Crap Taxidermy

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Apparently This Matters" Is Jarrett Bellini's weekly (and somewhat random) look at social-media trends. 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.” 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. But even for those of us who don’t necessarily enjoy the idea of killing animals for the sake of impressing dinner guests, somehow it’s not all that difficult to be amused by terrible craftsmanship Along the way we’ve adopted more friends into our little menagerie. Adorable pals like Pauly Shore:

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!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! 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. I brought Mitchell home and we became instant BFFs. We continued our chats and got to know each other on a deeper level. Friends and family found our relationship to be a bit strange, but it was only because they couldn’t appreciate what it was like for me to FINALLY have a fellow book lover in the house. Of course, Mitchell’s idea of a “comedy” isn’t quite the same as mine . . . Should I tell you that I am one of the rabid followers of all things relating to The Bloggess and on one fateful day while perusing my local thrift shop my life was changed forever? Crap Taxidermy makes the promise of an entertaining and comedic read concerning distasteful and terribly positioned taxidermist “art”. The author starts off by explaining that taxidermy can come in two speeds: well done, and crap – you can guess which the book focuses on. Regardless of the author’s note that the book does not mean to be disrespectful, but rather shine a humorous light on the strange and unique works. The author includes quite a few photos: all of which are high-definition and full color.

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. 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. Tainton will be giving Su a private lesson at her apartment, and Su’s only real concern is that she’ll barf. In the meantime, Su maintains her day job as an active-wear designer, but says she’s actually going to have to try her hand at taxidermy. For real. Mostly pictures, all of them hilarious, it's the kind of book you'd open up and show everyone so you could have a good laugh. I certainly giggle-snorted my way through it.

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.

Because quality taxidermy really depends on the skill of the taxidermist, and a simple hunting mount can turn exponentially more creepy if it isn’t done with precision or mild sobriety. 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. :/ He loves taxidermy and Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. Beyond that, we know very little about the man behind the account.Scout has not been consulted, of course but, in Su’s eyes, stuffing her would be a gesture of love. “I’d rather have her in my apartment than have her incinerated,” she says. Besides, in her view, people benefit from being more relaxed about corpses. For instance, instead of being placed in a coffin for her wake, Miriam Burbank, a New Orleans woman who died this year, was sitting up at a table with a beer and a cigarette. “It would be great,” Su says, when the sad day arrives, for her boyfriend to arrange something similar.