These aren’t exactly available at your local Toys R Us, created as they were by Polish artist Zbigniew Libera and shown at his first New York exhibition at Guy McEntire gallery in 1999. This artwork, entitled “The doll you love to undress,” has a lot more guts than your average Barbie. {via Street Anatomy}
Archive for February, 2010
Plastic and Gutsy
Posted: Friday, February 26th, 2010Big Fat Brains
Posted: Friday, February 26th, 2010
Are bigger brains necessarily better brains? Sometimes, yes, but not always. It’s the quality of the grey matter that counts and, of course, how you use it. For instance, Einstein had an average size brain, but had a humungous area of his parietal lobe, the part of the brain responsible for visual imagery and mathematical thinking. Women have smaller brains than men overall because we tend to be physically smaller. But that doesn’t make us dumber, we just use our noodles differently, and, some say, make better use of a smaller space. Also, the additional surface area offered by deeper folds and convolutions on the brains surface can also give the average size brain more thinking power. {via Boing Boing, brain cupcake image courtesy of Me, Myself and Meningioma}
Reversible Fetus
Posted: Friday, February 26th, 2010
Turn this baby inside out — really clever fetus in a sac, created by The Beat Cowboy a Craftster Forum regular. And while on the topic of reproduction, my pail Julie over at Particle Zoo alerted me to the wonders of iPeriod, an iPhone app that let’s you track your menstrual cycle and will alert you to when you might be feeling crummy and when to expect ol’ Aunt Flo’s arrival. Fully integrated with the iPad and iTampon. {via Boing Boing}
Lay Your Body On Mine
Posted: Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Love this anatomical duvet cover by Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs of TONK. I found this post on Neatorama via Lists Galore amazing Gross Anatomy: 50 Body Parts list. Worth checking out. {Neatorama via Lists Galore}
Anatomical Venus
Posted: Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Here’s some pretty gory — yet oddly gorgeous — guts, from the Anatomical Theater Exhibition, a traveling show of photographs of bodily oddities. The photo is of the sculpture “The Slashed Beauty,” a wax model with real human hair housed at La Specola (Museo di Storia Naturale) in Florence. {via Morbid Anatomy}
Print Me An Organ
Posted: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
This article sounded so sci-fi I almost didn’t believe it was real, but according to The Economist, the era of being able to print 3-D human organs is no just coming — it’s here. A company specializing in regenerative medicine, Organovo, and engineering firm Invetech have teamed up to make a bio-printer capable of making simple body parts such as snippets of blood vessels, tissue and skin, all formed from the patient’s own cells (to avoid the usual rejection). The article points out that printing more complex biological parts, like livers, kidneys and even hearts, can’t be far behind, after all, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina made seven brand-new bladders for patients and all are still working just fine, thank you.
Organs at Fashion Week
Posted: Friday, February 19th, 2010
Held during New York Fashion Week, the Heart Truth catwalk show features celebs and models in red dresses by prominent designers to raise awareness of the prevalence of heart disease in women, a campaign launched by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. New York’s fashion week wrapped up yesterday just as London’s fashion week is gearing up, and the show will go on without one of the biggest body-parts boosters in fashion — British designer Alexander McQueen, who apparently committed suicide last week. McQueen’s anatomically-inspired accessories — like his mirrored ribcage suitcase for Samsonite and tendon-and-vein-inspired athletic shoe for Puma, equipped with a silver tooth — were beautiful and twisted all at the same time. Anatomy geeks worldwide will miss this talented designer.
Upside Down Love
Posted: Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
As you may remember, a few years ago we made a parody of the I Heart NY logo replacing the heart with our own, and shortly afterwards were asked to destroy the shirts by the New York City Development Corp. Well, destroy them we did, in our own special way, by embellishing and hand-sewing these special tees. Next up in our series of limited-edition tees, we have a hand-sewn heart made from our now-illegal I Heart Guts shirts. Women’s and men’s sizes while they last, we’re only making a handful of these!
It’s a McCoronary!
Posted: Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
See what makes Grimace tick in this awesome anatomical rendering of McDonald’s one and only purple shake-loving monster. Dreamed up by artist Glen Brogan, Shirt Woot elaborates on his many health troubles, probably related to a lifetime of lousy dietary choices: “G weighs over 540 pounds. He is only 25, but suffers from hypertension, Type II Diabetes, elevated cholesterol, gallstones, Gout, sleep apnea, and has recently suffered a mild heart attack.” {via A Hamburger Today. Thanks, Richard!}
Innardly Insoles
Posted: Friday, February 12th, 2010
Veins and polka dots never looked so good together as they do on these organ-y Keds from Zazzle UK. It’s a funny combo, and you can further trick them out to your liking by customizing the lace, eyelet and trim colors. {via Stylist}
