Suddenly spring is here and the guts have a busy April touring schedule, so come on out and visit your guts at events in D.C. and Philadelphia! First up is the Sakura Matsuri street festival in D.C. on April 14th. Now in it’s 52nd year, the cherry blossom festival is the largest Japanese-style street festival in the U.S., so come on out and celebrate all things Nihon. It’s been 100 years since Japan gifted the cherry trees D.C. is famous for in the springtime. “How many things in this world qualify as both kawaii and educational?” The Sakura Festival organizers recently Tweeted, “We think I Heart Guts plushie organs are.” Aww, we heart you, too, and can’t wait! Next up, the Philadelphia Science Festival is April 21 in the city of brotherly love, home of the Liberty Bell, Philly cheese steaks and the world’s largest walk-in heart. If the idea of robot showcases, virtual reality caves and of course cuddly internal organs excites you, then please do come! Back in D.C., the guts will appear at the USA Science & Engineering Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. This two-day event runs April 28-29 and is free to the public. Nerd heroes and science celebs will be on hand, including Bill Nye the Science Guy, Mythbusters and Mayim Bialik, hypothalamus expert and actress on Big Bang Theory. Stop by and say hi, it’s free!
Posts Tagged ‘anatomy’
Guts on Tour
Posted: Friday, March 23rd, 2012Child at Heart
Posted: Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Wanna learn how to make your own organ-emblazoned tee? Look no further than Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational, a blog by a clever homeschooling mom. She’s got a stencil to make this great shirt, plus more ideas about how to get your kids into their guts. Fabulous!
Bone Up On Anatomy
Posted: Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Many of you have written in to suggest making some sort of graphic showing where all the guts and glands live in the body, and I’ve finally gotten around to creating one. It’s even got rollovers so you can learn more about, say, your pineal gland, should you have time to squander. For the purposes of simplicity, we’ve made the body a hermaphrodite — she’s got a uterus to go with her prostate and testes! We’ll call her/him Hermie.
Hearts Content
Posted: Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Esty makers heart hearts, and we love these glass anatomical heart pendants from vendor Nanopod in Toronto. The plasma one at center, is really gorgeous, and we love the milky white one, too.
Urban Transplants
Posted: Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Well, this is fun — Urban Outfitters has added a few guts to their online collectibles depot. Looks like the marketing department had some fun with the text for the heart: “He’ll really take a beating for ya. Somehow adorable anatomical heart plush with an included little fun-fact-filled tag. Get PUMPED!” and the lung: “Take a deep breath and contemplate the cuteness of this plush set of lungs,” and the liver, too: “Intoxicating little liver likes to keep it clean.” (Wow, the liver is sold out! What’d they do, bundle it with a free bottle of Jack Daniels?) If you already own one of these plush guts and care to write a review (if you happen have to have an UO account), I’ll be your best friend. Also awesome — it seems they also bought stuff from two other California plush scenesters — Lauren of Sweet Meats and Kerry and Darth of Evil Ice Cream. Woo hoo!
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!
Knit Me a Uterus and I’ll Sing You a Song
Posted: Friday, October 24th, 2008
What could be cooler than a knitted uterus? Um, I don’t know, perhaps that fact that a doctor made it? Peep the amazing knits over at Fresh MD, the blog of our new fave crafty doc. Take a look also at the virus doilies (by artist Laura Splan), dissected human knitted brains (from, wouldn’t you know it? The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art — I guess our brain wouldn’t be invited) and Splan’s awesome plush Prozac. Who couldn’t use one of those?
Knit Me a Uterus and I'll Sing You a Song
Posted: Friday, October 24th, 2008What could be cooler than a knitted uterus? Um, I don’t know, perhaps that fact that a doctor made it? Peep the amazing knits over at Fresh MD, the blog of our new fave crafty doc. Take a look also at the virus doilies (by artist Laura Splan), dissected human knitted brains (from, wouldn’t you know it? The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art — I guess our brain wouldn’t be invited) and Splan’s awesome plush Prozac. Who couldn’t use one of those?
I See Right Through You
Posted: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Anyone out there remember Slim Goodbody? The guy in the organ-coated unitard? He told us 80s kids all about the wonders of our bodies while chatting with robots (seriously, what 80s show was without a robot friend?) wearing an organ-coated unitard and a nice little fro-perm. I’ll admit, something about a man dressed in a flesh-and-guts unitard always kinda gave me the creeps, but Slim was definitely a memorable character — I think he was on Captain Kangaroo. Believe it or not, Slim is still taking his message of health and fitness to classrooms all over the country (now without the perm). Their color and learn tee is pretty fresh, check out the snap of Goodbody with a gang of kids all wearing their own hand-colored guts tees.
Muttering About
Posted: Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
When a museum calls itself “disturbingly informative” you know it’s got to be great. The Mutter Museum, part of the College of Physician’s of Philadelphia, is chock full of bones, preserved guts floating in jars and other creepy stuff from the bodily world. They are perhaps best known for having a replica of Siamese twins Chang & Eng, who had a conjoined liver (hey, if you can’t share your liver with your own brother, who can you share it with?) that is preserved and on display at Mutter. This place is the original Body Worlds. Best of all, this emporium of body parts will soon carry I Heart Guts plushies, stickers and buttons, so if you’re in the Philly area and you just can’t wait, get your guts there.
