A small menagerie of new Damien Hirst pickled animals took a bow yesterday, including a new shark, a zebra, a calf with solid gold horns and hoofs valued at up to £12m, and even a unicorn - a white foal fitted with a resin horn, rather than an apparition from a fairytale. All have been churned out by his small army of assistants this year for an auction at Sotheby’s in September.
Daniel Firman ’s elephant stand still and upside down on her trunk. The pachyderm could only manage this delicate exercise at a distance of 18,000 km from the earth or if she were on a planet with a circumference of 2,484,0031.1 m (because of its weak gravitational pull). It is on the basis of learned scientific calculations that Daniel Firman reached these conclusions.
{ John Espinosa, Things you can or can’t learn on TV, 2001 | taxidermied deer, aluminum pipe, fluorescent plexiglass | more }
{ Owner and founder of the Icelandic Phallological Museum poses next to a stuffed elephant penis | The Museum, which offers visitors from around the world a close-up look at the long and the short of the male reproductive organ, is missing a human penis. Four men have promised to donate theirs when they die. | Reuters | Continue reading }
{ Dried blue whale penis | Related: A Japanese public prosecutor announced on 19 May that it was launching an investigation into allegations that workers on whaling ships are embezzling whale meat and selling it to restaurant owners. Conservationists are daring to hope that the resulting domestic scandal could herald the end of Japan’s “scientific” whaling programme. | New Scientist | Continue reading }
{ Bottle openers made of kangaroo scrotums sold as souvenirs in Sydney | AFP/Anoek de Groot }
photo { Squirrel Liquor Decanter, $425 | bonus: Carcass art }
