2020年6月29日 星期一

taxidermy, taxidermied, typeface, unfaithful to the original, to unearth Edmonstone’s story from the margins of scientific history.






Historians know very little about Edmonstone’s personal life, but certain scientists are making efforts to unearth Edmonstone’s story from the margins of scientific history.


ATLASOBSCURA.COM

The Extraordinary Life of the Freed Slave Who Taught Darwin Taxidermy
John Edmonstone was a mentor to the budding teenage naturalist.

‘Sexy’ taxidermied rat underwear
From the DM Archives.
I do not know the exact provenance of these taxidermied undies. There’s a CHANEL logo embroidered on them, but I highly doubt they’re made by the famous haute couture French fashion house. This looks like the handiwork…
DANGEROUSMINDS.NET

The author, most recently, of “Lovers on All Saints’ Day” says the toughest thing about translating is being unfaithful to the original: “Doing a little violence to a sentence you love is hard, and many sleepless nights can be caused by it.”
For years, design in New York and elsewhere has been dominated by the “new vintage” look, with its love of taxidermy and salvaged barn wood, its nostalgia for dark hunting cabins and 19th century gentleman’s clubs.
City Room
The Mystery of a Memorial Typeface

The black-white-and-blue “9/11 Memorial” trademark has turned up just about everywhere in Lower Manhattan, set in the font Gotham. Or is it Verlag?











Klaus Pichler



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Lens Blog

Natural History, Not-So-Natural Setting

After a late-night glimpse of the taxidermy division at the Vienna Museum of Natural History, Klaus Pichler spent three years roaming the museum with a camera.

taxidermy[tax・i・der・my]

  • 発音記号[tǽksidə`ːrmi]
[名][U]剥製(はくせい)術.
tax・i・der・mist
[名]
tàx・i・dér・mal, tàx・i・dér・mic
[形]

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