Crazy Collection of Old-Timey Images

Киты на старинных гравюрах

Retro NYT Quote of the Day

Famously, he made a beauty map of the British Isles — whenever he passed a woman on the street, he graded her beauty and secretly pricked a piece of paper to record it. (According to Galton, the most beautiful women could be found in London, and the ugliest in Aberdeen, a town in northern Scotland.)

Beauty is more than skin deep, but only kind of

The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.

Porcelain Prosthetics

Art History Quote of the Day

"Columbus arranged his collection first by size, then by various subjects, and then by other categories ('dressed' and 'undressed' for instance)"

I've done so much cryin', the flesh has left my bones; I can play my ribcage like a xylophone

Click on the image to see a bigger picture
Click here to listen to the song

Blame it on the Ladies

Cyborg Fashion

Hanky Pancreas

Dead-animal painting

Quote of the Day: "The main reference point in this debate was the Cartesian theory of the ’beast-machine’, which viewed animals as senseless automata. The present study examines dead-animal painting in the context of this debate."

Cool find of the day (follow the link)

Mark Ryden v. Pieter Aertsen

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Silly Academic Article Title of the Day

Men are Much Harder: Gendered Viewing of Nude Images

Breasts, anyone?

Academia meets boobs. Read it HERE.

Morbid Anatomy strikes again with cool pictures

Curious Ladies

Artist Quote of the Day

"You're the hot sauce on my ribs" - Ed Ruscha

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."

Modern Vanitas

And I just really like checking out music videos:

Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart

The Unicorns - Jellybones

The Unicorns - I Don't Want to Die

David Turpin - The Bone Dance

Kidneys!

NYT Quote of the Day

NYT quote of the day: "The Romans, we learn, were a lot like us, but for entertainment purposes they had some signal advantages: They were more violent, they wore skimpier clothes and they had orgies."

Paul Graves Photography

From http://www.paulgravescreative.com/ :

For Real Academic Quote of the Day

"Jacquemont seems to have regarded his silver rectal syringe as of more value than any of his scientific instruments during his various expeditions to north-western India, a perfect symbol of his 'anal' disdain for Indian culture."

- from Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840 by By Nigel Leask

Briefcase of Eyeballs

New York Times Quote of the Day

"Have your partner give you a 'sample.' Catch it in a cup or condom. Add warm lime. Do not warm lime in microwave - warm in hot sink. Then layer egg white (with a pH of 9 to 9.9) on top. You then incubate it for an hour and insert it into yourself with medical syringe. Lay with hips raised." - from Schott's Vocab, Gender Disappointment, 11/23/09

Sounds more like a recipe for no-bake key lime pie.

Real Academic Quote of the Day 2

"Renaissance literature makes much of the pubic forest, the wooded grotto, the mossy hill, and so on."

-Anne Hollander, Seeing Through Clothes

Real Live Academic Quote of the Day

"Also see the conclusion for a brief discussion of the classical sources for barrel erotica."

-Yale Dissertation, 2006

Butts and things, part 1

This series of images chronicles my fascination with the rather frank manner in which medieval illustrators dealt with medical issues of the southernmost reaches.

More Wacky Bloomsbury Quotes

I've been doing some research on the Bloomsbury Group recently for an upcoming exhibition, and I can't help running across some rather salacious commentary. I put my first one up early in the blog, but they just keep coming:

"I spent a night with Saxon not long ago...I was immensely impressed by his bachelor apparatus. I think he is the most masterly man I know. He has complete control over his tea, his coffee, his chess, his books, his cat..." - Virginia Woolf

"Elsie had said she did hope I wasn't tired - which meant, I felt, she hoped I wouldn't lose my virginity or something like that." - Virginia Woolf


Lydia fashioned a tender, affectionate language of arousal in her humorous, transliterated Russian, quite free of English prurience or smut. She wrote of ‘gobbling’ and ‘regobbling’ him, ‘detaining infinitely our warm wet kisses’, ‘tasting’ his ‘buttons’, ‘warming’ him with her ‘foxy lips’, or saluting his ‘slender’ and ‘subtle’ fingers.

Morbid Anatomy: Introducing the Morbid Anatomy Bookstore!

Morbid Anatomy: Introducing the Morbid Anatomy Bookstore!

Thanks to Natalie Dee: www.nataliedee.com

Obstetric Flapbook

A very cool flapped book showing the growing belly of a pregnant woman:



from http://www.ranzcog.edu.au/collections/library.shtml

The Early Modern Fart

People farting in the pope's general direction, 1545:

Extreme Surgical Instruments

Supposedly to treat a skull fracture. Or make one?



Tooth key. This is why people didn't want to go to the dentist.







Imaginary gynecological instruments for use on mutant women from the movie Dead Ringers.




Quite possibly the inspiration for A Clockwork Orange.

X-Ray Vision

Unfortunately, I was too busy in the real world to properly celebrate Dia de los Muertos in cyberland.
Here is some pretty heavy evidence proving the major awesomeness of skeletons:




The Killers - Bones

The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution

Kaiser Chiefs - Every Day I Love You Less and Less

BONES intro
Music by The Chemical Brothers

HOUSE intro
Music by Massive Attack

Historical Pornography - Who Gives a...

Recently looking for anatomical images, the Wellcome Library search engine decided to expand it's idea of 'anatomy', bringing up some fantastically interesting 17th to 19th century images of Middle Eastern and Indian erotica.

These are listed as gouache drawings, in a the same style as some manuscript miniatures, and are supposedly from India in 18--?. Thank you, Captain Vagueness.

Avert your eyes if you would rather not see disembodied flying genitalia.

A Sample of Haeckeliana

From Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur.

Best known for teaching the modern world a lesson about taking personal style a little too far when illustrating comparative embryology - and in turn giving anti-evolutionists a tiny bit of so-called forgery to add to their arsenal.

But he also brought a unique sense of fantasy to the world of sponges, fungi, and anemone, among other things.

An Offering the Gods Can't Refuse

Here are some wacky Roman votive offerings to the god Asclepius asking him to heal them or as thanks for his help otherwise. It's kind of like "Dick in a Box," but without the box. Not recommended for use in other situations.

Worst Pregnancy Ever

Rather than getting just a baby, this woman seems afflicted with both intense despair and possibly necrotizing fasciitis.

From a 19th-century Persian manuscript showing the female viscera, arteries, and gravid womb.

Eating In?

Don't let food get in the way of your anatomy - now you can have both!

Hello Kitty, Hello Kidney

Fritz Lang's Got Nothin' on Fritz Kahn

Fritz Kahn's seminal industrial anatomy poster Der Mensch als Industriepalast reimagined by a contemporary artist and animator:

Leonard Baskin's The Anatomist, 1952

What Not To Do, Ladies Edition

On early 20th century contraception -

"there is no doubt a teapot and a tube of macaroni aren't very efficient syringes, and that Lysol mixed in equal quantities with water produces great pain."
-from the letters of Carrington, 1919

Also, the uterus should not be handled as a rugby ball.

Taxidermists Gone Wild