Anatomy and Function of the Eye
Anatomy and Function of the Eye.

By: Sasha Shlapak

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The Walking Dead Season 3 came to an end last week.

But there is a positive to this development: it means it’s time to go back to the 60s for AMC’s equally entertaining – albeit far less bloody – Mad Men.

I recently spent a day hanging out with the actors that fill the offices of Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Price to see if we could get any scoop out of their tight lips about the new season. Here are 11 things we found out that will get you ready for Sunday’s two-hour premiere...

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Don Draper’s duality: “We open with a man sitting in paradise reading about hell. And I think that's an interesting juxtaposition,” said Jon Hamm, who plays Don and does not utter a line for the first eight minutes of the season premiere. “We see it in the key art and as the season progresses you'll see a lot of dualities and two sides of this person.”

Season 6 Themes: To get a glimpse into what the new season is all about, creator Matthew Weiner broke down this poster: “There is a lot of meaning in it. It came from a dream…I had this dream and it was not Don, it was me. But a lot of stuff is like that. It could be, end up being expressed through Peggy or any of the characters but it was really about -- we don't wanna repeat ourselves on the show. But the fact is that you do repeat things in life. And coming back to a place where things are not so great and starting to realize that maybe you are the problem.”

He also said that one of the characters says in the first episode that 'people will do anything to alleviate their anxiety.’ That's what this season is about.” 

Joan as Partner: “We definitely are sort of exploring the fact that we have seen her all of a sudden become Partner and sort of what that means,” Christina Hendricks previewed. “Are people going to just all of a sudden turn around and, ‘Oh, Joan’s a partner. Let's treat her like a partner’…or is it a title and just everything same as usual?”

The fact that Joan slept with a client to help the business but also secure her partnership won’t be forgotten either, she teased: “It will always be something that she knows she did, but, I think, one of the things I really like about Joan is that she makes a decision, sticks with it, demands not to be judged for it in all sorts of things that she does throughout the show, and I think this is another one of those things.”

Is Peggy Gone? Elisabeth Moss said Weiner told her that Peggy leaving the firm did not mean it was over for her. She explained that at season five’s episode 11, the show’s creator “called me and said ‘all this stuff's gonna happen and you're gonna leave.’ I literally was like, ‘that sounds amazing: Am I still on the show?’ He was actually a little bit offended and he was like, ‘Of course! Yes!’”

Moss feels having a main character separate from the rest of the pack, “that’s the beauty of this show, it's not afraid to take that risk, to kind of give the audience a little bit of maybe what they don't want.”

Moss also said she was wrong to assume that it might mean less Peggy Mad Men Season 6: “I was actually pleasantly surprised by how much I had to do in this season. I was kind of expecting not to be in it so much, because I thought well, I'm at a different agency. And I'm pleasantly surprised.”

Megan In The Spotlight: The acting career of Megan (Jessica Paré) goes to higher heights in the new season, but will Don be okay with that?  “We ended last season with Don walking out of the light and into the shadow," Hamm said. "We saw Don leaving Megan in the spotlight and retreating to the shadow. I think that's significant.

A Don and Joan Coupling? Hendricks admitted she loves that the audience wants something to happen between the two characters and isn’t totally ruling it out from ever actually happening: “If it made sense for the characters,” she said, “I am sure if that was something that happened, it would be for a very good reason that Matt would inform us of.”

Jon Hamm, Director: The actor steps behind the camera again for an upcoming episode this season and he admitted it was a tougher challenge this time around: “I had a lot more to do in my episode this season as an actor,” he explained. “It was sort of a degree of difficulty more challenging in that respect. You are completely of two minds on set. It's a very, very difficult mindset to stay in. You're watching one thing as a director and especially if you're in the scene you're watching one thing as an actor.”

He credited watching Ben Affleck wear dual hats while shooting the film, The Town, for helping him take on the task.

Can Roger Keep It In His Pants? John Slattery (Roger) is directing the 10th episode of the season but also talked about whether Roger could ever be faithful to a woman.

“Faithful? I don't know, I don't know. I hope not. Because he really does appreciate people, I think. [His ex-wife] Mona, I think they have a great relationship. I think they sound like each other, Mona and Roger. And Mona and Joan sometimes. They sort of have a way of cutting through the bullshit and pointing something out.”

Sally Parenting Betty: One of the themes with Betty is how she connects with children better than adults yet has a strained relationship with her own kids. Why? “She is on the same emotional level,” explained January Jones, “and I think now Sally is even surpassing her emotional maturity in a way, and has become almost Betty’s parent.”

And while Betty’s second marriage to Henry continues in the new season, can Betty ever be happy? “I don’t think that she’s ever satisfied with her circumstances. It’s just a personality flaw.”

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http://www.tvfanatic.com/2013/04/mad-men-season-6-nine-things-to-know/

Clara got her official induction into the world of The Doctor in "Rings of Akhaten" with a trip to an alien world. It was magical and fun and reminded me a bit of one of the original words in the Star Wars franchise.

We learned very early in the episode the story of the leaf that was the first page of Clara's book from "The Bells of St. John," and with this magical alien world came the necessity to part with items very precious to you instead of money. It's all setting up a theme, but I'm sure that I cannot figure out what it is yet.

