Hiking in the woods opens the door into unknown worlds - whether a trick
of the light through the trees or movement in a distant shadow - The
imagination is tempted to run wild ... Even if there are times when a rose
is just a rose. TagYerit released The Hike on their second CD Tubeman in
1999. We have since (2011) created this stop-motion art music video from
the works of many great painters and illustrators of previous centuries.
Do you pretend on your hike in the woods that you're the only one
of your species
Swishing through those giant fern leaves
you're sure that you're in a forest primeval
When the crow breaks the still -
could it be pterodactyl swooping down
Here the forest's opening up to a meadow of swaying long grasses
Do you bow with them in respect as the fairy queen's entourage is
passing by
Wait for when the fanfare starts to fade - to catch a glimpse of the
fabled fairy steed.
Pounding aches - soles will burn
This path's seducing me
Twisting trails tempt me around each turn
Like that bear, I gotta see what I can see
You're so struck by the beauty of the swampland and the low lying
marshes
Decaying trees carpeted in a lush green - but yeah, it kinda stinks-
you'd better cruise
There's a scaly hand clasping onto bare skin - will it suck you down
into the inky black ooze?
Now, see where glacier scraped on through rock monoliths just dumped
at weird angles
From a rift in rock-emerges gnarled troll - he's pretty freaked at
the sight of giant you
They've probably mined these hills a million years - with your next
step will you fall through secret shaft?
Pounding aches ...
Do you believe on your hike in the woods that you're the only one
of your species
If I step between these towering twin trees, will I find myself in
a dimension unknown?
There's an alien starts to speak in surprise,
"Woulda saved you a sandwich, if I'd known you were coming home."
"How'd you get so covered in dust and mud?"
"The guy next door's got a brand new truck."
Here, in order of their appearance is the
'cast' of TagYerit's video "The Hike".
Yucatan
Frederick Catherwood litho plates from Catherwood's Views of Ancient
Monuments in Central American Chiapas and Yucatan 1844
Ernst
Bird
Max Ernst 1926
Histoire Naturelle
Lapitulus
Flying Bunny
Hortus Sanitatis ca 1507
Pruss produce edition based on Meydenbach's 1491
Deer
Xing sign - rendered in the animation studios of Wabbit Wecordings
Dragon
and the Apple Tree
Antonio Sousa De Macedo
engraved plates by John Droeshout 1645
volume celebrates Portugal's release from Spanish dominion
Questing
Beast
Arthur Rackham 1917
illustration for The Romance of King Arthur
Horseman
Rackham
Illustration for Undine 1909 - the story of a a water sprite
Undine who marries the knight Huldebrand in order to gain a soul.
Friedrich de la Motte Gouque wrote the story in 1811
The
Golden Winged Woodpecker sitting on a chestnut oak branch
Mark Catesby The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama
Islands 1771
Long
Beaked Bird - Numenius - (long billed curlew?)
Mark Catesby The Natural History of Carolina, Florida & Bahamas
1754
Superb
Lyrebird (Menura Superba)
John Gould The Birds of Australia 1848
Bird
- The Lesser Cockatoo with a yellow crest
George Edwards - Gleanings of Natural History published in London 1758-1764
Martin Bird
hand colored plate (after Huet & Pretre) ca 1838
Martin-chasseur mignon
Tree
& Heron
Arthur Rackham
Izaac Walton The Compleat Angler 1931
Amaryllis Crocata - Papilio Nestor Brazil
aquatint print by Robert Havell after Priscilla Susan Bury (Liverpool)1834
Orchids
chromolitho by or after John Nugent Fitch ca. 1882-1897
Orchid - odontoglossum grande
W.H. Fitch, del lith
A Monograph of Odontoglossum 1874
handcolored litho plates by Walter Hood Fitch
Daughter1533
The Young Daughter of the Picts
gouache Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a Huguenot artist (ca 1533-1588)
The Picts (the Pictish of Pictland?) were painted or tattooed people
living in eastern and northern Scotland in the early medieval days till
about the 10th century when they merged with the Gaels.
