some great portraits in this slideshow:http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com//2014/04/01/an-evolving-view-of-animals/
― Mordy, Sunday, 19 April 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
not exactly related but this person seems to really embrace the same aesthetic/scientific intersection as the people who sell pages from a botanical illustration book on etsy
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150512/humboldt-park/traveling-taxidermy-instructor-opens-chicago-storefront-niche-lab
there is a $400 make your own taxidermied baby skunk class
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
i think i finally decided that i do want an ernst haeckel-inspired tattoo
it only took me almost 14 years!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 12 January 2024 17:45 (eight months ago) link
also this thread is a treasure -- i had no recollection of posting so much lol
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 12 January 2024 17:54 (eight months ago) link
i was about to say before i even read your comment LL, this is a glorious thread
― craning to be leather (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2024 18:57 (eight months ago) link
Tattoo appt is this week!! Could not be more excited.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:22 (seven months ago) link
It’s done. Now I want like 60 more.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 18:26 (seven months ago) link
Cool! What did you get?
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 8 February 2024 18:29 (seven months ago) link
A radiolarian! If you go to the Project Gutenberg link w Haeckel’s illustrations from the Challenger expedition, it’s top left on plate 81
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 19:36 (seven months ago) link
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44527/44527-h/images/plate081.jpg
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 19:37 (seven months ago) link
To clarify—It’s my artist’s rendering of the Haeckel illustration.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 19:59 (seven months ago) link
Oh, brilliant - I bet that looks amazing.
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 February 2024 22:35 (seven months ago) link
an oldie
Always enjoy sharing these brainstem reconstructions by Lewis Weed (1914) - made by tracing outlines on transverse sections, making paper cutouts, stacking them in register and drawing the result ... pic.twitter.com/KmFu7N2Abu— Matt Kirkcaldie (@MKirkcaldie) October 31, 2021
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 8 February 2024 23:20 (seven months ago) link