Belief, Doubt and Wonder
Monsters were in the air today, I guess. Must be the weather. First, this BoingBoing post about a
Cryptozoology art exhibit in October. If you want to enter your drawing of Big Foot, they suggest contacting
Loren Coleman, director of the International Cryptozoology Museum.
Coleman has been investigating, in the field and in the library, cryptozoological evidence and folklore since the Abominable Snowmen caught his interest over four decades ago, leading him to research mysterious Black Panther sightings and reports of Napes (North American Apes) in the American Midwest. He has traveled to every state in the USA, throughout Canada, Mexico, Scotland, and the Virgin Islands, interviewing witnesses of Lake Monsters, Bigfoot, Giant Snakes, Mystery Felids, Mothman, Thunderbirds, and other cryptids.
And then later in the day I get pointed to
The Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists. People have fun stuffing animals into disgusting poses and performing Frankenstein surgery on their corpses. It'd be funny if it weren't based on real little rodents. Poor little rodents.
Lastly, I'll point you to
The Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA, a careful and brilliant collection of fake anthropology, all presented with absolutely no indication that it's fake. Here's one
travelogue, and here's
another (from our pal, David Yoon).
Monsters. Museums. They're related, no?
* Ray, 1/11/2005 08:45:33 PM
