Talking Flat Rat Jerky

Posted on September 29, 2008
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A certain passionate photographer and power blogger at work made an extremely unsettling, but curiously delightful discovery when shooting one day- a completely flattened and rather leather-like rat corpse.  She actually brought this deflated beast into the office in a little bag, and I even got to handle it a bit! (while it was in the bag, of course) What fun! After we all expressed our individual creeped-out feelings on the nearly petrified critter, she mentioned something about making images of it for art projects..

humans_ass Talking Flat Rat Jerky

I figured that the image of this thing, (which I presume she was able to scan easily enough) would make an excellent candidate for recreating a t-shirt design I’d seen years ago. Thus, the funny tagline with my printed version of the rat corpse- which in an of itself is just a bit thinner than the real thing!

Apologies to Troy for the awkward positioning of the thing- I didn’t mean to have it make some ironic quasi-pun next to his thoughtful gift from last Festivus. ;-)

Good times!

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4 Responses to “Talking Flat Rat Jerky”

  1. http://blueridgeblog.blogs.com/ on September 29th, 2008 8:04 pm

    LOL. That is the best dead rat art I’ve ever seen. The gauntlet has now been laid, I shall accept the challenge..

  2. brian on September 29th, 2008 8:42 pm

    Thanks for stopping by and commenting!

    I was originally gonna take two of em, seal em together and wear em as a sort of bizarro coon skin cap-

    Alas, I printed them a bit too small, and so after cutting out one, I could tell the two of em stuck together would not fit comfortably on my fat head.

    I’m looking forward to seeing what you might make with the image! I think you could have a version of it made as a plushie, and it’d be a real hit for halloween! :-)

  3. gnumoon on October 3rd, 2008 11:44 am

    Harlequin: won’t they be impressed? I am a genius
    See how i transformed this old rat
    Into a most delightful hat?

    Jack: Hmm, my compliments from me to you
    On your most intriguing hat
    Consider though this substitute
    A bat in the place of this old rat
    Huh! No, no, no, now that’s all wrong.
    This thing will never make a present
    It’s been dead now for much too long
    Try something fresher, something pleasant.
    Try again, don’t give up

  4. brian on October 3rd, 2008 9:36 pm

    Best use of movie quotability in 2008, would read again! A+++++ :-)

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