It takes a really strange article or news item to make me sit up in my chair and take notice. Now when two of them cross my desk its time to draft a missive to the internet. And thats what your reading. It seems these days like there is no shortage of art, and artists willing to not only push the envelope but rend it limb from limb. The crazy Steampunk designs have filled my imagination, and frankly provided excellent fodder for the podcast. But from time to time we see tech that goes beyond spiffy, that reaches past neat, to just plain weird. The recent trend of Steampunk style has been well documented on my Podcast, we lavish over even the smallest monitor or handcrafted prosthesis to use pneumatic methods of locomotion. But when it comes right down to it, most of them don’t work. I like the feel of the steampunk pieces, I like the “authentic” way the brass glows. And this piece is no different. Steampunk taxidermy indeed breaks new ground on weird. Lisa Black the artist really dug down into the inner working of the mechanics to make these sculptures real. These are not simple gears […]