Comments on: Museum of Fantastic Specimens

Museum of Fantastic Specimens

jonson — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:18:37 -0800

The Museum of Fantastic Specimens is an online (virtual) museum of taxidermy specimens of imaginary creatures, all created by hand by Japanese artist Hajime Emoto. The museum itself can be difficult to navigate, as all the links are in Japanese, so the link in this post goes to an unrelated overview page in English.

By: tumult

tumult — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:02:20 -0800

Awesome.

By: onalark

onalark — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:04:09 -0800

That's really cool.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:07:25 -0800

what is it with the japanese and penis monsters?

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:38:39 -0800

This is terrific stuff! I'm quite fond of this little fella. (Also, that Pink Tentacle blog is pretty interesting itself.)

By: freakscout

freakscout — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:57:41 -0800

By: NinjaTadpole

NinjaTadpole — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:01:42 -0800

Headcrab! (and here's me with no crowbar)

By: NinjaTadpole

NinjaTadpole — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:14:12 -0800

OK, I'm not keen on the sea at the best of times, but this has seriously given me the fear. I'd shake the artist's hand, but I suspect something would reach out of his sleeve and bite. Outstanding, as so often jonson, thanks.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:03:27 -0800

So cool!

By: lodurr

lodurr — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:58:16 -0800

Good god this is cool! What posesses someone to do stuff like this? The "Avaritia" ... thing ... is one of the coolest, creepiest things I've seen in a while.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:58:49 -0800

Really excellent. I followed freakscout's link and found this link to taxidermied toys which I'm sure has been posted before, but which deserves another heads up nonetheless.

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:23:40 -0800

arcticwoman - yeah, the roguetaxidermists site is awesome, as is this one (an old post of mine, but still pretty cool) on the same topic.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:03:56 -0800

Can't they make any nice critters? Why do they all have to be so spookily?