{"id":2017,"date":"2011-02-02T23:36:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T04:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2011-02-02T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T04:36:36","slug":"isisaurus-colberti-on-my-workbench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2011\/isisaurus-colberti-on-my-workbench","title":{"rendered":"Isisaurus Colberti on my Workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2018\" title=\"Isisaurus\" src=\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/isisaurus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/isisaurus.jpg 900w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/isisaurus-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wanted to do more sculpture for a while now. In celebration of giving the thumbs up to the press, I started work on an isisaurus colberti. It&#8217;s a &#8220;small&#8221; sauropod (like the apatosaurs, brachiosaurs, and ultrasaurs of our childhoods) of a mere 18m in length. But what gets me is its weird, hyaena-like posture. It&#8217;s quite speculative \u2014 there aren&#8217;t really enough bones to confirm the body shape \u2014 but there&#8217;s some reason to believe it&#8217;s something like this.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m liable to put a howdah on top anyway, I&#8217;m not going to be overly concerned with the actual accuracy. Reproducing the weird structure here will be enough.<\/p>\n<p>So I started building the armature tonight!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IsisaurusArmature1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2019\" title=\"Isisaurus armature against a printout of a skeleton. The white bones are the ones that have actually been discovered and the black ones are speculative.\" src=\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IsisaurusArmature1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IsisaurusArmature1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IsisaurusArmature1-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve wanted to do more sculpture for a while now. In celebration of giving the thumbs up to the press, I started work on an isisaurus colberti. It&#8217;s a &#8220;small&#8221; sauropod (like the apatosaurs, brachiosaurs, and ultrasaurs of our childhoods) of a mere 18m in length. But what gets me is its weird, hyaena-like posture. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2011\/isisaurus-colberti-on-my-workbench\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isisaurus Colberti on my Workbench&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[42,55],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-isisaurus","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}