Hey Anon! I don’t think it’s creepy at all! Keeping a part of your pet after they pass away is a great way to honor their memory and many people find comfort in it as well.
Our pets so often become members of our families that it can be traumatic to think about trying to process their remains after they pass away. Because of this many taxidermists and bones collectors opt to not work on their own animals, which is totally cool and perfectly acceptable.
But other folks want to keep a memento of their pet. I’ve seen people keep everything from feathers, whiskers, or ashes in urns all the way to bones, tanned pelts, or taxidermy mounts so you certainly aren’t alone in wanting to preserve part of your pets. Which is also totally cool and perfectly acceptable!
Personally I’m not sure what I’ll do when any of my animals pass. I’m pretty sure I’ll keep my horses’ skulls but I’m not sure I’d want to process my dog or cats for emotional reasons. But I might change my mind when the time comes, which will hopefully be a very long time from now and I hope the same goes for your pets!
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Bokeh Love by iAmBrendaLee on Flickr.
The Adventures of Prince Achmen.
1926. German.
The oldest surviving animated film in history.Nonono, you don’t understand how AWESOME this movie is
because it’s not done by a big production firm, or someone with a name as big as Walt Disney, no
the writer and “mind” behind this film was a WOMAN
yes, my dear tumblr peeps, the very first trick animator in the world was a young German woman who had an idea, and enough friends and time to make a feature-length animated film. And it took her three years
because the way this movie (and some shorter works she actually did before Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) are done is really, really complex. You see those leaves, and the hair of the figures? Yes.
That’s hand-cut paper.
Lotte Reiniger – that’s her name, my friends – always loved the art behind the Chinese shadow puppetry, and after she heard a lecture by Paul Wegener (famous for the early movies Der Golem and Der Student von Prag) about the possibilites of animated movies, she wanted to combine these two things.
And guys, how she combined it…
Most of the puppets and scenerey she made all by herself. Her friends set up a special table that was lighted from underneath, and in the later movies she would even change the colours of the background mid-scene to change the atmosphere. Above it was a camera, shooting photos of the scenes that she moved milimetre for milimetre for those 16 pictures per second she needed for her movie.
Which makes Die Abenteuer von Prinz Achmed not only the first animated feature-length movie, but also the first stop-motion movie.
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