Photos by Jasper Rooms
German artist Klaus Weber, has what looks like a fantastic exhibition, called If you leave me I’m not coming, going on through January 9th at the Nottingham Contemporary. The exhibition, according to Nottingham Contemporary, takes on the natural world and our changing view of what is natural.
I can’t really tell from the photo, but I’m assuming the brain is cauliflower.
Aaron Keuhn is a typographical manipulator who’s latest piece takes on the human skeleton in an easily digestible format.
From Keuhn,
Exo… Endo… Typo! Your life, your organism, your soft tissues but a puddle on the ground, if not for the ancient segmental structure of the Vertebrates. The original hard core is evolving for 400 million years now. Hominids, like you, are using the latest upright technology originating only 4 million years prior. Here it is, updated, and reconstructed in a 2 dimensional static representation of long-stride locomotion for your screen or paper! The component bones, ordinarily constructed with rigid mineralized tissues, have been entirely typo-grammatically replaced with 676 free and fused glyphs, together forming a complete skeletal diagram in Latin.
[spotted by Mr. Nick Hahn]
Episode eight of The Midnight Archive--the web-based documentary series centered around Observatory--has just been uploaded and can be viewed above. This episode is one I am personally very excited about; it is based on the work of my all-time favorite rogue-scholar Mel Gordon, specifically on his research into The Grand Guignol as explored in his classic Grand Guiginol: Theatre of Fear and Terror. It was shot in The Morbid Anatomy Library the night of his recent Observatory lecture on the same topic and features dozens of amazing images and even film footage (!!!) of a circa 1960s Grand Guignol performance, as well as a fascinating conversation with Mel Gordon. Check it out (highly recommended!) by hitting play above, or by clicking here.
Film maker Ronni Thomas--the creator of The Midnight Archive--has this to say about The Grand Guignol:
I have to admit - before i began this whole thing - i had no idea what the Grand Guignol theater was... I was raised on a magnificent diet of blood and gore as a kid. (For Christ's sake - i gave up my career as an adjunct professor to work for less than minimum wage at Troma films...) But - as always - the unsung bastard of this artform was a sleazy theatre in paris where eyes were gouged out - faces were burnt off - and torturous agony was displayed before some of the wealthiest and most affluent aristocrats while visiting the fabulous city of blights... (lights). In this episode - Mel Gordon - the man who LITERALLY wrote the book on the Grand Guignol gives us a brief explanation of what it was and what it meant to society, the world and all those other things i could care less about... I knew nothing about the theater before i started this as i've stated - and i've learned about 3 minutes more than that as i hope you will... enjoy... and please consider chopping up your neighbor as a fun tribute.
For more on the series, to see former episodes, or to sign up for the mailing list so as to be alerted to future uploads, visit The Midnight Archive website by clicking here. You can also "like" it on Facebook--and thus be alerted--by clicking here.
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I’ve been meaning to post this advertisement for Mercedes-Benz by Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive Tel Aviv, Israel, for a while now. I’ve also been trying to get more in touch with my right brain lately, so I guess this is a good time to post this one up and remind ourselves that there are indeed two different sides to our brain!
Left brain:
I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.Right brain:
I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.
[spotted by Andrew via adgoodness]
Powerful Molotov cocktail hearts by photographer and mixed media artist, Francis Baker.
Francis says of his pieces:
I created this work, inspired by the Egyptians and the so called Arab spring. The visual starting point is the Molotov cocktail that has been the weapon of choice for the protesters. There is a connection in any conflict between the combatants.
[spotted by Noah Scalin]
Anatomical Heart Vase. Life-like heart, with ventricles for flower stems. 5" tall.
Glass Eye. Approximately 4" diameter.
Guilded Skull gold leaf gives it color. Around 5" around
Mirrored Skull Hand sculpted. Adult size, approximately 8" diameter. Silvered interior.
