So, although I’m sort of weirded out by this practice (and, hey, to each their own) I can absolutely appreciate bad 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.

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!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. :/ 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.

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. 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. 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. 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! 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.”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. This book confirmed my belief that there is nothing in the world quite like taxidermy. I might be a candidate for an appearance on “My Strange Addiction”, but it’s cheaper than heroin and releases tons of good endorphins. Be it bad, good, or bizarre, taxidermied critters are definitely a conversation starter when people step in to your house for the first time and realize your simple reading room is truly a “Where’s Waldo” of dead things. You’ll see plenty of uncanny faces and furry figures that seem to be something straight out of a Tim Burton movie… except on steroids! Don’t forget that the Crap Taxidermy book has a DIY stuff-your-own mouse taxidermy section if you still need to make odd one-of-a-kind xmas presents for your friends.

I had to laugh really loud multiple times. The idea that someone tried to capture the beauty of a certain animal and failed so bad at it but that it wasn't noticed by or didn't matter to the exhibitionists is just hilarious. 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! 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. The reason for the name change, Su explained, is that her book is actually being published by a British publishing house, and that British people don’t use the word “crappy.”and here is a list of books on the topic that i either own already or really want to own already, that you can read while you are waiting for this book to come out in september: Along the way we’ve adopted more friends into our little menagerie. Adorable pals like Pauly Shore: 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.

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.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.”