OT: Alien life form?

Baron Munchausen · #1 June 17th, 2006, 08:13 PM

Since so many people are sharing their 'discoveries' on the net here, I thought I'd bring something that I found to your attention:

It comes from the 'urban legends' section of the About.com site and apparently is getting sent around as an email. Though it is disturbingly realistic, it is an artistic creation (a 'sculpture') meant to blur the line between humans and animals.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_half_human.htm
Netlore Archive: Circulating via email, an unsettling photograph of what appears to be a half-human, half-animal creature suckling her hybrid offspring.

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The strange, half-human creatures in the image above are neither real nor a hoax; they are part of a sculpture by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini entitled "The Young Family," which, in turn, is part of a larger installation called "We Are Family," described by Jane Silversmith of the Australian Council for the Arts as an exploration of "the changing relationship between what is considered natural and what is considered artificial."

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Maybe this Patricia Piccinini would make a good 'special effects' person for movie aliens?

She also has her own site with more pictures of other works.

http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/

Many of these are also both fascinating and disturbing at the same time.

Fyron · #2 June 17th, 2006, 08:19 PM

That is one poorly designed web site... interesting concept nontheless.

Atrocities · #3 June 17th, 2006, 09:15 PM

Do you want to know what is really sad about that image? There is some guy out their that with enough consumed beer, would have sex with it. (Especially if it were live.)

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 June 17th, 2006, 10:47 PM

Excuse me while I pour bleach over my eyes.

dogscoff · #5 June 19th, 2006, 04:56 AM

Reminds me of the "meat" from the TV version of HitchHiker's Guide.

"Are you sure you wouldn't like my liver sir? It should be nice and tender by now, I've been force feeding myself for weeks."

Randallw · #6 June 19th, 2006, 05:12 AM

"I'll just go off and shoot meself"
"Oh, no"
"Don't worry sir, I'll be very humane about it"

Kamog · #7 June 20th, 2006, 01:48 AM

That creature needs to have either fur or clothes. It's just not decent in the picture. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

Captain Kwok · #8 June 20th, 2006, 07:10 AM

It haunts my dreams...

Wade · #9 June 20th, 2006, 07:59 AM

Yes, disturbing at first but I can look past my biases and nature to see the wonder of possible life forms.

-Wade

Renegade 13 · #10 June 20th, 2006, 03:01 PM

I see genetic manipulation creating something like that in the future....