Friday, March 21, 2008

Yeti Crab lives!



Although not the first to do so (that would be Kristen McQuillin), SappyMooseTree aka Mandy Jouan has made an excellent yeti crab plush.

Where McQuillin's kiwa hirsuta went for accuracy, Jouan's goes for cuddliness.

More of this please!

Let's have more yeti crab fan art in general. Just because the scientists aren't down in the ocean depths taking more photos of it doesn't mean we should forget. Let it never fade in our Cultural Memory. Remember the yeti crab!


P.S. Super-Artist Jouan is talented at everything and is even a champion Lego Builder. Learn more:

  • The artist's Flickr page with more pics
  • Her home page
  • Her blog
  • Her Etsy shop
  • Article about her Lego Building
  • Thursday, March 20, 2008

    Green Bay Blizzard's Bruiser



    Not to be outdone by the Canadians, professional arena football team, Green Bay Blizzard, has a yeti mascot named Bruiser.



    Darkstalkers' Sasquatch


    Sure, his name is Sasquatch, but check out his white fur and all his many ice-based attacks.

    Dude looks like a yeti.




    Were you aware?

    He can...






  • ...surround himself with icy spires.








  • ...ride his opponent around like a sleigh.








  • ...fire a beam of frost.








  • ...breathe out a small, slippery pool of ice onto the ground.








  • ...swallow people whole, then belch them out encased entirely in ice.













    For your viewing pleasure, footage of Homer Simpson beating him up.




    And a snippet of the really, really bad American cartoon. The least of its crimes is that they changed his name and the name of his people to "Bigfoot".
  • Wednesday, March 19, 2008

    I made a comic



    I am trying out Bitstrips, where you can make your own characters and comic strips. They provide all the tools to do so. You don't do any drawing.

    This is the closest I could get to a yeti. It wasn't easy.

    Stay tuned for more bitstrips starring The Yeti. Maybe.

    Wooly Yetis



    An uncredited employee of Chragokyberneticks, a graphic design bureau in Switzerland, made Disorientation Man In the Woods Of The Wooly Yetis for his/her company blog's Illustration Friday.

    The theme was "superhero".

    Kudos to the artist for throwing in some yetis in there anyway.

    Dzu Teh

    The miniature wargaming system Heroscape has a Thaelenk Tundra Expansion set, which contains ice terrain and three yeti miniatures!





    In the fantasy world of the game, they are called "Dzu Teh".

    It is interesting to note the origin of the name Dzu Teh. In the real world, it is another name for the Himalayan Red Bear and translates to "cattle bear". According to the Dzu Teh's Wikipedia Page, it is:

    "often associated... with regard to the Yeti myth. The Dzu-Teh, a Nepalese word, has been part of the Yeti, and later the Abominable Snowman (circa 1921), phenomenon from its early inception due to the location of its Himalayan habitat."