We had tons of fun at Renegade LA last weekend, met many good people and had a ball talking about pituitary gland dysfunction, spleen disorders and other such topics at the show. We tried to make the best of a crappy out-of-the-way booth spot with some special “urine luck” bladder and “rest your testicles” signs for the bathrooms (someone stole my testicle sign, boo hoo!) — see photos, all by FiddybobiddyFiddy on Flickr. Now the guts are hitting the road to get up to Renegade San Francisco at the Fort Mason Pavillion this weekend! Details and more here, hope to see you there! Wear a gutsy see and get a free lapel pin of your choice!
Archive for July, 2009
Guts in Norcal
Posted: Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Our guts need to make friends with Long Lost Friends?
Posted: Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
We recently realized your champion of sleep, the pineal gland, has a passing similarity to our good old pals from the 1980s — The Snorks! The pineal gland is so named because of its pine-cone-like shape. Why are the Snorks shaped the same way? As Retro Junk puts it, “Take a Smurf, stick a snorkel on his head, put him underwater and force him to replace the word “Smurf” with the word “Snork” when he speaks and you’ve got The Snorks.”
Brains on the Brain
Posted: Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Let’s celebrate the cerebellum! The Mickey Mouse covered with brains is by Emilio Garcia, and, of course Disney, via Street Anatomy. Disney is smart to Qee up ol’ Mickey, I’m sure this kind of designer collab will do well. The brain cake is from Cake Wrecks via the very good blog Man Nurse Diaries, and the embroidered brain scan, which lives on the wonderful Musuem of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art, is by Marjorie Taylor. Okay, I know, enough about MJ, but did you know he was buried without his brain? No joke.
Urine Luck!
Posted: Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Warning: this post may offend you. People have a funny way of getting to our website. We get linked to from all sorts of places, everything from acupuncture sites to people hunting for sexy enemas. Anyway, a recent link from the bulletin boards over at Wetset dot net (you can type it in yourself if you must) to our When Urine Love shirt made us realize this tee has special meaning to a certain subset of the population — those folks who enjoy the occasional golden shower. Yup, that’s right, people who enjoy peeing on people — or being peed upon, more formally known as urolagnia. This is separate, mind you, from people who drink their own urine, known as urophagia (thanks, Wikipedia), or auto-immune therapy. Let’s end with Dave Chapelle’s classic R. Kelly sendup — Pee On You.
Renegade This Weekend!
Posted: Tuesday, July 7th, 2009There are so many reasons to hit up the first ever Renegade Craft Fair in Los Angeles, but let me give you three:
1) Meat, Meat and More Meat!
These meats are by the wonderful Fomato, left, and Sweet Meats, right. I cannot say enough about the two amazing and wonderful ladies who run these two amazing and wonderful respective companies. Sweet Meats even gift wraps their plush meats in butcher paper.
2) Michael Jackson
Here we have the legend interpreted into a mugshot-patterned skirt by Long Beach Craft Mafia and an amazing J-5 tee by Seattle Show Poster). If you couldn’t get into the Staples Center, just hit the California Market Center instead and wear MJ close to your heart. And speaking of hearts…
3) Hearts and other Anatomy Goodies!
By the good folks of Bughouse on the left, and a checkbook cover by Eleven-Eleven on the right. While you’re at Eleven Eleven tell me you don’t want this condom carrying case. I dare you. Don’t forget to wear I Heart Guts gear and you’ll get a free gifty, and this time our gift will be waaay better than last time, I promise!
Don’t Try This at Home
Posted: Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
This image gives me the chills, especially because I have a ton of earwax in my ear right now and am dying — dying — to use a Q-tip. But my doctor made me promise to never ever ever use cotton swabs in my ears and so for I have been obedient. This perforated eardrum picture will inspire me — and maybe you — to remain so.
Hooters at the Hospital
Posted: Monday, July 6th, 2009
Sexy nurses and quadruple-deck burgers come together at the Heart Attack Grill, a burger place in Chandler, Arizona, famous for its Double Bypass Burger, waitresses that dress like slutty nurses, lard-fried potatoes, and free meals not for kids, but for people who weigh in at over 350 pounds. Whether you think it’s digusting or hilarious, you gotta admit it’s brilliant marketing.
After Our Own Heart
Posted: Monday, July 6th, 2009
Ridiculously cute super-organ art by Hagit Oleg of Tea Party Studio in Israel. I love that the heart looks like a really tough strawberry, and the liver is so very devilish! This was a contract illustration for an article about organ donation in Maariv magazine. There’s also a pretty great drawing of a brain pumping iron in Tea Party’s portfolio.
Pac Man Fever
Posted: Sunday, July 5th, 2009
This fun little video game really puts the Ms. in Ms. Pac Man, where Pac-man is actually an ovum that gobbles down sperm for strength. It’s an “educational game” on Fertility Friend’s website, but really the only education comes at the end, when you get different conception tips. Anybody know what the crossed out “AF” means? And what are the flaming monsters Ms. Pac-Man must avoid? The only thing missing is the “wakka wakka wakka” sound…
