This is the work of artist Daniel Edwards and it borders on the Giger-esque with its creepy-yet-stately beauty.
I wonder if some future civilization will find this and believe was an homage to a fertility goddess, or if the Venus de Willendorf was meant as social slander and not an icon of worship.
Note: I had originally linked to another blog which originally posted this, but they decided to be uncouth and add some really garish and obtrusive watermarking to the image, so I made my own image and unlinked them. Someone needs to learn some web-etiquette, me thinks. There’s nothing wrong with hotlinking an image if someone links back to you and promotes your blog. I was even about ready to add the blogger’s site to my list of sites but now they had to go and spoil everything.
Azrael Brown
May 1st, 2009 at 7:33 pm
In general, hotlinking is frowned on by most people who own their own servers – those ‘ads’ show up on all hotlinked images; we didn’t single you out for any particular reason. The former hotlink image we used was rude and questioned the webmaster’s virtuousness, so adding little banners is a step up from what you would have gotten
Most people still link to a place they found something even if they copy the image to their own site, as a courtesy (as I did at KKC); I had to add those automatic ‘kitschy kitschy coo’ banners because too many hotlinkers don’t bother doing any of it. But, well, it’s your blog, you do whatever you want, and we’ll keep doing what we do.
Charles
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:47 am
Hehe, fair enough.