Available for $10 at the Street Anatomy store! [SOLD OUT]

Limited edition mini Organ Donor key chains by New York City based artist David Foox, creator of the original Organ Donor Vinyl toys. I must say, these little guys are extremely cute in person!

• 2″ tall figures
• 2″ lanyard with metal clasp included
• Organ heads available in brain, eyeball, kidney, lungs, heart, and stomach
• Clear clamshell packaging
• Available for $10 at the Street Anatomy store [SOLD OUT]

If you would like to order a specific organ, please tell us the organ that you would like in the notes section when ordering. If no organ is specified, we will choose one for you!  And you will love him.

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“E Cosi Desio Me Mena,” the title for this beautiful ring by DIGBY + IONA, comes from the Italian ‘And So Desire Carries Me Along’, a quote from Petrarch’s 1342 work, Canzoniere. The heart signet comes with sealing wax! Nice touch. This would be a brilliant way to leave a calling card for yourself, or perhaps to seal up a nice love note to someone. I love that the ring can be engraved with two initials, for an extra personal touch.  The detail on the heart reminds me of old Italian engravings, which is fitting.

Available at Catbird!

[spotted by Joan]

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The elusive G-spot, a holy grail of lovers, now has an anatomical location precisely described in the medical literature thanks to a Florida researcher who dissected the cadaver of an 83-year-old woman.

For centuries, women have said they've enjoyed engorgement of the upper, anterior part of the vagina during sexual arousal, but it has never been formally described in medical literature.

In the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Dr. Adam Ostrzenski of the Institute of Gynecology in St. Petersburg, Fla., describes where he found the G-spot while dissecting the 83-year-old cadaver in Poland.

"The anatomic existence of the G-spot was documented with potential impact on the practice and clinical research in the field of female sexual function," Ostrzenski concluded.

The dissection revealed the G-spot was on the dorsal or back perineal membrane, 16.5 millimetres from the upper part of the urethra, creating a 35-degree angle with the lateral or side border of the structure.

When the spot, which he described as "bluish grapeline compositions," was removed from a sac, it extended to 33 millimetres suggesting it was designed to contract and expand, he said.

"The anatomic discovery of the G-spot existence may inspire a new study for establishing the anatomic presence of 'a female prostate.'"

Ostrzenski also backed calls to revise traditional approaches in textbooks to female organ anatomy coupled with new terminologies.

The G-spot in the cadaver was under five layers of connective tissue and muscle in an area that is not normally accessed during gynecological surgery. Ostrzenski acknowledged he examined only one cadaver soon after death and he was unable to take tissue samples for confirmation.

"This case study in a single cadaver adds to the growing body of literature regarding women's sexual anatomy and physiology," the journal's editor in chief, Irwin Goldstein, said in a release.

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Tonight at Observatory; hope to see you there!

A Discussion on Death & Impermanence Followed by a Ritual Offering with Venerable Tsering Phunstok from Dharamsala, India
Date: Monday, April 23rd
Time: 8:00
Admission: $8 (Please note: All admission fees from tonight's event will be donated to support Venerable Tsering Phunstock, his monastery, and health projects in India)
Presented by Morbid Anatomy

What can a monk tell you about the secret of life? And how does understanding impermanence and preparing for death expand upon the secret of life? Tonight’s conversation between Venerable Tsering Phunstok– a practicing Tibetan Buddhist monk residing in India– and artist Shannon Brunette will investigate Tibetan Buddhist perspectives on death and impermanence in modern life, as well as the life of the Tibetan monk as it relates to the most basic tenets of Buddhist practice and beliefs regarding death, karma and reincarnation through conversation. Questions will also be taken from the audience.

After the talk, Ven. Tsering Phunstok will conduct a traditional Tibetan fire and smoke offering. The Smoke Offering (Sang) is a ritual practice of making vast offerings to pacify obstacles and raise awareness. It is a practice of connecting with the forces of life and establishing an open relationship with existence. It is traditionally used to create harmony, resolve karmic debts, generate vitality, success, prosperity and health in our life, in our land and in our local community. In this purifying ritual edible food, poison-less trees, flowers, fruits, grains, clothes as well as other things are burned to create a smoke cloud offering. This is an offering for both the living and the dead – and for all spirits.

Buddhists believe that giving without seeking anything in return leads to greater spiritual wealth; Buddhists call this generosity and giving D?na. All admission fees from tonight’s event will be donated to support Tsering, his monastery and health projects in India. We are asking that you share your generosity further at the completion of the ritual offering.

Venerable Tsering Phuntsokhas been a practicing Buddhist monk since entering the Palyulchoekhorling Nyingmapa Buddhist monastery in Bir, India, in 1987 at age 16. For the first 17 years he studied and practiced in the Nyingmapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, receiving training in meditation, Buddhist scripture and philosophy, tantric ritual, lama dancing and music. He has received many tantric empowerments and sutra teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and many other High Lamas, including late H.H. Penor Rinpoche. In the last several years he has worked on health related projects for his monastery as well as overseeing his nephew and nieces. He currently makes his residence in Dharamsala, India in the foothills of the Himalayas; his home is less than a minute walk from the Temple and residence of the H. H. Dalai Lama. Currently, he facilitates cultural exchange programs between the Tibetan community and US university students who come to Dharamsala to volunteer with Lha Charitable Trust, a local social work agency devoted to improving the lives of Tibetan refugees and local Indians.

