This Saturday and Sunday, The Morbid Anatomy Library and Observatory will be hosting our annual Holiday Fair. What will be available for purchase here, you might ask?

Above is a small sampling; from top: Waxwork of "Saint Anne Catherine Emmerich" of wax, real human hair, glass eyes by Sigrid Sarda; Mutant fanged evil vampire devil deer taxidermy mount rogue taxidermy exhibited at La Luz de Jesus Gallery by Katie Innamorato/After Life Anatomy; Chicks in Bell Jar by Amber Jolliffe; Cushions of Curiosity (Throw Pillows) by Elizabeth New; Insect shadow box by Daisy Tainton; Animal death mask by Katie Innamorato/After Life Anatomy; Morbid Anatomy tote bags and Votives, skulls and more from Noble's Exotica. And of course, there will also be beer from our friends at Brooklyn Brewery,

Full details for the fair follow; hope very much to see you there!

Morbid Anatomy and Observatory Holiday Fair

Holiday fair with multiple vendors serving your alternative holiday needs including taxidermy, waxworks, anthropomorphic insect tableaux, and deaccessioned books and artifacts from the Morbid Anatomy Library
Location: Observatory; 543 Union at Nevins, Brooklyn (enter via Proteus Gowanus Gallery)
Dates: Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9
Time: Noon - 6:00 PM
Admission: Free
Beer courtesy of our sponsor Brooklyn Brewery

Please join us on December 8th and 9th for a holiday fair, presented in conjunction with partner space Proteus Gowanus. This is the perfect place to purchase unique, niche, and off-the-beaten-path gifts for those hard-to-please folks on your shopping list.This years iteration will feature the taxidermy of anthropomorphic mouse taxidermy class teacher Sue Jeiven; the artisinal wax works of artist Sigrid Sarda; the insect shadowboxes of Daisy Tainton; taxidermic curiosities by Katie Innamorato and Amber Jolliffe; photography and deaccessioned books and artifacts from the Morbid Anatomy Library, "Andean goodies" from Alastair Noble; anatomical throw pillows by Elizabeth New; and the oddities of Mark Splatter all accompanied by music and beer provided by our sponsor Brooklyn Brewery.

You can find out more about this event by clicking here.

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Athanasius Kircher was a seventeenth-century German Jesuit scholar whose interests knew no bounds. From optics to music to magnetism to medicine, he offered up inventions and theories for everything, and they made him famous across Europe. Holy Roman Emperors were his patrons, popes were his friends, and in his spare time he collaborated with the Baroque master Bernini.

This lecture, occasioned by John Glassie's new book A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change, will take on Kircher's place as one of history's most unforgettable figures.

Joshua Foer is a science journalist and the author of the international best-seller Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. He is the erstwhile head of the Athanasius Kircher Society. He is also the co-founder of the design competition Sukkah City, and the Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the world’s wonders and curiosities. http://www.joshuafoer.com

Lawrence Weschler was a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine for twenty years, and is the author of over a dozen books, most recently Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative. Others include Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder for which he was a finalist for both the Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award, and Everything that Rises; A Book of Convergences for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 2007. He also directs the New York Institute for the Humanities. http://www.lawrenceweschler.com

John Glassie is the author of A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change, a biography of the 17th century polymath Athanasius Kircher. A former contributing editor to The New York Times Magazine, has written for The Believer, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Salon, Wired, and other publications. He is the author of the photo book Bicycles Locked to Poles and lives in Brooklyn, New York. http://www.johnglassie.com

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We here at Morbid Anatomy have been hard at work raising money on Kickstarter for the produciton of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology Volume 1--a lavishly-llustrated book comprising a collection of articles based on some of the best of the Morbid Anatomy Presents lectures and presentation series. You can find out more about this project by watching the video above, or clicking here.

This fundraising campaign will end in only 4 days; although co-editor Colin Dickey and I have already well surpassed our $8,000 goal, we are trying to raise as much money as we can with the goal of making this the most lavishly beautiful book it can be; of paying our 30+ contributors a decent honorarium; and, in the unlikely case of any left over funds, launching additional titles under the rubric of The Morbid Anatomy Press.

A mere $25  acts as a pre-order, and will secure you a copy of this lavishly illustrated book; higher pledges will get you the book plus additional books from our contributors, Morbid Anatomy tote bags, and/or limited edition prints from Morbid Anatomy's Anatomical Theatre and Secret Museum exhibitions.

I promise you that this will be a a fantastic book--beautiful and fascinating, and unlike anything else on the market; if you have not already done so, please consider supporting this project and securing a copy of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology Volume 1 of your very own by clicking here.

Also, please note, since originally announcing this book, we have added three wonderful new contributors to our roster: David Pescovitz of Boing Boing fame; Simon Chaplin, head of The Wellcome Library; and Mike Johns, Former Professor  of Psychology, University of Wyoming, Laramie.

