Watch Out: Canadian Sculptor 'Animalizing' Shoes So You Can Make Giant Footprints
This could mean trouble for serious Bigfoot researchers out in the woods. A bored sculptor in Canada couldn't resist modifying his shoes in order to make Bigfoot tracks in the snow. Judging by the photo above, it's a hard to tell if he was able to pull-off the impossible so-called "mid-tarsal break" (a flexing of the side mid-foot, distinguishing non-human apes from humans).
So what's the trouble? Well, he's planning on setting up a service where people can send in their shoes to be "animalized".
From www.metro.co.uk
Unexplainable gigantic footprints in the snow have long been considered as proof of the existence of Bigfoot, according to conspiracy theorists.
But now there seems to be another more reasonable explanation.
Canadian sculptor Maskull Lasserre has created a series of quirky designs which leave the prints of predatory creatures behind them when walked through snow or muddy terrain.
The 33-year-old has been experimenting with the custom-made deceptive pieces of footwear in the Canadian city of Montreal where he lives.
Explaining the idea behind the unique project he said: 'I spent a lot of time in the Canadian woods and countryside growing up and I loved recognising the traces of animals that share that environment.
'Living now in the city, I found a strange kind of loneliness seeing only human shoe prints in the puddles and snow.
'This project was my way of introducing a sort of mysterious possibility to the urban landscape, for those who happened upon it.
'But I admit that I just couldn't resist making a Bigfoot track.'
He has been working for over two years on a series of 20 footwear designs based on a variety of animals including bears, moose and dear.
Maskull, who has to individually hand carve, mould and cast each animal's footprint, admitted he couldn’t resist wearing the boots himself.
'Beyond their presentation in exhibition format at visual art galleries, I do wear them myself on occasion,' he said.
'For those few who do notice them, and recognise the implication of what they are seeing, I am not sure at all how they react as by that point they are already behind me.
'I guess that they have the reaction I would; a moment of wonder at something that is at once inexplicable, and undeniable.'
The shoes are only currently on show at art exhibitions but the sculptor plans to set up a service where people can send in their own pairs of shoes to be animalised in the future.
SnowWalkerPrime's Mid-Tarsal Break Challenge:
I can appreciate this from an artistic point of view, but I'm not thrilled about the bigfoot casts.
ReplyDeleteAs if it isn't hard enough in this community, some guy comes up with this because he's bored. His energy could better be spent beautifying his urban community, but that's my opinion.
If you assume foot tracks are evidence, are you a "serious Bigfoot researcher." I think foot tracks are easy to fake if it is only one and not a long trail. Like any tracks, they are only good if they lead you to what you are looking for. You may not get them today, but you have more evidence of their habitat than those who claim and area is "squatcchy."
DeleteHow do you say Skunk Ape in French?
ReplyDeleteMinkey Le Pew
DeleteHeh heh!! :oD
DeleteLe American?
DeleteSo Bigfoot believers are conspiracy theorists?
ReplyDeleteNo, realists.
DeleteWhy worry? Unless of course there is no way to distinguish between genuine and fake traks to begin with....
ReplyDelete"Unexplainable gigantic footprints in the snow have long been considered as proof of the existence of Bigfoot, according to conspiracy theorists.
ReplyDeleteBut now there seems to be another more reasonable explanation."
Right. As if every footprint in North America will be made by this guy or someone he sold shoes to. What baloney.
Eh, bigfoot stompers are easy enough to make on your own. A little plaster and some acetone is all you need. All the stompers I've made cost about $7 each.
ReplyDeleteAlways fun to make a good stretch of tracks on a popular trail early in the morning and then wait for the reports to come in.
^ You sir, need to find something better to do with your free time. Making fake bigfoot feet just see who you can pull one over on seems like a waste of time and energy to me.
DeleteWhile you're at it, please put on your fake suit to give the "kill camp" an excuse to smoke you. It is bound to happen someday. Hoaxers beware!
DeleteHahahahaha!!!! Footers get so mad!!!! I think that there have been a ton of people out there faking tracks for years
DeleteCan you imagine how utterly stupid you would look if you got caught by some campers, or better still, some rangers.
DeleteI know if I caught you, you would be famous alright, along side Dyer.
Fake ones are easy to spot if you know what your looking for.
People get a thrill from being decitfull, how pathetic.
How do you fake'em when comparative compression tests take 900lbs to replicate, at 7500 ft up in the sierras.
DeleteAnd no roads for miles?
Ah, finally something useful for science to do here.
Are you that big of a lard ass, UTP.
