Archive for the 'monster' Category

Ranging from treatises on prodigies from the 17th century all the way up to issues of Amazing stories.

I'm going to limit my commentary on this to the fact that treaded legs seem a good idea and not talk about the fact that this looks like it got rejected from a Radiohead video for being too weird. Not the best way to avoid the uncanny valley, people!

All the greats are in here.

"What can the mechanical man do? Plenty! He can walk, and he can talk. He can stand, sit, bow, and otherwise comport himself after the fashion of a human being. But he can do more than that. He...can perform any number of duties advantageous to mankind."

"It is only rarely that a psycho-analyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics, even when aesthetics is understood to mean not merely the theory of beauty but the theory of the qualities of feeling." thx, kio!

via laauren. Again, three things about this page are great:
- A wallpaper of the anglerfish, described as the "ugliest animal on the planet."
- A handy size comparison to a teacup.
- The anglerfish has the weirdest reproduction method I know of.

good primer. bad spellings!