The Doctor is not giving up on his search for the mystery that is Clara Oswin Oswald. If his research is any indication, there will be no end to the intrigue any time soon. The leaf struck a man in the face and he was almost hit by a car. A woman saved him, and she became Clara's mother:

Man: So I've got something for ya.
Woman: What? Ya kept it?
Man: Of course I kept it.
Woman: Why?
Man: Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history. | permalink

The first page of Clara's book, "101 Places to See" was a duplicate copy of one her own mother, Ellie, had. In her mother's copy was the leaf. In Clara's was the progression of her age, as little girls will do to mark their possessions.

Minutes later, we see Clara at a grave of Ellie Ravenwood who died in 2005, holding the same book. Inside the book is the name Ellie Ravenwood, the same name on the gravestone, with the age 11 inscribed. The books themselves, from the different timelines, are different colors. Ellie Ravenwood, Clara's mother, died when Clara was 11 in 2005. None of it makes perfect sense to The Doctor and still he says, "She's not possible!"

It makes the story of our new companion all the more exciting, and his enjoyment of taking her on adventures is only enhanced by her mystery. I wonder why Clara's mother's grave was marked as Ravenswood while Clara's last name is Oswald. I'm sure we'll find out. Each time someone asked for a personal artifact to pay for passage of some sort, I imagined her pulling out "101 Places to See."

Nothing seems to phase our Clara, but the possibility of giving up what she remembers of her mother.

Did anyone else think that the god to whom Merry, the Queen of Years, had to sing her song looked an awful lot like a combination of the Grinch who stole Christmas and a sleestak?  It was going far too well for the story to end on a positive note, and for Merry to be captured and summoned to the mummy made perfect sense to the story of Clara so far. Because she is so much like Merry. As The Doctor said to Merry, there is only one Merry in the universe, and whether he likes it or not, there is only one Clara. He just cannot suss out how that's possible.

Something in Merry's song woke the sleeping god and he wanted to feed on her memories. In the end, The Doctor offered himself up as a sacrifice, giving one of the most exquisite speeches about who he is, where he has been and what he has seen over the past 50 years of Doctor Who I've ever heard. If I could have caught it all into a quote, I would have but it was beyond my capabilities. It was truly magnificent, right down to sharing that he had walked alone in the universe when there were no men and he was willing to give it all up to save the lives of all the others.

When in stepped Clara. Clara with her mother's copy of "101 Places to See," a book so well known and yet she was unable to come up with a single place to visit in the Tardis when asked by The Doctor where she would like to go. She opened her book and offered to the god the memories not of herself, but of a life unlived, that of her mother. All of the infinite possibilities that could have and should have been, but were not. The insatiable god took it, and exploded. As The Doctor said:

The Doctor: Well? Come on then. Eat up. You're full? I expect so. Because there's quite a difference between what was and what should have been. There's an awful lot of one but there's an infinity of the other. An infinity is too much, even for your appetite. | permalink

Clara saw that The Doctor was giving up everything to save the people of the worlds they were visiting, and in exchange, she gave up her most precious possession, the life her mother never lived and all of the promise it held to save The Doctor.

You all can argue with me and bring out examples of other companions and Doctors who have had great chemistry, even try to say what Clara has feels forced, but the last 15 minutes of this episode was epic. With Matt Smith's Doctor on his knees begging for his memories to be dragged out of his soul as salvation for generations with tears streaming down his face and Jenna-Louise Coleman's Clara taking that burden from him with a speech equally as emotional, I was moved to sobs. Not just tears. Sobs.

All of this will work it's way to the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Can you even imagine what Steven Moffat has in store for us? If the stories and the writing continues in this manner, I'm just going to watch from bed with a box of tissues. I realize they can go campy, funny or emotional, but so far I'm getting an emotional vibe that will knock my socks off. Note to self: don't wear socks.

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http://www.tvfanatic.com/2013/04/doctor-who-review-rings-of-akhaten/

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"One Angry Fuchsbau" was a rather modest episode for Grimm Season 2.

The callbacks, small moments and humor made for a fun, but mostly lighthearted installment. But that's about it.

The references to “La Llorona’s” spiritual grandma reminded us Juliette’s upcoming choice and further shed a little bit more on the type of decisions and world’s she’s about to enter: one filled with light or one filled with darkness.

Juliette isn’t sure what is real and what isn’t and the choice she’s going to make is going to lead her to a world with light or a world covered in darkness. I have a difficult time buying that Juliette’s dilemma has anything to do with the traditional good and evil archetypes because Grimm is never anything close to traditional and Juliette, for all her annoyances and faults, is a genuinely good character.

Juliette’s choice could end up being far simpler: a world filled with light is a world where she knows the truth, and a dark world is a world where she’s oblivious to what’s going on. The Grandma again reminds her that she has a choice to make, but, hypothetically, Juliette has already experienced a world filled with darkness. She’s currently living in it. She’s haunted by her reemerging memories of Nick; it’s literally a world where there’s a dark spot in her life.

If Juliette chooses to embrace those memories of Nick and to believe what he told her about the trailer and him, she’s in a world of light or enlightenment. She just needs to find the mental courage and fortitude to take the leap.

The longer arcs for the season didn’t get much play time with Renard getting a whopping single scene to clue Nick and Hank in on who went after him and to remind us of the Verrat. I guess he was such a badass last week he needs to be relegated to a few sentences to make up for it.

A Few More Thoughts:

• Mama Burkhardt is dropping Nick an email to check in. I hope this means we’ll get a return visit from her before the season is out.
• Adalind already has the pregnancy glow and Eric is planning a trip to see Renard.
• “Dropping toad” and Monroe’s entire scene trying to inject that frog is probably the most humorous Grimm has ever gone. I hope we can see Grimm’s sense of humor more often.