Shannon Brunettehas lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY since 1998 and her beloved hometown is St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN. She received her Masters of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in 2006. Currently, she is exploring a new body of work relating to cultural exchange opportunities, from Alaska video artist-in-residence focusing on climate change to a 5-week international fellowship in exchange with the traditional craftspeople of Orissa, India to volunteer work in Dharamsala with Lha Charitable Trust. Utilizing film and video as a tool to investigate the past, present and future through a poetic and complex interplay between images, to offer an opportunity for reflection and meditation. Shannon captures vignettes from mundane to beautiful and editing in a collage-like style, she explores the nature of fragmented memory, triggered by temporality and impermanence.

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I am very excited about Monday's upcoming organization for creatives class with journalist Oliver Burkeman, of London's Guardian. There are a few slots still left... if you are interested, please RSVP to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

Organizational workshop for creative types with Oliver Burkeman of The Guardian
Date: Monday, April 30th
Time: 7:30-9:30 PM
Admission: $20
*** Limited class size; Must RSVP to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com to be added to class list
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

Do you hunger to climb the corporate ladder with ruthless efficiency, leaving your rivals in the dust as you pursue your relentless quest for wealth and power? Hopefully not, but that doesn't mean you can't borrow some tactics from such people and apply them to your own ends; to that end, today's class--taught by Oliver Burkeman, compulsive to-do-list-maker and journalist for London's Guardian--will teach creatives, freelancers, and artists how to plan and manage multiple projects, better plan their time, and, in general, feel less overwhelmed by juggling a variety of projects at one time.

Burkemanhas spent much of the last few years researching and reporting on self-help culture, including the fascinating history of the "how to succeed" publishing genre, and motivational gurus from Dale Carnegie to Stephen Covey, and sifting the wheat from the chaff. (There's a lot of chaff.) Drawing on this research, this workshop will explore some fundamental principles of getting organized, managing multiple projects, overcoming procrastination, time management, and being both more productive and less stressed in the kinds of sprawling artistic/creative/freelance lives that don't get much attention in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. No cringe-inducing motivational speeches will be given; no Magic Systems for Instant Success will be promoted. Instead, we'll plunder from the world of the grinning gurus the bits that actually work – so that you'll leave equipped with a toolkit of immediately useable ways to do the stuff you're already doing, and the projects you're planning, with greater efficiency and ease.
The class will begin with an illustrated lecture and conclude with a workshop segment where students will be guided in an application of the principles; participants are encouraged to come to class with a project to organize.

Oliver Burkemanin a writer based in Brooklyn with an unhealthy interest in filing systems. He writes features and a weekly column on psychology for the (London) Guardian. His book The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking will be published by Faber & Faber in the fall.

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Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy's executive producer Shonda Rhimes has confirmed to me exclusively that a beloved character will die in the ABC drama's May 17 season finale. "A lot of our writers were crying, which is a very rare thing," she says. "There's some really shocking, horrible moments."

It can't be worse than the bloodshed two years ago when a crazed gunman hunted the doctors like animals, can it? "Yeah, it is," says Rhimes. "People's mettle is going to be tested."

Writing the episode, she adds, was sheer "torture... I've been sitting with my head in my hands for days. I understand the choice I made, but it scares me how fans are going to react."

Fans began voicing their concern when Rhimes recently tweeted a quote from author Kurt Vonnegut: "Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of." Yikes! The ominous quote, Rhimes says, was just what she needed to give her "the courage to do what we're doing in the finale."

The heart-stopping drama begins in the May 10 episode with "a big case that takes a group of our people out of the hospital. It's sort of the medical case of their lives," says Rhimes, hinting that the patient could possibly be one of their own.

That episode will also give us our first glimpse of Derek and Meredith's completed dream house. While Rhimes originally planned for the season to end with the couple watching in horror as their new home burned to the ground, she says, "I was not ready to do that."

Instead, the dream house is being constructed and is "quite beautiful. I feel like this is the moment for it, since Meredith and Derek are having a debate about their future. I just hope we can use it next season."

While she's keeping much of the finale secret, Rhimes does offer a few specifics. Fans can look forward to some "extraordinarily romantic Ben and Dr. Bailey stuff," with Bailey making a decision "that will fundamentally change her life."

And keenly aware that "Mark and Lexie fans have been very adamant about them getting back together, they'll have some very beautiful moments with one another that I hope the fans are going to really love," Rhimes says.

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'Grey's Anatomy' (ABC). Death is coming to Seattle Grace. Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes has confirmed that a beloved character will die in the May 17 season finale (via TV Guide).

"A lot of our writers were crying, which is a very rare thing," Rhimes said of the season finale. "There's some really shocking, horrible moments."

So which unlucky doctor is headed to that great hospital in the sky? Well, Patrick Dempsey and Ellen Pompeo, who play Grey's supercouple Derek and Meredith, both have contracts that expire after this current season. Rhimes has also been cagey about revealing future storyline details for Callie and Arizona (Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw). So who do you think will be the Grey's sacrificial finale lamb? Vote now.

