A Heart Attack In Paper

By Kyle Bean:

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-Wes

h/t: SIXAND5

A Shout-Out to Street Anatomy

One of the more interesting blogs to follow is Street Anatomy which "obsessively covers the use of human anatomy in medicine, art, and design."

On a recent trip to Portland, Oregon to attend a wedding, I noticed a bit of street anatomy there and immediately thought of their blog:

The above image was part of a much larger mural:

(Sadly, I was unable to find much about the mural but will leave it to my readers to think of a clever title.)

Shortly thereafter we walked over to the Saturday Market where tons venders market their goods by the riverfront. I stumbled on this piece by Jerry Grose, a retired bank chief operating officer who uses clay as his medium:

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The mosaic on the clay was created by applying strands of horse hair to the hot clay as it cooled. (No, those are not cracks). Nice stuff and not too expensive. I don't think Mr. Grose has a website, though, so you'll have to visit Portland's Saturday Market and tell him I sent you.

It's amazing what medical stuff you can find on the street if you just look for it. Thanks, Street Anatomy.

-Wes

The Open Country of a Woman's Heart

A map from the early 1800's of some very complicated terrain:

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-Wes

Art From the Heart

... at least I think this is what we'd call this:



(I like the mosquito...)

-Wes

Reference: From Droolart on Vimeo.

Difficult Case? Ask Dr. Obama!

... and you can have instant access to him in your lab, too!

-Wes

Art in Medicine

Any idea what this is?



-Wes

Answer if you must (spelled backwards): "tneduts lacidem a fo deaH" s'ossaciP olbaP

Anatomical Heart Tattoos

Some pretty amazing heart tattoos can be seen over at Street Anatomy:



-Wes

65,000 New Teen Smokers Every Month

If you get a chance, check out the "Running the Numbers" exhibit by Chris Jordan. Here's an example of his work depicting 65,000 cigarettes, equal to the number of American teenagers under age eighteen who become addicted to cigarettes every month:

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Street Anatomy (who showed me the way) has another example.

Awesome.

-Wes

Gotta Love This

...and just in time for Valentine's Day.

-Wes

Another Artistic Diversion

Here's some cool art by British artist Chris Gilmour made from nothing but cardboard.

I wonder if he could make a heart?

-Wes

The $20-million-dollar Heart?

That's what Sotheby's wants for this 9-foot heart.

And to think we can't get enough money to purchase defibrillators for our first-responders.

-Wes

Art and Medicine

"Adenosine"

Perhaps my favorite drug in medicine, Adenosine, lasts only seconds in the bloodstream to correct many supraventricular tachycardias. Now, the art piece by the same name by Damien Hirst is on sale at Sotheby's for a cool $3,609,828 - $5,013,650.

Stare at the work for a while to see if it behaves the same way.

-Wes

Image credit: Wall Street Journal.