These days, images with animal heads attached to regular size human bodies capture my attention, somehow (!). I think, I began to realize them with the video clip of 'What does the fox say?' by Ylvis. There you see young people wearing costumes and also animal masks with a regular human outfit. Until this point there seems to be no strangeness. However when I saw the following CD cover designs for Danny Sanderson, I thought, "enough with humans carrying animal heads!" although I really liked the designs with the illustration quality, color contrast between the characters in front and the pale natural backgrounds. The typography of the Hebrew alphabet also matches the overall design I guess, although I am not at all familiar with the Hebrew-alphabet typography. Apart from that all, penguin-headed humans in old fashioned swimming suits are so funny! They create a similar feeling to the video clip of Ylvis, 'What does the fox say?' But why?
The idea of humans with animal heads, gives the feeling of nonsensicalness.(thanks Tureng) Humans differentiate from other creatures mostly because of the consciousness and maybe self-awareness they have. Okey, maybe animals also have self awareness but what I mean by that is the issue of being the thinking thing. The representative of this character of human beings is basically the head in our body. So, when you cut off the head from the human body and replace it with penguin or any sort of animal head, you lose the center of mind and sense and gain the feeling of nonsense. I believe that is why it is so funny; let's rip off the center of reason and be funny.
Of course maybe those CD designs or video clips are funny just because the animals are cute. (One does not have to make a further analysis.) We don't see a penguin everyday and putting a penguin head to human body is an unusual match for us. But why the mythological character Centaur is not funny at all then? It is also an unusual match; a horse body with a human head. Centaur is very frightening for me I mean, who would laugh at this very serious and aggressive creature? So, back to the second paragraph, there must be a relation with this idea, the head as a source of seriousness and boredom (reason). Centaur has an animal body and human head; the presence of the human head as the source of sense, avoids Centaur to be funny.
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| Humans with animal heads: A CD cover design |
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| Humans with animal masks from the video clip of 'What Does The Fox Say?' |
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| mythological creature Centaur, not funny at all. |
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