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March 5, 2007: Lepidoptera, Interrupted: dead bugs gallery
Once again, it's Neatorama collaboration Monday! If you feel like sometimes you're the windshield, but more often you're the bug, you'll love this set of award-winning photos from photographer Volker Steger. His gallery of dead bugs, retrieved from a plastic ersatz windshield after driving around in a car, is highlighted at this Spiegel Online story. The article is in German, but one of Mr Steger's statements translates as Quote:
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03-05-2007, 09:28 AM | #2 |
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Ever notice that dead bugs are never as cute as live ones?
Ever notice most of the live ones ain't that cute to begin with?
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03-05-2007, 09:32 AM | #3 |
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Really? I thought the opposite!
It's the pathos of the sprawled positions vs the candy cartoon colouring. I can just imagine a little Far Side bubble coming out of the bottom one saying, "Oops, think I lost my guts there..."
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03-05-2007, 09:41 AM | #4 |
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Reminds me of a rather gruesome book I had as a child, written as the journal of a girl who caught fairies by slamming the book closed on them. It had the most awesome illustrations of squashed fairies on every page.
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03-05-2007, 09:55 AM | #5 |
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I don't think I want to eat them after they've been sputtered with gold, though. Perhaps as jewelry?
The bug on top looks like he's doing a Jolson impression. And none of them look terribly pleased to me.
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03-05-2007, 10:49 AM | #6 | |
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EDIT: Lady Cottington's Fairy Album. Recommended.
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03-05-2007, 10:56 AM | #7 |
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The top photo looks like he's (she's?) holding a teddy bear.
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03-05-2007, 11:00 AM | #8 | |
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Imagine the sick twisted mind came up with an idea for a book like that! |
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03-05-2007, 11:08 AM | #9 | |
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Or am I thinking of a more recent book....? We bought something like that for my mother in law about 10 years ago
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03-05-2007, 11:33 AM | #10 |
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Lady Codrington's Pressed Fairy Book, by ex-Python Terry Jones and artist Brian Froud, better known for inspiring the creatures in "Labyrinth".
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03-05-2007, 11:38 AM | #11 |
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I've got to go and get myself a copy - I never saw the one bought for MIL otherwise I'd have adopted it... Looks great (am loving the reviews which call it cruel and gross - makes me want it more).
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03-05-2007, 11:59 AM | #12 |
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Ha. Had to be a Python.
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03-05-2007, 03:12 PM | #13 |
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This whole thread just bugs me for some reason.
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03-05-2007, 03:20 PM | #14 |
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Maybe because it makes you flash back to insectuous relationships?
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03-05-2007, 03:35 PM | #15 |
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Its the bug equivalent of closeups of people who have jumped off of buildings...
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