Red
Crest Cockatoo (Callocephalon Galeatum)
John Gould The Birds of Australia 1848
Sharpbilled
Toucan (Ramphastos Carinatus)
John Gould A Monograph of the Ramphastidae or Family of Toucans 1854
Thistle
gouache Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a Huguenot artist (ca 1533-1588)
2
Feather Bird
Mark Catesby The Natural History of Carolina, Florida & Bahamas
1754
Whip-poor-will
Black Oak or quercitron quercus tinctoria
John James Audobon 1844
Clover
Pinks
gouache Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a Huguenot artist (ca 1533-1588)
Humming
Birds on a Cactus
John Gould A Monograph of Trochildae of Family of Humming Birds 1861
Ptolemy
Map
Cosmographia cartography by Dom Nicolaus Germanus 1482
Grand
Voyages to America 1593
Theodor de Bry Engraving
Based on a collaboration with Richard Hakluyt and on earlier woodcuts
by Hans Studen (de Bry never visited America)
Jacque
Callot (1592 - 1635)
Very similar to characters in another etching that says "Cap. Esgangarato"
& "Cap. Cocodrillo" below the figures (Ramshackle &
Crocodile) - 17th century etching
scan from Print Quarterly Feb. 1942
1581
design for a pendant - engraving by Jean Collaert
from a series of 20 similar designs intended for the use of goldsmiths
and jewelers
This was scanned from back page ad Feb. 1942 The Print Collector's Quarterly
magazine. The ad was placed by Otto Ranschburg Old & Rare Books
on West 57th ST in NYC
Ships
in a Storm 1860
by Ivan Constantinovich Aivasovsky
from Wikimedia
"Anglers in the rain, at a bend in the river"
Arthur Rackham ca. 1910
The
Jelly Fish
from "A Collection of Voyages" Vol IV William Dampier
(1651 - 1715)
Palm
Tree
Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Historia Naturalis Palmarum 1823-1850
Mayan
seals
Palenque 1787 - drawings made on first expedition to classic maya ruins
at palenque
Doris May as Barbara Jackson in "Up And At 'Em" (1922)
Scan from 8" x 10" movie promo
Masked
Boy - Aubrey Beardsley 1894
"Beauty and The Beast" by Edmund Dulac 1910
A Cottage
in The Woods - a TagYerit photo (2011)
Ne
O Mon Ne An Ioway Chief
History of the Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas McKenney &
James Hall
the lithos based on oils by Charles Bird King 1844
MicoChlucco
Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, E & W FL ...
by William Bartam 1792
Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior - King of the Seminoles
"On
The Bat's Back Do I Fly After the Summer Merrily"
Edmund Dulac 1908
Illustration for The Tempest
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Yucatan
Ernst
Bird
Lapitulus
Deer
Xing sign - rendered in the animation studios of Wabbit Wecordings
Dragon
and the Apple Tree 
Questing
Beast 
Horseman
Rackham
The
Golden Winged Woodpecker sitting on a chestnut oak branch 
Long
Beaked Bird - Numenius - (long billed curlew?)
Superb
Lyrebird (Menura Superba) 
Bird
- The Lesser Cockatoo with a yellow crest
Martin Bird
Tree
& Heron
Amaryllis Crocata - Papilio Nestor Brazil
Orchids
Orchid - odontoglossum grande
Daughter1533
Red
Crest Cockatoo (Callocephalon Galeatum)
Sharpbilled
Toucan (Ramphastos Carinatus)
Thistle
2
Feather Bird
Whip-poor-will
Clover
Pinks
Humming
Birds on a Cactus
Ptolemy
Map
Grand
Voyages to America 1593
Jacque
Callot (1592 - 1635)
1581
design for a pendant - engraving by Jean Collaert 
Ships
in a Storm 1860
"Anglers in the rain, at a bend in the river" 
The
Jelly Fish
Palm
Tree
Mayan
seals
Masked
Boy - Aubrey Beardsley 1894
"Beauty and The Beast" by Edmund Dulac 1910
A Cottage
in The Woods - a TagYerit photo (2011)
Ne
O Mon Ne An Ioway Chief
MicoChlucco
"On
The Bat's Back Do I Fly After the Summer Merrily"
Midsummer
Night's Dream1900
The
March of the Crossing Signs