My dear friend Shelayna has a great fashion blog, One Closet, One Year, where she has been wearing a new outfit every day for the past year based on only what she can find in her closet, i.e. no shopping! It is a testament to her creativity that she can make our Iron Lung shirt look like haute fashion.
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Lovely Lungs
Posted: Wednesday, November 10th, 2010In and Out
Posted: Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
My pal Marcus got up close and personal with intestines at the Grossology exhibition at the Saint Louis Science Center in Missouri. Here he is emerging from the rectum onto a vinyl poo pillow! Awesome!
More Than M*A*S*H
Posted: Monday, October 18th, 2010
Being an army medic must be like working in an emergency room on steroids. The chaotic lives of medics working in Iraq are brought into sharp relief by the photographs of James Natchwey, who began chronicling injuries from the war after he was injured there in 2003. This truly remarkable series of black and white pictures, called The Sacrifice, is on view at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles as part of an exhibit of incredible documentary photography called Engaged Observers. Natchwey’s photographs are striking in that they are gorgeous and utterly disturbing all at once. Shown together, they paint a devastating portrait of modern war injuries and the men and women who help heal them.
License to Ill
Posted: Thursday, October 14th, 2010
We had no idea that Beastie Boys’ member Adam Yauch aka MCA had parotid gland cancer, but we sure are glad to hear the news that his salivary glands are winning the battle against the disease. The cancer had spread to his lymph nodes, a scary progression for any cancer, but is in remission. {Consequence of Sound via Spinner.com}
Ovarian Psychos
Posted: Monday, October 11th, 2010
How badly do I want to ride with the Ovarian Cycles/Ovarian Psychos crew? Pretty badly, as it turns out. This women’s only bicycle ride in Los Angeles sounds like the place to be for any menstrual cycler. They wheel out first and third Fridays at Corazon Del Pueblo at 2003 East 1st Street. {LA Eastside via LA Weekly}
Dear Body…
Posted: Friday, August 27th, 2010
My dear friend Tiffany snapped this photo of people’s notes to their body parts at the Actual Cafe in Oakland, California. I can’t decide which I like better: “Dear Pancreas, I used to be really mad at you for giving up, but I forgive you now.” or “Dear Lungs, It’s okay to just relax.”
Urine My Heart
Posted: Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Will you take this kidney to be your lawfully wedded wife? I do! Rick White and Kelley Agard, both of Iowa, were married on Monday and Kelley’s donating her kidney to Rick — who has polycystic kidney disease — today. What a fabulous bride!
Print Me a Liver
Posted: Monday, August 9th, 2010
So they can print blood vessels now — but how about hearts? It could be coming sooner than you think. Wired magazine has a great photo essay covering company Organo’s fascinating bioprinting business. The printed veins will soon undergo testing in animals, and later, clinical trials in humans. Amazing stuff! Photo by Dave Bullock/Wired.com.
Lungs at Work
Posted: Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Thousands of hearts and minds — and lungs — will be won at the U.S. Transplant Games, which begin tomorrow in Madison, Wisconsin. The games were started by the National Kidney Foundation, but double-lung transplant, bone marrow and heart recipients will compete in sports ranging from badminton to basketball to track and field. More from the Washington Post. {photo Nhat V. Meyer/San Jose Mercury News}
We Heart Comic Con!
Posted: Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
If you’re hitting up Comic Con this weekend, we sure would love to meet you at our booth #621, where we will have plush guts galore, limited-edition treats and more! Stop by for some great deals on tees, toys, pins and other gutsy goods. You can get a sneak peek at some prototypes for new guts pals at the DKE Toys booth, where they’ve got samples of bigger and better guts (pictured) on display — plus an incredible art scavenger hunt starting noon Thursday. Stop by and say hello! Here’s a shortlist of some of our favorite booths:
STORES WE LIKE
cardboard spaceship 4534
giant robot 1729 1731
kidrobot 4529 4531
munky king 4539
strangeco 4629 4728
SPECIAL FRIENDS
chronicle books 1506 1508
dke toys 4732 4734
CUTE STUFF
bored inc 609
conduct happiness 4830
fat rabbit farms 4521
giant microbes 735
spicy brown 4832
STUFF WE LIKE
adult swim 3351
max brooks 4403
kinokuniya bookstores 5549 5550
sharpie/prismacolor 5102
upper playground 4631