Judge Len Goodman seemed particularly upset to see the Knight go home. "If I could judge purely with my heart, you would be at the top of my leaderboard," he told Knight after she was eliminated. Her pro partner Tristan MacManus also had nothing but kind words for the Mowtown legend: "I'll probably miss Gladys as much as I miss Ireland when I'm here," he said. "And I really, really miss Ireland."

Looks like Smash is definitely not going to become the serious Broadway behind-the-scenes drama many once hoped it would be. The NBC musical series has hired Gossip Girl executive producer Josh Safran to fill the showrunner position that was vacated by Teresa Rebeck in March. Safran has been with Gossip Girl since it debuted in 2007, working his was from writer/consulting producer to co-exec producer before being promoted to EP last season. There's no word on who might replace him over at GG, which is expected to return for a sixth and final season.

Community is taking on Law & Order this week, and we've got our first look at the episode's special credit sequence, which features L&O's trademark black and white grainy crime images and the classic final shot of the cast walking together down the hallway. Check it out!

And finally, the Dubious Honor Award of the day goes to the CW's soapy new drama, The L.A. Complex, which became the lowest-rated in-season broadcast drama debut on record last night. The premiere of the Canadian import, which centers on a group of showbiz hopefuls living in Tinseltown, opened to a measly 646,000 viewers.

DVR Watch: The Top 6 singers take on Queen's songbook on American Idol (Fox, 8pm), Survivor: One World has a wet and wild immunity challenge (CBS, 8pm), the models don Hello Kitty Couture on America's Next Top Model: British Invasion (CW, 9pm), Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 has June fixing one of Chloe's messes (ABC, 9:30pm), Revenge has Emily uncovering the identity of her father's killer (ABC, 10pm), and Cartman falls for the new girl at school on South Park (Comedy Central, 10pm).

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ANATOMY OF A MURDER Criterion Collection / 1959 / 161 min. / NR

Otto Preminger was a bald, teutonic film director with an outsized personality he put to good use during his heyday. Not only was Preminger a regular raconteur on the TV talk show circuit in the 1960s and 70s, he lent his acting skills to projects such as Billy Wilders STALAG 17 and played the villainous Mr. Freeze in 1966 on the BATMAN television series. An migr from Austria to the United States, Preminger directed theatre and several little-seen films before he broke through to A-list status in 1944, directing the hit movie, LAURA.

From then on, Otto Preminger worked steadily, building a reputation for tackling controversial material that pushed the boundaries of taste and censorship. Like many directors of his era, when the New Hollywood exploded in the 1960s with films like THE GRADUATE, BONNIE AND CLYDE and EASY RIDER, Preminger started to appear more and more like a dinosaur mired in the muck of the past. He tried to adapt to the counterculture, most notoriously with SKIDOO, a 1968 fiasco with Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon and Groucho Marx as God. But by then, Premingers best work was clearly behind him. And looking back in the rearview mirror, his artistic pinnacle might very well have been 1959s ANATOMY OF A MURDER.

A courtroom drama (a popular film genre before this kind of storytelling moved almost exclusively to network television), ANATOMY OF A MURDER is notable for several reasons. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by John D. Voelker (who based it on an actual case on which he served as defense attorney) by frequent Preminger collaborator, Wendell Mayes. In the story, struggling small town lawyer Paul Biegler (James Stewart) takes on the defense of surly soldier, Lt. Fred Manion (Ben Gazzara), accused of killing a man whom he claims raped his stunningly sexy wife, Laura (stunningly sexy Lee Remick). In the course of the trial, the attorneys talk openly about the presence or absence of sperm on the alleged rape victim, as well as the status of her panties. Though this kind of dialogue can be heard any time of day on various LAW AND ORDERs and CSIs, this was shocking material for audiences to be hearing in a studio movie in 1959.

If you find the already-mentioned cast intriguing and they are all excellent then add to that Eve Arden as Bieglers wise-cracking secretary, Arthur OConnell as his alcoholic but still legally sharp attorney best friend, Orson Bean as an official witness, and in an early role, the great George C. Scott as prosecutor Claude Dancer. The film is an acting tour de force, worth checking out on that level alone.

Preminger chose to shoot the movie in the location where the novel was set and the real-life story took place. He brought his cast and crew to a small town on Michigans Upper Peninsula, and the setting gives the picture a feeling of verisimilitude that could never be accomplished on a studio back lot. His other daring choice was to hire the American genius jazz composer and bandleader, Duke Ellington, to score the movie. While jazz-influenced scores were not uncommon in the 1950s, they usually graced smaller budget noir movies in urban settings. Here, Ellingtons music makes a huge contribution to the mood and texture of the film, and the Duke, himself, shows up, sharing the piano keys with Jimmy Stewart in a local bar.

ANATOMY OF A MURDER is really about the American legal process. Manions guilt or innocence is never truly established in the audiences mind. But juries have to make life-and-death decisions based on evidence presented by skilled and flawed attorneys, who cannot help but approach their jobs with their own human biases. What Preminger portrays so beautifully in the film is the very ambiguity that defines our legal system. Clearly 2/3 of this 161 minute film takes place in the confines of the courtroom, and Preminger never ceases to have his camera in the right place to visually convey the shifting dynamics of the story. The courtroom becomes a stage with the battling lawyers the key actors. By todays standards, the movie is a bit long-winded, but ANATOMY OF A MURDER is a landmark film that takes an incisive look at American jurisprudence.