Portland-based glass studio, Esque Studio, run by Justin Parker and Andi Kovel, creates “modern, functional, concept-based glassware aimed at the design industry and away from the pedestal. These guys have become huge, leading the trend in designer glassware and even rising to one of Time Magazine’s most influential international design studios.
I just love the fact that they added anatomical glasswork design to their collection! I don’t know much about glass blowing, but blowing glass into the shape of a skull seems incredibly difficult.
The pieces above were all exquisitely designed by Justin Parker.
[spotted by my dear Katie Walsh]
Acrylic and mixed media on plywood. Installation at Juddy Roller Cafe in Melbourne, Australia.
More new work from our favorite Melbourne-based artist, Taylor White. This girl is unstoppable. Gorgeous stuff.
View more of Taylor’s work on her site, taylor-white.com and her Behance portfolio.
A version of Chasing Cars from the last episode of the 2nd series of Grey's Anatomy.
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So, while fiddling around on twitter today I stumbled upon this awesome little project called Six Word Stories Every Day, and was pleasantly surprised to find a handful of them with anatomical illustrations. This is exactly what it sounds like; stories, in 6 words, coupled with beautiful designs to represent each. A bit about the project:
In 2010 designer Anne Ulku, and writer Van Horgen, created Six Word Story Every Day (SWSED), a daily storytelling exploration through language and typography. It was inspired by the work Ernest Hemingway regarded as his greatest: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Some of the pieces are funny, inspiring, sad, and all wonderfully designed! Of course, what would this kind of project be without some collaboration and participation. Head on over to their site, sixwordstoryeveryday.com to check out how you can submit and create a six word story of your own. Bonus points if you can read the above message in the brain.
Men, here’s your chance to get some seriously awesome fashions. Dress up and do it right! In my opinion, these are all top notch choices to plug a little anatomical
This week and beyond at Observatory: A cultural history of 3D in 3D! Holiday Fair! "Oddities" marathon and season launch party! And a score of amazing new art classes comprising the newly launched Morbid Anatomy Art Academy! Hope to see you at one or more of these terrific events.
The Missing Dimension: A Cultural History of 3D Images - Anaglyphs, Stereographs, View-Masters, Holograms, and Flaming Arrows Coming Right at You!
Illustrated lecture on and in 3D (glasses provided) by artist and NYU Professor Chris Muller
Date: TONIGHT Tuesday, December 13th
Time: 8:00
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
An overview of the development of three-dimensional images, from the first recognition of the stereoscopic function of our two eyes in ancient times, to Charles Wheatstone's explanation of binocular vision and his creation of the stereoscope in 1838, and the flood of three dimensional images that followed the invention of photography. We'll look at the stereograph viewer developed by Oliver Wendell Holmes that was in every Victorian parlor, the View-Master in every baby boomer's childhood bedroom, red and green anaglyph printing that allowed comic book characters to pop off the page, and the strange story of the development of 3D film. The unique pleasures of the 3D image will be celebrated, and its persistent failure to become the Next Step in photography and film discussed. The lecture will be illustrated entirely and gratuitously in 3D, with glasses provided to all comers.
Chris Muller is an artist and exhibit designer based in Brooklyn. He has designed exhibits for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum for African Art, the Children's Museum of Manhattan, and many others. He has designed sets for Laurie Anderson, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, the Atlantic Theater Company, and others. He teaches drawing and digital painting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Image: Image by Chris Muller
“Oddities” Marathon and Season Launch Party
Screening of TV's "Oddities" followed by after party with MC Lord Whimsy, giveaways, special drinks, and DJ
Date: Saturday, December 17th
Time: 8:00
Admission: $8
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
On Saturday, December 17th, you are cordially invited to join Morbid Anatomy and Observatory as we gather to celebrate the new season launch of "Oddities," that unlikely hit of a television series based on our favorite purveyor of curious and amazing artifacts, Obscura Antiques and Oddities in New York City's East village.
