You’ll see plenty of uncanny faces and furry figures that seem to be something straight out of a Tim Burton movie… except on steroids!

and here is a list of books on the topic that i either own already or really want to own already, that you can read while you are waiting for this book to come out in september: Within the taxidermy community I think I’ve built up a pretty bad rep,” Kat Su says, “because they think I’m making fun of what they do.”

I had to laugh really loud multiple times. The idea that someone tried to capture the beauty of a certain animal and failed so bad at it but that it wasn't noticed by or didn't matter to the exhibitionists is just hilarious. Mostly pictures, all of them hilarious, it's the kind of book you'd open up and show everyone so you could have a good laugh. I certainly giggle-snorted my way through it.

i requested this late last night on netgalley, in great delight and "must read this! fever, and then completely forgot about it until i went on there today for a totally different reason. such a great "oh, yeah!" surprise when i got home. PLUS! at the end of this book, there is also a helpful section that teaches you how to do your own taxidermy on a mouse, including a SUPER helpful section called "when accidents happen." Along the way we’ve adopted more friends into our little menagerie. Adorable pals like Pauly Shore: The reason for the name change, Su explained, is that her book is actually being published by a British publishing house, and that British people don’t use the word “crappy.” He loves taxidermy and Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. Beyond that, we know very little about the man behind the account.Should I tell you that I am one of the rabid followers of all things relating to The Bloggess and on one fateful day while perusing my local thrift shop my life was changed forever? There was a downside to our new relationship, though. Since I work a full-time job, Mitchell found himself lonely just hanging around all day. It was high time he had a friend. My husband had his eye on an alligator head at a local antique store, but sadly it had already been sold. However, the powers of the interwebs are remarkable and I soon found not just a head, but an entire alligator for a bargain price (due to bad stitchery, stuffing leakage, and a missing (but completely unnecessary) hand). Frank Engator entered our life and I found myself getting high off the big score . . .

Why? “Because I have no life,” she says, and in that respect at least she has plenty of company. Visit her apartment today and you’ll see a two-headed rabbit, a squirrel holding a gun, a fox that is itself wearing a fox stole and, yes, a mounted deer head. (“That one’s actually pretty normal.”) Soon, people started catching on to his feed, especially in the last week. Which should help him keep it updated with new images going forward. This is a funny coffee table book of taxidermy done wrong (or done in a funny way). It really makes you realize how much of taxidermy is sculpture (sculpting the inner structure that the skin/fur goes over.) When the inner structure is done incorrectly you really notice.

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a few of these examples aren't in the book itself, but they are on the blog, and they are pretty damn creepy, so worth including. I don't know if some of those examples are only taxidermists’ faults as some of them might be result of neglect. It looks like some examples of crapy taxidermy provided in this book are in museums. :/

There’s a section with step by step instructions on performing taxidermy on a mouse. It would have been much better if the author had included a picture of her own project. Don’t forget that the Crap Taxidermy book has a DIY stuff-your-own mouse taxidermy section if you still need to make odd one-of-a-kind xmas presents for your friends. Can we add this to a time capsule, please? I think that future generations will be in awe of how far the human race has come. Apparently This Matters" Is Jarrett Bellini's weekly (and somewhat random) look at social-media trends. Scout has not been consulted, of course but, in Su’s eyes, stuffing her would be a gesture of love. “I’d rather have her in my apartment than have her incinerated,” she says. Besides, in her view, people benefit from being more relaxed about corpses. For instance, instead of being placed in a coffin for her wake, Miriam Burbank, a New Orleans woman who died this year, was sitting up at a table with a beer and a cigarette. “It would be great,” Su says, when the sad day arrives, for her boyfriend to arrange something similar.The chapter explaining how to taxidermy your own mouse was particularly fascinating, but I don't think I'll be giving it a go myself! But even for those of us who don’t necessarily enjoy the idea of killing animals for the sake of impressing dinner guests, somehow it’s not all that difficult to be amused by terrible craftsmanship For those of you keeping score – and God knows I am – Crappy Taxidermy boasts itself as “the Internet’s oldest and largest image gallery of crappy and awesome taxidermy since 2009.” Dave drinks two dozen Coors in the woods with friends. Dave shoots bear. Dave pays taxidermist to turn bear into furniture. Dave puts bear in living room. Dave’s kids wet bed until they’re 33.