Comments on: "Preserved" plushies in jars

By: Derek Ham

Derek Ham — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:34:00 +0000

The originator of Picked Pets was a artist called Ryan Exidore, based in Glasgow, Scotland, He developed and exhibited Picked Pets in 1997 and was even on the UK’s Big Breakfast TV show being interviewed about them. Unfortunately he’s no longer around…
Please see the attached article from the Glasgow Evening Times (May 1997).

By: bill_mcgonigle

bill_mcgonigle — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:30:00 +0000

It says distilled water on the site, but I doubt that would stay clear for very long. Any recommendations for a preservative that would be compatible with the stuffed animal fibers?

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:33:00 +0000

Mike’s on the bottom row, second from the left.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:24:00 +0000

Bonsai Kitten was fantastic. There’s bits of it on the Internet Archive. It is STILL as effective to troll people with (I like to use the fact it’s only got a few pages on there now to add verisimilitude (‘Yeah, they got forced to pull the site, that’s why you can only see it here’). Like shooting fish in a barrel…

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:20:00 +0000

Indeed.

By: awjt

awjt — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:46:00 +0000

Haha, but there’s nothing sadder than seeing pure love …behind glass and suspended in formaldehyde.

By: Petzl

Petzl — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:41:00 +0000

They’ll never get dusty.

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:56:00 +0000

Jars of “preserved” plushies lined up on shelves behind me as I open up the door for little trick-or-treaters. Oooooh yeeeeeah.

By: David

David — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:45:00 +0000

Baxter& (pronounced “baxterand”) is actually his legal name.

By: Eugene Singh

Eugene Singh — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:49:00 +0000

I have a “Baby Kermit” like that one.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:56:00 +0000

Then you’ve had a really sheltered week.

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:52:00 +0000

Possibly inspired by the rather unpleasant carny tradition of the “pickled punk”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_punks

By: HOTDAMN

HOTDAMN — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:12:00 +0000

Awesome.

Reminds me of Mike Kelly.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:28:00 +0000

It would be fun to put little electronic gizmos in with them, so they can periodically twitch, or mumble help meeeee . . . let me die!

By: mtdna

mtdna — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:26:00 +0000

That is totally fuc**d. I love it!

By: Bradley Robinson

Bradley Robinson — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:08:00 +0000

I’m uncertain whether to find this incredible or disturbing.

Perhaps both.

By: Heartfruit

Heartfruit — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:04:00 +0000

I saw that exhibit when it was at the National Gallery of Canada when we were in Ottawa around the millennial New Years. We spend a huge amount of time going from jar to jar to see if we recognized each stuffed animal.

By: awjt

awjt — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:00:00 +0000

This is the saddest thing I have seen in a week. :-(

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:49:00 +0000

We can pickle that!

By: trackofalljades

trackofalljades — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:18:00 +0000

Does anyone else remember the Bonsai Kitten meme? Does the site even still exist?

I’ll never forget how absolutely INCENSED one of my coworkers became at the time over it, she was completely convinced it was real and freaked out all day about it.

By: 10xor01

10xor01 — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:13:00 +0000

Free Kermit!