Rogue taxidermy
July 19, 2007 6:17 PM Subscribe
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.
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.
posted by nomisxid at 7:40 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by nomisxid at 7:40 PM on July 19, 2007
ferg of seattle
no good closeups of his animal creations though. =(
posted by nomisxid at 7:44 PM on July 19, 2007
no good closeups of his animal creations though. =(
posted by nomisxid at 7:44 PM on July 19, 2007
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.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:19 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:19 PM on July 19, 2007
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.
posted by bookish at 9:36 PM on July 19, 2007 [4 favorites]
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.
posted by bookish at 9:36 PM on July 19, 2007 [4 favorites]
This just seems wrong, although I do like Damien Hirst.
posted by KokuRyu at 11:50 PM on July 19, 2007
posted by KokuRyu at 11:50 PM on July 19, 2007
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.
posted by Pecinpah at 5:10 AM on July 20, 2007
Next time I see him I'll have to tell him he's Meta-famous.
posted by Pecinpah at 5:10 AM on July 20, 2007
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posted by Faint of Butt at 8:18 AM on July 20, 2007
posted by Faint of Butt at 8:18 AM on July 20, 2007
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