Each insect sculpture can take her up to two weeks to complete and sell for between £75 and £190

Maybe if she used some actual skill and built working machines out of the bugs instead of just gluing gears to them, she might be able to make more than a panhandling bum.

Relatively Obscure: AverageAmericanGuy: Each insect sculpture can take her up to two weeks to complete and sell for between £75 and £190

Maybe if she used some actual skill and built working machines out of the bugs instead of just gluing gears to them, she might be able to make more than a panhandling bum.

Because the article clearly states she works full time making these.

Anyway, bugs creep me out, but some of those are kind of neat lookin'.

She looks well fed, so I assumed her husband was supporting her. But I suppose she might also have a job, though I don't know who would hire someone who looked like that. Maybe in some storeroom or other non-customer facing job..

Lionel Mandrake: AverageAmericanGuy: Each insect sculpture can take her up to two weeks to complete and sell for between £75 and £190

Maybe if she used some actual skill and built working machines out of the bugs instead of just gluing gears to them, she might be able to make more than a panhandling bum.

Jeez, you're not jumping to conclusions or anything, which is good, because that's the sort of thing assholes do.

Glad I dodged that bullet!

I never knew that having an infested trailer house and a box of busted watches could become a money-making hobby.

Who'd have figured?

/oblig

She looked exactly as I expected.

You sure about that, subby?

AverageAmericanGuy: Relatively Obscure: AverageAmericanGuy: Each insect sculpture can take her up to two weeks to complete and sell for between £75 and £190

Maybe if she used some actual skill and built working machines out of the bugs instead of just gluing gears to them, she might be able to make more than a panhandling bum.

Because the article clearly states she works full time making these.

Anyway, bugs creep me out, but some of those are kind of neat lookin'.

She looks well fed, so I assumed her husband was supporting her. But I suppose she might also have a job, though I don't know who would hire someone who looked like that. Maybe in some storeroom or other non-customer facing job..

I'd Stick my Mounting pin in it

Yogimus: She looked exactly as I expected.

Came here to say this.

The dung beetle is a little neat except I think the perspective is hiding the fact the gears are glued onto the abdomen rather than replacing the body. Little more effort with the scorpion could be neat as well. Based on those, think she has the right skills and mind to do this, just needs some notion of machinery.

Ed Gein's hobbies were much creepier.

NOPE!

If she was making sculptures that actually looked like insect/machine hybrids, that would be super cool. Sadly, it appears that she is just gluing gears to things.

Gears are not the point of steam punk! The point is to imagine a world where ingenuity and creativity allowed technology to advance faster than the discovery combustion and electricity.

Knitting is an acceptable hobby people, you don't need to go for crazy.

AverageAmericanGuy: Each insect sculpture can take her up to two weeks to complete and sell for between £75 and £190

Maybe if she used some actual skill and built working machines out of the bugs instead of just gluing gears to them, she might be able to make more than a panhandling bum.

It's a hobby that she makes a little money back from. That's more than can be said of most hobbies. Have no idea why the Fail would feature her, she seems like the kind of person that they're usually riling up old people about destroying society.

Maybe old folks are like cats, and can be distracted by the shiny?

So clever of her! (new window)

Ghastly: ShawnDoc: The cool thing with Steampunk is making stuff look like it actually works with all the gears and sprockets. This looks like she taxidermy's bugs and glues random gears to them.

It's simply not cricket.

Glad someone posted that.

Wrong.

http://gradendine.deviantart.com/gallery/6707662 (not safe for anything)

vwarb: If she was making sculptures that actually looked like insect/machine hybrids, that would be super cool. Sadly, it appears that she is just gluing gears to things.

Gears are not the point of steam punk! The point is to imagine a world where ingenuity and creativity allowed technology to advance faster than the discovery combustion and electricity.

Sadly, video games and movies seem to get steampunk better than almost any boutique I've ever seen. Individual dudes who make their own stuff are always much, much more awesome than anyone who tries to sell their wares, in my experience. There's probably just not enough steampunks with money to make it a niche worth pursuing for anyone who has genuine artistic skill.

wldncrzy14: Wrong.

http://gradendine.deviantart.com/gallery/6707662 (not safe for anything)

First, I wondered WTF IS THIS FURRY SHIAT. Then bones, and head broke.

/WTF, man?

Lionel Mandrake: Oh sure, judge a guy just because he likes to eat soup from a human skull and wear nipple belts.

What kind of soup?

There is a lot of much creepier art out there along this vein.

human skull artwork (new window)

foxyshadis: wldncrzy14: Wrong.

http://gradendine.deviantart.com/gallery/6707662 (not safe for anything)

First, I wondered WTF IS THIS FURRY SHIAT. Then bones, and head broke.

/WTF, man?

Somewhere deep down in your psyche, you were thinking about the fact that the artist uses that thing for more than just posing on DA. Yes, there. You can imagine it now. Stroking the inner leg of Sally. Feeling her firm teats give way as the artist closes his eyes and imagines Sally to be a real wolf.

Ghastly: ShawnDoc: The cool thing with Steampunk is making stuff look like it actually works with all the gears and sprockets. This looks like she taxidermy's bugs and glues random gears to them.

It's simply not cricket.

Bravo old chap.

Honestly, most insects look amazing on their own without gluing all that crap on them.

In no way are fans of the Saw films creepier

I've always wanted to make a human skull into a bong.

The creepiest hobby I ever heard of was putting your dead baby in shadowbox on top of a piano.

Ablejack: So clever of her! (new window)

Oh, man, Ooops!

Happy Hours: [thetfs.ca image 320x256]

Came here for this, leaving satisfied.

ByOwlLight: Gluing gears on isn't terribly impressive, I'm sad to say. The scorpion and tarantula are both kind of meh.

Now, the dung beetle with the elytra opened to display the hidden gears, on the other hand, is kind of cool.
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Exactly my thoughts. Looked like the tarantula got a bit damaged along the way. Its front nipper things look a bit munted. Not good enough, sorry.

And what the fark did she shove up its ass? Whatevs. It doesn't look half spider, half robot. It looks like a spider with something shoved up its ass.

nucal:

/oblig


We get those "clock spiders" where I live. They're called hunstmen. Having grown up with them, they don't freak me out. If I ever see one inside I catch 'em and throw them outside.

Lesphag: nucal: [www.documentingreality.com image 640x565]

We get those "clock spiders" where I live. They're called hunstmen.
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GAK! They're actually called huntsmen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider

What? Nobody posted Beasts War pictures yet?

The description makes it osunf interesting but to be honest they are a bit crap. The dried insects alone look better.

that clockwork beetle was cool.

/and yeah, I'd do her.
//don't judge me. artist chicks are hot.

AverageAmericanGuy: foxyshadis: wldncrzy14: Wrong.

http://gradendine.deviantart.com/gallery/6707662 (not safe for anything)

First, I wondered WTF IS THIS FURRY SHIAT. Then bones, and head broke.

/WTF, man?

Somewhere deep down in your psyche, you were thinking about the fact that the artist uses that thing for more than just posing on DA. Yes, there. You can imagine it now. Stroking the inner leg of Sally. Feeling her firm teats give way as the artist closes his eyes and imagines Sally to be a real wolf.

People have been put on ignore for far less than what you have just done right there.

Darpa is not impressed (new window)

When she finds a very good-looking insect around her home, she'll have her husband place it in the freezer for a quick, humane death before it is immortalised as art.

Just saying that it's quick and humane doesn't make it so.