love the prawn.

Attacus atlas:

Shot at 2007-07-12

The giant moth, whose wingspan can be about a foot.

The capybara, the world's largest rodent. They live in the Amazon basin and grow about as big as a medium-sized dog.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara




The Komodo dragon is the world's largest lizard. They can grow to 10 feet long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_Dragon

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Omaha rooster:

rachael wrote:Attacus atlas:

Shot at 2007-07-12

The giant moth, whose wingspan can be about a foot.

Wow. That thing is glorious.

The land shark!

The Ents:

Shot at 2007-07-12



So what if they're not real.

I LOVE disproportionately large and small objects! LOVE THEM!

The great big Jolly Green Giant in Blue Earth, MN is pretty swell. I stand beneath his skirt on every cross-country trek.



I guess a lot of these things were built to honor car culture in the 40's and 50's. Interest along the roadways and such.

I took no pictures, but I visited the giant dinosaurs from Pee Wee's Big Adventure last week. They live outside of Palm Springs.

rarrrrrrrrrr.

There were giant beavers that inhabited Ohio. Six inch teeth n stuff.

Here are some more giants. These ones were spotted in the Circus/Cabaret field at Glastonbury last month

Outside of county fairs, another place to find giant vegetables are on nationalistic artworks.

I collect some of the Chinese stuff and the sizes/amounts of items being harvested are awesome.

Joy on the corn pile:


Drowning in cotton:

Just spread our nets, the fish come to us! (so nice, this one):

Wading in rice:
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Early American folk art animals had obscene proportions to communicate prosperity, too:


**if anyone knows the significance of those fork-tailed swallows(?), let me know. they're in many prints of the period.