Fish heads, squirrel suits, TGIF!
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Has your week been like this, too? I'm just checking. . . "Fish in a squirrel suit" by Slightly Curious. Via Regretsy....
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Museum Lust:
Wearable spider silk
Category: Biology
A gift idea for the person who already has everything: spider silk couture! (Or the closest thing to it). It took one million spiders to produce the silk for this textile from Madagascar (although the wild spiders were released...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:28 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Plastinated cadaver sex? Really?
Category: Biology
According to Reuters, Gunther von Hagens of Body Worlds fame is going to create an entire exhibit showing plastinated cadavers in sexual poses. He already includes two "copulating cadavers" in his current show: German politicians called the current "Cycle of...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:31 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
We need an Antiques Roadshow for Wunderkammer!
Category: Artists & Art
Joanna of Morbid Anatomy is on a quest to locate private collections of medical oddities. She's already sussed out fourteen such hidden wunderkammern and photographed their treasures, but she wants to find more: "Who are these private collectors, and...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Victorian Insect House
Category: Artists & Art
Curious Expeditions has a great interview with Jennifer Angus, the artist who recently redecorated the Newark Museum's Victorian Ballentine House with dead insects in an installation called "Insecta Fantasia." Wow! The Museum restored the elegant abode to its original dark...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:50 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Video Tour: Berkeley MVZ's bone and fur rooms
Category: Biology
Maybe you can't leave town this weekend on vacation, but you can take an awesome behind-the-scenes video tour of UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, which is closed to the public, courtesy of Wired Science: Officious handwritten tags tell the...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mystery Image #5
Category: Science
This is. . . A. The surface of one of Jupiter's moons B. Thermophilic archaebacteria in a hot spring C. The pigmented iris of a Madagascar gecko D. An electroformed enamel and copper pendant E. Multicolored lichen at Enchanted Rock,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Those bloody Great Lakes! Anatomical/cartographical mashup, circa 1889
Category: Artists & Art
Another fabulously weird map, from the great blog Strange Maps. This one is entitled "The Man of Commerce" and dates to 1889. According to the American Geographical Society Library, The highly detailed 31" x 50" map/chart conflates human anatomy...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Anamorphosis: skulls, songbirds, and invisible portraits
Category: Artists & Art
In the venerable artistic technique called anamorphosis, an object is depicted in distorted perspective, so that the viewer has to take special action, like looking from a specific angle, to see the "correct" image.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:06 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fossils in fine art
Category: Books
Check out Brian's new review of A History of Paleontology Illustration (Life of the Past) by Jane Davidson, in Palaeontologia Electronica: It is rare for fossils to be featured in fine art, but in the 15th century painting A...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:09 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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