I got sorta giddy when I saw that Nick Cave had written a song about the Higgs Boson, and it’s about the delegitimizing of religion in the face of science to boot. But then it turns out to be more of a lament than anything (Who cares what the future brings?). While Cave has always been critical of religion in general, he is notoriously slippery and hard to pin down on the God question. He se... »
I recently stumbled over this new Kris Moyes-directed Grizzly Bear video, which is pretty visually interesting and basically like a series of animated gifs. Some of the gifs from the video are even downloadable, in case you want to embed the one of the guy’s melting iris as he puts in a contact into your new message board signature. I couldn’t help but notice that it was littered with ... »
I was lucky enough to see the opening preview night of the Chicago Book of Mormon run this Tuesday (exceedingly lucky, thanks Amanda!). I’m sure many of you have seen it live elsewhere or on YouTube by now, so I’ll try to keep the synopsizing to a minimum and stick to the things that may be unique to this run. I haven’t consistently watched South Park since college, but the openi... »
We did some weird projects in grad school, and the bulk of them were in Ray’s class. Ray is a really cool guy, and even has an IMDB page. He taught intro techniques for anaplastology, or facial prosthetics (post on this subject coming next month). We cast our own ears in dental stone and then had to sculpt their mirror images in clay. This is something you’d have to do to make a prosth... »
So BBC 2 made a documentary about the inner workings of a cell, which also has sweet animations, AND is narrated by a former Doctor Who??? OK, I’m pretending to be excited about that last bit, I’ve never actually seen Doctor Who, but obviously a lot of you all have. All of that aside, this is a fairly impressive BBC documentary. Much like XVIVO’s Inner Life of the Cell animation,... »
Back by request (and, let’s be honest, because I like blog posts that are mostly pictures), here are some more drawings from my human anatomy sketchbook. Some language in this post is NSFW. This spread has the cavernous sinuses on the left (the reason why picking an infected pimple on your face can kill you if you’re unlucky), and it has then some stuff about the inguinal canal and spi... »
When my fellow Labbers Anne and Katy posted about sketchnoting, it jogged something loose in my memory. That is generally how I always take notes, and it was very helpful when I had to take human anatomy in grad school. In other words, it’s part of a never-ending cycle of drawing anatomy to learn anatomy so that I can more authoritatively draw anatomy later, which will enable others to learn... »
I saw this animated music video and got kind of excited since a) it is stop motion and cutout animation, which is like catnip to me, b) it uses medical imagery, and c) the little girl reminded me of Henry Darger’s paintings and Alice in Wonderland. The song is In the Morning by Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores and is off their 7th album, Sister Death, released yesterday on Cuneiform Records... »
