ok I just figured it out, it’s not a dead upside down frog, that yellow striped bean in the middle is the baby – with little string arms and X’s for eyes, which means….well…..looks like a late term abortion by the size of him.
Ok, if I had some odd green polka dot disease and my baby looked like a freakish bumblebee, then I guess this picture might be appropriate… Oh hell, who are we kidding! This is horrible no matter what “fun” colors the artist paints it in!!
She’s managed to do the impossible. She’s come up with a design that’s pure marketing genius for both pro-choice and right-to-life groups. It’s not easy to make abortion look both fun and scary!
My personal guess is that ‘A’ is for Africa and the dead baby signifies all the infants born to mothers with HIV. But that’s just a wild guess.
I agree with #18. Totally a dead baby Mr. Peanut. He starts with the party mix. . . next thing you know, you’ve got the plague and you’re knocked up. Never be fooled by the monocle!
Wow- someone bought it? I guess if art is supposed to be thought provoking,strange,and make you wonder what blend of cheeba they fire up then it was art..
“what the fuck is wrong with people?”
was the specific thought I had after looking at polka-dotted frog legs with some weird yellow crap superimposed on them… and then I read the title, and made a squinty face and said: “what the fuck is wrong with people?”
My god this is retarded. Whatever this is made out of was a waste of time and materials.
Wonderful job with the room insertion. You got that spot-lighting just right. also, it reminded me very much of the pediatrician office I went to growing up. They always had weird kid-centric art on the walls.
Hopefully someone bought it NOT for a kid…get it off the market and all that?
As for the item itself, I don’t even know what to do with that. Miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion are such painful subjects for people who’ve actually been through them that art about it is always a risk (and never appropriate for kids until they’re teens). Kids aside, this could be a horrific experience for a woman who’d had one of the above and walked into a room where it was displayed. Or it could be very cathartic for just someone who’d been through that…
For the hell of it, I just copied and pasted into a photoshop….if you rotate, copy the legs from knees down, superimpose them back onto the figure, add maracas, you have Mr. Peanut at the Mardi Gras parade…
Oh, I know what this is from. It’s an illustration from the children’s book, Mr. Peanut Takes a Frog Lover. The series was a propaganda piece put out by Kerr’s Nuts in an attempt to smear their competitor, Planters. The books came out in the late 60s and all try to depict a young Mr. Peanut in a negative light. This drawing, from Mr. Peanut Takes a Frog Lover, deals with the themes of bestiality (if Peanut/Frog sex can be considered such) and a little known practice called Peanutting, which basically involves Mr. Peanut inserting half of his body in his lover’s orifice. The letter A was never explained in the book. Planters Corp. eventually found out that Kerr’s was the source of these books and sued for defamation and copyright infringement, which ended up settling before it went to trial. All of the known copies of the books were assumed to have been destroyed. This is a rare print and well worth the $10.00 asking price.
“This silkscreen was inspired by the idea of a c-section scar rupturing during a subsequent pregnancy. The mother is pulling out her child while her intestines spill from the opening.”
I am OK with the idea of using art as therapy. It has a long and positive history. But a note to people like Butanis and this chick: please don’t then put the results of your art therapy up on Etsy and try to sell it. Leave it in your attic, where it belongs.
EMPM made me laugh out loud. She/he should get a job writing Etsy descriptions for some of our lack-wit sellers.
October 21, 2009 at 3:06 pm
what.. is.. it.. ?
October 21, 2009 at 3:11 pm
What this tells us is that if you get an abortion you turn into a frog.
October 21, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Looks more like a stillbirth to me, but hey, that’s splitting hairs.
October 21, 2009 at 3:13 pm
She gave birth to a dead caterpillar like the one in the old Dangermouse cartoons.
October 21, 2009 at 3:14 pm
same “artist” http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25048204
apparently birth and pregnancy is a theme in her “art”
October 21, 2009 at 3:17 pm
For children? Of course! A scene from the classic fairy tale, “The Frog Abortionist.”
