Director Sean Pecknold’s rather excellent animation for Fleet Foxes’ The Shrine/An Argument from the Helplessness Blues album.
We like this.
Tag Archives: Animals
It seems like no matter where you try to draw the line between animals and people, the animals keep sneaking a paw (or hoof) over. They make tools. They have sex for fun. They commit murder. And, says neuroscientist David Linden, they also like to get high:
Animals in the wild will also voluntarily and repeatedly consume psychoactive plants and fungi. Birds, elephants, and monkeys have all been reported to enthusiastically seek out fruits and berries that have fallen to the ground and undergone natural fermentation to produce alcohol. In Gabon, which lies in the western equatorial region of Africa, boars, elephants, porcupines, and gorillas have all been reported to consume the intoxicating, hallucinogenic iboga plant (Tabernanthe iboga). There is even some evidence that young elephants learn to eat iboga from observing the actions of their elders in the social group. In the highlands of Ethiopia, goats cut the middleman out of the Starbucks business model by munching wild coffee berries and catching a caffeine buzz.
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Milan-based artist Guido Daniele creates extraordinarily detailed trompe-l’oeil art by hand-painting animals, literally, then photographing the results.
Guido Daniele’s Hand Paintings (63 pic horizontal scroller)
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From the Animals with Stuffed Animals Tumblr.
Because we all need friends. Seriously. Even stuffed ones.
From photographer, Isa Leshko’s Elderly Animals project.
Above: Kelly, Irish Wolfhound, aged 11; Embden Goose, aged 28; Morgan, Arabian stallion, aged 28, housecat, aged 19. Isa sez:
Images of animals that are prevalent in popular culture generally depict animals that are juvenile, or at the very least, in the prime of their lives. In these images, animals are exoticized, anthropomorphized, and/or infantilized. This project examines animals who are elderly or at the end stage of their lives.
For this project I am traveling to animal sanctuaries across the country to photograph elderly subjects. I have been especially drawn toward photographing farm animals. Because of the nature of their existence, farm animals typically do not live out their natural life spans. I was intrigued to observe and photograph working animals that actually reached a geriatric age.
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The animals of YouTube sing “Jingle Bells”.
Very cute, indeed.
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Five of Nat Geo’s ten weirdest new animals discovered this year.
From the top: the Squid Worm; a tube-nosed fruit bat known as ‘Yoda-Bat’ (our personal fave); the Tasmanian Pink Hand-Fish and the rather fetching wood-eating Amazonian Catfish.
The Ten Weirdest New Animals Of 2010 (National Geographic)