Janina Gavankar Cops Role on Arrow

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Just when we thought we couldn't love Arrow any more...

Janina Gavankar - a TV Fanatic favorite based on this amazing Comic-Con interview - will recur on The CW hit as a tough vice cop in Starling City named McKenna Hall.

Look for the character to have a complicated history with a certain hood-wearing son of a billionaire, according to Zap2It.

Janina Gavankar on True Blood

Hall will spring into action when Seth Gabel debuts as this season's major villain. She will get involved with a new street drug called Vertigo.

Gavankar is best known as Luna True Blood and will also appear on Fox's The Goodwin Games this spring, though that show recently had its initial episode order cut.


Source:
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2012/11/janina-gavankar-cops-role-on-arrow/

Anatomic Fashion Friday: Skingraft Vertebrae Bracelets

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Large Vertebrae Bracelet by Skingraft | Street Anatomy

Stacked Vertebrae Bracelet by Skingraft | Street Anatomy

These are some real beauties. Clothing company Skingraft has some new vertebrae bracelets in their Fall 2012 collection that are outstanding. Shown above are the Massive Vertebrae ($198) and three stacked Vertebrae bracelets ($121); all are made of white bronze. I love that you can wear one or a group. Singularly they almost seem sculptural.

There is next to no info on Skingraft; their Facebook page mentions that home is Los Angeles. The clothing line has some great pieces, and there are leggings with a spine printed on them that should definitely be checked out.

 

Source:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/streetanatomy/OQuC/~3/rIaKoDeHmMc/

Grey’s Anatomy Episode Preview: Lending a Hand

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Grey's Anatomy is off next week before returning November 29 with "I Was Made For Lovin' You."

After last night's change of heart (see our Grey's Anatomy review of "Second Opinion"), Callie recanted and began to offer up numerous ways Derek could recover from his possibly career-ending injury.

Will he get that chance? That remains to be seen, but from the looks of the upcoming episode trailer, he and Callie are prepared to go all-out in pursuit of a solution and the stakes are impossibly high.

Meanwhile ... April's late. Gulp. Think this is for real, or classic misdirection by the producers?

Oh, and there's a bombshell coming in the final five minutes that no one will see coming and which may forever alter the fabric of Seattle Grace (that's us channeling our inner Shonda Rhimes there).

Check out ABC's first promo for the episode and share your comments with us below:


Source:
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2012/11/greys-anatomy-episode-preview-lending-a-hand/

"’Morbid Anatomy Anthology’: Brooklyn Art Group Seeks Funding For Curious New Book," The Huffington Post

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From today's Huffington Post:

Morbid Anatomy Anthology': Brooklyn Art Group Seeks Funding For Curious New Book

Mummified remains, taxidermied animals, jarred body parts. These are the images that greet you when you visit the Kickstarter page for Morbid Anatomy.

The curiously named organization, housed in the Proteus Gowanus Gallery space in Brooklyn, is an arts-meets-science, subcultural playhouse that hosts lectures, performances and art exhibits all in the name of, well, oddities. Officially described as a survey of "the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture," Morbid Academy is really just a creative laboratory where curious scientists, artists, writers and weirdos get together to explore the underworld of scholarship that no one else gives a second glance. From anthropodermic bibiopegy (books bound in human skin) to extreme taxidermy to death-themed cabaret in 18th century Paris, the group covers just about any macabre topic you could imagine.

Morbid Anatomy showcases its esoteric findings in two ways -- a library/pocket museum that showcases the books, photographs and ephemera of its obscure researchers and a presentation and lecture series titled "Morbid Anatomy Presents." But now the "rogue morticians" are seeking to add a third platform, announcing on their Kickstarter plans for a "Morbid Anatomy Anthology." The illustrated book will feature the best of the Morbid Anatomy Presents series, like the work of Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class teacher Sue Jeiven or "Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads" author Stephen Asma.

The Kickstarter launched today, already exceeding it's goal by over $15,000. Check out the video above to learn more about the project of Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey. What do you think, readers? Does Morbid Anatomy lean in the direction of beauty or horror?

To read the entire article and see a slideshow on the work of the lovely Tessa Farmer, click here. To donate to the campaign and secure a copy of the book for your very own, click here.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/morbid-anatomy-anthology-brooklyn-art.html

Danny Quirk Self Dissections Print Release

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Ashley, Christina, and Candice are available for $30
at the Street Anatomy store.

