While I was on a search for creature creation online, I found this fascinating website in Japanese. It is an online museum for the study of deceased animals. This now reminds me of how our group had been discussing the differences between reality and unreality(?) or how easily science could be misrepresented or misconstrued. Both of our speakers for the seminar stressed the importance of being scientifically accurate while still being able to communicate the ideas properly. This website is on the exact opposite of these goals. This is in fact a fake museum, with fake animals. All the animals are made of paper, modeling paste, and bamboo. They are amazing creations, many of them seemingly real or realistic enough (with exception to the "human face fish," the ones with horned tails, and the one that looks like a facsimile of the aliens from "Independence Day." The artist does post that this museum is a fake, but you have to go to the bottom of the page to a link that tells you about it. Anyways, I encourage you to enjoy this treat and remember that things are not what they seem online...they are much cooler.
http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/ex/information.htm
1 comment:
Wow, that is really inspiring. Its interesting how science can be taken advantage of for the purpose of story telling. Creating dead fake animals makes them more believable.
-joe
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