The evenings festivities will include the screening of several new episodes of "Oddities," special drinks and music by Friese Undine, and give-ways by Kikkerland and Obscura Antiques. The always charming Lord Whimsy will oversee the evening in his role of Master of Ceremonies, and members of the cast of "Oddities" will be on hand for questions and comments.
To find out more about the show, check out http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/oddities.
Hope very much to see you there!
2011 Morbid Anatomy and Observatory Holiday Fair
Holiday fair with multiple vendors serving your alternative holiday needs including taxidermy, miniature insect tableaux and more
Dates: Saturday, December 17 & Sunday, December 18
Time: Noon - 6:00 PM
Admission: Free
Free beer courtesy of our sponsor Brooklyn Brewery
Please join us on December 17th and 18th for a holiday fair presented in conjunction with partner spaces Proteus Gowanus and Morbid Anatomy. Here you will find such covetables as steampunk jewlery, anatomical blocks, macabre drawings, ceramic reliquary bat heads, wet specimens, photographs, and books, books and more books, all to music DJed by Lado Pochkhua and washed down with beer provided by our sponsor Brooklyn Brewery. This will be the perfect place to purchase unique, niche, and off-the-beaten-path gifts for those hard-to-please folks on your shopping list! Hope to see you there.
Image: Crocheted Skulls by Dewey Decimal Crafts, a featured seller at last year's fair. More of her work can be found here.
And more upcoming:
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
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For the first time here at Street Anatomy we’re releasing sticker packs!
Available at the Street Anatomy store for $5. [Update 10 left!]
Clear vinyl slap on red surface
Screen printed skull, teeth and Street Street Anatomy themed sticker packs by our favorite Portland-based street artist, Rx.
Available at the Street Anatomy store for $5!
This weekend, why not come by The Morbid Anatomy Library for the second annual Morbid Anatomy and Observatory Second Annual Holiday Fair? Just a few things you will find here: anatomical blocks, macabre drawings, taxidermy, tableaux, ceramic reliquary bat heads, wet specimens, photographs, tons of books, and much, much more! You will also find free beer complements of our sponsor Brooklyn Brewery.
Full details follow; Hope very much to see you there.
2011 Morbid Anatomy and Observatory Holiday Fair
Holiday fair with multiple vendors serving your alternative holiday needs including taxidermy, miniature insect tableaux and more
Dates: Saturday, December 17 & Sunday, December 18
Time: Noon - 6:00 PM
Admission: Free
Free beer courtesy of our sponsor Brooklyn BreweryPlease join us on December 17th and 18th for a holiday fair presented in conjunction with partner spaces Proteus Gowanus and Observatory. Here you will find such covetables as steampunk jewelry, anatomical blocks, macabre drawings, ceramic reliquary bat heads, wet specimens, photographs, and books, books and more books, all to music DJed by Lado Pochkhua and washed down with beer provided by our sponsor Brooklyn Brewery. This will be the perfect place to purchase unique, niche, and off-the-beaten-path gifts for those hard-to-please folks on your shopping list! Hope to see you there.
For directions, click here. To see some press coverage of the fair, click here, here, and here.
Image: Crocheted Skulls by Dewey Decimal Crafts, a featured seller at last year's fair. More of her work can be found here.
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Five minute video which lovingly zooms into bike parts, and names them. "Want to know your dropout from your downtube
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NEW YORK CITY -- When the rides stop running at Coney Island each year in October, the area takes on a desolate and decidedly creepy character. That's all fine and well with the Coney Island Museum, which on Saturday night hosted the Grand Guignol Variety Show, an homage to the eponymous Parisian production that specialized in theatrical gore, sex and violence from 1897 to 1962.
The event, co-sponsored by the Morbid Anatomy Library and Atlas Obscura, featured two original plays from the Grand Guignol's golden era. They give a sense of what the theater was like in its heyday: In one, a spurned woman mutilates her former fiance with sulphuric acid, only to meet the same fate at his hand. In another, a man's unrequited love for the wife of his closest friend drives him to cast a hypnotist's spell on her. When she's tragically killed in a train crash, the spell's power remains. Disfigured and grotesque, she returns from beyond the grave to be at his side. Horrified, he kills himself...
