wonders of the natural world, illustrated

some great portraits in this slideshow:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com//2014/04/01/an-evolving-view-of-animals/

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

i think i finally decided that i do want an ernst haeckel-inspired tattoo

it only took me almost 14 years!!

also this thread is a treasure -- i had no recollection of posting so much lol

i was about to say before i even read your comment LL, this is a glorious thread

Tattoo appt is this week!! Could not be more excited.

It’s done. Now I want like 60 more.

Cool! What did you get?

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

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44527/44527-h/images/plate081.jpg

To clarify—It’s my artist’s rendering of the Haeckel illustration.

Oh, brilliant - I bet that looks amazing.

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