Crap Taxidermy

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The art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting animal skins is called taxidermy, and it can range from classy to creepy depending on whether your subject is a moose, or, say, a homeless drifter. For the book, she is going to write a tutorial on how to stuff a mouse. And her good friend, Daisy Tainton, happens to be an insect preparatory for the Museum of Natural History, and also a hobbyist taxidermist. There’s a section with step by step instructions on performing taxidermy on a mouse. It would have been much better if the author had included a picture of her own project. Our new book, titled Crap Taxidermy, is out now! A big shout out to Octopus Books & Ten Speed Press for turning this Tumblr into a book. Thanks for all the support! i requested this late last night on netgalley, in great delight and "must read this! fever, and then completely forgot about it until i went on there today for a totally different reason. such a great "oh, yeah!" surprise when i got home.

The chapter explaining how to taxidermy your own mouse was particularly fascinating, but I don't think I'll be giving it a go myself! For those of you keeping score – and God knows I am – Crappy Taxidermy boasts itself as “the Internet’s oldest and largest image gallery of crappy and awesome taxidermy since 2009.” Of course, proper taxidermy is primarily reserved for hunting and fishing trophies, and it sort of works like this:Su explained that “blogging isn’t a zero sum game, and everyone wins when you spread the love for this particular type of taxidermy. I just like making people laugh.” Not only does Kat Su provide an interesting and humorous -- or depressing, depending on your view of the world -- array of crazy taxidermy, but she also includes step-by-step instructions for stuffing a mouse on your own. Not something I'd want to do, but a nice addition for a book on taxidermy!

Soon, people started catching on to his feed, especially in the last week. Which should help him keep it updated with new images going forward. He loves taxidermy and Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. Beyond that, we know very little about the man behind the account.So, although I’m sort of weirded out by this practice (and, hey, to each their own) I can absolutely appreciate bad taxidermy. This is a funny coffee table book of taxidermy done wrong (or done in a funny way). It really makes you realize how much of taxidermy is sculpture (sculpting the inner structure that the skin/fur goes over.) When the inner structure is done incorrectly you really notice. Along the way we’ve adopted more friends into our little menagerie. Adorable pals like Pauly Shore:

I don't know if some of those examples are only taxidermists’ faults as some of them might be result of neglect. It looks like some examples of crapy taxidermy provided in this book are in museums. :/ Bad taxidermy on the Web is actually nothing new. For example, about five years ago a woman in New York name Kat Su started a Tumblr blog called Crappy Taxidermy. a few of these examples aren't in the book itself, but they are on the blog, and they are pretty damn creepy, so worth including.Why? “Because I have no life,” she says, and in that respect at least she has plenty of company. Visit her apartment today and you’ll see a two-headed rabbit, a squirrel holding a gun, a fox that is itself wearing a fox stole and, yes, a mounted deer head. (“That one’s actually pretty normal.”) Five years later, I’m so excited to report that I finally said yes to a publisher this February. After months of nonstop hard work, Crappy Taxidermy is finally going to live up to its full potential and become a book, thanks to the efforts and talents of the amazing people at Octopus Publishing Group, Ten Speed Press, Inkwell Management, and the photographers, artists and taxidermists who contributed to the project.