“This image is perhaps arresting at first, though this small exquisite print in fact illustrates (in the fine tradition of Beatrix Potter) the very natural relationship between chipmunks and mice”.
I do not remember any of the Beatrix Potter stories called “Timmy Tiptoes eats Miss Tittlemouse’s head off”.
Hey stupid ass- Chipmunks are not carnivores. They lack the bone structure and teeth necessary to rip into and chew flesh. Don’t make up shit just so it fits in with your “aesthetic” and then call it “truth.”
Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell
November 20, 2009 at 5:26 pm
NijaGato: got it in 1. Muricide is when rats eat mice, everyone knows that. Formication? Anyone? The sensation of ants crawling under your skin. I LOVE English.
ha! good point NinjaGato. maybe I’ll just buy everyone buttlaces instead.
(can you imagine if everyone who comments on this site were in the same room?)
I love this picture as a poster outside KFC, but in my heart of hearts, I see it on the walls of Beatrix Potter’s home, Hill Top, in Cumbria. Somewhere here would do … http://www.visitcumbria.com/photos/hilltopx.jpg
Hey Ninjagato, I can tell you that I have seen a chipmunk eating the face off a live frog. If it didn’t have the teeth or the bone structure to chew flesh, nobody told him. Zombie chipmunk is right.
1) the comments on this one are especially awesome.
2) Beatrix Potter and Tim Burton had a love child, clearly.
3) Sweet. Fancy. Moses. This shit is true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwDaeiOdQ4
With regard to the issue of content, I’m troubled by how the metaphorical resonance of the half eaten mouse endangers the devious simplicity of the larger carcass of work.
You know I thought this was pretty crazy until I saw the YouTube clips (why are there so many? MY VIRGIN EYES!) Now I’m just kind of laughing at the commenter who rushed to call the artist a lying dumb-ass, without looking it up…. An artist with a taste for morbid subject matter, perhaps, but hey. At least the description is pretty damn funny. Tiny adorable forest zombies…. SAY WHAT?!
In addition, there is also a sense of Dada self reflexivity, that hearkens back to Duchamp’s Fountain. In sum, this cultural artifact represents the novel exploration of the anti-meta: Whereas meta-art is about-art, anti-meta art is about-art as art. Altogether, this suggests that art intellectualization is little more than mental masturbation.
TooManyCookbooks: i was totally going to bring up the ‘spinal chords’ issue, but i just got here and you beat me to it. i was also going to make the “what key is it in” joke. but you beat me to that too. so now i’ll try to provide an answer to that question: skeleton key?
maybe that pun is too terrible to live. i’ll have to find an adorable forest creature to tear its head off.
I believe this could be naught but an illustration based on true-to-life interactions. The grey squirrels and black squirrels in my neighbourhood feud, and one time I spotted the black squirrels dragging the carcass of a grey squirrel up the trunk of a tree. Fascinating stuff, really.
Re #9:
Actually, Chipmunks are omnivores. They do eat meat, a fact that was amply demonstrated to me one weekend when I worked in a provincial park. First we had a family bring us a limp, bleeding fledgling bird that a chipmunk had attacked right in front of them on the trail. They had chased the chipmunk away and brought it to the naturalists, expecting us to give it first aid or something (we stuck it back in the woods.
Later that weekend, people spotted some chipmunks eating road kill
“Upon setting eyes on a mouse they are overtaken with an overwhelming desire to feast upon their brains and spinal chords as though they were just rodent-shaped Little Debbie Nutty Bars”
Beatrix Potter did learn to accurately render animals by killing specimens and dissecting them.
I don’t know that she would want to be associated with this work however. The squirrel has been rendered quite skilfully, however the decapitated mouse is somewhat two-dimensional.
I have been lurking this site for about a week – and FINALLY decided to sign up so that I can comment!
As for this…. work of art…
I’m buying it and hanging it above my dining room table!