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http://www.tvfanatic.com/2013/04/grimm-review-dropping-toad/

It wasn't so much the "Loss of Faith" that I found so sad in this episode of Blue Bloods - but the inability of the people in a beautiful young girl's life to accept that her faith had changed.

Kathleen DeMotto had discovered new love but her death was caused when friends and family reacted with intolerance and hate.  

Joe couldn't handle that his childhood sweetheart would find someone else, nevermind revert to the Muslim faith. Kathleen's new boyfriend's brother hated her because she wasn't traditional Muslim. She couldn't seem to win.

I felt for Moustafa because of the torture he received as a 12-year old boy after 9/11. It simply proved that hate breeds hate. Where does it end? 

But in the end it was Kathleen's own father who took her out of this world.  He couldn't live with the fact that his little girl could make decisions for herself that he didn't agree with. When she turned her back on their Catholic faith his hold on her literally became deadly. 

Instead of a living Muslim daughter, he has a dead good Catholic girl. I'm sure that in his mind she'll never change.

The Pedro Mendoza story was scary, not only because he was an ex-cop going after other cops but because he could have been almost any guy you passed on the street. 

I like that Jamie and his partner have bonded more. The two may be different but they make a good team. They make me hope that Jamie gets a meatier story line before the season ends. 

As usual the family dinner scene was one of the best of the hour.  I liked how Frank answered when Nicky asked how he would react if Erin was dating a Muslim man.  That his knee-jerk Irish Catholic reaction would be to fight it but his better sense would remind him of what's important. If that man loved his daughter and treated her well, I have no doubt he'd get Frank's blessing no matter what his faith.

Danny's son asking to be Jewish was typical of any child who has seen the fun parts of religious celebration. Bar Mitzvah parties with plenty of presents are awesome but Hebrew school and giving up bacon, less so. 

As Frank pointed out in this funny Blue Bloods quote…

Bacon. The ultimate test of faith. | permalink

Truer words were never spoken. It's great to have Blue Bloods back.

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http://www.tvfanatic.com/2013/04/blue-bloods-review-hate-breeds-hate/

Never before has Dave's steak truck gotten so much attention in two consecutive Happy Endings episodes!

In "The Incident," Penny accidentally got the truck stolen when she borrowed it to move furniture. In the second installment, "Bros Before Bros," Dave went to war with a fellow steak truck owner known as "The Brazilian."

The Happy Endings happy hour was filled with sisterly fights, forbidden romances and a life sized Brad doll. Let's discuss.

In the first half of the hour, Max's hairdresser died and he needed a replacement. After trusting Dave for some stupid reason, he ended up looking like his clone, highlighted goatee and all. Jane and Alex to the rescue! Besides better skills, Jane and Alex's hair dresser played by RuPaul had a major advantage: gossip. Max being Max, he was obviously enticed and went to town with his new information. He's a troublemaker, he couldn't resist!

Everybody knows there are just certain things that are better left unsaid, especially within families. I have four siblings all who are married so I technically now have 8. You gotta know when to pick and choose your battles. Sometimes airing your grievances can just make it all worse, especially when you're Jane and Alex. The girls fighting went all the way back to childhood when there was an all out cold war. 

Max and Brad did a little digging and found an article that talked about how the girls made up. Question posed by Max, what's creepier: the random anatomically correct doll of Brad or the fact that a local newspaper was super obsessed with Jane and Alex? At least the paper had some answers. Nana Kerkovich to the rescue and all was right in the world again! Also Dave found his truck and had to sanitize it after the guy who stole it, admitted to making love to the meat...literally.

On to the second episode: Steak Me Home Tonight got even more attention as Dave braced for opening day at Wrigley field when he'd have to face his steak truck rival: The Brazilian. With the girls off planning Penny's wedding, the boys helped Dave plot to win the steak-off. Sidenote, how timely was Alex's comment about North Korea:

You had Jane plan you a backup wedding in an underground bunker just in case North Korea quote grew a pair, but you never thought of who's gonna walk you down the aisle? | permalink

What's scary about that timely and relevant comment was that it was made my Alex. Did you see her 4th grade book report that Max found? "F, is this a joke?" Amazing. Enter Penny's long lost dad who abandoned her to be an actor at a young age. He had a hard road with having to impress Jane, but he managed to do so after buying Penny her dream dress and getting involved in the steak truck showdown.

That showdown may never have happened but of course Max had to make trouble once again and sleep with the competition's son. Oh Max, what are we going to do with you? If it weren't for the fact that your actions resulted in a Ladybugs reference, I might have been kinda mad at your for messing things up for Dave!

He's not lying. He once Ladybugs'd himself into a Jr. High girls soccer tournament, bet against the team, and threw the game. | permalink

Amazing and under-appreciated movie reference. This is why I love Happy Endings! I thought this week's back to back episodes were better than last weeks. How about you guys? Hit the comments! 

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http://www.tvfanatic.com/2013/04/happy-endings-review-sister-act-and-star-crossed-lovers/

At first, "Tipping Point" appeared to be a Nikita episode about Michael getting a fully operational arm again. But turned into so much more. Wow. 

What a freaking twist! I didn't see it coming at all, did you? Even on my second viewing of the episode, I didn't find any glaring clues the Alex was behind the mutiny. It was obvious that Amanda did something to her, but the extent of Alex's shift in mind frame was utterly shocking. Kudos to the writers and to Lyndsy Fonseca for her outstanding performance.

