Anastassia Elias is most famous for her mini dioramas in toiler paper rolls and other visual art, but I’m partial to these two installations she did for a group project.
Just your average transparent string elephant on a tightrope. NBD.
The goal was to decorate the streets with whimsical, unexpected designs. Mission accomplished, I’d say.
Fabulous Cat Papers carries gorgeous handmade embroidered notebooks with all kinds of perfectly geeky themes (heavily focused on anatomy and science).
I’d having trouble choosing just one of these (and I have an odd habit of “saving” really nice notebooks and leaving them blank because they are are art pieces!).
Travis Bedel makes some of the most breathtaking nature and anatomical mashup collages I’ve ever seen.
These decadent, colorful explosions of life actually lift my mood when I look at them!
Travis Bedel
@bedelgeuse
NYCHOS has put up this awesome installation in NYC’s Flatiron Plaza.
Go ahead…lie down and tell him your problems.
Katie Scott is a wonderful illustrator of the natural world. Her commissioned work has graced books, written publications and various other media. Her personal work is brimming with fantastical bio-imagination.
She’s clearly inspired by not only the natural world, but magic, myth and alchemy (all fine sources of inspiration!).
The inimitable Joana Ebenstein of The Morbid Anatomy Museum has just published a remarkable book on the subject of the Anatomical Venus.
Of all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venus―with its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and death―is the most seductive. These life-sized dissectible wax women reclining on moth-eaten velvet cushions―with glass eyes, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras crowning their real human hair―were created in eighteenth-century Florence as the centerpiece of the first truly public science museum.
Conceived as a means to teach human anatomy, the Venus also tacitly communicated the relationship between the human body and a divinely created cosmos; between art and science, nature and mankind. Today, she both intrigues and confounds, troubling our neat categorical divides between life and death, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, entertainment and education, kitsch and art.
The book is extensively researched and features over 250 images. It looks absolutely amazing. I’m sure many readers of this blog will want to pick up a copy. Let me know what you think!
Just got out of the hospital very early this morning so I’m a little behind on posting, but here are some Insta-Goodies…
Let’s start with some sea inspired fashion…
And a gorgeous octopus ice sculpture:
A stunning still frame.
I like the way this woman thinks. Pizza will never break your heart.
A beautiful soul is made of rabbits.
Oh thank you, Rachel, for this…and your other invaluable contributions to this post.
I’m sure it’s happening somewhere…
Traveling in style.
I approve of this progression.
Yep, it’s a wig made of countless earbuds on strings…for people who want to have listening parties and don’t care about personal space.
Who remembers this?
All of my outfits are based on various diaphonized specimens. Fashion at its finest.
In 2009, Rotocasted posted this impossibly adorable vinyl brain toy, designed by the talented Junko Mizuno, manufactured by Kidrobot.
There’s very little information about it anymore, but (just seeing it for the first time now), I wish it had been mass produced.
My cat looks at me like this when she’s hungry:
What a great item.
Kiva Ford has a degree in Scientific glassblowing. His work with intricate scientific instruments evolved into gorgeous creative sculpture.
Clearly, he’s influenced by scientific subject matter, but brings skillful artistic sensibilities to each piece.
While some creations are purely decorative, others are gorgeous functional glassware (though I’d be terrified to drop them!)
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