Plastination, plastination, everywhere
Bodies... The Exhibition is coming to Las Vegas, yet another exhibit of human corpses preserved -- in, shall we say, creative ways -- using the extraordinary plastination technique. I saw Body Worlds, the original plastination exhibit designed by technique founder Gunther von Hagens, in Los Angeles two years ago. (And there's plenty of controversy surrounding that one, which continues to tour the country.) I doubt I'll check out Bodies... due to the cost, but I highly recommend you catch one of these if you can -- it will blow your unplastinated mind. (via mb)
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Plastic rocks.
You're dumb, Ingen. Plastic is bad for the environment. On the other hand, we could totally put these bodies in a time capsule and future beings could see our innards. Remember time capsules? How naive! How fun! I hope people in the future are confounded yet intrigued by the snap bracelets that my fourth grade class found essential to include in our time capsule.
the guy who invented snap bracelets was from simsbury. take that, science!
$24 to see human muscles and tissue? buy me a drink and i'll take you to the anatomy lab.
there was a time capsule at my elementary school that was sealed on my birthday (the actual date of exit from the womb) and was opened on my 21st birthday. it was as if it were made for me or someone with a really short memory. i was in australia on my 21st birthday so i guess it was made for that memento guy.
nacho is funny.
but seriously, $24 is a lot, but the body worlds exhibit i saw in la was worth the $10 or so and couldn't be replicated in an anatomy lab. e.g., the man, woman, and child whose entire system of blood vessels had been hardened, while the rest of the body was carefully dissolved. this created three standing blood vessel statues -- it was awesome. the guy holding his own skin was pretty fascinating as well.
Sieg Heil!