plastination

[Rocket Man]

i heard of a series of exhibitions lately, they display real, preserved, partially dissected human bodies using "plastination", they basically replace the water in the cells with perspex.

 

http://www.bodyworlds.com/index.html

 

what do you think?

[YT2095]

Cool

 

although Perspex doesn`t sound quite right though?

[GutZ]

They had that exhibit at the ontario science center (I think thats what it called) It was slightly contraversial at the time.

 

"When arts and science clash!" hehe.

 

O_o

[Royston]

Gunther von Hagen was responsible for the first televised autopsy, it was shown here in the UK on Channel 4. When I first saw his work, I couldn't decide whether it was purely for shock value, but after watching a documentary of his life, it's pretty clear that wasn't his intention. It has raised a lot of controversy, especially IIRC using a pregnant woman as one of his exhibits.

 

His exhibit was also held in London, a couple of years ago.

[YT2095]

it would be interesting to see what would result if he met up with H R Giger

http://www.giger.com/Home.jsp

[bascule]

I just saw "Bodies" (blatant BodyWorlds rip-off) at the Tropicana in Vegas.

 

It was simultaneously awe inspring and disturbing. However, beyond all else, it removes all conceptualization about what the inside of the human body is actually like, and makes it beautifully and painfully clear.

 

Humans are, hands down, the most beautiful and complex machines ever constructed (via evolution by natural selection), and never have I truly grasped what a limb, or our circulatory system, or our brains actually represent.