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Aitor Ederra drew my attention to this painting by Frederik Spindler: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-10055 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“10055” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/03/27/frederik-spindlers-wooly-brachiosaur/86e63b799a/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/86e63b799a.jpg” orig-size=“722,542” comments-opened=“1”

Inspired by Bob Nicholl’s brilliant sketch Failed Ambush , my son Matthew reinterpreted it in this video — also titled Failed Ambush. NOTE: this video is officially endorsed by Dr. Mathew J. Wedel, who testifies as follows: “it’s awesome”.

Are you a lover of sauropod necks? Do you long to demonstrate to your friends and family how much better[1] they are than the necks of other long-necked critters? Are you crazy for the Taylor and Wedel (2013a) paper on why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks , but disappointed that it’s not, until now, been obtainable in T-shirt form?

Following on from Matt’s post about the difficulty of photographing big specimens without distortion, I thought I’d have a play with our best Sauroposeidon C8 photo, which I think is this one: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-9635 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“9635” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/01/30/playing-with-sauroposeidon-photos/sauroposeidon-c8-alone/”

“Look at all the things you’ve done for me Opened up my eyes, Taught me how to see, Notice every tree.” So sings Dot in Move On, the climactic number of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning music Sunday in the Park with George, which on the surface is about the post-impressionist painter Georges Seurat, but turns […]

In his post on Vicki’s new book Broken Bones , Matt told us his twelve-step process for producing stippled illustrations like this one of a crushed skull, which became the cover image of the book: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-9460 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“9460” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2013/12/18/vickis-book-broken-bones-is-out/skull-drawing-f1-original-on-white/”

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I just found out — thanks to a tweet from abertonykus — that this exists: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-9237 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“9237” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2013/11/10/sv-pow-fan-art-yes-thats-a-thing-now/sauropod_vertebra_picture_adventure__by_classicalguy-d6ssfil/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/sauropod_vertebra_picture_adventure__by_classicalguy-d6ssfil.jpeg” orig-size=“2025,2767”