In "Inevitability," Ryan and Nikita took back total control of Division and re-committed to bringing in the Dirty Thirty, shutting down Division, and getting everyone their freedom. They completely shut down Division's role in black operations for the US government. While the search for the Dirty Thirty may have been happening in the background, Michael set out on his own to find a better solution to replace his artificial arm.

Heidecker may have been trafficking in children, but his organization named "The Shop" by Birkhoff had the capability to replace Michael's arm and he wasn't going to ignore that option. He headed out on his own to get the data to find them. What started out as a simple mission for Michael and Nikita turned into something much more dangerous for them and unexpectedly for the safety of Division.

While it makes sense that Michael would want to get a working arm back, was the cost worth it? Jason died after he volunteered to help infiltrate the Chinese company and steal the prion in exchange for a new arm. He gave his life for Michael's arm. That alone was an enormous cost, but it had even farther reaching consequences.

After Alex revealed that the US government was willing to exterminate everyone at Division, a mutiny was formed. Rachel and others were working on a plan to escape from Division. Their initial plan to blow up the tracker data on the Division servers failed, but they were determined to come up with another way. After Jason died on a side mission for Nikita and Michael, the mutiny's recruitment expanded.

At first, I couldn't understand why they wouldn't trust Ryan and Nikita after they revealed everything. Though, after considering what I would do if I was in Rachel's position, it made more sense. Percy, Amanda, and even Ryan and Nikita lied to them. Why would they believe them now? After everything they have been through, why wouldn't they take matters into their own hands now that they can?

Only they don't understand the greater consequences of their actions. A mutiny could force the government to take final and complete action to get rid of Division. The mutineers are unwittingly putting them all in danger. In order to shut it down and protect everyone, Sean set up a trap and it caught Rachel. She was the one that hacked the computer system to allow access to the server room.

She may have claimed to be the leader, but she messed up. IT WAS ALEX! What?!?! That was such a shock. Even though it was clear that Alex hadn't been herself since South Ossetia, it never crossed anyone's mind that she was involved with the mutiny. Amanda manipulated Alex's memories about her time in the brothel and transferred her regrets over not saving the girls there to the operatives at Division.

Alex was determined to rewrite her history by being the savior of the souls at Division. And, she went as far as shooting Ryan and then convincing Rachel to take the fall. Alex may be somewhat delusional, but she still has her training. Going forward, will Alex be able to keep her true intentions a secret from those around her? Especially from Sean? 

It was disappointment to see Alex go through with the mutiny plans, shoot Ryan, and use Rachel to cover it up even after hearing Nikita's plan for dealing with the mutineers. Nikita gave Alex an out, but she wasn't able to overcome Amanda's programming to see the right path to take.

Nikita: We're going to march them out in front of everyone ... and we're going to forgive them. This isn't the old Division anymore. | permalink

There is some hope that Alex will reveal herself though. After Rachel was captured, Alex and Nikita had a discussion about her plan and the ultimate outcome. It provided insight into Alex's beliefs on the matter and if she continues to be that open, Nikita will see through her.

Nikita: So she wants us all dead.
Alex: She wants everyone to be free. | permalink

Or, perhaps, Nikita will get through to Alex that if the mutiny succeeds that it won't end in freedom, but in death for them all. Either way, it's a dangerous road that's ahead for everybody at Division. Plus, now there is a potential additional threat from "The Shop." And, of course, Amanda is still out there and determined to make Nikita pay.

Were you shocked when Alex was revealed as the leader of the mutiny? Should Michael have made the deal to get a new arm? Who is the biggest threat to Division right now? Mutiny? Amanda? The Shop?

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http://www.tvfanatic.com/2013/04/nikita-review-tipping-point/

"Little Fish" featured the Vegas girls leaving town and the cowboys on the losing end…or so it seemed.

Apparently Frank Blackwell likes his hookers young, which turned out to be a problem for the Savoy. As I watched, I contemplated how things have changed. Would 17 still be legally considered a minor in most states if this case happened today?

I know Ralph wanted to help the girl but he was sure quick to turn on Catherine when she had to let Patricia go.  There's bending the rules and then there's not following the law at all.  Catherine had no legal right to hold Patricia, although perhaps someone should have asked the mom to show some ID. Not that it wouldn't have been easy enough to fake one in 1960.

Mia has turned out to be one of the strongest characters one the show.  She gave Patricia a new life in a way that no one else could and then made sure Frank understood exactly what would happen to him if he ever ratted on the details of the skim from her count room.  Frank should consider himself lucky. If his conversation had been with Savino it probably would have ended up under six feet of desert. 

It's good to know that Mia has her doubts about Vince. He never gave her a straight answer to her question about telling Rizzo she was a rat. Mia's smart enough to spot a dodge when she sees one.

I had no idea what Jack was thinking when he assaulted Savino in his own office.  It appeared reckless and foolish and he was lucky not to get arrested or killed. Then the other shoe dropped.

Jack planted a bug in Savino's phone. I wonder when wire tapping laws went into effect. My guess is it wasn't in 1960.

It was funny listening to Savino lament about his fish having scale rot. It seems big time mobsters have small time problems too.

Dixon was very cute as he couldn't take his clothes off fast enough to jump in the pool with Violet. They make a sweet couple but I don't know what he expects when he gets to Los Angeles. Violet likes him but I don't see her walking away from her life long dream of becoming a starlet just to be his girlfriend back in Vegas.

