GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human
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Author: Thomas Thwaites
The dazzling success of The Toaster Project leaves Thomas Thwaites in a slump. Luckily, a research grant offers the perfect out: a chance to take a holiday from the complications of being human - by transforming himself into a goat. What ensues is a hilarious and surreal journey through engineering, design, and psychology, as Thwaites interviews neuroscientists, animal behaviourists, prosthetists, goat sanctuary workers, and goat herds. From this, he builds a goat exoskeleton-artificial legs, helmet, chest protector, raincoat from his mum, and a prosthetic goat stomach to digest grass (with help from a pressure cooker and campfire)-before setting off across the Alps on four legs with a herd of his fellow creatures. Will he make it? Do Thwaites and his readers discover what it truly means to be human?
ISBN 9781616894054. Princeton Architectural Press. hb. 208 pages. full colour. 15 x 21 cm.
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The dazzling success of The Toaster Project leaves Thomas Thwaites in a slump. Luckily, a research grant offers the perfect out: a chance to take a holiday from the complications of being human - by transforming himself into a goat. What ensues is a hilarious and surreal journey through engineering, design, and psychology, as Thwaites interviews neuroscientists, animal behaviourists, prosthetists, goat sanctuary workers, and goat herds. From this, he builds a goat exoskeleton-artificial legs, helmet, chest protector, raincoat from his mum, and a prosthetic goat stomach to digest grass (with help from a pressure cooker and campfire)-before setting off across the Alps on four legs with a herd of his fellow creatures. Will he make it? Do Thwaites and his readers discover what it truly means to be human?
ISBN 9781616894054. Princeton Architectural Press. hb. 208 pages. full colour. 15 x 21 cm.
reprinting