Crap Taxidermy

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Here the very best of the worst stuffed animals are brought together in one full-colour volume; with additional features including a DIY ‘Stuff Your Own Mouse’ lesson, and an author’s introduction to the craze for getting stuffed.

It's interesting that humans have this hobby of creating something that looks alive but is actually dead. Whether you choose to laugh or cringe at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, you won’t be able to tear your eyes away from the curiosities inside. On May 26th, 2009, the Crappy Taxidermy [3] Tumblr blog was launched, which highlights humorous photos of taxidermied animals. Kat, I think your mom should be proud, even if it is not quite the book she thought you would publish! This volume brings together the very best of the worst (along with a DIY "Stuff Your Own Mouse" lesson by an Insect Preparator from the American Museum of Natural History), showcasing the most perverse yet imaginative anatomical reconstructions of the animal kingdom you'll ever see.

I’ve always thought that becoming worm food is the worst thing that could happen to my body after I die – but I’ve discovered that if I were to fall into a taxidermist’s hands the fate would be much worse. It's short, it's visual, it's the perfect thing to thrust at a guest and watch them laugh and laugh before they even crack it open. Scout, Su’s own cat, is still only seven, but she has already formed a plan to have it dressed and posed soon after its death. 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. 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.

On March 6th, 2012, the tech news blog Complex Tech [7] listed Crappy Taxidermy as the 56th best Tumblr blog of all time. He explains: “I started the page after I saw the pole dancing polar bear in a museum and thought poorly executed taxidermy might interest others. And her good friend, Daisy Tainton, happens to be an insect preparatory for the Museum of Natural History, and also a hobbyist taxidermist.This volume brings together the very best of the worst (along with a DIY Stuff Your Own Mouse lesson by an Insect Preparator from the American Museum of Natural History), showcasing the most perverse yet imaginative anatomical reconstructions of the animal kingdom you'll ever see. it is incredibly comprehensive, but not all of the pictures are as disturbing as the ones in this book, which seems to be a best-of-the-worst collection. It would be great,” Su says, when the sad day arrives, for her boyfriend to arrange something similar. 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. 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.

Here the very best of the worst stuffed animals are brought together in one full-colour volume; with additional features including a DIY 'Stuff Your Own Mouse' lesson, and an author's introduction to the craze for getting stuffed. The book, titled Crap Taxidermy, will be a compilation of Crappy Taxidermy’s funniest and most popular pictures, as well as new pictures that have never been published on the site.But if the taxidermy ends up looking like a balloon or a cylinder, or its eyes are bulging, we can't suspend our disbelief. Crap Taxidermy makes the promise of an entertaining and comedic read concerning distasteful and terribly positioned taxidermist “art”. It really makes you realize how much of taxidermy is sculpture (sculpting the inner structure that the skin/fur goes over. Photograph: Dave Branfield/Brewdog UK/Dave Branfield/Brewdog UKst Photograph: Dave Branfield/Brewdog UK/Dave Branfield/Brewdog UKst Beer bottle holders, from Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su. Although the blog has, from time to time, left me unable to speak from laughing, put all those bad taxidermic animals together in one place to read in a sit-down session and all I felt was sorrow.