Went to Crystal Palace Park to check out the Victorian dinosaurs. Drawings above somewhat improved by a 2-year-old nephew's penmanship.
Never seen them in the 'flesh' before. Like many before me I loved dinosaurs as a kid, read up on them and the Victorian fossil finds and these life-sized recreations (including the lovely Iguanadon nose-horn/thumb-spike inversion alluded to in Alex's directional marks on the second drawing).
Jurassic Park can go piss up a rope as far as I'm concerned (a mosquito-embalming amber rope). The proper jobs here are great: unDisneyfied thump-weighted real things. No carnivalist birds-of-paradise display colours, these are proper Britosaurs, grey-green winterlizards, made for fixing their deadeyed gaze through fog and drizzle. Gotta love 'em.
Never seen them in the 'flesh' before. Like many before me I loved dinosaurs as a kid, read up on them and the Victorian fossil finds and these life-sized recreations (including the lovely Iguanadon nose-horn/thumb-spike inversion alluded to in Alex's directional marks on the second drawing).
Jurassic Park can go piss up a rope as far as I'm concerned (a mosquito-embalming amber rope). The proper jobs here are great: unDisneyfied thump-weighted real things. No carnivalist birds-of-paradise display colours, these are proper Britosaurs, grey-green winterlizards, made for fixing their deadeyed gaze through fog and drizzle. Gotta love 'em.
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