The book will cover such topics as anthropodermic bibliopegy (ie. books bound in human skin), 19th Century "Diableries," Henry Wellcome's collections of preserved human tattoos, 19th century death-themed Parisian cabarets, extreme taxidermy, popular wax anatomical models, "collecting death," the uncanny allure of the Anatomical Venus, Santa Muerte and Death in Mexico, L'Inconnue de la Seine, Terror Management Theory, "artist of death" Frederik Ruysch, macabre collections, and "human zoos."

Contributors to the volume range from TV stars to collectors; rogue scholars to university professors; artists to museum curators; morticians to auto-autodidacts; scientists to cultural critics. A list, in no particular order:

• Evan Michelson, star of TV's "Oddities" and Morbid Anatomy Library Scholar in Residence Mark Dery, cultural critic and author of the upcoming The Doubtful Guest: The Mysterious Mind and Legendary Life of Edward Gorey
• David Pescovitz, Boing Boing 
• Paul Koudounaris, author/photographer of Empire of Death 
• Stephen Asma, author of Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads 
• Simon Chaplin, Head of The Wellcome Library  
• Caitlin Doughty of Order of the Good Death 
• Carl Schoonover, author of Portraits of the Mind  
• Mel Gordon, author of The Grand Guingol  
• Kate Forde, curator at The Wellcome Collection
• Pat Morris, author of Walter Potter and His Museum of Curious Taxidermy 
• Richard Faulk, author of Gross America 
• Writer Amber Jolliffe on Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class teacher Sue Jeiven 
• Elizabeth Bradley, author of Knickerbocker: The Myth behind New YorkAmy Herzog, professor of Professor of Media Studies at Queens College 
• Ronni Thomas, creator of The Midnight Archive 
• John Troyer, deputy director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath 
• Artist Zoe Bellof 
• Photographer Shannon Taggart 
• Richard Harris, "collector of death" 
• Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor Press 
• Ross MacFarlane of The Wellcome Library  
• Dániel Margócsy, professor of early modern history at Hunter College 
• Death in Mexico Scholar Salvador Olguin
• Bookmaker Daniel Smith 
• Gemma Angel, academic, writer, tattooist 
• Vadim Kosmos of The Last Tuesday Society 
• Michelle Legro of Lapham's Quarterly  
• Mike Johns, Social Psychologist
• Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy  
• Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty and Afterlives of the Saints

Again, this will be a very special, very different, and very beautiful book. Please, consider supporting this project, and helping actualize a world in which this kind of niche, high-quality publication can afford to exist; you can do so--by ordering a copy of your very own for only $25!--by clicking here.

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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/12/morbid-anatomy-anthology-ony-four-days.html

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1932 Ford Roadster Convertible for Sale
1932 Ford Roadster for sale in Chicago Illinois. This one of a kind 32 Ford is fresh off of a seven year build and over $200000 invested! Doug Mitchel featured this car with a 6 page spread in his book "The Anatomy of the Hot Rod". A copy of the book goes with the car. This car was built to be fast and comfortable with tons of power, light weight, and lots of options you don #39;t generally see in roadsters. A/C, heat,AM/FM/CD/Cassette player, leather interior, retractable soft convertible top that hides away when not in use, seat belts, tilt steering wheel, aluminum alloy wheels wrapped in radial performance tires, and even cup holders! This 1932 Ford Hi-Boy for sale is all fiberglass and has been stretched 6 inches up front, channeled three inches,doors lengthened, Jim Rench custom grill, has shaved door and trunk handles, reversed and flipped Honda taillights, custom license plate bracket recessed into the body, solid hood sides painted to match, and Colorado Custom 20" wheels. The frame is a Barry Cobeck that is very stiff and supports a Pete Jakes four bar rear end with coil over shocks all polished to a mirror finish. Wilwood disc brakes all around, 4" drop axle in the front with coil overs, all polished, and that #39;s just the start! This 1932 Ford for sale features a monster 454 CID V8 built by Step-Up Performance, that has been bored .030 over, has two Edelbrock 600 CFM carburetors, braided stainless fuel lines, a Holley fuel pump, polished headers running to 2 1/2 ...From:GatewayClassicCarsViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:56More inAutos Vehicles

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FOX 2013! You can see that I was looking at a van-dyke #39;s taxidermy catalog for anatomy reference :DI am so excited THOUGH, I #39;m getting really picky about symmetry and smoothness and workability now... which I #39;M VERY GLAD ... BUT. I still have some more smoothing to do and my fingers hurt. SO. BAD. lol. If you #39;re wondering why the nose is green, it #39;s because the nose is (unbaked) sculpey. which, after I mold the blank, I will take the nose of as is, and cast it in plaster for an exact silicone counterpart as an option with the blank 🙂 (still not sure how I feel about the side view though. the nose is kind of DERP sticking out too far. though I #39;m pretty happy with every other angle. Man. when I was sculpting this it was really looking like it was turning out to be a deer. so I was a little worried. but I think I got a good fox in the end D:From:AnarchpeaceViews:4 0ratingsTime:01:35More inEntertainment

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