Nothing says “eat my cooking” like a chipmunk eating a fuckin’ mouse! (I’m sorry, a FRAMED art print of a chipmunk eating a fuckin’ mouse.)
Hey, Killer, get up! Out celebrating with your friend April until dawn? It’s 12:46 EST. Normally see something by 9:46 pacific time. This blogging gig is a 24/7/365 day/year responsibility. (Alright, we’ll give you Dec. 25 off a la LL Bean.) We need a fix of your whimsicle fuckery.
Well, at least I’m not the only one who is oddly intrigued by this artist. I’m one of 9 sales he has since cannibal chipmunk appeared here. I’m the only one who has bought the owl one, though.
The big bad chipmunk knocked on the door of the three little mice…
“Let me in or I’ll bite your heads off to your chinny chin chins…
Oh, damn, wrong story…
Okay, Goldimunk was hungry, so she ate the head of the first mouse…”Mmmmm, this mouse is just right”
shit, been used…
Okay, The Chipmunk dressed in grandma’s clothes, laid in wait for Little White riding hood Mouse…
Beatrix Potter’s stories could be pretty warped at times. Am I the only one who remembers that story where Tom Kitten was captured by the rats and they wanted to make a pudding out of him? You can’t make this shit up:
“Upon setting eyes on a mouse they are overtaken with an overwhelming desire to feast upon their brains and spinal *chords* like tiny and adorable little forest zombies.”
November 20, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Oh good God.
November 20, 2009 at 5:15 pm
And why is that dead man on the sidewalk? Did he eat some KFC?
November 20, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Can I get that mouse super-sized?
November 20, 2009 at 5:17 pm
hmm odd
November 20, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I spotted three Photoshopped bits- do I win?
p
x
November 20, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Well at least it’s fairly well done.
November 20, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Damn. This is the *one* Beatrix Potter figurine my grandmother didn’t give me.
November 20, 2009 at 5:20 pm
“This image is perhaps arresting at first, though this small exquisite print in fact illustrates (in the fine tradition of Beatrix Potter) the very natural relationship between chipmunks and mice”.
I do not remember any of the Beatrix Potter stories called “Timmy Tiptoes eats Miss Tittlemouse’s head off”.
November 20, 2009 at 5:21 pm
“truth is stranger than fiction”
Hey stupid ass- Chipmunks are not carnivores. They lack the bone structure and teeth necessary to rip into and chew flesh. Don’t make up shit just so it fits in with your “aesthetic” and then call it “truth.”
November 20, 2009 at 5:22 pm
aaahhh I just spotted the Chicken Sweater! nice!
November 20, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Beatrix Potter just threw up a little.
November 20, 2009 at 5:26 pm
NijaGato: got it in 1. Muricide is when rats eat mice, everyone knows that. Formication? Anyone? The sensation of ants crawling under your skin. I LOVE English.
November 20, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I don’t know about squirrels… I just know my ferrets would definitely do this to a mouse -and- a squirrel.
November 20, 2009 at 5:27 pm
@#6 I suppose…but I prefer my mice medium rare.
November 20, 2009 at 5:33 pm
You know what would make this better? If the squirrel were bleeding out its eyes.
Is it wrong that I actually kind of like this one?
November 20, 2009 at 5:34 pm
there’s no squirrel in this picture
November 20, 2009 at 5:34 pm
AAAAAAAAAAAA-L-VIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!
November 20, 2009 at 5:36 pm
@#16 hahahaha!!! youre my kind of asshole, NinjaGato!
November 20, 2009 at 5:36 pm
#2 Lexiii : Yes, it was Kentucky Fried Chipmunk…
November 20, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Little did I know the evil that lurked in their little chipmunk hearts…
November 20, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I don’t know that I’ve ever been called an asshole. I am very proud of this distinction. I may have to put it on my resume.
