If you live in Los Angeles and are even thinking about hitting the mall for some holiday shopping this weekend, stop yourself! Come to Unique Los Angeles instead! We will be there Dec. 5 & 6 along with a gang of other 250 great local vendors selling cool and interesting stuff (including our fabulous new Heart of Gold wreath, pictured here). Festive and fun and better than any horrid shopping center, you can find everything from a rainbow Abraham Lincoln head made from crayons to kids clothes to eco wares from over 50 different green vendors. We have a bunch of wristbands that let you get in free, so contact us if you’re interested — these are limited, so write soon! Wear an I Heart Guts t-shirt to the event and get a free pin! So many exclamation points!
Archive for November, 2009
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Posted: Monday, November 30th, 2009Eat Off Organs
Posted: Monday, November 30th, 2009
Dishes covered with squishy organs? Um, yeah! Check out the Anatomica bone china series by Lisa Turner for The New English. Love these, especially how she shows the kidneys on the back. Too bad $74 for a single plate is a little too rich for our blood. {via The New York Times}
All Organic
Posted: Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Thanksgiving makes me think about gravy, and gravy makes me think about giblets. And giblets make me think about…well, nothing, because I was unsure about what giblets were exactly until the moment I typed it into Google. So “giblet” is a catch-all term for the guts inside the bird, usually the heart, liver, gizzard and neck (even though it’s not an organ). Apparently the kidneys aren’t usually included in the giblet collection, but the chicken pictured, from Apartment Therapy’s Kitchn blog, was sold along with its kidneys). Humans don’t have a gizzard, but birds have this special organ, a sort of digestive mill that grinds up food with its muscles and rocks and sand that sit around inside it. This also makes me wonder what happens to the non-giblet innards of the bird, such as the lungs, intestines, brains. What happens to those guts? Anyway, eccch. I think I’ll just have more potatoes instead. Happy Thanksgiving!
Gland ABC
Posted: Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Amazing, a font made from glands! Dr. Ma. Ivy Clemente took these microscope photos of glandular structures from Fibroadenoma (benign breast tumor) and Nodular Prostatic Hyperplasia (non-cancerous prostate growth) cases. The specimens were stained and illuminated, that’s why these mammary glands and prostates are extra pretty. {via BoingBoing. Thanks, Scott!}
Spill Your Guts!
Posted: Monday, November 23rd, 2009
For someone who has been forever obsessed with Japanese kawaii stationery, creating a stationery set with stickers has been a long-time dream of mine. So I am extremely excited to tell you that Chronicle Books will release an I Heart Guts journal and accompanying mix and match stationery set in 2010! Here’s some photos of the endpapers and back cover of the advance copy of the journal:
Yes, that is a gallbladder you see in the liver’s ice cream cone. And yes, those kidneys are indeed playing badminton. And why shouldn’t a uterus ride a bicycle? It goes without saying that I couldn’t have begged for a better publisher than Chronicle. These people are total lovebugs — and super-smart as well. Here’s all the goodies included in the stationery set:
Divulge your innardmost thoughts to the Spill Your Guts journal or write a love letter sealed with a spleen. Anyway, both the journal and mix-and-match letter set are now available for pre-order on Chronicle’s website, but it won’t be out until the end of February 2010, so only pre-order if you’re the really, really, REALLY patient type.
Gutsy Events
Posted: Friday, November 20th, 2009
Gutsy handmades will be at a coast near you very soon. This weekend, visit our custom yoka at the adfunture/DKE Toys art show at DesignerCon in Pasadena tomorrow, Nov. 21. The other yokas are about a million times cooler than the one I made, so you won’t be disappointed. Take a look at the amazing creations that will be on display at DesignerCon. I Heart Guts will also have three felt brooches at the Luv-able Hug-able show at Gallery Hanahou in New York, so check ‘em out! The theme this year is “Medium and Mini” — aka small, affordable and recession-friendly. The gallery also has a ton of our regular guts for sale on consignment, so if you’re in New York and need guts, this is the place to go. The show opens Dec. 3rd and runs through January 9th.
Mouth Off
Posted: Thursday, November 19th, 2009
This X-ray of speech analysis is creepy cool not only because it lets you see inside a talking human skull, but also because it makes the tongue look a lot like a duck-like shadow puppet. Fascinating.
Lobe is all You Need
Posted: Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Brains galore, from the minds of Emilio Garcia, who did this lapolab Jumping Brain and the egg Qee at left. Check out the making and painting of this walking pink egg on Notcot. We also love this Design Brain shirt by Beom in South Korea. {Thanks again, Julie!}
Veiny Brainy
Posted: Thursday, November 19th, 2009
We are 1000% smitten with this new limited-edition print by Audrey Kawasaki. This lovely lady’s got an armful of teeth, brains, eyeballs, anatomy figurines, and other anatomical oddities. Notcot says this print was a complimentary giveaway at the ($1,800 a head) Baby Tattooville event, so if you were invited and didn’t go, you’ll be kicking yourself for a very long time. {Thanks, Julie!}
Tasty Innards
Posted: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Thought cookies were made from butter, eggs and flour, right? Think again. See what gingerbread men are really made of, courtesy of illustrator Jason Freeny’s latest anatomical creation. We especially love the little finger bones, wee little baked metacarpals and phalanges. Lucky for us all, he made them into cards just in time to, as he says, “freak out the relatives this holiday.” Stay too long in his online shop and you might be tempted by his Domo anatomy chart or perhaps this. {Thanks, Julie!}
