X-Ray 2011

X-Ray drawing by German artist MrBoneCracker, via DevianArt

and i don’t feel so good myself

January 2013 Syntagma Square -the commercial and governmental heart of- Athens, Greece. Photo WWT.

Audrey

The Audrii Muscipula, or Audrey by bone artist Tim Prince.
It is frankensteined together with mink vertebrae/scapula, box turtle shells, a skunk skull, coyote teeth, and raccoon mandibles, with the soil containing a mouse skull among other miscelanous bones.
Order here. More Tim’s works here.

the skin I live in

Anatomical drawings by Argentinean artist Juan Gatti, primarily known for his fashion photography and and his graphic design for Pedro Almodovar’s films.
More of his drawings here. Found here.

a zed & two noughts

Time lapse created by London’s Natural History Museum showing a great green macaw, a tawny owl and a mountain peacock-pheasant decomposing to skeletons with the help of flesh-eating beetles.
Chemical preparation of skeletons can cause damage to the bones so a special beetle species, Dermestes haemarrhoidalis, is used to strip off the flesh while leaving the bones and collagen untouched.
Link to video.

Rot

Stop motion film by UK artist and illustrator Erica Luke. Sound by Matthew Perryman

via colossal

a skull is more interesting than a naked woman

Animated collage from artist Colin Raff. (previously featured here).

Skelet

Paint collage, ink and pencil on magazine paper, by artist Rai Escalé

System

Skeletal system illustrations by designer Dan Beckemeyer

via who killed bambi

Max Skellett

Max Skellett by Swiss photographer Dan Cermak

Skitch

A 4mm-thick white plexiglass hanger that can hold shirts, pants and accessories, by Greek design studio, Dede.

We have faith in our leaders

Halloween costumes from John Carpenter’s They Live, from the creators of youFail blog.
Obey, consume and stay asleep.

treble

Treble is a LED chandelier designed by  Jason Krugman in collaboration with Sam Baron for Fabrica, United Colors of Benetton’s Communications Research Center in Treviso, Italy.
It is comprised of more than 3000 hand-soldered sharp-focus LEDs, and it appears to change in brightness when viewed from different angles.
Found here.

HELL-3d

A crew of demolition workers in Paris discovered a mysterious wooden box hidden in the ruins of a condemned building.  The box contained a collection of photographs depicting a hedonistic world filled with drunken devils, sinister skeletons and scantily clad women.  An anonymous note found buried among the glass images added:
‘“This is the work of my life, it is thus that I dreamed of Hell.  If my visions are true, then the wicked may rest assured, the afterlife will be sweet for them to bear.”
What the demolition workers discovered that day was a series of photographs known as Les Diableries, The Diabolical.  Each scene in the series was composed of an elaborate diorama sculpted out of plaster and clay and embellished with miniature props.  Created in Paris during the 1860s, the series was printed in the form of stereoscopic transparencies.’

How to see cross-eyed stereoscopic images:

1. Click on images to enlarge / set video to full screen and pause it.
2. Place index finger between images at bottom.
3. Focus on your index finger.
4. Slowly bring your finger towards your nose, staying focused on your finger, but paying attention to the background images in your peripheral vision. You will notice that instead of two images, there are four images floating about.
5. Continue bringing your finger closer to your nose- you will see the two middle images moving towards each other.
6. When the two middle images are aligned, or are on top of each other, stop moving your finger. You will now see three images in the background. The middle one contains the left/right images overlapped.
7. Slowly remove your finger from your field of vision, while keeping the middle two images aligned.
8. Gradually force your focus out to the combined left/right image in the middle.

More info on “Les Diableries” here.
Images retrieved from flickr user Depthandtime‘s collection.
More vintage stereoviews here.
Video’s audio track is “The Three Shadows – part II” by Bauhaus.
Link to video.

The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.

Hybrid Assisted Limb(HAL) is a robotic exosceleton (a.k.a. “wearable robot”) byDr. Yoshiyuki Sankai, developed to strengthen soldiers and factory workers or to assist people with difficulties in walking.
More info, here.

for happiness, seek family and calcium carbonate

Spanish TV adv for Pascual Milk featuring a family of happy skeletons.
Directed by Cesar Pesquera and edited by Alvaro Posadas.
Link to video.