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Beavering Away: the worlds of Taxidermy and IT collide
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'They say never work with animals or children. But that was until they came across the Compubeaver ? a computer literally stuffed full of technology.
This stunning dead beaver and working high-spec computer combination took three months to build and shows the realms of possibilities when the worlds of taxidermy and IT collided.
Artist and Compubeaver creator Kasey McMahon, 34, from Los Angeles, explained: 'I started thinking about the most ridiculous thing to put a computer in to and decided it had to be a beaver.
'It looks at how nature relates to technology,' she said.
She bought the beaver ready-stuffed, before cutting out the foam insides with an electric kitchen knife.
Once she had cut space for the computer tower, she reinforced it with fibreglass.
And, it doesn't smell, she added.
Meanwhile, biologist Christy Canida and environmental studies graduate Noah Weinsrein have taken the idea of a computer 'mouse' a little too far.
Both contribute to the Instructables website ? which describes how to make similarly odd creations ? and made the mouse using the skin of a real rodent from a US pet shop;.
'They say never work with animals or children. But that was until they came across the Compubeaver ? a computer literally stuffed full of technology.
This stunning dead beaver and working high-spec computer combination took three months to build and shows the realms of possibilities when the worlds of taxidermy and IT collided.
Artist and Compubeaver creator Kasey McMahon, 34, from Los Angeles, explained: 'I started thinking about the most ridiculous thing to put a computer in to and decided it had to be a beaver.
'It looks at how nature relates to technology,' she said.
She bought the beaver ready-stuffed, before cutting out the foam insides with an electric kitchen knife.
Once she had cut space for the computer tower, she reinforced it with fibreglass.
And, it doesn't smell, she added.
Meanwhile, biologist Christy Canida and environmental studies graduate Noah Weinsrein have taken the idea of a computer 'mouse' a little too far.
Both contribute to the Instructables website ? which describes how to make similarly odd creations ? and made the mouse using the skin of a real rodent from a US pet shop;.