THE DISC A beautiful black and white 1080p transfer from the Criterion Collection. This is a state-of-the-art video presentation.

A single-channel LPCM 1.0 mono track and a DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio track are both available. They both sound fantastic, with the surround track providing a bit more dynamic range, especially when it comes to Duke Ellingtons landmark score.

EXTRAS A typically comprehensive set of supplements from Criterion, including:

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Sarah Drew, Jesse Williams

"No it's not a dream. They do make out for real!"

There you have it, folks! The recent Grey's Anatomy promos don't lie: Sarah Drew confirms that April and Jackson (Jesse Williams) will be hooking up in this Thursday's episode, when the doctors travel to San Francisco to take their medical boards.

Grey's Anatomy Exclusive Finale Scoop: A Seattle Grace exodus and a "dark and twisty" event

Does this mean April will finally be deflowered? Drew was mum on that front (which we'll take as a "yes.") "That is still up in air," she says. Their fling springs from the stresses of taking the medical boards, which will decide the doctors' fates and also help them land jobs that will take them away from Seattle Grace.

"April goes a little crazy," Drew says. "She is super anxious, super just full of panic and anxiety about doing well or failing and she doesn't really know what to do with all of this extra energy and is jumping out of her skin. She does a lot of things that are really surprising and out of character for her that leads to some pretty fantastic fallout afterwards." In case you missed the promo, she also punches a guy in the face.

The hookup, in particular, will lead to a very interesting turn of events heading into the final episodes of the season. "It's going to bite both of them in the ass because they both walk away from that being confused by the whole thing," Drew says. "The writers have really written a very interesting journey for April and Jackson over the next four episodes. We see a lot of conflict and confusion -- how do you continue to be friends after something like that happens?

Finale Preview: Get scoop on how your favorite shows are ending their seasons

"What we'll see that lasts is their deep abiding friendship and the fact that they really do care for one another on a very deep level that isn't just butterflies and romance at all. There's also something big that's revealed about April, something about her character that's revealed at the end of this week's episode that also plays into everything that happens between the two of them and rest of the episodes of the season."

Even though Lexie (Chyler Leigh) has turned her attention back towards Mark (Eric Dane), will the sudden hookup destroy the relationship she shares with April? That remains to be seen since no one will learn of their tryst. "April and Jackson are not sharing their confusion with anybody else," she says. "So nobody else in the hospital knows anything has happened between the two of them."

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Grey's Anatomy, Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey

Get ready for another heartbreaking hour of Grey's Anatomy in the Season 8 finale when the docs must rally on what could be their last day working together as many of Seattle Grace's familiar faces will have already accepted jobs at other hospitals!

"There is a very complex thing that occurs for many of our characters that places a lot of them in a position to discover what they're made of," the ever-tight-lipped Grey's boss Shonda Rhimes teases of the major event that erupts in the season-ender. (Seriously, she said "thing.") "I don't know that you could guess it," she says.

Finale Preview: Get scoop on how your favorite shows are ending their seasons

Challenge accepted! Could it be a forest fire that threatens to claim Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek's (Patrick Dempsey) recently finished McMansion? Maybe a rescue helicopter will fall from the roof and crush one of the docs? (Wait a minute; that sounds familiar.) Rhimes' only clue: When we asked whether this incident is similar to the devastating ferry boat crash or the rampaging shooter from seasons past, she replied, "Yes. That's a yes to both!"

In a year where contract negotiations of key cast members are also still up in the air, Rhimes has appeared to create a perfect out should some of our favorite doctors not return. "People will take jobs at different hospitals," Rhimes says, noting that the docs will make their decisions in the penultimate episode. We've already seen that Cristina (Sandra Oh) is the most eager to get out of Dodge, but, in a surprising twist, we learned last week that Meredith's long-time home is not her first choice. Who may leave? "The plan is, at the end of the season, our doctors will do what residents all over the country do, which is to accept jobs at different hospitals," she says. Could some docs stick around Seattle Grace? "Not at the end of the season," Rhimes teases, noting that one of many possibilities is that some doctors will return in the potential ninth season, should ABC decide to renew the series.

With that in mind, we wondered: Is someone going to die? The medical drama has never shied away from killing off main characters it takes place in a hospital, after all but Rhimes was coy about whether or not the event would bring the Grim Reaper to town. "I don't want to answer this question," she said bluntly, only noting that the event would be dangerous. "It's very dark and twisty," she said. "It was really hard [to write] because I'm all happy; I have a baby [now]."

Grey's Anatomy Scoop: Which doctors will be sticking around Seattle Grace?

"We're taking our characters on a journey they've never been on before," she adds. "To me, it's a very shocking thing that I chose to do and I was really stressed-out about doing it, and it took me a long time, so I kept taking the finale apart and putting it back together. It's also a very emotional episode. I always feel like when an episode really scares me, when I spend a lot of time with my head in my hands wondering how the fans are going to take it, and worry that they're going to, I don't know, stone me in the streets, I kind of know that it's good."

