Figure Skating Skeleton, 2010 Olympics

Artists Say the Darndest Things

At one point when the conversation seemed to be dwindling, Peter pulled a question out of the “I can’t seem to think of anything else” bag: “Kiki, if you could be any of the animals your work portrays, which animal would you want to be?”

Kiki: “Oh! I’d want to be a worm. I like worms.”

A few chuckles whispered around the auditorium, and Peter looked as though he were trying to decide how best to proceed when Kiki asked: “Peter, what kind of animal would you be?”

Peter: “I think I’d be a dog.” As Peter took a moment to think about why he’d be a dog, mumbling a few ‘hmms’ and ‘well…’ phrases, Kiki leaned in a little to say, “I could crawl up your asshole!”

The whole audience took a moment to silently debate: Did she REALLY just say that? I looked over my shoulder at the camera, thinking about the folks in Online Land watching the event as a webcast. Did they catch that? Peter looked speechless, and even Kiki seemed a little suprised by it. Just as quickly the moment passed and the whole place erupted in laughing and snorting. Peter still looked like he was trying to strategize a way to rescue this event when she added: “Or you could step on me.”

from the Walker Art Museum Education and Community Programs blog: http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2006/02/27/kiki-smith-death-disease-and-dismemberment/

Give Swine Flu for Easter!

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Making Injuries Cooler

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Real Academic Quote of the Day

"A pretzel and ear are, once their differences in size have been eliminated by turning them into images, an almost exact match. A nose and popcorn, however, is a pairing which one might perhaps be forgiven for seeing as a little bit more Freudian. For one thing the principle of contiguity comes into play, in that the nose is near the mouth. It may be that what got Baldessari to use the combination was an olfactory association. I've seen him prepare popcorn (which is good for you) and eat it while watching television lots of times. I've never seen him eat a pizza (which is not) in my life. Which might mean that he is genuinely aroused by the smell of hot popcorn, and has an experiential relationship to the one but a merely visual use for the other. But it will not have escaped his attention either that on its way to the mouth the popcorn passes near to the nose, and that it is small enough to actually fit into a nostril." - from Baldessari - RMS W VU: Wallpaper, Lamps, and Plants

Valentine's Day Anatomically Inspired Music Videos

Arcade Fire - My Heart is an Apple

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (LITERAL VIDEO VERSION)

The Magnetic Fields - The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be

Tentacular

see also: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/18/engraved-victorian-t.html

More anatomically inspired music videos

José Gonzalez - Heartbeats (cover)

Muse - Muscle Museum

Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage

Worst Conference Title of the Day:

*Cremaster Anatomies*

Real Live Academic Quote of the Day 2/3/10

"one of Steen's biographers wrote that the painter's 'wife was irked by his repeated portrayal of her as a loose woman.'"

Awesome scholarly article find of the day

"the Nine Inch Nails video for the song 'Closer' was such an exact copy of [Joel-Peter Witkin's] imagery that Witkin filed suit against its director Mark Romanek"

See some images HERE

Real Live Academic Quote of the Day 2/4/10

"This allows the viewer to experience the anatomist's dissected head without perceived mediation; our immediate perception is of this dissected head in a soup bowl and not of a photograph of any other dissected head in a soup bowl."