For anyone who's ever been a furry, mythological snow-beast...

Ugly Yeti! A spoof on Ugly Betty.

Sennwald Yeti

Illustrator Aleks Sennwald created this for an article in Plan Sponsor magazine. The yeti is meant to metaphorically represent a suspended 401(k) match. Note the burning lava. And the yeti's imminent demise.

Here is Sennwald's post about it, which contains a preview of the full article.

Brodahl Yeti

This is a painting entitled Raging Mountaintop by
Drake Brodahl. Here is his blog.

Note the tree used as weapon. This is a nice tradition. I think I will try and go back and add the "Tree-as-Weapon" label to depictions that contain this.

Zombie Yeti

It's really tough to get him to show up, but in the game "Plants vs. Zombies", there is a yeti zombie.



I mean it is so tough that they don't widely advertise that it exists. And you have to play the game in like a certain way to unlock him. And it takes a long time.

Just like real life!

Kiwa Hirsuta, We Love You

One of the purposes of this blog is to occasionally remind the public of the existence of the yeti crab, or as those Latin-loving scientists like to call it, Kiwa hirsuta.

It's easy to forget the yeti crab because only something like, I don't know, twenty? people have seen a living one, and it was just this one time in 2005. Who remembers 2005?

Plus, it lives way down in some deep, hydrothermal vent in this one specific spot out in the middle of the ocean. Really hard to drop in on it and say hi.

But it's there. We found it. Think about that. The yeti crab reminds us that we might still find something new in the future. There is more to this world than we think.

Yes, even albino lobsters with hairy arms.

Not everything is cataloged. We can go out and find new things. Also, the yeti crab is incontrovertibly real. How refreshing!

Thank you, Kiwa Hirsuta, for being there for us.

I'm not alone in my appreciation. Some artists on deviantart are showing their own yeti crab love:



The Abominable Snowcrab by professorfandango




yeti crab by =elize




Yeti crab by Cloven-Hooves

Halloween Reminder

On the site Fantasy IRL, Amanda posted about her friend Caylin Ellowitz and her yeti make-up:



I was surprised to see them give a shout-out to this very blog, so thanks, Amanda & Caylin! And great job on the disguise.

And I hope this is an inspiration and reminder for all of you to portray a yeti for Halloween this year.

(Still working on a catchy name for Yeti Halloween '09. Please post suggestions in the comments.)

Yoon Yeti

Found on Snacks and Naps, the artwork of Andres Rafael Salaff:

** A painting of a yeti getting abducted by an alien in a suitbot. **

The yeti part (seen above) was made by Sunha Yoon.