Yvonne was a surprise. The girl can definitely sing. I wouldn't mind seeing the look on her face when she has her first real pastrami sandwich either. She'll understand the need to have one delivered from 300 miles away.

Will Mia ever give Jack a second chance?  Will Yvonne or Violet make it big in Hollywood? Is there any hope for a relationship between Ralph and Catherine? 

After a hiatus of several weeks, are you happy to be back in Vegas?

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http://www.tvfanatic.com/2013/04/vegas-review-every-girl-deserves-a-cowboy/

The dissection of iconic childhood cartoons continues to thrive! Italian digital artist Alessandro Conti’s Inhuman Anatomy series details the anatomy of beloved Disney characters, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy, and Pluto. It sounds like Alessandro’s gotten some great feedback on his Inhuman series and will continue to do more. Keep an eye out!

Also, is anyone else slightly freaked out by Mickey and Minnie? Hide your kids.

If you like these, also check out Jason Freeny’s dissections of popular childhood toys!

[via Who Killed Bambi]

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The Vampire Diaries Season 4 is on hiatus until April 18.

But TV Line has given fans something rather significant to ponder in the meantime.

The website confirms that Steven R. McQueen will return to The CW drama at some point this spring, though the form he takes is still unknown.

Might Silas pass himself off as the deceased younger brother of Elena? Or might The Other Side be destroyed and Jeremy join a number of other returning characters in Mystic Falls this May?

My guess: considering The Originals is all but guaranteed to be picked up... and it would mean a rash exist for multiple regulars... The Other Side will, indeed, be removed, paving the way for Jeremy and others (Lexi?) to rejoin the series for Season 5.

Source:
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2013/04/the-vampire-diaries-spoilers-whos-coming-back/

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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/04/happy-belated-good-friday-our-lady-of.html

Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Divya Anantharaman
Date: Saturday, April 6
Time: 1-5 PM
Admission: $110
***Please note: This class will be held offsite at Acme Studio : 63 N. 3rd Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Advance Tickets Required; Click here to purchase
Email divya.does.taxidermy at gmail dot com with questions or to be put on wait list
Class limit: 10
This class is part of the Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

• We use NO harsh or dangerous chemicals.
• Everyone will be provided with gloves.
• All animals are disease free.
• Although there will not be a lot of blood or gore, a strong constitution is necessary; taxidermy is not for everyone
• All animals were already dead, nothing was killed for this class.
• Please do not bring any dead animals with you to the class.

Class: The Victorian Art of Hair Jewelry with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann

Naturalistic Squirrel taxidermy class with Divya AnantharamanDate: Sund
ay, April 7

Time: 12 – 6 PM
Admission: $250 (Limited to 5 Students)
***Tickets MUST be pre-ordered by clicking here
You can also pre-pay in person at the Observatory during open hours.
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

In this intimate, hands-on class (limited to only five students), we will study the nutty ways of the squirrel! Students will create a fully-finished classic squirrel mount in a natural sitting position. Students will learn everything involved in producing a finished mount - from initial preparation, hygiene and sanitary measures, to proper technique and dry preservation. The class will teach how to use and modify a pre-made form to suit the nuances of each unique animal. The use of anatomical study, reference photos, and detailed observation will also be reviewed as important tools in recreating the natural poses and expressions that magically reanimate a specimen. A selection of natural props will be provided, however, students are welcome to bring their own bases and accessories if something specific is desired. All other supplies will be provided for use in class.

Each student will leave class with a fully-finished piece, and the knowledge to create their own pieces in the future.

Divya Anantharaman is a Brooklyn based artist whose taxidermy practice was sparked by a lifelong fascination with natural mythology and everyday oddities. After a journey filled with trial and error, numerous books, and an inspiring class (Sue Jeiven's popular Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class at Observatory!), she has found her calling in creating sickly sweet and sparkly critters. Beginning with mice and sparrows, her menagerie grew to include domestic cats, woodchucks, and deer. Recently profiled on Vice Fringes, the New York Observer, and other publications, she will also be appearing in the upcoming season of Oddities-and is definitely up to no good shenanigans. You can find out more at http://www.d-i-v-y-a.com

Also, some technical notes:

• We use NO harsh or dangerous chemicals.
• Everyone will be provided with gloves.
• All animals are disease free.
• Although there will not be a lot of blood or gore, a strong constitution is necessary; taxidermy is not for everyone
• All animals were already dead, nothing was killed for this class.

Bartitsu-The Victorian Self Defense System: A lecture and Demonstration by The Bartitsu Club of New York and Ghoul A Go Go’s Vlad Tsepis

Raccoon Head Taxidermy Class with Rogue Taxidermist Katie Innamorato

Bat in Glass Dome Workshop

A Fate Worse Than Death: The Perils of Being a Famous Corpse with Bess Lovejoy, Author of Rest in Pieces

Anthropomorphic Insect Shadowbox Workshop with Former AMNH Senior Insect Preparator Daisy TaintonWith Daisy Tainton, Senior Insect Preparator at the American Museum of Natural History
Date: Saturday, May 11th
Time: 1 – 4 PM
Admission: $75
***Tickets MUST be pre-ordered by clicking here
You can also pre-pay in person at the Observatory during open hours.
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

Today, join former AMNH Senior Insect Preparator Daisy Tainton for Observatory’s popular Anthropomorphic Insect Shadowbox Workshop. In this class, students will work with Rhinoceros beetles: nature’s tiny giants. Each student will learn to make–and leave with their own!–shadowbox dioramas featuring carefully positioned beetles doing nearly anything you can imagine. Beetles and shadowboxes are provided, and an assortment of miniature furniture, foods, and other props will be available to decorate your habitat. Students need bring nothing, though are encouraged to bring along dollhouse props if they have a particular vision for their final piece; 1:12 scale work best.

