Mercedez-Benz Left Brain Right Brain

Mercedes Benz left right brain ad

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]

 

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Molotov Heart

Francis Baker Molotov heart

Francis Baker Molotov heart

Francis Baker Armament

Francis Baker Armament

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]

 

 

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Justin Parker for Esque

Esque studio heart vase Justin Parker

Anatomical Heart Vase. Life-like heart, with ventricles for flower stems. 5" tall.

Esque studio glass eyes by Justin Parker

Glass Eye. Approximately 4" diameter.

Esque studio Guilded Skull by Justin Parker

Guilded Skull gold leaf gives it color. Around 5" around

Esque studio Silvered Skull by Justin Parker

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]

 

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Six Word Stories Every Day

Six Word Stories Everyday

Six Word Stories Everyday here Anil N Singh

Six Word Stories Everyday six

Six Word Stories Everyday here

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.

 

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Gifts for Your Man

Anatomical gifts for men recommendations by Street Anatomy

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

  1. Here’s a bag to carry, you can study Grey’s Anatomy as you stroll. Good for school, work, and exploring the world, this messenger bag definitely shows off where your interests lie. The Etsy company, Cotton Spaceship, has some cool stuff in their shop. $42
  2. For the special occasions (or if you’re uber-rad, everyday), this Vanities wool tie is definitely a change up from the old-school bowties of yore. Give it a shot! $220
  3. Men, you can pull of jewelery. Especially when it’s embossed with skulls and diamonds. Me&Ro, $390
  4. If you’re not a bow tie man, try this one on. Maybe with a nicely tailored pinstripe suit, or a good plaid button down. Alexander McQueen would never let you down. $175
  5. Now here’s some awesome underwear. Get a few to postpone the inevitable laundry day and know that under your jeans you’ve got some seriously cool drawers on. Zara, $16.90
  6. It’s nautical, it’s skulls, it’s blue. 3 things I like. Urban Outfitters, $28

 

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The Cultural History of 3D! "Oddities" Launch Party! Holiday Fair! Tonight and Beyond at Observatory

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.

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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

odditiesfish“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!

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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
brooklyn-brewery-logo-gold 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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Rx x Street Anatomy Sticker Packs Volume 1

For the first time here at Street Anatomy we’re releasing sticker packs!
Available at the Street Anatomy store for $5. [Update 10 left!]

Rx sticker packs for Street Anatomy

Rx sticker packs for Street Anatomy

Rx sticker packs for Street Anatomy

Rx blue skulls slaps

Rx clear skull slap

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.

  • 8 high quality stickers per pack including 1 fantastic clear vinyl skull (pictured above)
  • Hand cut by Rx himself
  • Super bright colors help these slaps stand out against almost any surface
  • Colors vary from pack to pack
  • Only 35 available [Update 10 left!]

Available at the Street Anatomy store for $5!

 

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Grand Guignol Spectacular in The Huffington Post!






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:

  1. MC Lord Whimsy with the cast of The Strange Case of Me Tarzan directed by G F Newland: Nick Demko-Pavese and the "bathing beauties" Megan Fitzpatrick, Rachel Rideout, Christine Colby and Lady Aye
  2. Christine Colby in her Skeleton Dance costume
  3. Mentalist Les Baird doing one of his amazing feats with a volunteer from the audience
  4. Scene from L’Amant de la Morte (The Lover of the Dead), original Grand Guignol script from 1925 directed by Melissa Roth
  5. Scene from Baiser dans la nuit (The Final Kiss), original Grand Guignol script from 1912, directed by Meg Moseley
  6. Shot of the crowd thronging the gin bar, featuring cameos of Melissa Milgrom, Eric Bobelin, Aaron Beebe, and lots of unfamiliar faces

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Morbid Anatomy and Observatory Holiday Fair, THIS WEEKEND December 17th and 18th


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 Brewery

Please 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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Tiptoe’s Beauty

TipToe Beauty

TipToe Beauty detail

TipToe Beauty detail

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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Tonight!! The Grand Guignol Spectacular: An Evening of Victorian Variety, Macabre Merriment, and Horror Live on Stage!


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 Gaudio

From 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 Featured on Flipboard App!

Street Anatomy featured on Flipboard for iPad

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!

 

 

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Bioperspective Jewelery on NCIS

Abby NCIS Open Heart necklace Beth Croce Bioperspective

Abby NCIS Open Heart necklace Beth Croce Bioperspective

Open Heart On Leather Beth Croce Bioperspective

Heart Locket Red Ribbon Beth Croce Bioperspective

Uterus Silver Pearls by Beth Croce Bioperspective

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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Photographing the Dead: The History of Postmortem Photography from The Burns Collection and Archive, Monday December 5th, Observatory






Tomorrow night at Observatory! Be sure to arrive early, as this one is sure to sell out! Above are a few more of the hundreds of images that will be discussed.

Full details follow; hope to see you there!

