that saturday feeling

big fan of cheesy things

[househunting]

$777,920/3 br/2090 sq ft

Brooklyn, NY

built in 1940

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exCUSE ME!!! 

[scientificillustration]

The morbidly beautiful medical illustrations of Dr. Frank Netter

An illustration by Frank Netter done for the Ciba Company during the 1930s. Dr. Frank Netter was a surgeon during the great depression, though as a child growing up in Manhattan, he aspired to be an artist. As it turns out, Netter became both a great artist as well as a doctor and selling his artwork to his professors helped pay for his college education at New York University and two different prestigious art schools. Netter would open a private practice in New York, but the devastating financial effects of the Great Depression didn’t bode well when it came to his patient’s ability to pay for his services. Netter continued to sell his illustrations and paintings until one of his customers paid him $7,500 for a series of five pictures to be used in an advertising campaign. Netter had originally priced the entire series at $1,500, but for whatever reason, his client didn’t blink at the high price tag which for the time, was considerable. Netter quit the medical game in 1934 and became a full-time artist specializing in medical illustrations at the age of 28. Netter’s best clients were pharmaceutical companies which used his work prolifically during the 193...

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Netter's Anatomy is still a classic recommended to medical students!

[scientificillustration]

Anatomical Illustrations from 15th-century England

Anatomical illustrations from an English medical treatise dating from the mid 15th century, including a Wound Man illustration, depicting a man who has been stabbed, bitten, and wounded by arrows, as well as bludgeoned in the arm and head.

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Hi all, you need to click through here

[sashayed]

The Cast

When the doctor cut off my son’s cast the high scream of the saw filled the room and the boy’s lap was covered with fluff like the chaff of a new thing emerging, the down in the hen-yard. Down the seam that runs along the outside of the arm and up the seam along the inside — that line where the colour of a white boy’s arm changes like a fish from belly-white to prismatic, the saw ranged freely — the saw that does not cut flesh, the doctor told us, smiling. Then the horrible shriek ran down in a moment to nothing and he took a sharp silver wedge like a can-opener and jimmied at the cracks until with a creak the glossy white false arm cracked and there lay the kid’s sweet dirty forearm, thin as a darkened twig. He lifted it in astonishment, like a gift, It’s so light! he cried, a lot of light coming out of his eyes, he fingered it and grinned, he picked up the halves and put them together and gripped it and carried it out through the waiting room and everyone smiled the way you smile at a wedding, so deep in us the desire to be healed and joined.

Sharon Olds 1985

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my politics

[humanoidhistory]

1983 art by Robert McCall celebrates Sally Ride’s journey to become the first American woman in space.

[househunting]

$399,000/3 br

Warwick, NY

built in 1964

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the brownest house in all the land

[csneal]

What we experience under anesthesia for @nytimes @matt.dorfman

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Sometimes you see a newspaper illustration divorced from the accompanying article & realize... it’s actually really good

[joerojasburke]

one of the gorgeous and extravagantly printed plates from Paolo Mascagni’s “Anatomia universale” from 1833

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this is my life right now

[50watts]

“Toxicity curves of carbon monoxide” – Data visualization expert Rob Simmons asked me to track this down and scan it for him. It’s a drawing by Malsen from Le Livre de la Sante (‘68). 

[clawmarks]

Documents d'atelier : art décoratif moderne - 1899 - via Paris Bibliotheques

[joerojasburke]

Heads up for a chance to see 80 of the magnificent drawings made by Santiago Ramón y Cajal at the dawn of neuroscience.

It’s the first major exhibition in the U.S. of Cajal’s illustration work. The 19th Century neuroscientist had, by 1891, figured out the basic functional organization of neurons. The artistry of his drawings is icing on the cake.

The exhibit started out last year at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota and just finished a run in Vancouver, B.C. Here’s the remaining schedule:

January 9-March 31, 2018:  NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, New York City

May 2, 2018-January 1, 2019: MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

January 27-Apr 7, 2019: Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Images:

1. Pyramidal neuron of the cerebral cortex, 1904.

2. Glial cells of the cerebral cortex of a child, 1904.

3. Injured Purkinje neurons of the cerebellum, 1914.

4. Calyces of Held in the nucleus of the trapezoid body, 1934.

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FYI the Grey Art Gallery is closed Sundays and Mondays. I learned this the hard way yesterday :(

[humanoidhistory]

A 1966 NASA diagram illustrates the operation of the chest and backpacks of the Gemini 8 extravehicular spacesuit. (NASA)

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http://www.cavinmorris.com

František Dymáček Untitled, 1993 Ink on paper 11.75 x 8 inches 29.8 x 20.3 cm FDy 13

[50watts]

The Mysterians

[misforgotten2]

I guess this is better than dying of smallpox.

[chromolume]

heathcliff

it’s me, i’m cathy, i’ve come home

i’m so co-o-o-o-old

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i screamed