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I hate going to Houston but I saw an article in the paper today about that and was thinking how awesome that would be to get to see that. It just looks so incredible.
I was in Houston a couple of weekends ago and I saw this exhibit by accident, really. I had heard about it before but had no idea it was in town. It kicked ass. It’s a display of actual human bodies that have been plastinated. Twenty years ago this wouldn’t have taken place. I recommend it to anyone! There was an article about it in the SA Express-News today. If you’re in Houston you should really consider checking this out! Here are some excerpts from the article:
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Once reserved for physicians in training and other medical personnel, learning from human cadavers is now an option for the public thanks to German anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens. His latest works are featured in "Body Worlds 3: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies" running at the Houston Museum of Natural Science through Sept. 4.
The showcase of more than 200 skinned human corpses, body parts and organs is made possible by plastination, a preservation method that replaces bodily fluids with silicon rubber and epoxy that von Hagens developed in 1977. The process essentially halts decomposition, freezing the bodies in time. And for some, the result is far from palatable.
Photos of the permanently preserved corpses — a skateboarder in a precarious upside-down position, a basketball player driving to the hoop, a man at leisure — often elicit reactions ranging from disgust to morbid fascination. But those who've actually seen the curious cadavers say any squeamishness quickly fades, to be replaced by fascination with the awesome capacity of the human body.
(This one isn’t actually in the exhibit but I thought it looked like Kobe)
Some critics have said displaying human remains in public anatomical exhibits is unethical and disrespectful of the dead. In Europe, "Body Worlds" drew protests from Catholic and Protestant churches. But Charleen M. Moore, a professor in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center who co-wrote research papers based on "Body Worlds" and von Hagens about the connection among art, anatomy and religion, considers the exhibit "a well-preserved, beautifully prepared, nontoxic way to study human bodies."
Justin Nash, who volunteers at the Houston exhibit's Health Desk, the hands-on station where visitors can touch a plastinated kidney, liver and upper abdomen, says it's the ultimate anatomy lesson because it helps people understand the human body from the inside out.
"A lot of people enjoy being able to feel the approximate weight and size of the kidney, and the liver also is terrific because it's the second-largest organ of the body after our skin and quite heavy at a little more than 3 pounds," says Nash. (This was pretty cool - gF)
Would you donate you're body? I guess I probably wouldn't.
I hate going to Houston but I saw an article in the paper today about that and was thinking how awesome that would be to get to see that. It just looks so incredible.
I must say art is very subjective but this is, how do you yanks' say..."totally awsome dude!!".
That is so cool. I'll be in Houston next month...I wonder if the exhibit will be there then.
Freaky
I think it's supposed to be there through September 4th according to the first post.
BOOBIES frozen in time.
I saw it in Sao Paulo this Saturday with a buddy of mine who is one of Latin America's foremost anatomists. Was a fascinating experience.
I still cannot believe that if you laid out every capillary in the human body in a straight line it would loop around the world 2.5 times. Damn.
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/
I went and saw Body Worlds a couple of weeks ago. It was pretty tight, that horserider was just plain ridiculous. The horse was like two men tall. Had to be a clydesdale. Not sure though. Lot of agenda in it though, 9/10 lung specimens were blackened by cigarette smoke, they even had a "throw your pack away here and quit for good" station. Still, the horse rider and circulatory system exhibit made it worth it. They had a hand's circulatory parts totally removed from everything else. Looked like something out of TOOL's album artwork. I give it two thumbs up
Personally, I don't have the stomach for this sort of thing... but it does look cool in picture
I saw the first one in Las Vegas. It IS amazing. For those of you who feel a little squeamish about seeing it it's not as stomach-churning as you might think.
It's not stomach churning at all. But a couple of brats did get scared and cried.
It's really worth it, they have a load of cross-sections of almost every kind for the torso part of the body, cross sections of brains, brains with aneurisms, its the .
I saw it in houston last year... very interesting stuff, if you convince yourself that these aren't real people. But if you've seen it once, you've seen it enough.
I saw it in October with a group of clsoe to twenty people. It was pretty darn cool. Towards the end there's a little spot where you can touch lastisized stuff. That may have been the best part.
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