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# Coney Island’s Takeshi Yamada To Star On New AMC Show About Taxidermy
- URL: https://bklyner.com/coney-islands-takeshi-yamada-to-star-on-new-amc-show-about-taxidermy-bensonhurst/
- Published: 2013-02-13T17:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2013-02-13T17:00:27.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: #API-Imported

Takeshi Yamada, a taxidermist and [one of Coney Island’s](http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2012/09/twenty-two-local-artists-turn-their-studios-into-free-public-galleries-this-weekend/?ref=bklyner.com) more interesting local artists, is getting a huge spotlight as he is set to star in AMC’s new competitive taxidermy show, *[Immortalized](http://www.amctv.com/immortalized/videos/immortalized-end-of-the-world-pre-air-premiere?ref=bklyner.com)*.

Chances are you were as confused reading those sentences as I was writing them, but yes, competitive taxidermy is apparently a thing. Well, if it wasn’t a thing, it is now thanks to AMC’s outside the box reality programming.

It should be interesting to follow the exploits of Takeshi Yamada (featured above), the local Coney Island freak-show taxidermist who takes special pride in assembling fake creatures like his disturbing two-headed baby corpses, (shudder…)

The talented Yamada works an incredible 16 hours a day and has been described as a “rogue taxidermist.” There is something beautiful and disturbing around the 50-second mark in the video above when Yamada is combing the Coney Island creek in his magical-steam-punk outfit for dead things to turn into fresh art.

To see the first episode, [click here and watch it on AMC’s website](http://www.amctv.com/immortalized/videos/immortalized-end-of-the-world-pre-air-premiere?ref=bklyner.com). To catch *Immortalized* on TV, tune in on Thursdays at 10 p.m. on AMC.