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Vein Carafes by Etienne Menau

Vein Carafes by Etienne Menau wine sculpture glass body alcohol

Some anatomically awesome wine carafes available in limited editions over at Strange Carafes. I imagine more sculptural than functional. (via who killed bambi)

Marc Da Cunha Lopes: Vertebrata

Marc Da Cunha Lopes: Vertebrata tableau surreal creepy bones body

Photos by Marc Da Cunha Lopes based in Paris. (via 500 photographers)

By Christopher on December 6, 2010 • body bones creepy surreal tableau

The Exquisite Skizzomat

The Exquisite Skizzomat paper collage body

Interesting photo collages from Berlin-based Marie Luise Emmermann. I love this kind of derivative work. See lots more at her blog Skizzomat. (via changethought)

By Christopher on November 2, 2010 • body collage paper

Life Imitates Darkman and the 3D Skin Printer is Born

OK so it doesn’t actually print the face of Liam Neeson (yet), but researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have successfully tested a bioprinter that outputs living skins cells directly onto burn wounds.

It acts just like your home printer, right down to the inkjet valve and vials of skin-cell “ink” that it sprays onto a wound. The printed skin graft consists of two separate layers — one is a mixture of skin cells with fibrinogen and Type I collagen (which each help with blood clotting and scar tissue formation, respectively); the second layer is thrombin, another clotting agent. The whole mixture has “a consistency similar to jello — so that [it] will adhere to the wound,” say the researchers.

Head over to FastCo for more.

By Christopher on November 2, 2010 • body futuristic printers science

The Maniacal Grins of Yue Minjun

The Maniacal Grins of Yue Minjun sculpture painting body

Was delighted to stumble upon the works of Yue Minjun, who paints and sculpts himself in various settings frozen in laughter. Minjun’s painting Execution is the most expensive work sold by a Chinese contemporary artist.

By Christopher on November 1, 2010 • body painting sculpture

Street Anatomy

So, this exists. Street Anatomy, created by Vanessa Ruiz, is a wonderful blog that documents the convergence of medicine, art, and design. I’ve spent all morning scrolling through the archives and you should too.