bodyworlds
i got dragged to that when it was over in spitalfields market by my friend sam. i am notoriously squeamish, but the bodies didn't really look "real" enough to me. if it were ever revealed to be a hoax i wouldn't be surprised, the texture is so like plastic. nonetheless, i felt distinctly odd by the end of the exhibition.

however. as we got to the end of the display, there was a big horse and i didn't like that one little bit. it was too much flesh and it still had a big ginger tail.

and i kept thinking about this creepy german skinning it and - ugh. so right above the horse was a flight of steps that led up, not to more exhibits, but to a cafe. sam and i looked at each other, and simultaneously i said:

"jesus christ, who could eat after seeing this?"

and sam said:

"fuck me, i'm STARVING!"
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 15:53, 4 replies)

is that when
she decided to flash her boobs?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 16:01, closed)

The interesting thing is...
they are pretty much plastic. That German dude puts the corpses through some weird process called plastication or something like that. They are essentially infused with plastic to preserve them. In fact, when you saw them they were probably more plastic than human. Massive action figures if you will.
(stubbledchin, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 16:06, closed)

...
I thought that the horse (and rider, IIRC) was brilliant: I loved the way you could do a sort of amateur comparative anatomy. The differences are topological more than anything else...


Mmmmm. Horsemeat. Nice with chips.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 16:23, closed)

Obviously...
...you've never tried having lunch with medical students after their dissection classes! Apparantly the formaldehyde makes one REALLY hungry...

Being told, too, that the potato on your plate looks a bit like this cancerous lump they've just found, or the overcooked sweetcorn like nodules in the small intestine... well, just don't!
(Le Misanthrope last procrastinated on, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 16:49, closed)