Comments on: Rogue taxidermy

Rogue taxidermy

nowonmai — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:17:58 -0800

Nate Hill is a rogue taxidermist. He collects raw materials from some nasty places, and creates new, better animals from them. Now he has a bigger project. Then there is his TV show, Chop, chop.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:43:52 -0800

Holy shit. I will no longer ask where Jonathan Coulton gets his ideas.

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:55:43 -0800

Rogue taxidermist? Bah, he's an amateur compared to...

By: nomisxid

nomisxid — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:40:10 -0800

I know a local artist I try to patronize as much as possible, who does something similar, combining multiple insects into unusual hybrids. I'll see if I can't dig up some pics of his more interesting creations.

By: nomisxid

nomisxid — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:44:24 -0800

ferg of seattle no good closeups of his animal creations though. =(

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:01:59 -0800

I know a local artist I try to patronize as much as possible Yeah, I also try my best to be patronizing to this artist: "Oh, hi Nate! Working on those little animal projects, still? How cute! No, I'm sure it's fun! You know, maybe there's some money in it, you never know, ha ha! What a fun idea!" Also: hey there, nowonmai! You must be the guy I see in the elevator from time to time and refer to in my mind as "that British metal gentleman".

By: nowonmai

nowonmai — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:13:05 -0800

So much for Internet anonymity.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:15:12 -0800

Eh, it was never worth preserving anyway. I appreciate the links, though! I've never actually seen Nate's work, and it's positively lovely.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:19:55 -0800

That top image in the "new, better animals" link is a Yeti Crab. It would be interesting to ask Nate how he came up with that idea.

By: bookish

bookish — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:36:24 -0800

My great grampa was a rogue taxedermist. He traveled all fifty states gathering assorted animal parts and painstakingly composing strange articles of fauna. My great-grandma fell in love with him, when, as a ripe young debutante, she caught sight of him running through the country club dinning hall holding aloft an armadillo with the wings of a California condor. He was screaming, "I am a new, better god and I will create a new, better world." They had sixty glorious years of marriage before dying within ten days of each other. My father and his brothers carefully sliced and diced and stictched their corpses into a magnificent serpent of human love.

By: InnocentBystander

InnocentBystander — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:57:20 -0800

Then there's the plush version.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:50:35 -0800

This just seems wrong, although I do like Damien Hirst.

By: Pecinpah

Pecinpah — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:10:05 -0800

Nate used to work in the video store near my house in Tallahassee. He was pleasant enough, but mumbled a lot. I always thought of him as a hack (no punn intended) because the 'rewriting-the-bible' and 'cutting-up-dead-animals' things smack of shock-value. Next time I see him I'll have to tell him he's Meta-famous.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:18:54 -0800

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By: Big_B

Big_B — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:29:32 -0800

Since no one has added this yet: WTF?