BEETLES WILL BE PROVIDED. Each student receives one beetle approximately 2-3 inches tall when posed vertically.

Daisy Tainton was formerly Senior Insect Preparator at the American Museum of Natural History, and has been working with insects professionally for several years. Eventually her fascination with insects and  love of Japanese miniature food items naturally came together, resulting in cute and ridiculous museum-inspired yet utterly unrealistic dioramas. Beetles at the dentist? Beetles eating pie and knitting sweaters? Even beetles on the toilet? Why not?

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Class: The Victorian Art of Hair Jewelry with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann 

Morbid Anatomy Presents at London's Last Tuesday Society this June and July
A series of London-based events, workshops, special tours, screenings and spectacles surveying the interstices of art and medi
cine, death and culture curated by Observatory's Morbid Anatomy
Date: June 2 - July 25
Time: Variable, but most lectures begin at 7 PM
Location: The Last Tuesday Society at 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP map here) unless otherwise specified

The series will feature Morbid Anatomy's signature mix of museum professionals, professors, librarians, artists, rogue scholars, and autodidacts--many flown in direct from Morbid Anatomy's base in Brooklyn, New York--to elucidate on a wide array of topics including (but not limited to!) The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead; "human zoos;" "speaking reliquaries;" why music drives women mad; eccentric folk medicine collections; Santa Muerte (or "Saint Death); dissection and masturbation; dissection and magic; Victorian memorial hair jewelry; the "hot nurse" in popular fiction; The Danse Macabre; "a cinematic survey of The Vampires of London;" and anatomical waxworks and death.

There will be also two special backstage tours: one of the legendary Blythe House, home of the vast and incredible collection of Henry Wellcome and the other of the Natural History Museum's zoological collection, featuring the famously gorgeous Blaschka invertebrate glass model collection; a special magic lantern show featuring "the weirdest, most inappropriate and completely baffling examples of lantern imagery" conjured by collector and scholar Professor Heard, author of Phantasmagoria- The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern; a screening of rare short films from the BFI National Archive documenting folk music, dance, customs and sport; and workshops in the creation of Victorian hair work, lifelike wax wounds, and bat skeletons in glass domes.

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Wax Wound Workshop with medical artist Eleanor Crook
Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 1:00 - 5:00 PM
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Let acclaimed sculptor Eleanor Crook guide you in creating your very own wax wound. Crook has lent her experience to professionals ranging from forensic law enforcement officers to plastic surgeons, so is well placed to help you make a horrendously lifelike scar, boil or blister.
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Art, Wax, Death and Anatomy : Illustrated lecture with art historian Roberta Ballestriero
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 7:00pm
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Wax modelling, or ceroplastics, is of ancient origin but was revived in 14th century Italy with the cult of Catholic votive objects, or ex votos.  Art Historian Roberta Ballestriero will discuss the art and history of wax modeling sacred and profane; she will also showcase many of its greatest masterworks.
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Music Driving Women Mad: The History of Medical Fears of its Effects on Female Bodies and Minds: Illustrated lecture with Dr. James Kennaway
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 7:00pm
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Over the past few centuries, countless physicians and writers have asserted that music could cause very serious medical problems for the 'weaker sex'. Not only could it bring on symptoms of nervousness and hysteria, it could also cause infertility, nymphomania and even something called 'melosexualism'. This talk will give an outline of this strange debate, using the raciest stories to be found in gynaecological textb
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Solitary vice? Sex and Dissection in Georgian London With Dr Simon Chaplin
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 7:00pm
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In this lavishly illustrated lecture, Simon Chaplin explores the sexual undertones of the anatomy schools of Georgian London, in which students dissected grave-robbed bodies in the back-rooms of their teachers' houses, while their masters explored new strategies for presenting their work to polite audiences through museums and lectures.
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Heartthrobs of the Human Zoo: Ethnographic Exhibitions and Captive Celebrities of Turn of the Century America: An Illustrated Lecture with Betsy Bradley
Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 7:00pm
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From ransomed Congolese pygmies to winsome Eskimo babies, the American world's fairs and patriotic expositions  present history with a number of troubling ethnographic celebrities, and their stories offer a rare glimpse inside the psychology and culture of imperial America at the turn of a new century.
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The Astounding Collection of Henry Wellcome: Blythe House Backstage Tour with Selina Hurley, Assistant Curator of Medicine, The Science Museum
Friday, June 7, 2013 at 3:00pm
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Henry Wellcome (1853 - 1936)----early pharmaceutical magnate and man behind the Wellcome Trust, Collection, and Library--was the William Randolph Hearst of the medical collecting world. That collection, possibly the finest medical collection in the world, now resides in Blythe House, kept in trust by The Science Museum on permanent loan from the Wellcome Trust. Today, a lucky fifteen people will get a rare chance to see this collection, featuring many artifacts of which have never before been on public view, in this backstage tour led Selina Hurley, Assistant Curator of Medicine at The Science Museum.
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Neapolitan Cult of the Dead with Chiara Ambrosio
Monday, June 10, 2013 at 7:00pm
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In tonight's illustrated lecture, Italian artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio will elucidate this curious and fascinating "Neapolitan Cult of the Dead" and situate it within a the rich death culture and storied history of Naples.
  
