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Encounters With Critters
Aug. 7th, 2005 09:34 pm*While sitting in front of this very computer a little while ago, I heard a raptor screech and looked out the window just in time to see one of the local red-tailed hawks fly overhead. Considering the two second lag I had while I realized there was no video game or movie on and the noise was an actual real live sound, that's pretty good timing.
*The timing for this was good, because just the day before I'd stumbled across a Metafilter listing for the "Lepus Lupus", supposedly a rare, South Asian Venomous Rabbit. Unfortunately it's a hoax (anyone looking closely at a picture that's supposedly a "false-color electron microscope image of envenomation spurs on tongue" will notice that it's actually named 'cactus.jpg')-- I should have known immediately when they tried to tell me that the common name is the "Cutting Hare". (The spoof is at http://rabbitandcrow.blogspot.com/2005/08/cutting-hare-lepus-lupus.html)
*This was the second time in a day I'd had to deal with an artificial rabbit--I did a film shoot on Saturday that I'll post about shortly, it deserves a post of its own. But the script called for a hunter to return with a dead rabbit. The only prop lepus we had, however, was an adorable little white fluffy bunny puppet. So part of the day was spent soaking him in coffee, stomping him into the dirt, rubbing two different types of lipstick into him, basically doing everything we could to make him look a) realistic and b) very dead.
When we weren't doing Bun-Bun impressions with a Swiss army knife, of course.
*On the other hand, Owen the orphaned baby hippo and Mzee the tortoise who he's completely bonded with ARE real, and they make my heart swell up whenever I think of them. I mean, seriously. Look at this pic:
That's love, ladies and gentlemen.
*The timing for this was good, because just the day before I'd stumbled across a Metafilter listing for the "Lepus Lupus", supposedly a rare, South Asian Venomous Rabbit. Unfortunately it's a hoax (anyone looking closely at a picture that's supposedly a "false-color electron microscope image of envenomation spurs on tongue" will notice that it's actually named 'cactus.jpg')-- I should have known immediately when they tried to tell me that the common name is the "Cutting Hare". (The spoof is at http://rabbitandcrow.blogspot.com/2005/08/cutting-hare-lepus-lupus.html)
*This was the second time in a day I'd had to deal with an artificial rabbit--I did a film shoot on Saturday that I'll post about shortly, it deserves a post of its own. But the script called for a hunter to return with a dead rabbit. The only prop lepus we had, however, was an adorable little white fluffy bunny puppet. So part of the day was spent soaking him in coffee, stomping him into the dirt, rubbing two different types of lipstick into him, basically doing everything we could to make him look a) realistic and b) very dead.
When we weren't doing Bun-Bun impressions with a Swiss army knife, of course.
*On the other hand, Owen the orphaned baby hippo and Mzee the tortoise who he's completely bonded with ARE real, and they make my heart swell up whenever I think of them. I mean, seriously. Look at this pic:
That's love, ladies and gentlemen.