Danny Quirk Candice print available at the Street Anatomy Store
Candice by Danny Quirk 11×14″ digital print

Danny Quirk Candice print available at the Street Anatomy Store

Danny Quirk Candice print available at the Street Anatomy Store

Danny Quirk Christina print available at the Street Anatomy Store
Christina by Danny Quirk 11×14″ digital print

Danny Quirk Christina print available at the Street Anatomy Store

Danny Quirk Ashley print available at the Street Anatomy Store

Ashley by Danny Quirk 11×14″ digital print

Danny Quirk Ashley print available at the Street Anatomy Store

Danny Quirk water color Self Dissection Series from Street Anatomy's OBJECTIFY THIS exhibition from September 2012

We’re excited to release Ashley, Christina, and Candice prints from Danny Quirk’s Self Dissection series on the Street Anatomy store! Originally available at the OBJECTIFY THIS exhibition back in September 2012, Danny’s prints were an instant favorite among the gallery audience.

Using dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, this gorgeous series of surreal portraitures expose underlying anatomy by means of self dissection.

  • 11 x 13.75″ with 1 1/2″ white border
  • Digital print on fine art paper
  • Limited edition of 20 prints, signed and numbered
  • Exclusive to Street Anatomy

 

Ashley, Christina, and Candice are available for $30 at the Street Anatomy store.

Feel free to contact Vanessa at vanessa [a] streetanatomy.com with any questions! For other shipping inquires, please see our store’s FAQ section.

 

 

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/streetanatomy/OQuC/~3/Wog3DVAm3E8/

Locked Up – Uniting the arts and sciences for LGBTQ health

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Locked Up: Demystifying the marginalized among us through art, science, and community Chicago 2012

Street Anatomy is proud to be a part of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s 2nd annual QUEERHEALTH event hosted by UIC Queers & Allies in Medicine. We are loaning gorgeous anatomical art for a night filled with art, burlesque by our favorite Vaudezilla ladies, queer focused science research, delicious free food and drinks, and much more all in a very cool Chicago industrial type loft.

Locked Up: demystifying the marginalized among us through art, science, and community
November 17, 2012  7 PM – 11 PM
High Concept Laboratories
1401 W. Wabansia

Please RSVP at http://highconceptlabs.ticketleap.com/queer-health

 

 

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/streetanatomy/OQuC/~3/mrD-uudR76Y/

"Death: A Self Portrait," The Wellcome Collection, Through February 24, 2013

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In some way death in our culture happens offstage in private, but this show looks at the ways in which people have explored death much more face on. --Kate Forde, Curator of "Death: A Self Portrait," The Wellcome Collection, BBC Magazine

My last night in London, I had the honor and delight to attend the preview of "Death: A Self Portrait," the Wellcome Collection's spectacularly amazing new exhibition which officially opens today.

Beautifully and thought-provokingly curated by Kate Forde (who also curated the Wellcome's 2009 Exquisite Bodies), the exhibition uses as its base and its muse the extensive, broad, and rather profound death-themed collection of Chicago-based Richard Harris. Harris' collection is comprised of all things death, ranging from valuable artistic masterworks to the lowest-brow of popular culture, bringing to mind the collection of none other than Henry Wellcome, the man behind the Wellcome Collection. To its merit, "Death: A Self Portrait" draws deftly from both extremes as well as all that is located in between; the result is an exhibition that is at a lovely, provocative, fascinating, witty, and thoughtful investigation into the human obsession with imagining and coming to terms with that greatest and most unknown of absolutes: DEATH.

"Death: A Self Portrait" is divided up into five sections: The first, "Contemplating Death," is a collection of memento mori themed work; The second, "The Dance of Death," gathers works responding to notions of the danse macabre or death as the great equalizer; "Violent Death" features a variety of artistic responses to war, including Goya's Disasters of War series; "Commemoration" concerns itself with burial, morning, and our responses the particular dead; My personal favorite, "Eros and Thanatos," is an unusual addition to a public discussion of death, and showcases "works expressing our strange fascination with 'things at the outer limits of life and death, sexuality and pain."

Above are just a very few images from this wonderful exhibition; there are many, many more excellent artworks, objects and artifacts to be seen; I simply cannot more highly recommend checking out this jaw-dropper before its closing date on February 24th!
You can find out more about the show on the Wellcome Collection website by clicking here; To hear the lovely illustrated interview with curator Kate Forde from which the above quote was drawn, click here.

Also, for the interested among you: both collector-of-death Richard Harris and curator Kate Forde will be contributors to the Morbid Anatomy Anthology, a new lavish book immortalizing in words and images the best of Morbid Anatomy Presents; you can secure your own copy--and find out more--by clicking here. For more on the Richard Harris collection, click here to learn about a recent exhibition using his collection as its base at The Chicago Cultural Center.

