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This is the color draft of the tee shirt I was working on. I think I'll modify the color again -- wanted to do it in flat colors to simplify printing process.
I get *really* tired of the meme that "in order to pose Steampunk, you have to have someone shooting or looking menacing." How about some science, instead? And how about some Native Americans, too? I went for every underrepresented theme I could think of, including velociraptors. And girls as explorers.
I get *really* tired of the meme that "in order to pose Steampunk, you have to have someone shooting or looking menacing." How about some science, instead? And how about some Native Americans, too? I went for every underrepresented theme I could think of, including velociraptors. And girls as explorers.
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Yeah! Nobody ever gives the photographers any love, either!
I was thinking about photography because I'm documenting the Texas drought (for science) and thinking how valuable a photographer would be to a naturalist of that time. She's wearing a lot of my real life field gear (steampunked up, of course.)
I was thinking about photography because I'm documenting the Texas drought (for science) and thinking how valuable a photographer would be to a naturalist of that time. She's wearing a lot of my real life field gear (steampunked up, of course.)
That is the fluffiest (and hence probably the most accurate) velociraptor I've ever seen!
I've always thought the Cope/Marsh Bone Wars would make a terrific premise for a Western. Bribery, trickery, theft, armies of thugs, all in the employ of two rivals obsessed with both SCIENCE!! and personal glory -- It's as "steampunk" as it gets, and it all happened.
I've always thought the Cope/Marsh Bone Wars would make a terrific premise for a Western. Bribery, trickery, theft, armies of thugs, all in the employ of two rivals obsessed with both SCIENCE!! and personal glory -- It's as "steampunk" as it gets, and it all happened.
Let me 'splain.
No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
From 1877 to 1892, seminal paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh took their academic rivalry and personal dislike into the field as rich dinosaur fossil finds were uncovered in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and other parts of the still-wild West. They used their wealth to uncover literal trainloads of fossils, hiring small armies of men to essentially stripmine the bone beds in ways that would horrify a modern researcher.
It turned into a massive competition to see who could discover, describe, and name the most new species, and each man often resorted to underhanded methods to undercut the other. They attacked each other in the academic journals of the day, and, allegedly, resorted to theft, fraud and sabotage in the field.
The Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus naming dispute is probably the best-known part of the Bone Wars, since it's beloved by pedants everywhere.
It's an amazing story in the annals of science. It's cropped up in a few of the general paleo nonfiction works I've read, and there are a few books specifically devoted to it. As far as I know, though, the closest Hollywood has gotten to tapping it was a single episode of Richard Dean Anderson's forgotten steampunk TV series, Legend.
The Wikipedia article covers it quite well.
No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
From 1877 to 1892, seminal paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh took their academic rivalry and personal dislike into the field as rich dinosaur fossil finds were uncovered in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and other parts of the still-wild West. They used their wealth to uncover literal trainloads of fossils, hiring small armies of men to essentially stripmine the bone beds in ways that would horrify a modern researcher.
It turned into a massive competition to see who could discover, describe, and name the most new species, and each man often resorted to underhanded methods to undercut the other. They attacked each other in the academic journals of the day, and, allegedly, resorted to theft, fraud and sabotage in the field.
The Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus naming dispute is probably the best-known part of the Bone Wars, since it's beloved by pedants everywhere.
It's an amazing story in the annals of science. It's cropped up in a few of the general paleo nonfiction works I've read, and there are a few books specifically devoted to it. As far as I know, though, the closest Hollywood has gotten to tapping it was a single episode of Richard Dean Anderson's forgotten steampunk TV series, Legend.
The Wikipedia article covers it quite well.
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