Oct 10 2009They're Good For Something: Dead Fly Art
Dead fly art: it just makes sense. Now I don't really want to go into the kind of person it takes to collect dead flies and glue them to a piece of paper to make "art", but suffice it to say they're our kinda person. Plus, I really dig the final results. Well, except for the moth in the last piece -- didn't see that one coming!
Hit the jump for a whole bunch more.
Dead Fly Art [onelargeprawn]
Thanks to sham, who once got expelled from biology class for sticking the worm she was supposed to dissect up her nose.
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Reader Comments
1. zakree - October 10, 2009 11:58 AM
Thats funny!
2. Nick - October 10, 2009 12:05 PM
2nd
3. cc - October 10, 2009 12:08 PM
Amazing
4. . - October 10, 2009 12:13 PM
ah. ew.
5. mike - October 10, 2009 12:14 PM
I really dont want to say this is cute. But this is kinda cute. Im going to throw up now.
6. FIRST - October 10, 2009 12:19 PM
i have the urge to try this now...
7. omega57 - October 10, 2009 12:20 PM
the art looks good, but who the Fu*k has the time to do all that crap!?!?!??
8. Captain Jonald - October 10, 2009 12:23 PM
I kinda like it, it's oddly cute...but boy that's wierd.
9. JSDavidson - October 10, 2009 12:24 PM
@8 I have to agree with the cuteness, and yet it is rather perturbing.
10. Thumperchica - October 10, 2009 12:25 PM
I really do not want to admit that this is cute and interesting... but it is. Wow, I guess it really is art...
11. Whiskey - October 10, 2009 12:25 PM
lol, thats pretty cool.
12. Lain - October 10, 2009 12:25 PM
These are so comical, yet really effed up.
13. naas - October 10, 2009 12:27 PM
some call it art, others call it crap
@2 http://www.sneeko.net/images/gifs1/mousetrap.gif
14. GiGi :P - October 10, 2009 12:31 PM
AWESUM...IM LOVING IT SO AMAZING...WHO WUD THINK OF THIS...ONLY AWESUM PPL!!! HORRAY FOR THEM!!
15. Ocelot - October 10, 2009 12:32 PM
Where did all these dead flies come from??
16. Rootbeerhead - October 10, 2009 1:02 PM
@7 artists find time to do all sorts of creepy things, hahhahha.
i can't believe how humorous these are! I think they'd look really great in a shodowbox frame for when they're up on the wall.
at least they're conversation pieces.
Do PETA supporters throw flour at the people who make and display art with dead flies in it? Or maybe it doesn't count if they were already dead when he/she found them? Or maybe he/she has to WEAR them. Dead fly sweaters, FTW.
17. 95_9C1 - October 10, 2009 1:09 PM
seventeenth
18. f - October 10, 2009 1:15 PM
i don't know if this is absolutly awesome or just plain sick :D
19. Mr.Checkers - October 10, 2009 1:24 PM
lol this is thee best thing ive ever seen besides your mom!
20. Mr. pig - October 10, 2009 1:43 PM
Oink!
21. Me - October 10, 2009 1:45 PM
I don't get it...
22. Daisy - October 10, 2009 1:46 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back own where Max needed to get somewhere so he went into the grocery store, and got some kaiser broiler foil, and some aunt Jemima syrup,. and a pair of blunt scissors. And in the parking lot of the grocery store, where nobody was looking, he cut out some really, really, really nice wings, and he covered them thoroughly with foil! Then he took those wings and wedged one under each of his powerful arms and sneaked into a telephone booth. And then he shut the door! And he pulled down his blue denim policeman type trouser pants, and he spread even amounts of AUNT JEMIMA maple syrup all over the inside of his legs! Soon the booth was filling with flies! He held open the legs of his boxer shorts so they could all get in, and when each and every one of those little flies had gone into his pants, and they were lapping up all that maple syrup, he bent over and he put his head between his legs and he said in a very clear, impressive, RON HUBBARD-type voice: "NEW YORK!" And the booth and everything lifted up, out of the parking lot, and into the sky!
23. Dishy Dishyington - October 10, 2009 2:18 PM
http://www.artnewsblog.com/2009/07/knitted-dead-animals-knitting-for.htm
24. Dustin - October 10, 2009 2:18 PM
Truly the highest form of art man has ever experimented with.
25. Dustin - October 10, 2009 2:19 PM
Truly the highest form of art man has ever experimented with.
26. Dishy Dishyington - October 10, 2009 2:19 PM
Dead cat art:
http://fotservis.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c018253ef011278dc05e428a4-600wi
27. Dishy Dishyington - October 10, 2009 2:22 PM
@10 Thumperchica, did you used to call yourself $0.02 and pocket of FAH-Q? Or is that someone else?
28. Mr. Anderson - October 10, 2009 2:32 PM
pretty nasty if you ask me..
29. Geekolojew - October 10, 2009 2:38 PM
Must See!!!
http://alturl.com/obg7
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30. Devlyn - October 10, 2009 2:47 PM
Lovely
31. Youdontnomie - October 10, 2009 3:55 PM
ha.........................ew
32. me.vicky - October 10, 2009 4:23 PM
Firstly, this is both disturbing...and strangely cute.
