These anatomical costumes were created for an act called, Body Strip, for the Technomania Circus.

The performer says of her work,

I start off wearing all five unitards & dance to classic burlesque music as Richard [the other performer] peels off layers in succession. First the skin is taken off, revealing muscles; then the muscles are removed, showing the organs; organs give way to the circulatory system; in the end, I’m left wearing the bones. It worked really well.

[retrieved from Herodias in Space]

About 30 years ago potter Chez Galip opened The Hair Museum in Avanos, Cappadocia in Turkey. According to Oddity Central, Galip opened the museum after a departing friend left him a piece of her hair. The museum, located below Galip’s shop, is home to thousands of locks of hair that women have left over the years.

I saw the pictures first on BuzzFeed and when doing an Internet search discovered, that while this hair museum sadly has no site, there is a site for Leila’s Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri. Leila’s museum is a collection of wreaths and jewelry all made from hair.

Playfulness balances with memento mori in this blindingly bright orange screen print designed exclusively for Street Anatomy by designer and screen printer, Ryan Gerdes.

Available for $25 at the Street Anatomy store!

Blissfully Departed 12” x 18” screen print

• 12″x18″ plastisol screen print, 2011
• Printed on plate surface bristol sheet
• Limited edition of 25 prints, numbered and signed by artist

A graduate of Linfield College in art and visual culture, Ryan Gerdes is a successful designer and screen-printer working in Portland. He recently started his own screen-printing studio called 3Bird Press.

Ryan says of his work,

I’m a digital artist, I spend 50 hours a week at a corporate job creating corporate imagery.  The thing I love about screen printing, my true passion, is the handmade quality—when there is a “mistake”, I embrace it.  Like mis-registered skulls or the ink not quite covering all the the substrate.  I say, if you really want a perfect image, clean and crisp and the same as the one you saw online, buy a digital print.

Available at the Street Anatomy store for $25.  Only 25 available!

As part of that noble effort which is Obscura Day, why not come down to Coney Island, take in Morbid Anatomy's brand new exhibition "The Great Coney Island Spectacularium" (which opens the day before), check out Super Freak Weekend, and celebrate the premiere of season two of "Oddities" with free Hendricks Gin cocktails, episode viewing, and general revelry assorted cast members?

Why not indeed!

Full details follow; really hope to see you there!

Title: Coney Island Spectacularium and "Oddites" Screening
Date: Saturday, April 9
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Cost: $15.00
Where: The Coney Island Museum, Surf Avenue, Brooklyn
Click here to purchase tickets

Party in the Coney Island Museum to celebrate the opening of the Coney Island Spectacularium, super freak weekend, and meet the stars of the Discovery Channel show Oddities at the premiere of season two.

At the end of the 19th Century, Coney Island was the pinnacle of an astonishing era of live attractions – the Great Coney Island Spectacularium aims to recreate that momentous age, bringing you sites, sounds, and immersive experiences that can’t be seen anywhere else on earth. The attendees of this event will be the first to experience this taste of Coney Island at the height of its spectacle with the opening of the Coney Island Spectacularium.

But that is only one part of this multi-faceted event! Also taking place is a sideshow performance by some of the countries best sideshow performers gathered in Coney for the annual super freak weekend.

Topping it all off is the premiere of season two of the Discovery Channel show Oddities, with its stars Mike and Evan in attendance! Free Hendrick's Gin cocktails will be served upstairs, and there will be a cash bar (wine and beer) available downstairs.

Details/Special Instructions:
Doors open at 8:00, screening of the season premiere at 8:30.
Tickets are $15.

It’s also day two of the Congress of Curious Peoples, Coney Island USA’s 10-day series of lectures and performances about curiosity and curiosities, broadly conceived, so be sure to check out the schedule for the rest of the week..
Obscura Day is an international celebration of unusual places, happening all over the world on April 9, 2011.

Visit ObscuraDay.com to see all of our 2011 events.

To by tickets, click here. For more about the Great Coney Island Spectacularium, click here. For more about "Oddities," click here.

Created by Visionary Effects for any human, or human-sized creature.  You can actually buy the fully assembled kit at animatronicparts.com for any of your human eye needs.

[via Gizmodo]