In that sense, this finale will be almost a polar opposite to last year's, which saw Meredith and Derek hit another rough patch when she tampered with the Alzheimer's clinical trial. "I feel like last year's finale was very quiet for a reason," Rhimes says. "Our characters had been through so much in terms of having dealt with the shooting and getting over that and coming to a place where really their decisions were about their growth as people Meredith and her baby and Cristina and her pregnancy. This season, I feel like the theme of the episode is graduation, and there is a huge sense of nostalgia in this episode in terms of what you're looking at. This could very well be the last time these doctors are working together. This could very well be the last day for some of these doctors here."

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Our friend Noah Scalin of Skull-a-Day is painting 100 skulls on 4″ x 4″ pieces of wood panel to celebrate the 5th year of his Skull-a-Day empire (June 2011 – June 2012).  Many of the skulls will be featured at an upcoming exhibit in Richmond, VA.  Check out all of the completed skulls here!  And if you’re in or around Richmond, go see the exhibit—details below.

Opening: Friday May 11, 2012 7–9pm

ALL IS VANITY
May 4 – July 31
Clippi Headren
929 Meyers St.

Tues & Friday 10–5pm
Wed–Thu 10–8pm
Sat 10–4pm
By the way, Noah has a relatively new book for those of us who want to be more creative, but don’t have the time, motivation, spark, etc. It’s called Unstuck: 52 Ways to Get (and Keep) Your Creativity Flowing at Home, at Work & in Your Studio.

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I stumbled upon this piece while perusing Flickr, which by the way has a huge art community in addition to the photography base of the site.  After contacting the artist, Leigh, a textile crafts student at the University of Huddersfield, she was kind enough to email back with an explanation of the project that goes beyond the simple anatomy.

The work is made of 2 sheets of perspex laser cut into the shape of the human form. Each individual stitch hole was plotted precisely to map out the veins (sheet 1) and arteries (sheet 2). I then hand stitched with linen thread to trace out the blood vessels.

The work was inspired by my current final year university project based on my niece who suffer’s from a rare blood disorder called Diamond Blackfan Anaemia (DBA). This means her bone marrow does not reproduce red blood cells, causing her to become severly anaemic very fast. As a result, she has to have blood transufsions every 4-5 weeks.

A major part of my project is workng on The Blood Bag Project, a craft project that aims to raise awareness of DBA and encourage people not only to donate blood but help in another way by creating textile blood bags. I am unable to donate blood myself and so understand the frustration this can cause to those who want to. By joining the Blood Bag Project, those people can help the blood cause in another way. I intend to exhibit the donated bags and eventually sell them to raise money for blood disease charities.

For more informaton about The Blood Bag Project, please visit the following:
Website: http://www.wix.com/leighlalovesyou/thebloodbagproject
Blog: http://www.thebloodbagproject.tumblr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thebloodbagproject

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Tim Ripper’s love for art and science led him to use an anatomical theme for a university advanced drawing seminar.

I enjoy the contrast between seriousness and whimsy in Renaissance anatomical illustrations (which often feature cadavers dissecting themselves or posing with architectural elements), while I also admire the level of detail in modern anatomical visualizations. As an homage to both, I tried to make my anatomical illustrations unconventional, intriguing, and occasionally tongue-in-cheek while still conveying realistic details about the parts they portrayed.

Tim’s pieces definitely have the flat stiffness of student work, but I enjoy the slightly surreal display of anatomy.

View all 9 pieces via his Cargo Collective portfolio!

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These beautiful and delicate sculptures, crafted of paper and glue, were made by French artist, Mathilde Roussel. Meant to emulate human skin, these folded sculptures serve as a metaphor for everyday human change, as the artist explain in their own words:

We imperceptibly change everyday as if we were changing skin. The Mues sculptures make visible this metamorphosis through imprints of a body at the specific time. They are clothing of empty skin that we fold and keep to put on a new one. This skin becomes the trace of the time passing and the memory of an anterior life.

Be sure to check out more amazing work by Mathilde by heading to the official website, mathilderoussel.com!

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Hi All! Just a reminder that the 2012 Congress of Curious Peoples--a 10-day series of lectures and performances devoted to curiosity and curiosities broadly considered, and featuring sideshow acts, lectures, performances, and a 2-day scholarly-yet-popular symposium called The Congress for Curious Peoples--launches in earnest tomorrow night, with a lecture by the always amazing Amy Herzog.

This year's iteration of The Congress promises to be the best yet; it will include a 2-day symposium featuring panel discussions on topics such as pre-cinematic immersive amusements and religion as spectacle, with featured speakers that include Sara Velas of The Velaslavasay Panorama; Paul Koudounaris of Empire of Death; Colin Nightingale, Senior Producer of Punchdrunk, the company behind the mindbendingly amazing Sleep No More Sleep; and Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty. Also featured will be stand-alone lectures on the 17th century artist of fetal skeleton tableaux Frederik Ruysch and the phenomenon of ethnographic displays called "human zoos," a screening of an over-the-top early 1970s TV Evangelist Christmas spectacular, and introductory lectures by myself and Coney Island Museum director Aaron Beebe.

Full--and hopefully final!--lineup below; hope to see you at some--if not more--of the terrific events making up this year's Congress!