November 20, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Oh holy hell…I like it except for the dead mouse…
There was a Beatrix Potter book that scared the hell out of me as a kid. Something about Squirrel Nutkin, I think. Morbid
November 20, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Holly Hell! now i knew squirrels ate bones and baby birds. I had no idea that chipmunks were as vicious.
morbid and sick
November 20, 2009 at 5:50 pm
NinjaGato: so I don’t have to go Lady Gaga on dr-awkward for you? Phew, I’m not sure my Yankee Doodle Sweetheart would have survived.
November 20, 2009 at 5:50 pm
She’s from Nova Scotia…explains everything.
(as a fellow Canadian, I can say that)
November 20, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I stand corrected, what would make this better is if it were a squirrel, bleeding out its eyes, instead of a chipmunk
November 20, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Oh, and I meant the artist, not the chipmunk.
November 20, 2009 at 5:52 pm
http://www.regretsy.com/2009/10/23/thoracic-park/
November 20, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Kimmer-G, you are very much loved.
November 20, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Adorable little forest zombies… I love that line!
#17 Kamikaze, I just laughed so hard I scared my dog.
November 20, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Am I going to be the first to congratulate you on the guy laying on the pavement in the “View it in a Room” image? That is awesome.
November 20, 2009 at 5:57 pm
awww *blush* makes me wanna just buy y’all drinks!
November 20, 2009 at 6:01 pm
It’s another game!
I claim first spot on the woolly chick-wrap at bottom left.
November 20, 2009 at 6:01 pm
buying us drinks may not be a smart thing…regretsy + booze = hilarity that we may regret
November 20, 2009 at 6:06 pm
ha! good point NinjaGato. maybe I’ll just buy everyone buttlaces instead.
(can you imagine if everyone who comments on this site were in the same room?)
November 20, 2009 at 6:08 pm
It would be squashy. We’d need some butt shields.
November 20, 2009 at 6:10 pm
November 20, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Off-topic, but can I mention how happy I am that the ass-necklace is no longer on the front page? Savage chipmunks are far less disturbing by a mile.
November 20, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I love this picture as a poster outside KFC, but in my heart of hearts, I see it on the walls of Beatrix Potter’s home, Hill Top, in Cumbria. Somewhere here would do … http://www.visitcumbria.com/photos/hilltopx.jpg
November 20, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I guess this chipmunk already has a fluffy vag, so it is totally in Regretsy style even without the decapitated mouse!
November 20, 2009 at 6:17 pm
chipmunks are adorable…
The KFC thing made me do a spit take, congrats!
November 20, 2009 at 6:23 pm
#28 addiosix : I’ve got three words for you… Butt Worm Aesthetic
November 20, 2009 at 6:27 pm
mmm… finger lickin’ good!
November 20, 2009 at 6:32 pm
#42 martini :
hahaha. I read that several minutes before I started typing this, and I’m still laughing.
You. are. awesome.
November 20, 2009 at 6:40 pm
#44 addiosix : Thanks my Little Debbie…
November 20, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Hey Ninjagato, I can tell you that I have seen a chipmunk eating the face off a live frog. If it didn’t have the teeth or the bone structure to chew flesh, nobody told him. Zombie chipmunk is right.
November 20, 2009 at 7:06 pm
1) the comments on this one are especially awesome.
2) Beatrix Potter and Tim Burton had a love child, clearly.
3) Sweet. Fancy. Moses. This shit is true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwDaeiOdQ4
November 20, 2009 at 7:08 pm
martini — might we get a little artistic analysis from you this lovely piece? I’d like to hear your thoughts on the Chipmunk Mouse Aesthetic.
November 20, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Is that a giant mutant baby chick in the lower left corner of view in a room? And if not, I need my eyes checked. Or head. Or all three.
November 20, 2009 at 7:17 pm
With regard to the issue of content, I’m troubled by how the metaphorical resonance of the half eaten mouse endangers the devious simplicity of the larger carcass of work.
November 20, 2009 at 7:19 pm
48–yep. and it’s wearing a sweater.