Secondly, the moth at the end just creeped me out. "Hey, little fly, you want some candy?" He's the pedo of the insect world.
Thirdly, Daisy was in rare form today...and it actually made me laugh.
33. Scarlet - October 10, 2009 4:29 PM
Is there a dead fly serial killer that Fox News(pfft!) have not warned the public about? Or is this a government cover up too?
34. jaja - October 10, 2009 4:29 PM
LOLLOLOLOLOLLOLOLLOL
35. Wrath001M - October 10, 2009 5:41 PM
HAHAHA Um why?
36. khz - October 10, 2009 6:11 PM
just for shits.. but check this out
http://www.obviouswinner.com
37. Jaded Icon - October 10, 2009 6:45 PM
I would congratulate this guy on a novel idea, but I don't think I would shake his hand....
@ 27
Dishy, FAH-Q used to be Thumperchica. Now she turned it back.
38. Boost - October 10, 2009 7:07 PM
Wow, if flies aren't completely disgusting, I would so do this will all of the dead ones laying around.
39. sa - October 10, 2009 7:18 PM
ROFL
40. jaja - October 10, 2009 7:24 PM
@14 do you mean GiGi the cat ? :D xxx
41. jaja - October 10, 2009 7:27 PM
@26 EWWWWWWWWWWWW KILL YOURSELF NAO !
42. Thumperchica - October 10, 2009 7:35 PM
Dishy - just tryin to keep you on your toes...
43. ctabs - October 10, 2009 8:07 PM
@ 7: yeah I mean who has time to grab the dead flies out of the window sill, stick a little glue on em and pencil in some simple feet and hands? (sarcastically)
44. Phil - October 10, 2009 9:10 PM
This was on http://www.unionversity.com/ages ago... geekologie is getting slow !
45. lala - October 10, 2009 11:35 PM
@44: He was always slow. That poor, slow man.
46. pirhan - October 10, 2009 11:41 PM
How unique! This would look great in a light box on a wall.
PS.
i <3 u Daisy.
47. jodie - October 11, 2009 12:28 AM
Daisy!! Did you have an orgasam or what? I've never seen so many ...letters!..!..!..
I HaTE FLIES! so yeah, I loved watching them be humiliated in such a way...he..he..DIE Bastards.
48. livingjetlag - October 11, 2009 4:12 AM
I wonder whether the idea came first, or the bucket full of dead flies that someone had lying around for some unthinkable reason. Or maybe someone found himself standing near the school's bug zapper, praying for a miracle, 15 minutes before his summer class art project was due. Based on the level of technique in the pencil elements, I would guess the person is more "cartoonist" than "artist."
49. Jacob - October 11, 2009 5:06 AM
The last one reminds me of "where the wild things are"
50. Android Boy - October 11, 2009 5:12 AM
ROFL, sweet!
51. CaylePhotography - October 11, 2009 8:49 AM
ok just a note these are not photoshoped at all. It is possible to have different direction in shadows if there is more than one light........ it is too easy to mount bugs and or do art like this without the hassle of photoshop. Besides i'm sure if they photoshoped them they would have given all fly's legs instead of just a few. Very creative fun works! Slightly disturbing.........but mostly just fun!
52. KarenC - October 11, 2009 1:24 PM
@48 .. i say both.. he is surely creative!
love it! ^_^
53. britt - October 11, 2009 2:54 PM
ewwwww thats gross... they must have been REALLY bored!
54. thisisonlyatest - October 11, 2009 3:31 PM
Honestly, this reminds me vaguely of another fly torture device that I saw in a catalog once. It was a "fly sleigh" or something. It was a fly-sized glider with tiny wires with which you could capture houseflies and attach them to the sleigh and then when you released them they would buzz about pulling your sleigh...
Crazy? Well, yeah... I am a little, but a little insanity never hurt anyone (although it can be fatal in large doses).
55. ciao - October 11, 2009 3:43 PM
lol, did kind of the same thing as a teen. Squashed a fly in my notez book... and drew a comment box "ow".
the last pic of this gallery is cute.
56. psyspeak - October 11, 2009 10:27 PM
creative...!!! two thumbs up
57. cheap holidays in sharm el sheikh - October 12, 2009 12:46 AM
Hi..
I really do not want to admit that this is cute and interesting... but it is. Wow, I guess it really is art...
58. Allllllllice - October 12, 2009 9:01 AM
gross but cool. my grandmother makes them into lamp shades.
59. skeletor - October 12, 2009 11:50 AM
@13 I love your replies to firsties (secondies in this case)
60. RoosterSocks - October 13, 2009 3:05 AM
sixty oneth...........are we still counting?
61. evr - October 14, 2009 5:46 PM
If those were puppies instead of flies this wouldn't be concidered cool. It would be concidered cruel.
Why is it that desecrating some animals is fine, but not others?
62. G - October 15, 2009 2:52 PM
This made me smile.
63. Black Faith - October 15, 2009 5:51 PM
That is so cool! do you just glue the dead flies on a piece of paper and then draw legs and feet? if so that is really cool! :^D