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Angela Palmer’s Engraved MRI/CT Glass Layers

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 7:46 am

Angela Palmer ink self portrait single scream

Angela Palmer self portrait MRI etching glass layers

Angela Palmer self portrait MRI etching glass layers

Angela Palmer self portrait MRI etching glass layers

Angela Palmer engraved double self portrait detail

London-based artist Angela Palmer creates somewhat haunting imagery by taking MRI/CT scans and engraving each slice onto sheets of glass.  This creates a carefully layered topography of the human form that comes off as a quick frantic sketch.

View more of her glass MRI/CT engravings at angelaspalmer.com!

 

[via Colossal via sinatra blue]

 

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/streetanatomy/OQuC/~3/3AfL4iu-grA/

Recommendation and review posted by G. Smith

Predator Shoes to Go With Your Predator Suit

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 7:46 am

Fantich Young Apex Predator Shoes

Savile Row Oxford Shoes, Size UK15, 1050 teeth dentures

Fantich Young Apex Predator Shoes

Fantich Young Apex Predator Shoes

Fantich Young Apex Predator Suit and Shoes

Fantich Young Apex Predator Suit

Savile Row’s Suit, human hair, glass eyes, dentures.

Artist duo Mariana Fantich and Dominic Young whose works “address parallels between social evolution and evolution in the natural world: Nature as model or nature as threat,” created this marvelous Apex Predator Shoe.  Created with 1,050 denture teeth on Savile Row Oxford shoes, these puppies go perfect with the Apex Predator suit made from what else but human hair, glass eyes, and teeth.

What do you think it’s like to walk on teeth?

View more of their work at Fantich&Young!

 

[spotted by Manuel Kolb]

 

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/streetanatomy/OQuC/~3/KpRvmhRQyCg/

Recommendation and review posted by G. Smith

Andreas Scheiger’s Evolution of Type 22-26

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 7:46 am

Andreas Scheiger Evolution Type 23 C

Andreas Scheiger Evolution Type 22-26 F

Andreas Scheiger Evolution Type 25 P

Andreas Scheiger Evolution Type 25 P

Andreas Scheiger Evolution Type 25 P

We’ve featured the Typographical Dissections and Evolution of Type work by Vienna based designer, Andreas Scheiger, before on Street Anatomy. So I was excited to see Andreas’ latest Evolution of Type where he actually sculpts fossil letters, excavates them, and puts them on display museum style.  It’s a faux-archeological look at typography with each letter carefully constructed with chicken bones, plasticine, wood, gypsum, and water colors.

Andreas Scheiger interpretes letters as organisms and typefaces as species, all classified similar to biological taxonomy. Each letter displays the anatomical features and evolutionary characteristics shared by so many living creatures. —Glandis.com

View more of the Evolution of Type on Andreas Scheiger’s Behance portfolio and via his site Glandis.com

 

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/streetanatomy/OQuC/~3/7abCKTKGTtQ/

Recommendation and review posted by G. Smith

"Death and What it Can Teach us About Improving Life," BBC Radio "Today," November 2

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 7:46 am

I just got back from the BBC studios, where I engaged in a (very brief) live discussion about death and "what it can teach us about improving life" with Ben Haggarty of the Crick Crack Club as part of the promotion for tonight's "Seize the Day" event at The Wellcome Collection. If you are interested in giving it a listen, click here; the piece begins at about two Hours and fifty five minutes in.

Segment description, from the BBC website:

The Wellcome Trust in London is going to hold an evening of talks about death and what it can teach us about improving life. Joanna Ebenstein, who runs a blog called Morbid Anatomy, and Ben Haggarty, who runs the Crick Crack Club which is a story telling workshop, ask why we find it hard in modern western society to talk about death.

Hope to see you at the event tonight!

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/death-and-what-it-can-teach-us-about.html

Recommendation and review posted by G. Smith

Events Cancelled and Morbid Anatomy Library Closed Due to "Superstorm Sandy"

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 7:46 am

We at The Morbid Anatomy Library and Observatory were very, very lucky indeed during this recent "Superstorm Sandy." Our prayers to Saint Florian--the patron saint invoked against flooding and drowning--and our maniacal preparations (see above photo) were not in vain, and, miraculously, despite the floodwaters of the toxic Gowanus which rose to lap the very walls of our building, no water got into the gallery. It did, however, fill the basement of our buidling, knocking out the electricity. To this end, we are forced to cancel our next two weeks of Observatory programming and to close the Morbid Anatomy Library until the electricity is restored.

To that end, please note the following events--including, sadly, our annual Day of the Dead Party--have been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience, and stay tuned for more. And expect a shrine to Saint Florian in the newly reopened Morbid Anatomy Library.

Hope you all fared as well in the storm, and look forward to seeing you all soon.