Monday April 16th
7:30 – (Lecture) Amy Herzog: Architectural Fictions: Economic Development, Immersive Renderings, and the Virtualization of Brooklyn (more here)
9:00 – (Performance) Shea Love and the Circus Emporium

Tuesday April 17th
7:30 – (Lecture) Philip Kadish: “Pinhead Races and the White Man’s Burden” (more here)
9:00 – (Performance) The Squidling Bros Sideshow

Wednesday April 18th
7:30 -(Lecture/Performance) ‘An Evening of Fate, Chance and Mystery’ with Lord Whimsy and Les the Mentalist (more here)
9:00 – (Performance) Jo Boobs

Thursday April 19th
7:30 – (Lecture/Demonstration) The Museum of Interesting Things, WHAT THE SAM HILL IS THAT! (more here)
9:00 – (Performance) The Curious Couple from Coney Island

Friday April 20th
7:30 – (Performance/Reading) A reading of VENUS by Suzan-Lori Parks. Directed by Donya K. Washington (more here)
9:00 – (Performance/Lecture) Sideshow Legend Jim Rose

Saturday April 21st
Super Freak Weekend at Sideshows by the Seashore (Continuous Admission, Tickets at the door); Colonnade of Curiosities in the Freak Bar
Congress For Curious People (Day 1 of a 2-day Symposium)

Sunday April 22nd
Super Freak Weekend at Sideshows by the Seashore (Continuous Admission, Tickets at the door); Colonnade of Curiosities in the Freak Bar
Congress For Curious People (Day 2 of a 2-day Symposium)

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THE 2012 CONGRESS FOR CURIOUS PEOPLE
Saturday and Sunday, April 21st and 22nd

SATURDAY APRIL 21st

11:00 – 12:00: Keynote Addresses

• Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy Library
• Aaron Beebe, Coney Island Museum

12:00 – 1:00: Lunch

1:00 – 3:30: Immersive Amusements: Cosmoramas, Cycloramas and Panoramic Illusions: Panel discussion moderated and introduced by Aaron Beebe, The Coney Island Museum

• Suzanne Wray
• Sara Velas, The Velaslavasay Panorama
• Jessica Routhier, The Saco Museum
• Russell Potter, Rhode Island College
• Denise Blake Oleksijczuk, Simon Fraser University

4:00 – 5:00: The Business of the Dead: Frederik Ruysch as an Entrepreneurial Anatomist, Lecture by Daniel Margocsy, Hunter College

5:00: Christmas in America: Miss Velma and the Evangelist Spectacle: Screening of “Christmas in America,” an early 1970s television special by Miss Velma, early TV evangelist, introduced by Daniel Paul

SUNDAY APRIL 22

11:00 – 1:00: Religion and Spectacle: A panel with discussion moderated and introduced by Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy Library

• Paul Koudounaris, author of Empire of Death
• Shannon Taggart, Photographer
  
• The Venerable Tsering Phunstok
• Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty and Afterlives of the Saints
• Salvador Olguin, Borderline Projects

1:00 – 2:30: Lunch and Sideshow Visit

2:30 – 3:30: Traveling Ethnographic Shows and Human Zoos, a lecture by Elizabeth Bradley

3:30 – 5:30: Theater Rethunk: An Alternative History of the Theatrical: A panel with discussion moderated and introduced by Chris Muller

• Amy Herzog, Queens College
• Colin Nightingale, Senior Producer of Punchdrunk, Sleep No More
• Alex Harvey, Freelance Director/Adapter
• Chris Muller, New York University
• Dick Zigun, Founder of Coney Island USA

Tickets for the symposium are available here; for tickets to individual events and lectures, click here; 10-day Congressional Passes
--which provide access to all events!--are available here. All events take place at 1208 Surf Avenue in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York; you can map it here. See you there!!!

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I am very excited to announce the final lineup for this year's EAMHMS--aka European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences-- conference taking place September 13-15 in Berlin, Germany at the fantastic Museum of Medical History at the Charité, pictured above!

Full details below. Hope to see you there.

Hidden Stories: What do medical objects tell and how can we make them speak? 16th Biennial EAMHMS Conference
Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité, Charitéplatz 1, D-10117 Berlin,
13 – 15 September 2012
The XVI EAMHMS Conference
European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences
Berlin, September 13 - 15, 2012

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 13 September 2012: Beginning in the ‘Hörsaalruine’ of the Berlin Museum of Medical History

10.00 - 13.30 Arrival of Participants, Registration and Refreshments
11.00 + 12.30 Guided tours through the museum (a look behind the scenes)
14.00 - 14.30 Opening speeches

14.30 - 15.30 Session 1: Introduction, getting started …

• Robert Ju?tte, Stuttgart (Germany): Exhibiting Intentions. Some Reflections on the Visual Display of a Culturally Purposeful Object
• Thomas Söderqvist, Copenhagen (Denmark): Is the ‘things talk’ metaphor really useful? Or does it conceal a deeper understanding of our material interaction with things?

