Project Under-Horse

March 13, 2017 11:54 AM

Under-Horse is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their horses wedged into their scanners, or why. (Non-English video w/optional English YouTube Subtitles)
posted by radwolf76 (21 comments total)

Pizzles. Pizzles everywhere.
posted by Halloween Jack at 11:59 AM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

CLIPPING!
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:10 PM on March 13, 2017

If you want to see the actual pictures, here's a post by Andrius Burba, one of the perpetrators.
posted by beagle at 12:11 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

He actually started out with Under-Cats.
posted by beagle at 12:12 PM on March 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

I guess my linking is less than clear, because there's two links in the post, the first one going to Andrius' site.
posted by radwolf76 at 12:13 PM on March 13, 2017

That's not typically a view one would want of a horse--makes it even more weird and wonderful.
posted by agatha_magatha at 12:17 PM on March 13, 2017

Your linking is fine, radwolf. It may be that others are having the same problem as I am with the first link, that the images aren't loading?
posted by Thorzdad at 12:20 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

Looks like Andrius is using some sort of embedded Wix Image Viewport that seems to be intended to prevent desktop users from right-clicking, which may be failing on mobile and/or because of script blockers. beagle's link has all the same photos that are on the artist's own site, though, so you won't miss anything if you have to look at them there.
posted by radwolf76 at 12:32 PM on March 13, 2017

I can't imagine how much glass-cleaning fluid they must have gone through.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:36 PM on March 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

These are really compelling and I can't explain why.
posted by lumpenprole at 12:39 PM on March 13, 2017

I can't imagine how much glass-cleaning fluid they must have gone through.

Or just how thick it had to be to hold that much weight across such a span.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:41 PM on March 13, 2017

One last addendum and then I'll let the comments be: Prints are available for sale.
posted by radwolf76 at 12:42 PM on March 13, 2017

Sorry about that, I thought the original post just had one big long YouTube link.
posted by beagle at 12:43 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

He actually started out with Under-Cats.

under-cats are on the move, under-cats are loose
feel the magic, hear the mrow, under-cats are loose
un-der un-der un-der un-der-cats
posted by middleclasstool at 12:46 PM on March 13, 2017 [8 favorites]

I can't imagine how much glass-cleaning fluid they must have gone through.

Or just how thick it had to be to hold that much weight across such a span.

I don't think it's possible to build up glass-cleaning fluid to any appreciable depth... ;)
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:56 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

I'm partial to the Under Rabbit one, but why the didn't call it Under Bun I'll never know.
posted by tommasz at 1:23 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

ohmygod does he do commissions? I can see my sister seriously flipping out over this possibility.

They really are exquisite. And here's me, having never once contemplated the underside of a horse before.
posted by ezust at 4:02 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

And here's me, having never once contemplated the underside of a horse before.

Then you admit that you've never really lived?
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:09 PM on March 13, 2017

The horses remain unimpressed.
posted by scratch at 5:52 PM on March 13, 2017

And here's me, having never once contemplated the underside of a horse before.

Then you admit that you've never really lived?

As someone who has contemplated the underside of different horses way too many times, I'm happy to be able to say I did live through it, and whatever injuries from whichever wreck were relatively minor.

One of the more spectacular wrecks involved a galloping horse going down on the front end and flipping completely over the top of me. During that moment when all the wind was knocked out of me, I vaguely remember thinking how lucky I was not to have landed on any rocks. Lucky, that is, until the moment I realized I had landed on an extremely large and extremely agitated red ant hill. I've never gotten nekked so fast or danced so wildly either before or after that particular day.

I don't recommend the view from the underside of a horse, for various reasons.
posted by BlueHorse at 6:55 PM on March 13, 2017 [9 favorites]

I"ve had a drawing I've wanted to do for a while. I needed a shot of a horse from underneath. I bought a toy plastic horse in order to hold it in one hand and sketch it. This might help. Thanks.
posted by mmrtnt at 11:18 AM on March 14, 2017