All images ©  Wellcome Images, Courtesy The Richard Harris Collection; captions, top to bottom:

  1. Metamorphic Postcard, c.1900 
  2. Skeleton puppet. Wood and cotton
  3. Bathel Bruyn the elder, 'A Skull in a Niche', c.1535-55 Oil on panel
  4. When Shall we Meet Again?Gelatin silver print Size, c.1900
  5. Louis Crusius, Antikamnia, 1900 Paper: calendar series of 6, 1900
  6. Marcos Raya, Untitled (family portrait: woman in yellow dress), 2005 Collage: vintage photo with mixed media
  7. Dana Salvo, From the series 'The Day, the Night and the Dead': 'Home altar atop table commemorating ancestors', 1990-2004 Photograph
  8. Alfred Rethel, 'Death the Enemy', 1851 Wood engraving
  9. Memento Mori, unknown artist, late 18th-century Engraving
  10. Mors Ultima Linea Rerum (Death the Final Boundary of Things), c.1570 Engraving, 
  11. Ivo Saliger 'Der Artz (The Doctor), c.1921 Colour etching on brown paper
  12. Marcos Raya, Untitled (family portrait: grandma), 2005

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/death-self-portrait-wellcome-collection.html

"Diableries” (or “Devilment”) Stereo Views, 19th Century

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Some of you might recall my recent desperate search for hi-resolution images of “Diableries” (or “Devilment”) 19th century 3D stereo views. Morbid Anatomy reader Corey Schjoth kindly obliged, sending me the photographs you see above, demonstrating both front- and back-lit views of a particularly wonderful card.

Corey is also a photographer of haunted places; you can find out more about he and his work by clicking here, and check out his Etsy shop by clicking here.

I highly recommend clicking on the image to see larger, finer versions. And if you want to know more about these enigmatic and fantastic Diableries, you could do worse than to watch the Midnight Archive featurette on the topic by clicking here. Also, stay tuned for a heavily-illustrated article about "Diableries” in the upcoming Morbid Anatomy Anthology! More on that here.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/diableries-or-devilment-stereo-views.html

"Held," Jane Fradgley, Guy’s Hospital, London, Through March 2013

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“I was fascinated by the seemingly comforting strong dresses, and related this form of protective care to my own experiences in hospital and encounters with modern day psychiatric care. My aim was to create a representation of the pieces which lay somewhere between documentary and poetry, incorporating my love of abstraction yet offering a clear portrayal of the pieces for the viewer to interpret themselves." --Jane Fradgley, Held
Last week a friend brought me to see a wonderful exhibition of photography by artist Jane Fradgley; the body of work, entitled "Held," responds to a collection of "strong clothing"--i.e. restraint clothing used in 19th century asylums--kept in the stores of Bethlem Royal Hospital and Museum. The exhibition will be on view in Atrium 2 of Guy's Hospital through March 8, 2013. You can see a few of Fradgley's strikingly uncanny photographs above, but I highly recommend you visit them in person if you can to get a real sense of scale (they are printed life-sized) and emotive impact.
Full information follows:

Held                 
by Jane Fradgley
Funded by Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity
Atrium 2
Guy’s Hospital
7th November 2012 – 8th March 2013

This new photographic exhibition by artist Jane Fradgley is informed by the collection of strong clothing housed at the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archive & Museum, Beckenham, Kent. The history of this largely unexplored area of mental health care is both powerful and poignant. Through investigation, the artist’s intention is to open new dialogue and debate around protection and restraint in mental health practice. With a background as a fashion designer and a passionate interest in functional and tailored garments, Fradgley was inspired to delve into the archive after seeing Victorian portrait photographs of patients at Bethlem wearing unusual quilted dresses. 

“I was fascinated by the seemingly comforting strong dresses, and related this form of protective care to my own experiences in hospital and encounters with modern day psychiatric care. My aim was to create a representation of the pieces which lay somewhere between documentary and poetry, incorporating my love of abstraction yet offering a clear portrayal of the pieces for the viewer to interpret themselves. ?I enjoyed the intimacy when alone with the garments, and felt closer to them by zooming in on details. One by one the pieces were carefully brought to me like offerings for my lens. They appeared reverential and it seemed fitting to respect this when arranging them in a staged setting in the studio. As each session passed I grew very fond of the pieces, perhaps my own projection but I felt as though they had certain characters. I hoped to convey the essence of the people who wore each garment as I felt great energy from the textiles - possibly there were many wearers and many stories never to be told. I had never imagined that these old garments would hold so much emotive substance. For me the purpose of the strong clothing was not to invoke or exacerbate fear or anxiety in the patient, rather the attention to detail in creating such well constructed garments was to bring some dignity, serenity, peace and tranquility ?to the wearer as an antidote to their anguish. Wishing to engage with that sense of calm, I explored soft lighting techniques, however some of the garments responded best in the darkness of the shadows, ?a reminder of the inevitable blackness of mental illness”.

