I Heart Guts » organs

Eating Guts

gutsy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:10:53 +0000

I tried to make an alphabetical guts placemat for my two-year-old son, hoping to include every organ and gland we have around here. I got stuck after a while, though, once it dawned on me that spleen, sebaceous, stomach, sweat gland and salivary glands were going to make it very difficult to place all those guts. So I just made a placemat of of all the guts, alphabet be damned. I’ll letcha know how much information he actually absorbs as he flings food all over it.

Hello Gutsy!

gutsy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:24:12 +0000

Here’s a better look at those Hello Kitty anatomy figurines we got a sneak preview of at the Medicom Toy Exhibition in Tokyo. They better sell these things at the Hello Kitty Hospital in Taiwan. {via High Snobeity and BoingBoing. Thanks, Julie!}

What a Pill

gutsy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:15:44 +0000

Taking your medicine isn’t exactly exciting, but with the introduction of Power Pill, a new iPhone game to be released later this year, it might be a tiny bit more fun. You are in charge of getting this pill through your guts, but if you bump into the stomach or intestines on the way, you destroy them (that’s one powerful pill, I say). The graphics are pretty darned cute, and we like the faux ad for the mysterious cure-all pill — called Medicil RX — which “goes in your mouth” for “relief of symptoms.” {via CreativeApplications.net. Thanks Dom!}

After Our Own Heart

gutsy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:11:41 +0000

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.

Matters of the Heart

gutsy — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:46:51 +0000

We had tons of fun at last weekend’s Unique Los Angeles show, a shopping extravaganza that shows off the creative and crafty wonders of Los Angeles and beyond. One woman, who’d had open heart surgery as a child, bought a heart tee for her mom, who tried to watch the surgery on her daughter. After anaesthesia, the doctors took a saw to this little girl’s chest and mom promptly fainted. Lots of folks got Heart of Gold pins for mom, a few uteruses, too — even a mother’s day gall bladder! As usual, we just had fun meeting people and chatting. Our Black Heart got a mention from the wonderful folks over at Cool Hunting, who had eyes at the show. Woo hoo!

Full of Guts

gutsy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:23:43 +0000

Among the many good things at Wondercon 2009 in San Francisco last weekend was a seeing Guts, a large, glossy book of icky photos from the Tim Palen pop-horror genre (the Saw series, etc.) published by Baby Tattoo Books. Obviously, this one ain’t for kiddies, filled as it is with slasher-horror gut-spilling gore. Props to the packaging designer, who packed it up in a foam meat tray. We had a great time at the I Heart Guts booth, meeting nice people and sending some of them away with guts. Someone told me Carrie Fisher took a peek at our booth, but sadly I was helping another customer so I missed her. Oh well. Toycyte did a nice write-up on the guts, so thanks, Jeremy, it was nice to meet you!

Sew Darn Cute

gutsy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:14:36 +0000

I cannot resist the adorable wares at Loyal Army, they truly make the cutest stuff on earth, and now they have a cute heart trapped inside a ribcage. How I wish we had financial backing like they must have — they’ve got a huge range of stuff — allover print hoodies, kids stuff, etc. etc. Seeing such cute stuff is good for anyone obsessed with putting faces on inanimate objects. But I digress. You’ll be seeing even more and more from them this year, especially since they signed a licensing deal with the big boys.

Spleen-less Suffering

gutsy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:54:01 +0000

What is this thing? Why, it’s a spiky, gold-plated, hand-held vibrator that claims to rengenerate your organs! So if you’re missing, say, your gallbladder, the Guardian Angel is the tool for you. The Inquisitr blog pointed out one of several funny reviews of it from Amazon.com, including this gem: “Since losing my spleen in a shocking harpsichord-related accident, I have been searching for a product that would re-generate my lost organ. Imagine my delight when I stumbled upon the Guardian Angel… Tears of joy ran down my face when I read in the Product Features that it would also relieve stress, fatigue and insomnia – all conditions suffered by the spleen-less.” We figure they are talking about organ regeneration in the acupuncture sense of organs, but it’s still funny. And at $149, cheaper than the going rate for a transplant.

We <3 Our Customers!

gutsy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:34:43 +0000

We like to think our customers are the coolest customers in the world. Just got back from San Francisco’s Bazaar Bizarre, a fantastic show with tons of great goodies. We had the good fortune to be close to the good people of Nifnaks and Social Studies, great neighbors who make amazing stuff, be sure to check it all out, and we met some amazing people: a woman wearing a “Made of Recycled Parts” tee who’d just had a heart and lung transplant; a UCSF doc who used our gallbladder painting in a power point presentation; a woman who bought a plush uterus for her friend who celebrates the anniversary of her hysterectomy every year; a woman who wore her Gimme Some Sugar pancreas tee to her endocrinologist, who told her the pancreas on our shirt is backwards (oops, gotta fix that! or maybe his face is on the other side?) Anyway, we’d like to thank each and every person who came and checked out our booth, and we’re super grateful to those fun folks who took guts home for the holidays!

Does That Nurse Look Slightly Devilish To You?

gutsy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:29:56 +0000

Granted, they’re only happy because they’ve got a smile painted onto their plastic faces, but they’re nonetheless thrilled to be recouperating in Playmobil Hospital. I remember loving the older, crapper version back in the 80s, and if you’re like me, you’ll be impressed by how much better the new one is. We’re talking mini-defibrillators, an elevator, medical charts and all kinds of other stuff. Hopefully someone will hack it and make things a little more gory, kind of like this.