Nick Brick in his true element as the hoaxer, you're not a skeptic you're just a poor idiot.
DeletePlaster is very fragile. Attempt to "strap and stomp" and you will have a pile of rubble withing the first two steps. Have you ever really left your basement?
DeleteI tell you what would be funny. If some rangers found a pair of those fake feet standing on a trail with a set of human legs in them.
ReplyDeleteUp to about,--------------- the nees.
Everything else missing!
k, I KNOW I TYPED THAT "K"
DeleteHow do I get a pair?
ReplyDeleteThese would go over great on my neighbor's property!
Damn it Bill! I told you to stay off my property. My sheep don't like it as much as you do.
DeleteHey..if they are gonna get their heads stuck in the fence and leave their asses hanging out like that they are fair game!
DeleteNot to mention they never complained before.
DeleteHOW ABOUT THIS? Buy a pair of fake "big-feets" and then get your self about a 1000 posters made of Rick Dyer with a caption that reads, ------------------------- Anoybody who see's a bigfoot, flying saucers, ghosts, crackheads,burning RV's and most espicially, BIGFOOT TRACKS,
ReplyDeletePlease call RICK DYER AT 555-222-5252
Then put your feet on and head for your nearest park or water way, and get them posters up!
Lmao...now you know that would be funny as hell. It'd be funny to be able to find out where those guys would be ahead of time and go stomping around just so they would run their mouths about it. I can imagine what kinda things they'd be saying.
DeleteI wonder what drives a person to go out and make fake tracks other than making a fool of himself, it really means a huge enough interest in the subject and an even bigger deep rooted desire for bigfoots to be real than in those not hoaxing. These people faking are probably the most curious and funny species of all, wouldn't you say.
DeleteVERY TRUE.
DeleteI would say it's the simple desire to mess with people, which if you happen to have a sense of humor, is easily understood. But most of you people on here are pretty dry and stale and can't comprehend it. The guy isn't making a fool of himself but of others.
DeleteIt's not rocket science folks!
The truth is a desire to deceive and forge is part of human nature that extends far beyond Bigfoot. Just look at the art world. Or Hitler's "secret diary". There are endless examples and motivations.
DeleteI personally doubt that anon above has ever made more than a few fake tracks. I believe that under most condictions far to much weight is required to make a decent impression this alone would be enough to discourage most attempts at fakes. The mid-tarsal break would most likely give him away to anyone having a basic level of knowledge of the subject.
ReplyDeleteAll you need to do is run through mud with these things and let it dry. Not many people know what the mid tarsal is let alone that it breaks...lol. Just joking about that before you Nazi-squatches get on here n bash me. These are good enough to fool that average person and that is all you would need to do for this to end up all over the local news.
DeleteNice find. To be honest I am highly skeptical that most purported bigfoot tracks are genuine. In my 4 encounters, I did not observe any tracks at all, even the encounter in a sandy scrub area.
ReplyDeleteI think most bigfoot tracks are misidentifications of known animal tracks, human tracks, or hoaxes.
I'd be curious to hear about your 4 encounters Bushmaster. And promise not to Squatch-Nazi bash!
ReplyDeleteSo this guy JUST made these shoes. That doesn't explain the thousands of bigfoot tracks made over the last 40 years!
ReplyDeleteChad W
Yea.. cause he's probally the first person who thought of it also.
Deletefootprints are bad evidence as they can be hoaxed, yes dermal ridges and mid tarsel breaks too.
ReplyDeletesounds? well thats just poor evidence aswell, unless there is a video of what made the sound.
so what are we left with?
eye witness reports and the PGF
Its going to take more than that I am afraid
To hoax a mid-tarsal break or dermal ridge along with depth, flexation, movement, etc. takes MUCH skill. More skill than the average hoaxer would possess. Not saying it is impossible, nothing is impossible. But, the skill needed to create a very good hoax isn't available to the average person. Those with the knowledge and skill are usually highly skilled anatomists, etc. I would assume that these people are not usually into hoaxing. Even if they are, how can one or two experts account for legitimate track finds throughout all of North America?
DeleteTo discount track evidence would be illogical.
Archer1
Yes, but the only time i ever heard of them getting away with it was years ago before so many were up to par. When recently have you ever heard of someone comming forth and saying, you dope, i faked those. You haven't.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying it has never happened, but it's more rare than real tracks.
Could you post an example of people getting faked out that occured in the last ten years please?
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ReplyDeleteSerious bigfoot researchers should be appalled at the prospects of this guy having a service to create these shoes for others, all so that mean-spirited people can get their jollies misleading true field investigators.
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