{"id":9924,"date":"2021-05-30T16:37:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2021-05-30T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:38:04","slug":"whats-going-on-in-the-head-of-a-cassowary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2021\/whats-going-on-in-the-head-of-a-cassowary","title":{"rendered":"What’s Going On in the Head of a Cassowary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If one intends to make speculative creatures, looking at just how weird real Earth creatures are is an important starting point. I find sea monsters that are all lizard-spiky-wolf-heads-with-bat-wings much less awe inspiring than, say, a massive turtle or toad. So now I’m thinking: what might a fantastic monster based on a cassowary be like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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A cassowary skull. I love doing drawings like this. It’s so satisfying. I can just fall in and cross hatch forever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In case you don’t know, here are some photos of cassowaries. Such good inspiration!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d love to do a study of those feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If one intends to make speculative creatures, looking at just how weird real Earth creatures are is an important starting point. I find sea monsters that are all lizard-spiky-wolf-heads-with-bat-wings much less awe inspiring than, say, a massive turtle or toad. So now I’m thinking: what might a fantastic monster based on a cassowary be like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":9927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924","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=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9928,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/9928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}