From Shelburne Farms Facebook page, via reader Hempenstein. Nice, eh?
A vegetarian owl
August 30, 2012 • 6:35 am
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It looks photoshopped it would be nice if it was a real work of art though
Since it’s Shelburne Farms, I have faith(!) that it’s real. It’s a pretty cool place – IIRC the farm was at risk of being broken up to satisfy an inheritance, but the heirs instead banded together and set up a nonprofit, which enabled it to be preserved intact. I had dinner there during a meeting in Burlington some yrs back.
That guy looks tasty!
Hey nice, happy valley!
If you’re ever in the region, try out the produce. It’s among the best in the world (I’m not exaggerating) between the floodplains and ash-laden soils.
Just don’t eat the owl.
awesome!!
This must be how owls looked before the fall.
Yes, these are the owls of summer.
More like, an owl for vegetarians….
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Reminds me of paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo: (1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books – that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.
I’ve seen some of those.
Stop reminding me that my pretensions of geological Philistinism are only pretensions.
Even if that is a billion-year old lump of stromatolite in my pocket, it doesn’t mean that I’m not pleased to be going home!
I knew Kirk Cameron was unto something…
The rare Fructus elusivus.
Owl eat that, with pleasure. Owl you need is a glass of wine and some bread to go with it.
See christians; that is what a created owl looks like. Not something that contains a well ordered progression of DNA building blocks that can be traced through all species of life.
I want to know how they got the owl to hold still while they draped him with produce.
No, I don’t think it’s photoshopped, though I’ve been fooled before.
I’m quite certain that this picture is Photoshopped. The giveaways:
1) The uneven lighting on the surface of the produce, which varies slightly between each separate piece of fruit/vegetable.
2) The strange curvature of the rockmelon that conveniently follows what would be the natural curvature of the owl’s head and neck.
3) The leather straps around the owl’s legs. Clearly they are real straps on a real owl, which has been overlaid with digitally manipulated images of produce.
Sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, but this picture is still impressive nonetheless, if only as a demonstration of the digital manipulator’s skill.