April 23, 2013

tags: death studies. culture.

Vatican Official Denounces Santa Muerte As 'Sinister And Infernal'

Vatican Official Denounces Santa Muerte as ‘Sinister and Infernal’

New fascinating article. “The Mexican offensive against Santa Muerte (Saint Death) launched by former president, Felipe Calderon, has now gone global.”

The confluence of theological concerns, religious competition, new Latin American influence at the Vatican and media coverage have resulted in Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi’s condemnation of the cult of Santa Muerte as the embodiment of Latin America’s “culture of death.”

November 26, 2012 with 19 notes

tags: dissection. art. corpus callosum.

weakmeatstrongeat:

Stephanie dismantled a real pigeon while Andrea assembled a paper one. Corpus Callosum shows can get pretty strange. (at Museum Of Art And History)

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November 2, 2012 with 4 notes

Next Friday! @ our warehouse! A premier (gulp) - Come listen to us try and remember all 6 billion new songs we composed over the last months!

corpus-callosum:

Friday
November 9th
at the corpus callosum studio
750 Natoma St, San Francisco
Corpus Callosum, Rin Tin Tiger, Wilder Maker (MA)
6pm doors, 7pm show
no cover; please bring $$ for the guest musicians
tea will be provided

October 31, 2012 with 28 notes

eatyourheartout2012:

Red Blood Cell Cupcakes - Denise Bakes Cakes

Blood cell platelet topped red velvet cupcakes with raspberry jam and syrup, the perfect cupcake for all phlebotomists, or those who simply enjoy partaking in hematolagnia - £2.50 each

October 25, 2012 with 9 notes

tags: home.

The barn owl enclosure is now in the crawl space.

bustedpuppet:

Two antique foot lockers, one labelled earthquake preparedness kit, the second a zombie preparedness kit. In the hallway, a clawfoot bath tub filled with 273 feet of fiberglass fluff, in rolls. The barn owl enclosure is now in the crawl space. I’ve lost track of the cow heartstrings in ethanol….

(Source: villainest)

October 11, 2012 with 27 notes

asoftskeleton:

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Interlude (Gray Dawn).

(Source: ocn)

October 11, 2012 with 491 notes

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October 5, 2012 with 2,363 notes

biomedicalephemera:

Wax anatomical models of man and woman; half-skeleton, half-living, in fashionable Regency garments.

Models located at Science Museum London, originally created ca. 1810-1830.

(via scientificillustration)

August 26, 2012 with 4 notes