Strong clothing was a rather euphemistic term used to describe certain forms of restraint used in late 19th century asylums. While chains, strait-jackets (known as strait-waistcoats) and similar garments were outlawed during the ‘non-restraint’ movement of the 1840s and ’50s, other methods of ‘mechanical restraint’ were permitted by the Commissioners in Lunacy (the government body who inspected and licensed asylums for much of the 19th century). The intention of strong clothing (including strong dresses and padded gloves) was to protect patients, both preventing self-inflicted injury and the destruction of their clothing.

“Strong dresses,” as described by Bethlem Superintendent George Savage in 1888, were “made of stout linen or woollen material, and lined throughout with flannel. The limbs are all free to move, but the hands are enclosed in the extremities of the dress, which are padded. …There are no strait-waistcoats, handcuffs, or what may be called true instruments of restraint in Bethlem”. Savage claimed that, by avoiding recourse to the use of sedatives or padded cells for violent or destructive patients, many “were thus really granted liberty by means of the slight restraint put upon them”.

The terms, descriptions and types of garment used were fraught with meaning for contemporaries, many of whom saw themselves as enlightened humanitarians. Others, however, did not agree, and the ‘principle of non-restraint’ remained an ongoing matter of debate. By the turn of the 20th century strait-jackets appeared to have returned ?to some institutions. Although the exact dates of the garments seen in these photographs are unknown, given the types of garments reported by the Commissioners in Lunacy as in use at this time, it is likely that they were adopted in the period 1880 –1920.

Through this historical perspective, held reminds us of the difficulty of placing a clear line between care, cure and control in a mental health context. Treatment providers invariably have to make extremely difficult decisions, indicating the importance of opening up debate around physical restraint and chemical intervention in mental health care today.

We are planning a symposium on the subject in 2013, if you would like to be informed about ?or participate in that symposium contact Sarah Chaney at s.chaney@ucl.ac.uk.

You can find out more about Jane Fradgley's work by clicking here.Thanks so much to Jane for the images and materials, and to Phil Loring for introducing me to her work.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/held-jane-fradgley-guys-hospital-london.html

"Morbid Fears and Compulsions," H.W. Frink, 1921, The Wellcome Library

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Morbid fears and compulsions : their psychology and psychoanalytic treatment / by H.W. Frink ; with an introduction by James J. Putnam
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1921 (Torquay : Devonshire Press.)
Open shelves     Medical Collection WM170 1921F91m
Physical description   
xxiii, 344 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note   
Includes index
Some of the material was previously published in various journals.-cf. Pref
"Reprinted (by arrangement with Messrs. Moffat, Yard & Co., of New York) from the American edition"
Bibliography: p. 337-341.

From the wonderful Wellcome Library.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/morbid-fears-and-compulsions-hw-frink.html

A Trip to the 19th Century Popular Anatomical Museum: "La leçon d’hygiène," Félicien Rops, Late 19th Century

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Whilst doing research in the wonderful and amazing Wellcome Library in London last week, I came upon a mention of the wonderful and underknown painting shown above, "la leçon d'hygiène" by Belgian decadent artist Félicien Rops. The painting is a rare fine-art depiction of a visit to a 19th century popular anatomical museum. I could find out precious little about it, but Wikimedia claims it is in a private collection and was painted between 1878 and 1881.

If anyone knows anything more about it, please email me at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com. I also highly recommend that you click on the image to see larger, finer version.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-trip-to-19th-century-popular.html

Grey’s Anatomy 9×07 Promo – "I Was Made For Lovin You" [HD] – Video

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Grey #39;s Anatomy 9x07 Promo - "I Was Made For Lovin You" [HD]
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Grey’s Anatomy 9×07 Promo | "I Was Made For Lovin You" (HQ) – Video

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"Grey #39;s Anatomy 9x07 Sneak Peek" "Grey #39;s Anatomy 9x07 Promo" Grey #39;s Anatomy S09E07 Promo Grey #39;s Anatomy Season 9 Episode 7 Promo Preview Webclip Sneak PeekFrom:vinniestonesfilmsViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:07More inEntertainment

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