While at home for a few weeks I discovered this show called Oddities about an antique shop in New York that sells weird things like old taxidermy, skulls, antique medical equipment-- you get the idea. I'm basically obsessed with it now. Remember how I said that my dream job would be to create a place like Tinkertown and just sit around and charge people to see it? Well never mind that, my new dream is to be a buyer for this kind of shop. Chloe Sevigny was in an episode looking for baby coffins and my wonderful-hilarious-weirdo-amazing hero Amy Sedaris popped in once with Paul Dinello and bought a giant crab claw for her sister. I've actually been on the lookout for a few antique taxidermy animals for a while now: a squirrel, an encased bat, and a nice panel of butterflies. I'm not interested in taxidermy unless it's antique, and although these are all relatively tame and common I haven't yet found any that I like.
I can't decorate until the walls are painted and right now I'm waiting on the landlord to approve our colors, but the vibe of this shop has definitely influenced what I want to do with the living room. I don't own any actual oddities (unless you count Klaus, which I kind of do because he frightens everyone), but I love that blue/green wall color and how all the antiques and weird bits fit together in the shop. If I can pull something together that has an Oddities-meets-bright-eclectic-vintage vibe I think I'll be very happy, and it'll definitely fit our personalities.
Amy Sedaris & Paul Dinello!
Ryan articulates skeletons; the skull below is called a beauchene and is done by disarticulating all of the bones in the skull and then reassembling them with wires on a mount. It's also known as an "exploded" skull.
Love her-- a mortician/model/clothing designer.
Screencaps by me. Hopefully some of you like this stuff as much as I do-- if not, sorry for freaking you out!
I love that show! Science channel has become one of my favorites since I discovered we actually get it.
ReplyDeleteOh my god, I totally have to go watch that now.
ReplyDeleteMegan: LOL same!
ReplyDeleteIsabel: It's all online and it has TWO SEASONS. GO WATCH IT NOW, you'll love it to bits!
I.LOVE.THIS.SHOW!
ReplyDeletedid you see the one with chloe sevigny in it? omgggg
when I went to NYC I trekked up to th shop (I'd been obsessed w/ it even before th show!) & everyone there at th time was absurdly nice & informative, it is amazingly tiny though, I have no idea how they film in there.
ReplyDelete@Diana: YESSSS I love the normal customers anyway because they're so interesting, but when Chloe & Amy Sedaris popped up I was like !!
ReplyDelete@Hannah: Oh I'm so glad they were nice! I've read several things that said how small the shop actually is and you can kind of see that at certain angles, but yeah I have no idea how they film in there an make it look like it has more space. I would be so nervous about knocking into things and breaking them.