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A Vile Vaudeville of Gothic Attractions: Illustrated lecture by Mervyn Heard, author of Phantasmagoria- The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 7:00pm
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An illustrated talk in which writer and showman 'Professor' Mervyn Heard waxes scattergun- sentimental over some of the more bizarre, live theatrical experiences of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century - from the various ghastly manifestations of the phantasmagoria to performing hangmen, self-crucifiers and starving brides.

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Professor Heard's Most Extraordinary Magic Lantern Show with Mervyn Heard
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 7:00pm
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Professor Heard is well known to patrons of the Last Tuesday Lecture programme for his sell-out magic lantern entertainments. In this latest assault on the eye he summons up some of the weirdest, most inappropriate and completely baffling examples of lantern imagery, lantern stories and optical effects by special request of Morbid Anatomy.

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"Speaking Reliquaries" and Christian Death Rituals: Part One of "Hairy Secrets" Series With Karen Bachmann
Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7:00pm
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3-part series on human relics and Victorian mourning jewelry--master jeweler and art historian Karen Bachmann will focus on what are termed "speaking" reliquaries: the often elaborate containers which house the
preserved body parts--or relics--of saints and martyrs with shapes which reflect that of the body-part contained within.

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Hair Art Workshop Class: The Victorian Art of Hair Jewellery With Karen Bachmann
Friday, June 14, 2013 at 1:00pm
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Hair jewellery was an enormously popular form of commemorative art that began in the late 17th century and reached its zenith during the Victorian Era. Hair, either of someone living or deceased, was encased in metal lockers or woven to enshrine the human relic of a loved one. This class will explore a modern take on the genre.

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The History of the Memento Mori and Death's Head Iconography: Part Two of "Hairy Secrets" Series Illustrated lecture with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann
Friday, June 14, 2013 at 7:00pm
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In tonight's lecture--the second in a 3-part series on human relics and Victorian mourning jewelry--master jeweler and art historian Karen Bachmann will explore the development of the memento mori,objects whose very raison d'être is to remind the beholder that they, too, will die.

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Hair Art Workshop Class: The Victorian Art of Hair Jewellery With Karen Bachmann
Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 1:00pm (More here)
Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 1:00pm (More here)

Hair jewellery was an enormously popular form of commemorative art that began in the late 17th century and reached its zenith during the Victorian Era. Hair, either of someone living or deceased, was encased in metal lockers or woven to enshrine the human relic of a loved one. This class will explore a modern take on the genre.

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The Victorian Love Affair with Death and the Art of Mourning Hair Jewelry: Illustrated lecture with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann
Monday, June 17, 2013 at 7:00pm
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The Victorians had a love affair with death which they expressed in a variety of ways, both intensely sentimental and macabre. Tonight's lecture-the last in a 3-part series on human relics and Victorian mourning jewelry-will take as its focus the apex of the phenomenon of hair jewelry fashion in the Victorian Era as an expression of this passion.

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Dissection and Magic with Constanza Isaza Martinez
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 7:00pm
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This lecture examines images of human corpses in Early Modern European art in relation to two specific themes: the practice of 'witchcraft' or 'magic'; and the emergent medical profession, particularly anatomical dissection.
  
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Future Death. Future Dead Bodies. Future Cemeteries Illustrated lecture by Dr. John Troyer, Deputy Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath
Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 7:00pm
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Dr. John Troyer, from the Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath, will discuss three kinds of postmortem futures: Future Death, Future Dead Bodies, and Future Cemeteries. Central to these Futures is the human corpse and its use in new forms of body disposal technology, digital technology platforms, and definitions of death.

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‘She Healed Their Bodies With Her White Hot Passions’: The Role of the Nurse in Romantic Fiction with Natasha McEnroe Illustrated lecture Natasha McEnroe, Director of the Florence Nightingale Museum
Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 7:00pm
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Victorian portrayals of the nurse show either a drunken and dishonest old woman or an angelic and devoted being, which changes to a 20th-century caricature just as pervasive - that of the 'sexy nurse'. In this talk, Natasha McEnroe will explore the links between the enforced intimacy of the sickroom and the handling of bodies for more recreational reasons.

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Face lift or face reconstruction? Redesigning the Museum Vrolik, Amsterdam's anatomical museum An illustrated lecture with Dr. Laurens de Rooy, curator of the Museum Vrolik in Amsterdam
Monday, June 24, 2013 at 7:00pm
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Counting more than five thousand preparations and specimens, the Museum Vrolikianum, the private collection of father Gerard and his son Willem Vrolik was an amazing object of interest one hundred and fifty years ago. In the 1840s and 50s this museum, established in Gerard's stately mansion on the river Amstel, grew into a famous collection that attracted admiring scientists from both the Netherlands and abroad. In this talk, Museum Vrolik curator Dr Laurens de Rooy will take you on a guided tour of the new museum, and give an overview of all the other aspects of the 'new' Museum Vrolik.