Photographing the Dead: The History of Postmortem Photography from The Burns Collection and Archive
Illustrated Lecture and book signing with Stanley B. Burns, MD, FACS
of the Burns Collection and Archive
Date: Monday, December 5th
Time: 8:00
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
*** Books will be available for sale and signing; see bottom of this page for complete list of books available

Postmortem photography, photographing a deceased person, was a common practice in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These photographs, from the beginning of the practice until now, are special mementos that hold deep meaning for mourners through visually "embalming" the dead. Although postmortem photographs make up the largest group of nineteenth-century American genre photographs, until recent years they were largely unseen and unknown. Dr. Burns recognized the importance of this phenomenon in his early collecting when he bought his first postmortem photographs in 1976. Since that time he has amassed the most comprehensive collection of postmortem photography in the world and has curated several exhibits and published three books on the subject: the Sleeping Beauty series. Tonight, Dr. Burns will speak about the practice of postmortem photography from the 19th century until today and share hundreds of images from his collection.

About Sleeping Beauty: Dr. Burns’ first book on postmortem photography, Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America (1990) has been widely recognized as one of the most important photography books of all time. Sleeping Beauty has influenced an eclectic array of fields, from bereavement counseling and education to cultural anthropology, history, medicine, philosophy, religion and spirituality (not to mention pop music) and has been cited in debates on the death penalty, euthanasia and abortion. It has been the subject of numerous scholarly papers as well as seminars and exhibitions at notable institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The New Museum of Contemporary Art. A decade later the Archive published Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement & The Family in Memorial Photography American & European Traditions in conjunction with an exhibit at the Musée d’Orsay. Sleeping Beauty III Memorial Photography: The Children, the third installment in this series was released this year to accompany a traveling exhibition.

About the Burns Collection and Archive: The Burns Collection, founded in 1975 hosts the nation's largest collection of early medical photography and has been generally recognized as one the most important private comprehensive collections of early photography (over one million photographs). The Collection is best known for images of the dark side of life: death, disease, disaster, mayhem, crime, racism, revolution, riots and war. Dr. Burns has authored forty-three photo-historical texts and curated more than fifty photographic exhibitions. He is a founding donor of several museum photography collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. In addition to being an internationally distinguished author, curator, historian, collector, publisher, and archivist, Dr. Burns is a New York City ophthalmologist and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center. The Burns Archive produces publications, exhibitions, and manages image licensing for the Burns Collection. To find out more, you can visit the Burns Archive Blog, website, or press website.

These Burns Archive titles will be available for sale and signing:
Sleeping Beauty III Memorial Photography: The Children $36
Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement & The Family in Memorial Photography... $85
Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Photography by R.B. Bontecou $50
News Art: Manipulated Photographs from the Burns Archive $50
Deadly Intent, Crime & Punishment: Photographs from the Burns Archive $75
Seeing Insanity: Photography & The Depiction of Mental Illness $40

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Secret Science Club 6th-Annual “Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest, Tonight at The Bell House!


Tonight! Hope to see you there.

Calling All Creatures . . . The Secret Science Club presents the 6th-annual "Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest"
Friday, December 9
8 PM @ the Bell House
$7

Just in time for the holidays . . . the beasts are back!

The Secret Science Club presents the 6th-annual “Carnivorous Nights TAXIDERMY CONTEST,” Friday, December 9, 8 pm @ the Bell House, $7

Calling all science geeks, nature freaks, and rogue geniuses! Your stuffed squirrel got game? Got a beaver in your brownstone? Bring your beloved beast to the Bell House and enter it to win!

Eligible to enter: Taxidermy (bought, found, or homemade), biological oddities, articulated skeletons, skulls, jarred specimens—and beyond, way beyond.

Show off your moose head, snake skeleton, rabbit relics, and other amazing specimens. Compete for prizes and glory. Share your taxidermy (and its tale) with the world.

The contest will be judged by our panel of savage taxidermy enthusiasts, including Robert Marbury of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists and feline wrangler Dorian Devins, co-founder and curator of the Secret Science Club.

Plus!
--Groove to furry tunes & video
--See an illustrated lecture on (yes!) taxidermy
--Imbibe ferocious specialty drinks! (They’ll bring out the animal in you.)

Entrants: Contact secretscienceclub@gmail.com to pre-register.

Spectators: Don’t miss a beastly second of this wild night!

Tickets: Advance tickets are available for purchase here.

This fiercely special edition of the Secret Science Club meets Friday, December 9 @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Subway: F or G to 4th Ave; R to 9th St. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Please bring ID: 21+. $7 cover.

Image: Mouse Taxidermist, student work from our popular Anthropomorphic Taxidermy class. More photos here; more on the class here.

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Seeking Volunteers for Grand Guignol Spectacular Next Saturday, December 10


Hi all! We are currently seeking a few volunteers to help with next Saturday's Grand Guignol Spectacular at The Coney Island Museum. We need a couple of folks to help with scene transitions during the show, and an experienced stage manager to help for the day of the show. All volunteers, of course, will be rewardd with free admission to the event!

Interested parties can email me here: morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com. More on the event can be found here.

Thanks so much and, either way, hope to see you there!

Image: From a Life Magazine story circa 1947 about the Grand Guignol entitled "Sick! A House of Horrors." More on that here. Caption reads: "Realistic throat-cutting, performed in The Hussy by honest farm lad on his depraved, scheming wife, is achieved by a trick dagger which contains 'blood' in the handle."

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