Very short shorts: Crazy Cat, found by And there's more! =:D The Hare in Union Square, a sixteen foot sculpture in NYC. "Flanagan, an internationally renowned British sculptor, is best known for his expressive bronze hares modeled in varying poses of dynamic energy." Another superb one here, in Dublin, and a few more here. Moreover, from this article on his work, a fine lapine sentiment: 'Flanagan sees the hare as a particularly suitable vehicle for these human endeavours and emotions, "...if you consider what conveys situation and meaning in a human figure, the range of expression is in fact more limited than the device of investing an animal - a hare especially - with the expressive attributes of a human being. The ears for instance are able to convey far more than a squint in the eye of a figure, or a grimace in the face of the model."' I'm slightly disturbed to find five matches for the word "sausage" within the entirety of Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia; including ones in vol.7 "Reptiles", and vol.3 "Insects".. |
I thought I'd noticed an unusual number of cases of credit fraud on my friends list recently - and lo, it appears there was a hefty haul of such data recently, as noted here by