How I Met Your Mother is set to stage a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion.

The CBS sitcom announced via Twitter today that Seth Green (who appeared on that cult favorite opposite Alyson Hannigan) will guest star on an upcoming episode as Daryl LaCoutre, a college classmate believed back in the day that Lily and Marshall were his best buds.

But when this married couple comes across the character 12 years later, awkwardness ensues when they scarcely recall anything about him.

Hannigan and Green portrayed the on-screen couple Willow and Oz for nearly three seasons on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Source:
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2012/10/seth-green-to-guest-star-on-how-i-met-your-mother/

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Beautiful work by Vancouver based graphic designer,  Sophia Ahamed. The first image is from her series titled SKELETAL SYSTEMS that explores the emotional value of human and animal skulls. The second two illustrations are from a similar series titled Of Flesh and Bone—the third image is a self portrait of Sophia. Her explanation of capturing what is under the skin is quite nice:

 The title of the series “Of Flesh & Bone” simply states that no matter who we are or what we are, we as human beings are built the same. We have all gone through moments of happiness, of loss, of despair and of triumph. It is said that what we truly desire in life in happiness. But only through pain can we begin to understand what happiness really is and allow our selves to feel it without hesitation.

Science has given us the ability to understand our own minds and bodies. Art has given us the ability to communicate these findings with others. I hope to create a different kind of healing process, one that stems from the artist and to the viewer. This illustration is a part of a series of several portrait drawings.

View more of the two series on Sophia’s Behance portfolio!

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/streetanatomy/OQuC/~3/G-m1cGb8_58/

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My Portrait With Center of Face Gouged Out. 30″ x 22″. Acrylic on 140 lb Arches Watercolor Paper. ©2012.

My Portrait With Left Side of Face Removed. 30″ x 22″. Acrylic on 140 lb Arches Watercolor Paper. ©2012.

My Portrait, Shirtless, With Right Side of Face, Neck, And Chest Area Flesh Removed to Expose My Insides. 30″ x 22″. Acrylic on 140 lb Arches Watercolor Paper. ©2012

At the Edge I, 30″ x 22″, Watercolor on 140 lb Hot Pressed Arches Watercolor Paper. ©2012.

Removal of Portion of Skull to Reveal Brain. 30″ x 22″. Acrylic on 140 lb Arches Watercolor Paper. ©2012.

Gouged is such an intensely fantastic word isn’t it? This is the latest work by Los Angeles based painter Billy Reynolds.

Billy says that his anatomically inspired subjects (most are self portraits),

Captivate, by reverberating between the familiar and the odd, between the beautiful and the perverse.  I present a stark reality, however sexy or unsettling. I look at the beautiful exterior of the body.  And I look deep within the body, reminding you how delicately put together your body is, by taking the body apart and showing you.

I like this quote by Tom Neely who interviewed Billy back in 2007 which pretty much captures the essence of his paintings,

He doesn’t make pretty art to hang over your couch—he makes paintings that would make people wonder about you if you did. But Billy’s paintings are as beautiful as they are disturbing, and you should hang them over your couch because great art should provoke something in you.

Billy works in oil paint which he says offers “unlimited possibilities” and “is always waiting to offer more to you every time you go to it.”  He used to create every piece of work twice, once as a physical 3D model, carefully constructing every detail, and second as an oil painting, meticulously worked up with layers upon layers of oil paint.  Recently he’s switched to digital and no longer sculpts each piece. But he says that he will always paint traditionally.  There’s no replacement for that.

See more of Billy’s incredible anatomical work at billyreynolds.com!

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

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Nike has these beautiful workout tights for women in the two above colors plus a khaki and black option. They are described by the company as tights meant for a woman who,

On the outside, she might be the girl next door, but on the inside, her body has survived grueling workouts, often pushing through pain, broken bones, pulled muscles and harsh tears.  With images of X-Ray bones digitally printed on the outside, the exclusive print tight gives a glimpse of her inner toughness…They are not to be worn by the timid, the weak or the wallflower. They are for the woman who wants to let people know she’s not just an average girl – she’s an athlete.

These are some cool looking tights and I like that they come in different colors, wouldn’t mind seeing more colors in fact.

[via Super Punch and Nike]

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/streetanatomy/OQuC/~3/1jOlrociso4/

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For those who live in the New York City area and have not already had too much of Morbid Anatomy this season: I would love to see you this Friday at "Relics of the Weird," a book event for Colin Dickey's wonderful Afterlives of the Saints, wherein he will read from the book, and we will show and discuss artifacts of Catholicism drawn from the Morbid Anatomy Library permanent collection.

Full details follow; hope to see you there!

Relics of the Weird
Colin Dickey and Morbid Anatomy
Saturday October 27, 2012
7:00 pm
Word Book Store (126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn)

Get your creep on early! Colin Dickey (Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty) and Brooklyn's own Morbid Anatomy will host a night in honor of some of the weirder relics in history, complete with slideshow and Halloween candy.

More here.

Image: "Incorruptible Saint" in Milan

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/10/relics-of-weird-colin-dickey-with.html

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Greetings all; do any of you lovely Morbid Anatomy readers out there happen to have a high-resolution version of the above image, or know a book that contains it, or another way I might source it? Please send any suggestions to morbidanatomy@gmail.com. Thanks so much!

Full citation for image, from a 2010 Swann Gallery auction:

THE DANCE OF DEATH. 1919.
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEF FENNEKER (1895-1956)
54 1/2x41 inches, 138 1/2x104 cm. 

Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; minor restoration in margins.
Fenneker designed over three hundred movie posters. His recognizable style drew largely on German Expressionism combined with a flair of aesthetic decadence. Written by Fritz Lang, Totentanz is considered by The Internet Movie Database to be a "lost film [in which] a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house" (www.imdb.com). Even without a signature, this poster is clearly the work of Fenneker. Although another image by Fenneker for this film exists, this particular version is previously unrecorded.
Estimate $2,000-3,000

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/10/seeking-hi-resolution-of-dance-of-death.html

Recommendation and review posted by G. Smith