Friday, January 30, 2009

Wire as Hair, part two


What possible evolutionary purpose does the sprouting of long ear hair serve in older males? Anyone?

I've got at least one more riff on this subject.
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18 comments:

SOe said...

You really scare me. LOL

IBerg said...

I hope your riff is makes you sniff if you catch my wiff. I hope it'S-NOT going to blow.

I will shut up now...

PearsonMetalArt said...

My wife says, "It's there to drown out the nagging!" or something like that

Sarah said...

You should put this picture in your banner!

Great image! I hope it didn't hurt too bad. My young bf (28) has crazy long ear hair. He seems to be pretty proud of it. Eek.

Divaeva said...

*laughs* ...look painful actually!

Suzanne Dargie said...

My first thought was OW!
Hmm, ear hair serving a purpose.........to scare away women...that's about it.

robotguy said...

From Fakopedia:
"Ear hair, or vibrigrossae, serve as delicate sense organs of touch and are the equivalent to our fingertips. These whiskers are sensitive to vibrations in air currents: As the air moves, the whiskers vibrate, and cats[/del /del /del] men use messages in these vibrations to sense the presence, size and shape of nearby objects without seeing or touching them."

Mattias said...

I have no idea, but I love this concept

chuckr44 said...

The purpose of ear hair is to braid it with the nose hair.

Andrea said...

ROTFL! That is fantastic!

LFW said...

yer an interesting looking man terry, I'll give you that.

also, great wire sculptures, the moose is my favourite

this latest series having it as long hair is quite interesting.

cheers to you and your art

-LFW

Nikoli said...

YIKES!!

Viewtiful_Justin said...

Eww.

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Lori Anderson Designs said...

Oh that's hilarious.

And a little creepy.

But mostly hilarious.

Meredith said...

You are hilarious.

Btw, if you haven't seen this already, there are some snowpeople at UNMC college that are very *you*.
http://www.unmc.edu/panews/snowmen.htm

DharmaTurtle said...

There's no point evolutionarily. Is that a word?

By the time you're old enough to have ear hair that juts out of your head, you're already past your sexual prime. Which is all that Darwin cares about - your chances at reproduction before you die. After you bang, you could go bang for all that Darwin cares.

See: Black widow spiders, praying mantises, and all other animals that eat their mates.

Explains how we go senile when we're old, cause there's no way evolution could prevent that.

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