PLANET Anatomy

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Amy’s work is pretty rad, and it sounds like she’s making some headway in the art world.  More excellent examples of her crafty desert skeletons can be seen on her site.

The classic Breton nautical sweater received a subtle anatomical twist when the designers over at Sibling London asked to use Noah Scalin’sSkulladelic design for their upcoming collection.  If you don’t know by now, Noah is the creator of the blog Skull-a-Day in which he set out to create skulls out of whatever materials he could find everyday for 365 days.  We’re big fans of him here at Street Anatomy and absolutely love these sweaters!

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The play--narrated by the rueful and absurdist-joke-cracking ghost of Lenin (played by the uncannily Lenin-esque Peter Maloney, whose sad eyes haunt and blame)--is much more than the sum of its parts, and transforms the small, modest theater almost magically into a captivating, enthralling, and atmospheric drama. The dialogue is snappy, witty, and pitch-perfect; the themes--of science religion and magic, the Russian penchant for black humor in the face of unbearable circumstances, the madness of life under tyranny, and the very human drives of the people who make science and history--add depth and interest to the already incredibly compelling facts of the story.

Here’s a fun, graphic GigPoster by Benjamin Thomson.

Thanks so much, Matt, for sending me this really timely and thought-provoking article about the future of science museums--and a discussion of their fascinating past, as seen above--in today's New York Times. Much to mull over here, and it covers a lot of things that I have been thinking about of late. Following is an excerpt:

Hoping for what? What are the goals of these experiments, and when do they succeed? Whenever I’m near one of these museological laboratories, I eagerly submit to their probes, trying to find out. The results can be discouraging since some experiments seem so purposeless; their only goal might be to see if subjects can be persuaded to return for future amusement..... The experimentation may be a sign of the science museum’s struggle to define itself.

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I’m please to announce that my favorite 3D illustrator, Bryan Christie, will be part of a 3 person exhibit at the Pierro Gallery in South Orange, NJ.  The opening reception is this Sunday, March 21st at 2pm.  If you happen to be in the area, I highly suggest going!

Image: Frontispiece: Images of Saint Columba, Saint Patrick, and Saint Brigida, Taken from the Spicilegium Sanctorum, and engraved at Paris, A.D. 1629, by Messingham. From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick, by Various Edited by James O'Leary, 1880, as found on Project Gutenberg; more here.

This year's Congress of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences will take place from September 16th-19th at the Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen. As I said in an earlier post on this topic, "if the Museion's awesome blog Biomedicine on Display is any indication, this conference--which aims to investigate ways in which museums can respond to the challenge raised by the "molecularisation, miniaturisation...digitalisation and intangibilisation" of new medicine--will be thought-provoking, innovative, and revelatory."

I just received a reminder from Thomas Soderqvist, the conference organizer, for paper submissions. The deadline is March 29th. For more, see Thomas' email below:

Here’s a motion graphics promo video, “Despite of Opinions,” from Metem on ilovecut. Ilovecut is a really cool network for artists, motion graphics designers, etc. Check it out!

This Thursday we have a really exciting lecture at Observatory: Professor and scholar Lisa Rosner will be on hand to tell us the "true and spectacular history" of Williams Burke and Hare, perpetrators, in the name of medicine, of "the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's," as detailed in her book The Anatomy Murders .

As she explains in an interview on the Dead Guys in Suits blog:

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Anatomical heart stencil by Pampero STNCL.