You proclaim that you’re not making this shit up and that Yip & Yap have been verified. That makes me think that someone told you about a children’s book from 1958 featuring two dogs with doll bodies. You maybe didn’t believe it at the time, but then you looked it up and found that the book and the characters really existed. Then Yip & Yap found their way into one of your drawings.
I looked up Yip & Yap and didn’t find anything but dog biscuits.
They are as real as Man Ray and Fay Ray. Yip and Yap along with Oz monkeys terrify me. I’m squeamish about grafting. Like that mouse with a human ear growing from its back, duets are equally jarring unless I can see that it’s in fact two performers.
Wegman would be the right age to have had that book when he was a little boy. I haven’t thought about Wegman in awhile, especially after his photographs became popular. Now that you’ve reminded me, his earlier Man Ray pictures were disturbing.
This was my first exposure to Wegman. It was at the CAC here in Cincinnati in the mid 70s. Just a TV on an AV cart with this on loop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOym_kkvaE His dog-people were also on Sesame Street when my kids were little. Scaring/scarring a younger generation.
As a child I used to have nightmares about a talking torso—eyes where the nipples should be, mouth on the stomach, no head, no limbs. I have no idea where my brain picked up that image. So yeah, I’ll have to sleep with the lights on tonight.
My son used to ask me when he saw the Wegman dogs on Sesame Street, “Can that dog talk?” Those Weimaraners have such soul-piercing eyes, I think my son thought they were trying to beam messages to the audience.
Ersatz Lascaux
It’s posts like this that make me wish you explained things more. I bet this one has a good story behind it.
This is as I found it. I’m really trying not to leave anything out. What do you mean by story?
You proclaim that you’re not making this shit up and that Yip & Yap have been verified. That makes me think that someone told you about a children’s book from 1958 featuring two dogs with doll bodies. You maybe didn’t believe it at the time, but then you looked it up and found that the book and the characters really existed. Then Yip & Yap found their way into one of your drawings.
I looked up Yip & Yap and didn’t find anything but dog biscuits.
That is what I mean by story.
They are as real as Man Ray and Fay Ray. Yip and Yap along with Oz monkeys terrify me. I’m squeamish about grafting. Like that mouse with a human ear growing from its back, duets are equally jarring unless I can see that it’s in fact two performers.
I had this book when I was a child:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/107817833/three-little-puppies-vintage-1950s-rand
It must have been miserable for the puppies to be stuffed into dolls’ clothing, but I loved that book.
Yip and Yap looked just like that. I’m glad that our living room had a folding door fortress.
Do you think these books were read to Wee Willie Wegman?
Wegman would be the right age to have had that book when he was a little boy. I haven’t thought about Wegman in awhile, especially after his photographs became popular. Now that you’ve reminded me, his earlier Man Ray pictures were disturbing.
This was my first exposure to Wegman. It was at the CAC here in Cincinnati in the mid 70s. Just a TV on an AV cart with this on loop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOym_kkvaE His dog-people were also on Sesame Street when my kids were little. Scaring/scarring a younger generation.
As a child I used to have nightmares about a talking torso—eyes where the nipples should be, mouth on the stomach, no head, no limbs. I have no idea where my brain picked up that image. So yeah, I’ll have to sleep with the lights on tonight.
My son used to ask me when he saw the Wegman dogs on Sesame Street, “Can that dog talk?” Those Weimaraners have such soul-piercing eyes, I think my son thought they were trying to beam messages to the audience.
It’s a fine line between scary and funny. Why did you have to call attention to the “soul-piercing” dog eyes? No one sleeps tonight!
Are you squeamish about inosculation?
You mean this? It’s Scary!
It’s like a knot in a rope but a knot in a tree is really scary.
I may never leave my apartment again.
Thank you Ersatz Lascaux.