
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anime-junkie · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 2:48 am Post subject:

[quote="GollumDragon (Iggy)"] Those are actually really interesting, I especially like Capricorn, Chimeria, Griffon, and the squirrels. What makes me wonder is how people get into "weird" professions like that...what makes them decide to especially. [/quote]
that is ture, it be interesting. she seems to be obsessed with squirilles
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GollumDragon · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 6:47 am Post subject:

How can you not be? Squirrels are awesome ^-^ Plus there's such an abundance they're probably easiest for her to find.

Squidman · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 8:34 am Post subject:

[quote="GollumDragon (Iggy)"] What makes me wonder is how people get into "weird" professions like that...what makes them decide to especially. [/quote]
Find pieces of dead animal carcass lying around outside. Now decide whether or not you want to brave all the maggoty flesh and other little surprises that a dead animal might hold to harvest it for parts or curiosity's sake.

If the answer is yes, this sort of thing probably appeals to you.

I remember when I was little and I used to find the remnants of foxes and caribou lying around town and along traplines and bring them home for my dad...

Ah, good times...
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PFC · Still very bored Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 343

[quote="Orlando_Hamar (Jack Vykios)"] They probably watched Frankenstein as a kid and hoped to emulate the doctor... [/quote]
That would explain a lot...

I wonder how she comes up with that stuff.

anime-junkie · Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 2:47 am Post subject:

same here (post count ^-^ 200)
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Free_to_Dream · Member Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 45

Omg...that website just give me the chills. The squirrels got two heads and many other animals too!!! Freaky things happening in the world everyday...and I don't know if I want to know half of it. But...that "art"...it's kind of animal torture or abuse, ain't it? Confused

Squidman · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject:

You can't torture and abuse a dead animal. Dead things are pieces of meat. Dead animals know they're being subject to taxedermy about as much as they'd know if they were being munched up by earthworms.

Remember folks, dead things don't know if they're being stuffed, cremated, mummified, mulched up into Soylent Green, or just about anything else you can think of doing to them..
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orangemusicnote101614 · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:45 am Post subject:

All I can say is, THAT is art?