Comments on: Muralists: CZ Museum Needs You

By: adrianaitken

adrianaitken — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:13:16 +0000

How about ‘that’ fridge and monkey suit that made all the normal media take an interest in cryptozoology ?
A few nails should hold them up against the wall

By: Viergacht

Viergacht — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:03:47 +0000

Well darn, too bad I’m all the way over in MD. I’d do it for the price of materials and someone putting me up for the night.

By: fallohide

fallohide — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:16:20 +0000

The museum won’t be complete until you have a jackalope.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:04:44 +0000

OK, here's another idea (hey, I'm an interior designer, once I start thinking about a project, my imagination runs amok!): We could cover the wall with faux fossils made of plaster or urethane. Remember the movie Jurassic Park? In one of the sets (the restaurant) they had the columns in bas relief that made them look as if they had uncovered fossils of dinos. The idea would be to make the wall look like a geological strata full of fossil records —BUT, instead of dinos, it would be filled with the fossils of our beloved creatures: Bigfoot, chupacabras, Nessie, mermaids, thunderbirds, you name it! Example So, we would need to find a local artist sculpture who would make the molds of the fossils. So we would have 10 different molds for the fossils, but we would make several copies to cover the entire wall in an interesting random way. PS: Oh! And another idea I had would be to place in some of the hallways of the museum a series of Bigfoot tracks (actual scale) made of slipless vinyl; and placed in a way to recreate the famous Bluff Creek tracks (with the same separation between tracks). Then you would ask the patrons to try and walk over the tracks, so they can see it's not that easy to hoax them.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:28:31 +0000

I really like flightsuit’s idea. Maybe a way of accomplish it would be by taking inspiration in those optical illusions where you either see one figure, or another. Like these examples:

http://z.about.com/d/puzzles/1/0/x/R/004.jpg

http://outpost81.com/illusions/Old_Couple_Mexican_Guitarist_Illusion.jpg

http://www.unexpectedpages.com/files/optical/double-meaning/kissing-couple.gif

http://img240.imageshack.us/i/skullorcoupleogirlsilluhl5.jpg/#q=optical%20illusion%20old%20couple

But with a cryptid theme, of course

By: andrewzoo

andrewzoo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:24:56 +0000

How about getting Leo Tanguma to do the mural? He did quite an interesting job on the murals at the Dever airport…

By: flightsuit

flightsuit — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:49:58 +0000

There are so many interesting directions you could go in with a mural like this. I like the idea of a jungle or forest landscape in which there are cryptids, but they don’t jump right out at the viewer. Maybe a “Where’s Waldo?” kind of thing, only subtler, where you have to actually study the painting for a moment before you begin to notice the animals.

I have no idea how to accomplish this, mind you, and it would surely pose a challenge for the artist.