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee and Tea

16.00 - 16.15 Walk to the Institute of Anatomy (Oskar Hertwig-Lecture Hall)

16.15 - 18.15 Session 2: Object biographies (I)

• Sophie Seemann, Berlin (Germany) A friend’s skull – gazing in a patient’s room in 1757
• Christa Habrich, Ingolstadt (Germany): A Mystery of a Platinum-made Cystoscope
• Lisa Mouwitz, Gothenburg (Sweden): Looking through the nail
• Jim Edmonson, Cleveland (USA): The art of extrapolation: following the trail from patent number to a revolution in surgical instrument design and manufacture

18.15- 19.15 Guided tours through the Anatomical Teaching Collection or the nearby
Zootomical Theatre

19.30 - 23.00 Conference Dinner in the ‘Hörsaalruine’

9.00 - 10.30 Session 3: Object biographies (II ) – waxes

• Marion Maria Ruisinger, Ingolstadt (Germany) Christus anatomicus
• Sara Doll, Heidelberg (Germany) Models of Human Embryogenesis. The search for the meaning of wax reconstructions
• Michael Geiges, Zu?rich (Switzerland) Wax Moulage Nr. 189. From teaching aid to the patients‘ story by an unusual research document

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee and Tea

11.00 - 12.30 Session 4: Teaching

• Shelley McKellar, London (Canada) Challenging Students with Toothkeys and Scarificators: Experiences with Object-Based Teaching in History
• Alfons Zarzoso, Barcelona (Spain) Teaching medical history through the material culture of medicine
• Stefan Schulz, Bochum; Karin Bastian, Leipzig (Germany) Object-based, Research-oriented Teaching in Seminars and Exhibition Projects

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch, Coffee and Tea

14.00 Walk to the nearby ‘Museum fu?r Naturkunde’

14.30 - 15.30 Guided tours in smaller groups through the ‘Museum fu?r Naturkunde’

15.30 - 17.40 Session 5: Research

• Thomas Schnalke, Berlin (Germany) Divas on the Catwalk. Some thoughts on research with objects in medical history
• Claire Jones, Worcester (Great Britain) Identifying Medical Portraiture: The case of Andrew Know Blackall
• Julia Bellmann, Heiner Fangerau, Ulm (Germany) Evolution of Therapeutic Technology: Industrial archives and collections as sources for historians of medicine
• Benôit Majerus, Luxembourg (Luxembourg) The Material Culture of Asylums Supported by Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Berliner Charité e.V.
• Nurin Veis, Melbourne (Australia) Stories from Asylums – Discovering the Hidden Worlds of the Psychiatric Services Collection

17.40 - 18.30 Transfer to the boat pier ‘Märkisches Ufer’

19.00 - 22.15 Spree Cruise (Berlin from the waterside) and dinner on board

Saturday, 15 September 2012: Final meeting in the ‘Hörsaalruine’

9.00 - 11.00 Session 6: Presenting

• Hsiang Ching Chuang, Eindhoven (Netherlands) Contextualizing Museum Experiences Through Metaphors
• Mienekete Hennepe, Leiden (Netherlands) Scary Things: Horrifying objects between disgust and desire
• Bart Grob, Leiden (Netherlands) Medicine at the Movies
• Tim Huisman, Leiden (Netherlands) Anatomical Illustration and Beyond: Looking at Bidloo and De Lairesse’s Anatomia humani corporis

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee and Tea

11.30 - 12.30 Final session

You can find a registration form here; Image sourced here. Hope to see you there!

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This weekend at Coney Island! Hope very much to see you there.

SYMPOSIUM: THE 2012 CONGRESS FOR CURIOUS PEOPLE
Saturday and Sunday, April 21st and 22nd

SATURDAY APRIL 21st

11:00 – 12:00: Keynote Addresses

• Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy Library
• Aaron Beebe, Coney Island Museum

12:00 – 1:00: Lunch

1:00– 3:30: Immersive Amusements: Cosmoramas, Cycloramas and PanoramicIllusions: Panel discussion moderated and introduced by Aaron Beebe,The Coney Island Museum

• Suzanne Wray
• Sara Velas, The Velaslavasay Panorama
• Jessica Routhier, The Saco Museum
• Russell Potter, Rhode Island College
• Denise Blake Oleksijczuk, Simon Fraser University

4:00 – 5:00: The Business of the Dead: Frederik Ruysch as an Entrepreneurial Anatomist, Lecture by Daniel Margocsy, Hunter College

5:00: Christmas in America: Miss Velma and the Evangelist Spectacle: Screening of “Christmas in America,” an early 1970s television special by Miss Velma, early TV evangelist, introduced by Daniel Paul

SUNDAY APRIL 22

11:00 – 1:00: Religion and Spectacle: A panel with discussion moderated and introduced by Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy Library

• Paul Koudounaris, author of Empire of Death
• Shannon Taggart, Photographer
  
• The Venerable Tsering Phunstok
• Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty and Afterlives of the Saints
• Salvador Olguin, Borderline Projects

1:00 – 2:30: Lunch and Sideshow Visit

2:30 – 3:30: Traveling Ethnographic Shows and Human Zoos, a lecture by Elizabeth Bradley

3:30– 5:30: Theater Rethunk: An Alternative History of the Theatrical: Apanel with discussion moderated and introduced by Chris Muller

• Amy Herzog, Queens College
• Colin Nightingale, Senior Producer of Punchdrunk, Sleep No More
• Alex Harvey, Freelance Director/Adapter
• Chris Muller, New York University
• Dick Zigun, Founder of Coney Island USA

Tickets for the symposium are available here; for tickets to individual events and lectures, click here; 10-day Congressional Passes--which provide access to all events!--are available here. All events take place at 1208 Surf Avenue in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York; you can map it here. See you there!!!