***** CANCELLED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY
Annual Observatory Day of the Dead and Halloween Costume Party

Music, Performance, Costumes, Tequila, Traditional Altar, Sugar Skulls, Death Piñata, and tacos provided by our favorite local taqueria Oaxaca!
Date: Saturday, November 3
Time: Doors at 8:00 PM, Performance at 9
Admission: $15

Presented by Morbid Anatomy and Borderline Projects

Please join us on Saturday, November 3 for the annual Observatory Halloween/Day of the Dead costume party! This year we will welcome back the ghosts of the dead in the tradition of our favorite holiday--the Mexican Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead--with Aztec dances and chants, traditional foods and drink, tacos catered by local favorite taqueria Oaxaca, episodes of The Midnight Archive, tequila, music, sugar skulls, our beloved La Catrina, a Day of the Dead Altar honoring the late Chavela Vargas and Neil Armstrong and, as always, an opportunity to strike a mortal blow to our beautiful piñata of Lady Death herself! There will also be, as always, the opportunity to don--and admire other!--amazing Day of the Dead-themed costumes.

The year's iteration will include:

ENTERTAINMENT!

  • Cetiliztli Nauhcampa: Aztec dances and chants
  • Borderline Projects's Salvador Olguín with a brief lecture on the origins and significance of Day of the Dead celebrations
  • The Midnight Archive: Screenings of The Midnight Archive, Ronni Thomas' web series based on Observatory
  • Music: Halloween music for the all night dance party

FOOD AND DRINK!

  • Event will be catered by local favorite taqueria Oaxaca!

TRADITIONAL DAY OF THE DEAD ATTRACTIONS!

  • Day of the Dead Altar honoring the late Chavela Vargas and Neil Armstrong.
  • Special appearance by our very own La Catrina
  • Pan de Muerto: Indulge in this traditional dessert called Bread of Death
  • Piñata: Dash death to smithereens with our annual death piñata!
  • Sugar skulls: Decorate and eat or bring home your own Day of the Dead sugar skull
  • Offerings to the Departed: In some places in Mexico, people leave small, coffin-like figures out for the souls of the departed. Guests are invited to leave their own offering; they will be available at the installation.

For photos from last years' party, click here. Hope very much to see you there.
Image: Rebeca Olguín


***** CANCELLED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDYThe Abuses of Enchantment: Illustrated Lecture and Book Signing with Mark Pilkington, Author of "Mirage Men: An Adventure into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs"
Illustrated Lecture and book signing with Mark Pilkington, author of Mirage Men: An Adventure into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs

Date: Tuesday, November 13
Time: 8:00
Admission: $10
Produced by Morbid Anatomy

In his book Mirage Men: An Adventure into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs, author Mark Pilkington details his experiences in the UFO community, and his discoveries of the ways in which military and intelligence operators have shaped and exploited beliefs in UFOs, ghosts, monsters, vampires, and elements from folklore and conspiracy theory to create an armory of supernatural weapons of mass deception, capable of manipulating consciousness on a grand scale. He traces the inspiration for these toys, tools and techniques to a range of sources which include fiction, cinema, stage magic, advertising and occultism, and uncovers the ways in which they have--for many of its intended and unintended targets--altered their very perception and understanding of the world around us.

Copies of his book Mirage Men: An Adventure into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs will be available for sale and signing.
Mark Pilkington is the author of two books - Mirage Men: An Adventure into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs and Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge and has written for Fortean Times, the Guardian, Sight & Sound, The Wire, Frieze, The Anomalist and a host of other magazines and journals. Mark also runs Strange Attractor Press, editing and publishing its occasional Journal, and organising events and exhibitions.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/events-cancelled-and-morbid-anatomy.html

Recommendation and review posted by G. Smith

"Morbid Anatomy Anthology" is Kickstarter Staff Pick!

Posted: November 4, 2012 at 7:46 am

Maybe all this promising of offerings to the saints to protect Morbid Anatomy Library from Hurricane Sandy has paid off, though in entirely unpredictable ways? I just found out that our campaign to raise funds for The Morbid Anatomy Anthology Volume 1--a lavish, illustrated book which will immortalize in print some of the best of the Morbid Anatomy Presents-- got chosen as a staff pick on Kickstarter!

If you have not already given it a look, you can check it out here; you can also learn more about the project by watching the video above, made by the über-talented Ronni Thomas, creator of The Midnight Archive.

More on the book below:

The Morbid Anatomy Anthology will cover such topics as anthropodermic bibliopegy (ie. books bound in human skin), 19th Century "Diableries", Henry Wellcome's collections of preserved human tattoos, 19th century death-themed Parisian cabarets, extreme taxidermy, popular wax anatomical models, "collecting death," the uncanny allure of the Anatomical Venus, Santa Muerte and Death in MexicoL'Inconnue de la Seine, "artist of death" Frederik Ruysch, macabre collections, "human zoos," and much, much, MUCH more.
The rogue scholars, artists, writers, museologists, morticians and scientists whose works will fill this volume will include (in no particular order):

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/10/morbid-anatomy-anthology-is-kickstarter.html

Recommendation and review posted by G. Smith


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