September 21, 2020 - Ron Cobb, best known for being the production designer for several major films, has died at 83 years of age. Cobb brought to life several cantina creatures for Star Wars (1977) and came up with weaponry and sets for Conan the Barbarian (1982), the exterior and interior of the Nostromo ship in Alien (1978) and the earth colony complex in Aliens (1986), and the DeLorean time machine in Back to the Future (1985).
More interestingly, to me at least, is that in the 1960s and 70s he was a great radical political cartoonist, and sadly, many cartoons of those days are still just as relevant today. A small selection:
You guys, the funniest fucking thing just happened. A group of creators made a crypto currency based off of squid games. The catch was you could buy it, but you COULD NOT sell it. Multiple sources warned it was a scam, citing multiple spelling errors on a hastily put up website that has now vanished. Despite this, $2,000,000 of the currency was bought by crypto traders before the creators pulled the plug and ran with the earnings. Now a whole bunch of crypto bros are crying out about the “fake” currency and lack of regulation which is the selling point of crypto. Paired with the critique of capitalism that is Squid Games it literally couldn’t get more poetic 😂
These are great items because they’re fun for the herbivores to each, the carnivores to tear apart, and everybody to roll and throw around. They’re tactile, olfactory, and edible enrichment all in one!
I believe they’re acceptable on-exhibit enrichment for naturalistic facilities like Brookfield in Chicago, too.
I think of this time of year as Tumblr’s Annual Pumpkining of the Animals Post.
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