Something I Ate

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art, food, something I ate

 

Something I Ate is a seasonal gastronomic event celebrating delicious art and beautiful food – reminds me of much much better version of the Experimental Food Society (via Cool Hunting).

In the weeks prior to the event, participating artists are asked to keep a food diary and track the meals they consume over the course of seven days. These food diaries become the foundation for both the menu that is served at the event and the creative work unveiled, with each artist displaying a piece inspired by their documented eating habits.

 

 

 

 

 

Bar Rectum

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austria, bar rectum, medical, themed

Friday post fever ridiculousness aside this is a very effective form of medical education – be it one that may not work in the UK as well as it did in Austria.

“As offensive or disgusting as this Rectum Bar may be for some, it is also rather educational, for it illustrates an anatomically correct digestion track with great detail, going from tongue to anus, and the large intestine. Better yet, it was (in 2010) an actual real theme bar outside of the Vienna Museums Quarter, so it was also supposed to be artistic.”

(via Curious Places)

 

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Xoil – INCREDIBLE Tattoos

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france, french, tattoo, xoil

These tattoos from Xoil are some of the most incredible designs I have seen for years – beautiful design and 100% unique. If you are going to look at one set of images online today then make it these (via Nerdcore). If you are interested in joining the waiting list then Xoïl is a tattooer at Needles Side Tattoo in Thonon-les-Bains, France.

Hyper realistic embroidery

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art, Cayce Zavaglia, embroidery, portrait

Artist & supreme crafter Cayce Zavaglia creates these amazing portraits ​​entirely of embroidery stitches, recreating a photographic image or portrait. She calls the technique “Modern Pointillism” and it’s incredible to realise these images below were created only using a needle & thread (via).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electronic Van Orlax

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david Cranmer, Electronic Van Orlax, Musical instrument, nervous squirrel, pete fowler

Incredible collaboration between ‘Monsterist’ Pete Fowler and artist David  Cranmer who creates incredible electronic instruments and mechanical sculptures… Introducing the Electronic Van Orlax.

This splendid creature was originally created by Pete Fowler, who lent me the vinyl sculpture with a view to turning it into an unusual musical instrument. Two musicfromouterspace.com “Weird Sound Generators” seemed an appropriate addition, allowing bleeps, filters and drones to be manipulated by a number of chest-mounted knobs and switches. The original Van Orlax antlers were replaced with machined aluminium ‘electrodes’, inspired by the shape of high voltage ceramic insulators. The new horns are connected to one of the WSG oscillators, allowing you to control the pitch by touching them.

See more images and listen to this beasts sound over on the Nervous Squirrel site.

Bert and Ernie for Tom Tom

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bert, earnie, navigation, tom tom

Behind the scenes as Bert and Ernie record for Tom Tom. Unquestionably having Bert & Ernie directing me would lead to my Tom Tom being thrown violently out of the window!

Queen Victoria Toilet Brush Holder

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queen victoria, toilet brush

This is horribly brilliant and sold for £180 at auction.

 

 

I know it is a different queen but I do love this Black Adder clip…

 

 

Hip Hop Horsey

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dressage, Hip hop, horse, music

This Hop Hop Horsey video below is incredible on so many levels – I appear to have discovered of a new corner of the internet where people simply replace music on videos of dressage performances (via).

 

Naked Body Projection

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art, artist, david ayer, graffiti, light, projection, texan

Another one of those concepts that makes you wonder why you have not thought of it before….

A beautiful series of photographs shot by artist Texan Davis Ayer whose technique involves projecting images onto the naked bodies of women – creating the effect of photo perfect tattoos before photographing them. Would love to explore this technique further… (via The Trendy Girl)

Needless to say this post also reminds me of ‘Graffiti On Girls’ which is a lot more porno and a lot less arty than the work below (kind of SFW link):

 

Wax Syphilis

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anatomical, anatomy, cadaver, Human body, Medicine, wax

Wax Syphilis

I would love to get to visit the Museum of Anatomical Wax but I guess, for now, I will just have to blog about it… Some background:

With cadavers difficult to acquire and preserve, wax models became important to students and practitioners of anatomy. They aimed to reproduce the human body in a form as complete and true to nature as possible. A mixture of wax from bees and other insects was used to make realistic models which were also fully pliable. Parts of the model could often be taken out to allow students to look inside, or manipulate individual parts. In some ways they were superior to real bodies as an educational tool, because specific structures or systems of the body could be highlighted (and, of course, unlike cadavers, they did not decompose).

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