--"Coney Island Museum Hosts Creepy Homage To Victorian Horror Theater," The Huffington Post, Rachel Tepper
Read the whole article--a review of Saturday's Grand Guingol Variety Show--in today's Huffington Post by clicking here. Please be indulgent when you read my quotes, keeping in mind that it was my birthday and I had had a few drinks by the time this interview took place...
All images are from the slide-show linked to the article and depict, from top to bottom:
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This is the latest work from another one of my favorite street artists, Tiptoe. Tiptoe’s work has such a classic artistic touch to it that, for me, makes him stand apart from many other street artists. This one is just gorgeous, and while seemingly morbid, the cool hues of the skulls on the blood red foundation give it an uncomfortable calmness. It makes me wonder, is she sleeping, dead, or simply passed out after the company holiday party?
View more of TipToe’s work on Flickr.
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Anatomy of a Murder - Video
Tonight! At the Coney Island Museum! Very much hope to see you there!
Grand Guignol Variety Show at The Coney Island Museum
Featuring classic Grand Guignol performances, film, toy theatre, song, dance, film and more, followed by a DJed after-party
Date: Saturday, December 10th
Time: 8:00 (doors at 7)
Admission: $25 (tickets available here)
Location: The Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn
Presented by Morbid Anatomy, Atlas Obscura and The Coney Island Museum and curated by Joanna Ebenstein & John Del GaudioFrom turn-of-the-century Paris through the 1960s, the Theatre of the Grand Guignol gleefully celebrated horror, sex, and fear with infamous productions featuring innocent victims, mangled beauty, insanity, mutilation, humour, sex, and monstrous depravity in a heady mix that attracted throngs of thrill-seekers from all echelons of society, making it the progenitor of today’s blood-spilling, eye-gouging, and limb-hacking “splatter” films.
Join us on December 10th at the Coney Island Museum for a one-night-only ode to The Grand Guignol and its legacy. Our evening of variety theatre was developed in conversation with Mel Gordon, author of Grand Guiginol: Theatre of Fear and Terror; Participants will include Doll Parts, Meg Moseley, GF Newland, Melissa Roth, Shannon Taggart, Alison Termine, Ronni Thomas, and Kathleen Kennedy Tobin and the role of Master or Ceremonies filled by Lord Whimsy. Projects include stagings of two classic Grand Guignol plays, a toy theater version of Bryusov’s “The Sisters,” a harmonious and creepy rendition of “Dry Bones,” and more, all followed by an after-party with music and Hendrick’s Gin cocktails courtesy of Friese Undine.
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Street Anatomy is currently being featured on one of my favorite iPad apps, Flipboard! Flipboard allows your to easily flip through the stories, photos, videos, and updates from across your social networks and favorite websites in a magazine-like format. Personally, I think it’s best for browsing Twitter feeds.
The lovely people at Flipboard said, “We think @streetanatomy looks amazing on Flipboard and want to let our readers know!“ Thanks Flipboard!
Oh, and if you haven’t already done so, follow us on Twitter!
Melbourne-based Beth Croce is a certified medical illustrator who also explores everything from fine art to tattoo art, performing arts to jewelry, all with a biological twist of course.
Beth contacted me recently to tell us that her jewelery was recently featured on tv’s NCIS forensics expert Abby (Pauley Perrette). Abby wore a few pieces of Beth’s anatomical jewelery, the open heart pendant choker, uterus pendant, and anatomical heart locket, featured above, on the show.
How exciting is it to see your work on television! I have such respect for medical illustrators that use their talent and enthusiasm to bring anatomy outside of the medical world and into pop culture.
View more of Beth’s work at bioperspective.com and jewelery on her shop, AnatomyArt, on Etsy!
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