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For every blockbuster draft day trade like the 2011 deal between the Falcons and Browns that resulted in Atlantas acquisition of wide receiver Julio Jones in exchange for five draft picks, there are countless other transactions that fly below the radar.

Take for example the 2010 trade in which the Patriots sent the 44th and 190th selections to the Raiders for Oaklands pick at No. 42. This move drew very little interest because at its core, it really only involved a sixth-round pick in exchange for the right to move up two spots. Small potatoes, right?

If not for some quick thinking on the part of New England, Gronkowski could be a member of the Ravens right now.

Wrong.

That trade allowed the Patriots to leapfrog the Baltimore Ravenswho were sitting at No. 43 and in the market for a tight endand draft a guy from the University of Arizona named Rob Gronkowski.

With an allotment of only ten minutes to make their selections during the first round, seven minutes for the second round and five minutes for rounds three through seven, NFL front offices need to be overly prepared and ready to act fast. Thats because those with the ability to operate well under pressure can end up turning a relatively insignificant transaction into an investment that pays off big dividends.

To gain a better understanding of the draft day trade process, I spoke with NFL front office veteran Tim Ruskellwho has been involved in 25 NFL draftson Tuesday for a crash course in the art of the draft day trade. Ruskell spent five years as the general manager of the Seattle Seahawks (2005-2009) before serving as the director of player personnel for the Chicago Bears from 2010-2012.

THE DRAFT ROOM

Each team has its own specific game plan for how to approach the three-day draft, but for the most part, the key players seated at the head table who are involved in the decision making process remain the same.

In most instances its your general manager, head coach, salary cap guy and whoever is running your personnel department, said Ruskell. But its different on every team. Sometimes the owner is in the room if hes the one driving the train. But theres one decision maker on every team who is in charge of running the draft and making the final decision. That guy is going to have the final say. But he may want to hear what the others think and typically, he would.

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Anatomy of a draft day trade

WHAT WE LEARNED

Job Prospects: Cristina is back. She might be in the worst place ever with Owen after last week's sobfest, but her snark and supersharp one-liners have never been better. While all the top hospitals across the country beg and woo her, the other docs tread water waiting for offers. Jackson struggles to shed his family name and April is having a hard time with her grating enthusiastic personality. Alex is having a no luck getting any decent interviews outside of Toledo. Where is Toledo? But he realizes Arizona has been sabotaging his chances to leave. She's put a lot of work into him!

However, Meredith and Derek have evolved into such mature married couple and lovely parents. He's so supportive of anywhere she wants to go. Damn, that looks good on him. He's certainly earning his McDreamy title now. Maybe we are just attracted to loyal men?

Life Lost: Seattle Grace has had it's share of depressing medical cases, but tonight's was gutting. Switched at Birth star Vanessa Marano was phenomenal guest-starring as the kidnap victim. It was heartbreaking to hear her piece together her memories of abuse while in captivity. And if you weren't sad enough, we got to watch Dr. Webber's (James Pickens Jr.) own heart break into a billion pieces as his wife falls in love (and has sex with) another man. He had to make the awful decision to walk away from her, and we wanted to cry all over again.

Up in the Air:We liked all the airport scenes in tonight's episode. It was likeGrey'smeetsUp in the Air. But where is hotGeorge Clooneygetting sloshed at an airport bar when you need him?

ONE-LINERS

"You're an acquired taste. Like blue cheese. Some people love it and some think it's stinky." Arizona

"Personality? I'm asking for a job not a date to the prom!" April

"Meredith's not like you, her personality doesn't suck."Alex

"I hate musicals. I do like wine though." Cristina

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Grey's Anatomy Redux: Which Doctors Are Getting Ready to Leave Seattle?

Grey's Anatomy helped ABC ascend to second position in primetime last night, Nielsen overnight data reveals.

Season eight of the medical drama continued with 9.7m and a rating of 3.2 18-49 adults at 9pm, a rise of 10% week-on-week.

On a roll, political thriller Scandal climbed to 7.4m (2.1) in the 10pm hour. Only 8pm's Missing (7.1m/1.3) lost viewers for the Alphabet Network.

American Idol's 14.6m (3.9) was easily enough for Fox to win another Thursday night.

CBS finished third despite airing only one new show, with Rules of Engagement amusing 7.7m (2.2) at 8.30pm.

NBC had a poor night, as 8pm's Community (2.9m/1.3) and 10pm's Awake (2.7m/0.8) underperformed.

Meanwhile, 30 Rock was the exception to the rule on the Peacock Network, creeping up to 3.2m (1.5) at 8.30pm.

Swiftly returning for new episodes, The Vampire Diaries (2.2m/1.0) and The Secret Circle (1.1m/0.5) dipped over on The CW.

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'Grey's Anatomy', 'Scandal' boost ABC to second place on Thursday