Spanky?
Will no one stand up for Spanky's infamous fishing squirrel? Taxidermy in the service of hilarity is no vice.
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Personally I like it. I have...
Personally I like it. I have never had a problem with it.If you like it who cares what other people think, you are the one living with it. I have been wanting a deer head for my fireplace but the wife doesn't like it so I probably wont get it.
The earth has been cooling down and warming up forever. The whole global warming thing is just so they can tax us more.
Skulls & skeletons: YAY/ taxidermy: NAY
Taxidermy's objectionable for the same reason wood-grain laminate's objectionable: it's pretending to be something it's not ("wood-like"). The whole point of taxidermy is to give the appearance of life to something that's dead ("life-like").
Bones, on the other hand, aren't bone-like, they're simply bones.
Taxidermy has its place, but the place is usually a natural history museum.
I'll stay away for now...
Since my presence in this thread is equivalent to a load of napalm.
SDR, it was me you're thinking of I'm sure. I don't think global warming or "climate change" is a hoax, rather a profit machine. The fact that people buy it is the humorous part of it. If I could buy stock in it I would.
sad
I think taxidermy quite a sad indication on how unadvanced the human race is in its attitudes towards the other living creatures with whom we share the planet. You can argue about its relation to meat consupmtion, 'pest' control, global warming and recycling but at the end of the day I feel it is a very undignified end to the life of a beautiful creature and I avoid shops selling 'vintage' taxidermy items.
I think I read somewhere...
I think I read somewhere that Roy Rogers had Trigger stuffed. Interesting to read the degrees to which creepiness is assigned various rigors of mortis. Some guy in Kansas I seem to recall kept Einstein's brain on a shelf in his house for several years. Bones, deer heads, etc., all seem kind of gross to me. Call me a simpleton. Parts is parts, I guess.
Thanks everyone for their...
Thanks everyone for their thoughtful responses. I really have no intention of being swayed one way or another, but I figured this would be a controversial topic. Perhaps a fun topic to talk about with this group. And, as I had suspected, I do not have the popular vote.
But I would like to explain myself and my stance here at this point...
For many, certain social aspects of our beginnings are left behind ... and often times, abhorred. Then, just like that, as we age sometimes our beginnings take on a new sentimental life, even when we disagree with them.
Much in the same way, being from Mississippi, I grew up detesting blues music and gospel. Now, as I have become older, I appreciate those things. Some of it, like the Baptist "fire and brimstone" gospel groups, I don't see eye to eye with. But, they remind me of where I came from, where I am now, and where I am going. Almost a reminder of what I have "risen above." Although that description is poor, because I don't believe I am above anyone or anything.
So for taxidermy, just as some of my favorite gospel records, I don't agree with per se. But it's an unapologetic look and reminder of my deep southern heritage. The tension between something embraced by a generally less educated society and the artifacts of higher thinking (aka modern design) romantically reminds me of the complexities of human nature. How humans are so deeply contradictory.
We all have things that aren't necessarily positive that are a part of us. And unless you come from my society or something similar, I cannot expect you to appreciate that. And while some people look to their surroundings as a source of peace and tranquil some of us like to create environments as a portrait of ourselves.
A successful portrait PORTRAYS the subject, warts and all. I wouldn't ask an artist to omit 20 pounds from my gut, or to close the gap in my teeth. A true portrait should be beautifully accurate, even if it does not portray only beauty.
I spent a large numbers of years trying to pacify the society I was in as a child, and as I mature, I realize that part of me has done the same with the society I have chosen to be involved in in my later years. I could never completely satisfy by conservative, rural brethren, And in order to be my true self, I know I will never satisfy all of the design junkies, tree huggers and pinko liberals I have had the pleasure of knowing either.
The more I live, the more I think it's perfectly fine to find yourself in your own camp. Even if it is a bit campy!
"Campy - something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate, or out-of-date as to be considered amusing b : a style or mode of personal or creative expression that is absurdly exaggerated and often fuses elements of high and popular culture"
It's a passionate...
It's a passionate explanation, whitespike, and I like it, but I'm thinking it could be gutted pretty easily, almost point by point.
I honestly had no idea that displaying formerly animate life was such a Southern thing. I sense it's a part of -- and possibly nearly exclusive to -- an American heritage in general (you'll find your disembodied deer heads on fine walls all over this land I bet, from Malibu to the Adirondacks) although I don't know for sure.
I don't get out much.
It is, I agree, a very interesting topic for discussion.
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