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Category: Artists & Art
The very epitome of bioephemera, from Microbial Art: Artist JoWOnder presents a pre-Raphaelite painting of Ophelia created with bacteria. The demise of the painting is filmed using time-lapse photography, showing a story of death and creation of new life....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
One of the coolest, weirdest, worlds-colliding Day of the Dead artworks I've ever seen is this sculpture of a skeletal Teddy Kennedy. He's at a podium, open-jawed (no doubt haranguing other late Senators), accompanied by a skeletal dog. The paper...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
OK: I'm female AND a biologist, and looking at this one freaks ME out! I'm all in favor of appreciating the beauty of female anatomy and miracle of childbirth and all, but this pasty, long-limbed newborn doll with a detatchable...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
To follow up on my post on Kevin Van Aelst, here's an anatomically-inspired artwork by Heather L. Johnson, whose new show, "Air and Blood", opens this month in NYC: Using the Holland Tunnel as a point of departure, the...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:11 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Via Inventorspot: Hello Kitty goes anatomical, and we discover she even has bows on her guts. Yikes! But seriously - the second, faux-ivory Hello Kitty looks a little familiar. According to Inventorspot, you can choose from regular style or...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:28 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medical Illustration and History
Just saw this posting: The Stetten Fellowship seeks to encourage postdoctoral historical research and publication about biomedical sciences and technology and medicine that has been funded by NIH since 1945. Fellowships carry a stipend in the range of $45,000 per...
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Category: Artists & Art
Photographer Kevin Van Aelst's work is clever, funny, and meticulous to a fault.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:46 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Okay, so this apron by Aksel Varichon is awesome. Very fun. But what's with the oven mitt? If the premise of the apron is that we're seeing internal anatomy partially revealed on the wearer's body, doesn't the matching mitt...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:04 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
What You're Made Of (ABS) Jason Freeny, 2009 Anatomy teachers: this would be an awesome quiz for your students, wouldn't it? :) Jason Freeny is the digital artist behind Balloon Animal anatomy, Gummi Bear anatomy, and the dissected Gingerbread...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:10 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
On how many chilly fall days have you woken up and thought to yourself, "it's too cold for bare legs and too warm for wool tights - I need some vintage cell division illustration leggings"? Okay, maybe never -...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