November 20, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Fifty comments and no one’s mentioned that the ~*~artist~*~ seems to think mice have ‘spinal chords’? In what key is a spinal chord, anyway?
November 20, 2009 at 7:25 pm
martini – Very insightful! You analysis is spot-on. A+
November 20, 2009 at 7:26 pm
You know I thought this was pretty crazy until I saw the YouTube clips (why are there so many? MY VIRGIN EYES!) Now I’m just kind of laughing at the commenter who rushed to call the artist a lying dumb-ass, without looking it up…. An artist with a taste for morbid subject matter, perhaps, but hey. At least the description is pretty damn funny. Tiny adorable forest zombies…. SAY WHAT?!
November 20, 2009 at 7:30 pm
In addition, there is also a sense of Dada self reflexivity, that hearkens back to Duchamp’s Fountain. In sum, this cultural artifact represents the novel exploration of the anti-meta: Whereas meta-art is about-art, anti-meta art is about-art as art. Altogether, this suggests that art intellectualization is little more than mental masturbation.
November 20, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Oh… And just to be clear, it the Forest Critter Zombie Aesthetic that I espouse.
November 20, 2009 at 7:50 pm
TooManyCookbooks: i was totally going to bring up the ‘spinal chords’ issue, but i just got here and you beat me to it. i was also going to make the “what key is it in” joke. but you beat me to that too. so now i’ll try to provide an answer to that question: skeleton key?
maybe that pun is too terrible to live. i’ll have to find an adorable forest creature to tear its head off.
November 20, 2009 at 7:51 pm
and here’s another disturbing YouTube video. it has blood *and* poorly-dubbed-in heavy metal (or whatever the fuck genre this is): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc2hL5KwQXs&feature=related
November 20, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I am not brave enough to look at the youtube videos.
November 20, 2009 at 8:25 pm
That chipmunk’s a dead ringer for an Etsy admin, must be the beady eyes and bloody chin.
November 20, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Martini, amazing as always.
November 20, 2009 at 9:00 pm
#60 Stingray Charles : Thanks Charles… we missed you…
November 20, 2009 at 9:20 pm
#61 Martini: In that case, you should work on your aim.
November 20, 2009 at 9:27 pm
You have truly outdone yourself with the view in a room this time.
November 20, 2009 at 9:45 pm
What the hell are those lines in the upper right corner of the image?
November 20, 2009 at 9:49 pm
I believe this could be naught but an illustration based on true-to-life interactions. The grey squirrels and black squirrels in my neighbourhood feud, and one time I spotted the black squirrels dragging the carcass of a grey squirrel up the trunk of a tree. Fascinating stuff, really.
November 20, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Re #9:
Actually, Chipmunks are omnivores. They do eat meat, a fact that was amply demonstrated to me one weekend when I worked in a provincial park. First we had a family bring us a limp, bleeding fledgling bird that a chipmunk had attacked right in front of them on the trail. They had chased the chipmunk away and brought it to the naturalists, expecting us to give it first aid or something (we stuck it back in the woods.
Later that weekend, people spotted some chipmunks eating road kill
November 20, 2009 at 10:08 pm
racoon on the side of the road.
Don’t believe me? Check this out:
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/chipmunk.htm
November 20, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I’ve always spelled Spinal Cord “Chord”…I had to do a double check on the spelling. Ya’ll done learned me.
November 20, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Chipmunks are definitely omnivores – I saw one here eating a toad carcass, which was slightly less disgusting than this “art.”
http://www.willowbrookwildlife.com/GuidesDetail.asp?id=11
November 20, 2009 at 10:31 pm
also I will accept being wrong about chipmunks being omnivores.
the artist however is still a stupid ass
November 21, 2009 at 12:13 am
“Upon setting eyes on a mouse they are overtaken with an overwhelming desire to feast upon their brains and spinal chords as though they were just rodent-shaped Little Debbie Nutty Bars”
November 21, 2009 at 1:08 am
makes a refreshing change from the cute forest crap (that im prone to creating mehself ) !
