i try to follow the "if you don't have anything nice to say - don't say anything" rule. i'm also not one to shout "animal cruelty" everytime someone dresses a dog up in some dumb outfit...but this is wrong, wrong, wrong.
the article itself calls it cruel. can you imagine wearing a rubber doll head the way these poor monkeys are being forced to wear. it has to be hot and no doubt obscures their vision/hearing. also, do you think they wear these willingly? what do you think the 'training' consisted of?
this is the complete opposite of "delightful". it's sickening.

how cool is that? very cool, i think.

not even close.

i LOVE this. i think i've seen just about every Harryhausen movie. my dad took me to see all of the Sinbad movies. the skeleton army and the cyclops are two of my alltime faves.
btw, ita agree with a youtube commenter who said that Harryhausen's stop motion is better than much of today's CGI.

thank you for this post. it brings back some good times and gives me some movie titles to look up on Netflix for the long weekend.

hooray for him...and hooray for the people who helped him out. dogs rule!

true story. for years my husband & i have owned an imaginary company with products based on rhymes. it started off with 'Oh Boy, it's Soy!'. we made an imaginary fortune and branched out with 'No Joke, it's Coke'(imaginary products aren't subject to trademark laws)'Oh Jeez, it's Cheese!' and many others. right now we're working on a name for our newest product...farm-fresh duck. we just can't seem to come up with a name for that one.

@baro that's the very first thing i thought of when i saw this.

it's also a good lesson for management...ask your line workers first. few things frustrated me more than having issues specific to my job 'solved' by 3rd parties who had no real idea of what my job was. the solution almost always included 3 extra steps, 2x the paperwork and still didn't help.

nice. for some reason i really enjoy looking at photos of abandoned places. the story of how they got the photos was equally interesting.

that was amazing. i wonder why he prodded it with the leaf first. i guess, i'd do the same thing though - to see if it was alive and also to see what kind of mood it was in. it's strange to see that they are interested in the world around them...beyond their own needs. that was just pure curiousity. he/she was so gentle too. great post.

@max power...gosh, there's no need for name calling.

stroll away!! stroll away!!

super neat. makes me wish i had even the tiniest bit of drawing talent.

neat! for some reason i'm really drawn to abandoned places - mainly larger places where crowds of people once gathered. amusements parks are my favorite with shopping malls a close second.

i'd love to find stuff like that. all i've found was a big swastika spray painted on the concrete floor when we tore up the carpet. that was no fun.

i did my part though. when i was a kid and we were moving, i went into the back of my closet and wrote/carved "help me" several times on the wall.