October 21, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Apparently a week-dead plague victim has given birth to a stillborn .. beetle? Of some kind?
I like the Nathaniel Hawthorne touch, though, with the beetle-coordinated stripey “A.”
If she’d wanted it to stand for ‘abortion’ she’d have surely included a little vacuum hose or an unbent wire hanger.
October 21, 2009 at 3:20 pm
As for “See it in a Room,” is that an ob/gyn’s office?
October 21, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Yes, we Photoshopped it in there, just to try it out. I think it looks fantastic.
October 21, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I’m trying to understand why the dead lizard baby is wearing headphones.
October 21, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Or possibly, it’s a pinstriped squid and those are its grasping tentacles.
October 21, 2009 at 3:36 pm
No. Not. Possible. I thought regretsy couldn’t astound me like that anymore. I thought I had built up a tolerance. Oh no.
And yet only $10. If it sells, I may be to blame.
October 21, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I’m only sorry I’m not an ob/gyn or I would totally buy it for the office.
October 21, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Well, according to that justice of the peace in Louisiana, children born from interracial relationships always suffer….
October 21, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Is this some hideous twist on ‘Wind In The Willows’, involuntary emesis style?
October 21, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Oh.My.God. It just warranted more than just OMG.
That is hideous, and just beyond any rational explanation as to the reason for its existence.
However, the ‘see it in a room’ is brilliantly done.
October 21, 2009 at 4:29 pm
ok I just figured it out, it’s not a dead upside down frog, that yellow striped bean in the middle is the baby – with little string arms and X’s for eyes, which means….well…..looks like a late term abortion by the size of him.
October 21, 2009 at 4:46 pm
No one will thank me for this, but if you look at it upside down, the resemblance to Mr. Peanut is uncanny.
October 21, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Where’s the rest of them? V is for vomit. H is for Hematoma. Come on, finish what you start lady. This inappropriate alphabet is incomplete.
October 21, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Ok, if I had some odd green polka dot disease and my baby looked like a freakish bumblebee, then I guess this picture might be appropriate… Oh hell, who are we kidding! This is horrible no matter what “fun” colors the artist paints it in!!
October 21, 2009 at 5:37 pm
“Y” is for YUCK!
October 21, 2009 at 5:41 pm
This shit is sick.
October 21, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Why is a sleestak aborting a striped bumble bee?
October 21, 2009 at 5:55 pm
She’s managed to do the impossible. She’s come up with a design that’s pure marketing genius for both pro-choice and right-to-life groups. It’s not easy to make abortion look both fun and scary!
October 21, 2009 at 7:16 pm
The birth of Mr. Hanky’s striped cousin. Hidey Ho!
October 21, 2009 at 8:02 pm
When does V begin?
October 21, 2009 at 8:24 pm
My personal guess is that ‘A’ is for Africa and the dead baby signifies all the infants born to mothers with HIV. But that’s just a wild guess.
I agree with #18. Totally a dead baby Mr. Peanut. He starts with the party mix. . . next thing you know, you’ve got the plague and you’re knocked up. Never be fooled by the monocle!
October 21, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I can’t stop laughing. That’s the funniest looking dead baby I’ve ever seen.
It almost reminds me of the bunny suicides. So wrong, yet so hilarious.
October 21, 2009 at 11:25 pm
I’m surprised you didn’t feature this one http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25049108
October 22, 2009 at 1:52 am
i love comment #15.
well, I then clearly stands for involuntary emesis.
i would totally love to see the whole alphabet.
October 22, 2009 at 1:53 am
why does the seller call a painting with a foetus “cooking”? that is very sick.
October 22, 2009 at 1:55 am
annnnnd…. SOLD!
October 22, 2009 at 5:01 am
Wow- someone bought it? I guess if art is supposed to be thought provoking,strange,and make you wonder what blend of cheeba they fire up then it was art..