November 21, 2009 at 1:09 am
Beatrix Potter did learn to accurately render animals by killing specimens and dissecting them.
I don’t know that she would want to be associated with this work however. The squirrel has been rendered quite skilfully, however the decapitated mouse is somewhat two-dimensional.
November 21, 2009 at 1:27 am
I feel bad for all those times I blamed the cat for depositing rodent remains on the front door step.
Sorry Smokey.
November 21, 2009 at 1:41 am
#65 Street Corner Hooker :
What the hell are those lines in the upper right corner of the image?
Looks like a crude attempt at watermarking the image, just in case someone copied and pasted it for free….
p
x
November 21, 2009 at 2:38 am
Whoa. I immediately thought of Francisco Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son. Someone please tell me I am not alone in this…
November 21, 2009 at 3:40 am
Once again Regretsy has proven to be an educational experience. We now know chipmunks are evil little buggers at heart!
November 21, 2009 at 4:23 am
Bwahahaha, I just noticed that on this YouTube video (which is admittedly horrifying) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc2hL5KwQXs&feature=related the person who posted it comments that the music is “Klingon lunch music”.
November 21, 2009 at 4:23 am
I love the little chicken just hanging out in the parking lot. He should be KFC’s new mascot.
November 21, 2009 at 5:36 am
I have been lurking this site for about a week – and FINALLY decided to sign up so that I can comment!
As for this…. work of art…
I’m buying it and hanging it above my dining room table!
Nothing says “eat my cooking” like a chipmunk eating a fuckin’ mouse! (I’m sorry, a FRAMED art print of a chipmunk eating a fuckin’ mouse.)
November 21, 2009 at 5:55 am
Cuz…. I would frame it. Definitely.
November 21, 2009 at 7:04 am
Flo Moe : http://www.regretsy.com/2009/10/20/kentucky-frilled-chicken/
November 21, 2009 at 7:07 am
Is the dead guy (in View-Outside-a-Restaurant) wearing a light blue Bald Eagle Hat? http://www.regretsy.com/2009/11/16/o-rly/
November 21, 2009 at 7:37 am
I will take a 1 chipmunk meal with mouse fries
November 21, 2009 at 7:51 am
HermesGoddess: oh good, now i know what kind of music that was.
i’ve learned something about taxidermy *and* taxonomy from this thread. woohoo!
November 21, 2009 at 8:53 am
Whatever suckas, I got the last one!
November 21, 2009 at 9:47 am
Hey, Killer, get up! Out celebrating with your friend April until dawn? It’s 12:46 EST. Normally see something by 9:46 pacific time. This blogging gig is a 24/7/365 day/year responsibility. (Alright, we’ll give you Dec. 25 off a la LL Bean.) We need a fix of your whimsicle fuckery.
November 21, 2009 at 9:59 am
Catch the late showing of New Moon? Unconscious from too much Fried Mice?
November 21, 2009 at 10:17 am
Gawd…it really bugs me when artists try too hard to be all dark and macabre. It should just come naturally…like this:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22684110
or this:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10430282&ref=sr_gallery_11&&ga_search_query=dead+animal&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=9&includes=tags&includes=title
November 21, 2009 at 10:46 am
“i am bean” — nice find, made me laugh.
November 21, 2009 at 11:01 am
@ #72 artandghosts:
the difference is that the stuff you do is actually done well, very clever…and you know how to operate spell check…
(…so good to see you E, I knew it was just a matter of time until you got your lovely witty self on here! Gx)
November 21, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Heaven help me, I just bought this… http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=21836805
What’s wrong with me?
November 21, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Well done, Whisperia
November 21, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I rather like it, Whisperia.
November 21, 2009 at 8:13 pm
#77, no, you’re not alone. And now I want to see bleeding furry renditions of other art works. I think this site has broken my brain.
