Typewriter-part penguin

Jeremy Meyer, who sculpts beautiful animals and humans out of typewriter parts and other romantic twen-cen junque, has just completed this commission, a typewriter-part penguin. He says, "My latest- a penguin about 13 inches tall, made from typewriter parts. A commission. I perused photos of penguin skeletons and went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for reference."

Penguin I (Thanks, Jeremy!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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As delightful as this sculpture is, I hope I’m not the only one that reacted with involuntary shuddering at the phrase “twen-cen.”
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Nice work Jeremy!
Moriarty

Before the image loaded, I read it as “typewriter part penguin,” without the hyphen, as in a typewriter that was partially made of penguin bits. For a split second I got very excited for some awesome vintage Antarctic explorer improvised repairs.

I guess this is ok, though.
Art Carnage

A classic Royal or Underwood is better art than that thing. Should have left it alone.
penguinchris

I’m conflicted because I like the previous two comments (especially the part about improvised repairs using penguin parts), but I also think it’s awesome. Mostly though, I can generally not resist commenting in articles about penguins on BB.

I think Art Carnage is sort of an ironic name to have, for one commenting about not destroying things for art :)
Spriggan_Prime

I’m just glad this wasn’t slapped with a steampunk tag