7/15/08
Mannequins and Monstrosities
In what we hope to be a trend, Futurechimp.com is pleased to introduce two exclusive new photo exhibits on our auxiliary hominid site, Stexeweb.com. In our latest galleries, F. Nocella documents the mannequins of Turkey and Peru, and J. Furmanski exposes ham-fisted taxidermy.
Call for Entries
If you've shot a series of photos which are similar to these exhibits, and you'd like to put them online (with no pragmatic expectation of financial reward), write to mail@stexeweb.com.
Pediophobia
Terrors of Taxidermy
7/9/08
Leporidae Maximae
North Korea, plagued by years of food shortages and crippling economic sanctions, is putting its money on rabbits as big as dogs.The hermit kingdom recently bought 12 giant rabbits from a German breeder whose 22-pounder was named "Germany's Biggest Rabbit" last year.
The breeder told The (London) Times "he believed that the monster bunny program ... was aimed at feeding the North Korean people rather than the 'Dear Leader,' Kim Jong Il, who is said to favor lobster."
Each rabbit provides 15 pounds of meat, including the internal organs, but the animals reproduce so fast it is conceivable that the North Koreans could be producing thousands of pounds of meat in no time.
If North Koreans breed the animals correctly, the 12 they already have could multiply to more than 1 million in just eight years.
One million monster-sized rabbits? Foolish humans. Behold your imminent fate:
Yakov Smirnoff joke: "In America, you eat rabbit. In Russia, rabbit eat you!"
6/25/08
Picturing The Museum
A beautiful online exhibit of vintage photographs has appeared on the site for The American Museum of Natural History in New York, where I worked as a sculptor and painter for three years. This is the greatest museum of its kind in the world, and has an amazing, often shameful history (for more on this, read Dinosaurs in The Attic). Also check out this book on the museum's dioramas, written by my old boss.
Brought to Futurechimp's attention by the always-entertaining Morbid Anatomy blog.
Enter the Exhibit Here.
6/9/08
Futurechimp Theater: The Winged Scourge
I'm back from the Amazon, but still applying hydrocortizone to mosquito bites, and have to take these malaria pills every day for the next four weeks. So it's a good time to review this hyperbolic little treasure. The narration is priceless in its drama: "Little does he suspect he's to be the victim of this bloodthirsty vampire!" and, "He may not die, but he will never truly be alive."
But actually, malaria is pretty nasty. A person dies from it every 30 seconds. Once contracted, there's no getting rid of it: there is no vaccine. And like the flu, the disease is constantly building resistance to antimalarial drugs. So what can you do about it? Stay away from endemic areas and wear lots of carcinogenic deet. Please do NOT follow the example set by this film: pouring loads of motor oil into a pond to destroy every living thing in it does not bring us towards a more sustainable planet. "Give them the oil treatment! That'll kill 'em!"
5/21/08
Futurechimp Theater: White Wilderness
from wikipedia:
"While many people believe that lemmings commit mass suicide when they migrate, this is not the case.... the suicide myth was propagated by the Walt Disney documentary White Wilderness in 1958 which includes footage of lemmings migrating and running head-long over a ledge. An investigation in 1983 showed that the Disney film makers faked the entire sequence using imported lemmings (bought from Inuit children), a snow covered turntable on which a few dozen lemmings were forced to run, and literally throwing lemmings into the sea..."
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