i have an obsession

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photos of people with large dead animals.
its so fucking primal, and formally well composed

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.huntdriftwood.com/photos/Wolf3-2k3.jpg
http://www.mauihuntingsafari.com/pic/05270005_EN_Pig.jpg
http://www.fishercreekoutfitters.com/images/bear_hunts7.jpg
http://www.america-outdoors.com/montana7.jpg
http://www.smoldering-lake-outfitters.com/04moose2.jpg
http://www.smoldering-lake-outfitters.com/04moose2.jpg
http://www.mosportsmen.com/hunting/deer/2003bigbk/deer+face+copy.jpg
http://www.pineyvalley.com/images/Big-Game-Hunting-Deer-Colorado-Piney-Valley-Ranch-414.jpg
http://www.pineyvalley.com/images/Big-Game-Hunting-deer-colorado-Piney-Valley-Ranch2-450.jpg
http://www.heartlandlodge.com/Images/bowhunting-deer.jpg
http://www.huntdriftwood.com/photos/Wolf3-2k3.jpg

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

sorry, some dual versions there.

top five reasons
1) the formal, ritualised posing--how there are spec. rules that come with the different animals--indicating status.
2) the costuming, emerging from a contradictory fuctionalism (ie the other hunters cant shoot us so we should wear clothing thats really bright, the animals cant find us we must wear camafaluge.) it reminds me of the tension of the dress/battle uniform of soilders.
3) how in hunting pictures (not sport--hunting!) from the neolitihic onward, have shockingly similar poses, etc.
4) what it means to pose wtih dead animals. in the sense that those who hunt for food do not photograph like those who hunt for trophy--but i bet money that everything but the boar and the wolf of these photos, is v. much used for meat.
5) there is a homosocial nostaliga of a world w/o women, in these magazines--which might explain why it is so liked by the conserative power of our country.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

my mom to thread. she hunts. she's good too.

― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Anthony, you heartbreaker.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

the fifth point is deft. changing--but its less well repped in the magazines, and sites that are part of this

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

well i think my mom would agree with you on the homosociality of it all. she's definitely an outlier. she likes the outdoors, she likes meticulous processes, and waiting, and doing things that are very serious and risky but also w/ long stretches of quiet. she's not all zen about it or anything but there is definitely a huge art-appeal to her hunting beyond killing shit (and filling my freezer).

― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

http://movies.tbo.com/movies/images2005/huntertv.jpg

― gear (gear), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

animals are gorss - when you caut them apart - and then you eat it! But I'm nto vegitarian becuase it comes to me in freindly form.a hunk of protien in acceptable. cut anything into protien bit sand its loveable,

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Sunday, 14 August 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

TS: "protien bit sand" VS "dead lady's crotch-sand"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 August 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

ugh.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 15 August 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fu-manchu.com/tomgreen/tomgreen/moosehump.gif

I'm sorry anthony!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 15 August 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

"Like a butterfly, a wild butterfly, I will collect you and capture you."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 August 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

LASSIE'S DEAD

(cries)

― JTS, Monday, 15 August 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

anthony's list reminds me of his list on why jessica simpson's 'these boots...' was the best thing ever.

ie, the points don't actually say what's good about the thing in question

― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah, all his points could easily be used to dismiss said things!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

why are obsessions n essc. good

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

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