jacobmake » Wildlife http://www.jacobmake.com I have creative ADD Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:15:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Drawing Bison http://www.jacobmake.com/2010/02/drawing-bison/ http://www.jacobmake.com/2010/02/drawing-bison/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:15:46 +0000 jacobmake http://www.jacobmake.com/?p=168 I read this book a while back. The American Bison as a symbol/metaphor was one of the books main themes. The animal was powerful, abundant, and dumb as a rock. There are some interesting bits about Buffalo Nickels in the book. Buffalo nickels were a part of my childhood. I remember studying the powerful beast on the back of these worn weathered coins.

From the book I learned that the actual animal used for the model lived a sickly caged circus-type existence in New York City. Not exactly the symbol of adventure and wide-open prairies it evoked for me as a kid, but a perfect metaphor for the relationship bison had with North American settlers.

These are the output from a little Flash experiment.

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