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Old 03-05-2007, 09:20 AM   #1
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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
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I find, the mosquitoes and flies look like pleased angels.
The photos are not color-accurate because they come from an electron microscope? That's what I take from this bit of Babelfish-translated conversation:
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MIRROR ON-LINE ONE: How do such microscopic photographs function technically?

Steger: Only I dried the animals at air, afterwards then you are also scanned gold vaporized, so that they become electrically leading, and in a vacuum chamber with an electron beam. With these data one can produce pictures.

MIRROR ON-LINE ONE: And those see in such a way from as in the photo distance?

Steger: Not yet completely. The pictures are first black-and-white, I them later koloriert. I hope that one also sees, because I want to give the chance to the viewer to recognize that what they see is not completely material.


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Old 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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Old 03-05-2007, 09:32 AM   #3
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Ever notice that dead bugs are never as cute as live ones?
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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 03-05-2007, 10:49 AM   #6
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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.
!! gave that book as a gift to ... baby sister? daughter? It was a hoot!


EDIT: Lady Cottington's Fairy Album. Recommended.
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Old 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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Old 03-05-2007, 11:00 AM   #8
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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.
That's hysterical!

Imagine the sick twisted mind came up with an idea for a book like that!
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Old 03-05-2007, 11:08 AM   #9
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That's hysterical!

Imagine the sick twisted mind came up with an idea for a book like that!
Wasn't it one of the Pythons?
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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 03-05-2007, 11:59 AM   #12
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Ha. Had to be a Python.
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Old 03-05-2007, 03:12 PM   #13
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This whole thread just bugs me for some reason.
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Old 03-05-2007, 03:20 PM   #14
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This whole thread just bugs me for some reason.
Maybe because it makes you flash back to insectuous relationships?
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Old 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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