October 22, 2009 at 5:43 am
“what the fuck is wrong with people?”
was the specific thought I had after looking at polka-dotted frog legs with some weird yellow crap superimposed on them… and then I read the title, and made a squinty face and said: “what the fuck is wrong with people?”
My god this is retarded. Whatever this is made out of was a waste of time and materials.
October 22, 2009 at 5:51 am
Wonderful job with the room insertion. You got that spot-lighting just right. also, it reminded me very much of the pediatrician office I went to growing up. They always had weird kid-centric art on the walls.
October 22, 2009 at 6:14 am
Aaaaand it’s sold.
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=20676169
October 22, 2009 at 6:40 am
“A” is for abortion…it’s good enough for me…
(Sung in the tune of C is for cookie by the cookie monster)
October 22, 2009 at 7:48 am
Hopefully someone bought it NOT for a kid…get it off the market and all that?
As for the item itself, I don’t even know what to do with that. Miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion are such painful subjects for people who’ve actually been through them that art about it is always a risk (and never appropriate for kids until they’re teens). Kids aside, this could be a horrific experience for a woman who’d had one of the above and walked into a room where it was displayed. Or it could be very cathartic for just someone who’d been through that…
but not for small kids.
October 22, 2009 at 10:26 am
For the hell of it, I just copied and pasted into a photoshop….if you rotate, copy the legs from knees down, superimpose them back onto the figure, add maracas, you have Mr. Peanut at the Mardi Gras parade…
October 22, 2009 at 10:26 am
Drunk…it’s in the eyes
October 22, 2009 at 11:56 am
Oh, I know what this is from. It’s an illustration from the children’s book, Mr. Peanut Takes a Frog Lover. The series was a propaganda piece put out by Kerr’s Nuts in an attempt to smear their competitor, Planters. The books came out in the late 60s and all try to depict a young Mr. Peanut in a negative light. This drawing, from Mr. Peanut Takes a Frog Lover, deals with the themes of bestiality (if Peanut/Frog sex can be considered such) and a little known practice called Peanutting, which basically involves Mr. Peanut inserting half of his body in his lover’s orifice. The letter A was never explained in the book. Planters Corp. eventually found out that Kerr’s was the source of these books and sued for defamation and copyright infringement, which ended up settling before it went to trial. All of the known copies of the books were assumed to have been destroyed. This is a rare print and well worth the $10.00 asking price.
October 22, 2009 at 7:23 pm
The scariest part?
“This print is 43 of 84 and is signed on the back.”
There are 83 more of these out there, people.
October 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm
My kid is about to celebrate his first birthday.
This. Is. the Perfect. Gift.
Thanks, Regretsy. I shall look no further.
October 23, 2009 at 12:43 pm
EMPM
I need a few rainbow reusable toilette papers pads….might piss myself..good stuff
October 23, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Wow, it gets worse:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25044021
“This silkscreen was inspired by the idea of a c-section scar rupturing during a subsequent pregnancy. The mother is pulling out her child while her intestines spill from the opening.”
Oh. OK.
October 23, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Looks like the resemblance to a peanut is not unintentional:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25046781
October 26, 2009 at 1:42 am
Maybe it’s A for asshole child.
December 6, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I am OK with the idea of using art as therapy. It has a long and positive history. But a note to people like Butanis and this chick: please don’t then put the results of your art therapy up on Etsy and try to sell it. Leave it in your attic, where it belongs.
EMPM made me laugh out loud. She/he should get a job writing Etsy descriptions for some of our lack-wit sellers.
January 16, 2010 at 9:01 pm
thank you for the exposure!
December 3, 2010 at 10:19 am
If I had an insect larva alien baby in me and had a horrific skin disease at the same time, I’d probably have an abortion too.
December 4, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Oh, my! Can’t wait to see the rest of the alphabet…