November 21, 2009 at 10:36 pm
@ #95
Well, at least I’m not the only one who is oddly intrigued by this artist. I’m one of 9 sales he has since cannibal chipmunk appeared here. I’m the only one who has bought the owl one, though.
November 22, 2009 at 2:00 am
why is this not filed in ‘Annoying Descriptions’ ?
November 22, 2009 at 3:56 am
SOLD! Limited edition digital prints till available.
November 22, 2009 at 4:16 am
“This is why we can’t have nice things!” – Kami’s Mommy
November 22, 2009 at 5:47 am
*bump* ‘Scuse me.
November 22, 2009 at 5:52 am
Are you having a conversation over here by yourself, Kamikaze?
November 22, 2009 at 5:56 am
Kamikaze, DucksNew was also showing a bit of concern for you over on the “SOLD” thread: http://www.regretsy.com/2009/11/21/sold-2/
November 22, 2009 at 6:30 am
jefferycarey: Aw, thank you! “I had to, there was no one else to enjoy” – Oscar Wilde (?) Glad you’re back.
cc: DucksNew @ http://www.regretsy.com/2009/11/21/sold-2/
November 22, 2009 at 6:59 am
Kami — Oh, I’ve been around. Playing mind games (to entertain myself). Play close attention to avatars.
November 22, 2009 at 7:04 am
November 22, 2009 at 7:25 am
jeffreyrcarey: OH! oh, d’oh. Good game. Mum’s the word.
November 22, 2009 at 7:32 am
ReallyScarey jeffreycarey- is there a third?
p
(x)
November 22, 2009 at 7:41 am
Just the two of us.
November 22, 2009 at 9:34 am
A chipmunk is a kind of squirrel.
November 22, 2009 at 4:25 pm
It’s some clean eating here, no mouse blood splattered anywhere! Who knew chipmunks are clean freaks too?!
November 23, 2009 at 7:57 am
Oh, for the love of all that is decent and Beatrix Potter. Someone should definitely be arrested.
November 23, 2009 at 8:48 am
“Because you had a bad day
You’re taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around…”
#77 yes, I can see the similarities w/ Goya.
I’m seeing Alvin eating Stuart Little…
“Dude, I told you not to drive my car or I’d rip your head off.”
Anger Management for chipmunks???
November 23, 2009 at 9:02 am
Anger management? What, and stem the inspiration for such gorgeous images?!
Shame on you, VGB….
P
X
November 23, 2009 at 10:05 am
@Paul
At our house we call it “Happy Hour”
November 23, 2009 at 10:46 am
FYI.
chipmunk has the munchies
http://www.bigmattress.com/weblog/images/California%20Chipmunk.jpg
November 24, 2009 at 6:33 am
The big bad chipmunk knocked on the door of the three little mice…
“Let me in or I’ll bite your heads off to your chinny chin chins…
Oh, damn, wrong story…
Okay, Goldimunk was hungry, so she ate the head of the first mouse…”Mmmmm, this mouse is just right”
shit, been used…
Okay, The Chipmunk dressed in grandma’s clothes, laid in wait for Little White riding hood Mouse…
NEVERMIND
November 24, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Beatrix Potter’s stories could be pretty warped at times. Am I the only one who remembers that story where Tom Kitten was captured by the rats and they wanted to make a pudding out of him? You can’t make this shit up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Samuel_Whiskers_or,_The_Roly-Poly_Pudding
November 25, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Now I know why those darned Zhu Zhu Pets are so hard to find!
December 1, 2009 at 4:30 am
I have lost several mice to chipmunks. I am glad there is someone out there who shares my outrage.
But in all seriousness, I’d actually like to own this.. however, it’s five bucks more than I want to spend.
December 2, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I love this artist she is really good! It’s a good portrait of the dark side of these little creatures.
December 15, 2009 at 10:27 am
“Upon setting eyes on a mouse they are overtaken with an overwhelming desire to feast upon their brains and spinal *chords* like tiny and adorable little forest zombies.”
Apparently mice have musical spines… xylophones??