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The Walking Dead in 1803: An Illustrated Lecture with Phil Loring, Curator of Psychology at the Science Museum in London
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 7:00pm
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A visiting Italian startled Londoners at the turn of the 19th century by making decapitated animals and executed men open their eyes and move around, as if on the verge of being restored to life. This was not magic but the power of electricity from the newly invented Galvanic trough, or battery. This talk will discuss a variety of historical instruments from the Science Museum's collections that figured in these re-animation experiments, including the apparatus used by Galvani himself in his laboratory in Bologna.
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The Influencing Machine: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom with Mike Jay
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 7:00pm
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Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews' case is one of the most bizarre in the annals of psychiatry. He was the first person to insist that his mind was being controlled by a machine: the Air Loom, a terrifying secret weapon whose mesmeric rays and mysterious gases were brainwashing politicians and plunging Europe into revolution, terror and war. But Matthews' case was even stranger than his doctors realised: many of the incredible conspiracies in which he claimed to be involved were entirely real.

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A Waxen France: Madame Tussaud’s Representations of the French: Illustrated Lecture by Pamela Pilbeam Emeritus Professor of French History, Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks
Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 7:00pm
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Madame Tussaud's presentation of French politics and history did much to inform and influence the popular perception of France among the British. This lecture will explore that view and how it changed during the nineteenth century.

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Backstage Tour of the Zoological Collection of the Natural History Museum with Miranda Lowe
Friday, June 28, 2013 at 3:00pm
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Today, ten lucky people will get to join Miranda Lowe, Collections Manager of the Aquatic In
vertebrates Division, for a special backstage tour of The Natural History Museum of London. The tour will showcase the zoological spirit collections in the Darwin Centre, some of Darwin's barnacles and the famed collection of glass marine invertebrate models crafted by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the 19th and early 20th century.
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Bat in Glass Dome Workshop: Part of DIY Wunderkammer Series With Wilder Duncan (formerly of Evolution Store, Soho) and Laetitia Barbier, head librarian at The Morbid Anatomy Library
Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 1:00pm (more here)
Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 1:00pm (more here)

In this class, students will learn how to create an osteological preparation of a bat in the fashion of 19th century zoological displays. A bat skeleton, a glass dome, branches, glue, tools, and all necessary materials will be provided for each student.  The classes will focus on teaching ancient methods of specimen preparation that link science with art: students will create compositions involving natural elements and, according to their taste, will compose a traditional Victorian environment or a modern display.
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The Coming of Age of the Danse Macabre on the Verge of the Industrial Age with Alexander L. Bieri Illustrated lecture with Alexander L. Bieri
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 7:00pm
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The lecture not only discusses Schellenberg's danse macabre in detail, but also gives an insight into the current fascination with vanitas and its depictions, especially focusing on the artistic exploitation of the theme and takes into consideration the history of anatomical dissection and preparation.
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"Viva la Muerte: The Mushrooming Cult of Saint Death" Illustrated lecture and book signing with Andrew Chesnut
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 7:00pm
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The worship of Santa Muerte, a psuedo Catholic saint which takes the form of a personified and clothed lady death, is on the rise and increasingly controversial in Mexico and the United States. Literally translating to "Holy Death" or "Saint Death," the worship of Santa Muerte-like Day of the Dead-is a popular form of religious expression rooted in a rich syncretism of the beliefs of the native Latin Americans and the colonizing Spanish Catholics.
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From Blue Beads to Hair Sandwiches: Edward Lovett and London's Folk Medicine: An Illustrated lecture with Ross MacFarlane, Research Engagement Officer in the Wellcome Library
Monday, July 15, 2013 at 7:00pm
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During his life Edward Lovett (1852-1933) amassed one of the largest collections of objects pertaining to 'folk medicine' in the British Isles.  Lovett particularly focused his attention on objects derived from contemporary, working class Londoners, believing that the amulets, charms and mascots he collected - and which were still being used in 20th century London - were 'survivals' of antiquated, rural practices.
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The Vampires of London: A Cinematic Survey with William Fowler (BFI) and Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor)
Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 7:00pm
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This heavily illustrated presentation and film clip selection explores London's Highgate Cemetery as a locus of horror in the 1960s and 1970s cinema, from mondo and exploitation to classic Hammer horror.
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"Here's a Health to the Barley Mow: a Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games" Screenings of Short Films from the BFI Folk Film Archives with William Fowler
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 7:00pm
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Tonight, the British Film Institute's William Fowler will present a number of rare and beautiful short films from the BFI National Archive and Regional Film Archives showing some of our rich traditions of folk music, dance, customs and sport. Highlights include the alcoholic folk musical Here's a Health to the Barley Mow (1955), Doc Rowe's speedy sword dancing film and the Padstow Mayday celebration Oss Oss Wee Oss (Alan Lomax/Peter Kennedy 1953).
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Of Satyrs, Horses and Camels: Natural History in the Imaginative Mode: illustrated lecture by Daniel Margócsy, Hunter College, New York
Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 7:00pm
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From its beginnings, science was (and still is) an imaginative and speculative enterprise, just like the arts. This talk traces the exchange of visual information between the major artists of the Renaissance and the leading natural historians of the scientific revolution. It shows how painters' and printmakers' fictitious images of unicorns, camels and monkfish came to populate the botanical and zoological encyclopedias of early modern Europe.

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You can find out more on all events here.

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Another captivating piece by Italian artist Valentina Formisano! This stop motion animation was created entirely by hand as a didactical book for children to learn about the inner working of the human body. It is inspired by the books of Italian artist and designer, Bruno Munari. I love how each piece of the animation can stand on its own as a beautiful graphic representation of anatomy.

View more of Valentina’s work at  behance.net/TeletubbiesGiallo.

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