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Body Modifications
Alisa Chan
This young woman named Alisa Chan exhibits superior design and sewing skills. She should be applauded for her manual dexterity alone.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 09, 2009 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Costumes and Masks, Fashion, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Performance Art, Sex Symbols, Roleplayers and Re-enactors
Pierced Glasses
http://www.piercedglasses.com/
Posted By: mdb777 - Wed May 06, 2009 -
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Category: Body, Body Modifications
Life Imitates Art
Here are two commercials to watch. I believe that you will see a startling similarity emerge that will shake you to the core (or maybe just halfway to the core).So far, so good. It's your basic ad for cosmetics, showing a heavily airbrushed woman who looks somewhat like an android (gynoid?), poncing around in an empty, black, out-of-focus room, interspersed with product shots against a stark white background. (I'm always a little saddened when the real product doesn't create lines of light in contour around my wife's face.) I don't know to much about the product's specific properties.
What I know for sure is that it bares a startling similarity to a fictional product I have seen before.
More in extended >>
Posted By: kingmonkey - Tue May 05, 2009 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Body Modifications, Cannibalism, Cosmetics, Movies, Advertising
The Scale of Loss
Apparently New York workers enjoy a fixed compensation scale for the loss of body parts. Each body part is judged to be worth a certain number of weeks of wages. Here's the scale:- One eye: 160 weeks
- One ear: 60 weeks
- Both ears: 150 weeks
- One arm: 312 weeks
- One leg: 288 weeks
- One foot: 205 weeks
- Big toe: 38 weeks
- One hand: 244 weeks
- pinky: 15 weeks
- little toe: 16 weeks
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 08, 2009 -
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Category: Body Modifications
Elaine Davidson
After Chuck posted yesterday about Elaine Davidson, the world's most-pierced woman, I wanted to know what she looked like. So here, for your viewing pleasure, is Elaine. Wait for the part when she sticks a sword through her tongue.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 26, 2009 -
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Category: Body Modifications
The Dionne Quintuplets
Today, we have the "Octo-mom."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 07, 2009 -
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Category: Babies, Body Modifications, Celebrities, Drugs, Fads, Family, Human Marvels, Obsessions, Pop Culture, Technology, 1930s
Reusable Double Eyelid Makers
Blepharoplasty (double eyelid surgery) is the most popular form of cosmetic surgery in Asia. Unlike westerners, many Asian people don't have a crease above their eye, and this surgery artificially creates one.But if you're too cheap for the surgery, this gadget promises the same results for only $3.32. It appears to be a set of clips that pinch your eyelids to create a crease.
Not painful at all if wore less than 5mins, it could start to pinch if worn too long.
Worn on and off for about a week and double lid is still there
Good construction, once again not really painful
Comes with a clear rest to hold clips when not in use
Worn on and off for about a week and double lid is still there
Good construction, once again not really painful
Comes with a clear rest to hold clips when not in use
Sounds like a bargain! (via pharyngula)
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 15, 2009 -
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Category: Body Modifications
Foot in Brain
A colorado surgeon found a tiny foot, hand, thigh, and parts of an intestine growing inside the brain of a 3-day-old baby. DenverChannel.com has a picture of the brain-foot.It's not clear whether this was a case of "fetus in fetu" (a fetus growing inside its twin) or fetiform teratoma (a kind of tumor).
Wikipedia has a good article on Teratomas, noting that teratomas have been reported to contain "hair, teeth, bone and very rarely more complex organs such as eyeball, torso, and hand." There was even one case of a mature teratoma being "reported to contain a rudimentary beating heart."
For your entertainment, here's a photo (from Wikipedia) of a cystic teratoma containing hair.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 18, 2008 -
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Category: Babies, Body Modifications, Medicine
New Smokey the Bear PSA
Remember our earlier post, VISION IN THE FOREST, where Smokey the Bear appeared to a young girl during the 1950's?Well, the new Smokey PSA is disturbing in its own fashion, as it promotes the notion that any of us could turn into a bear at any time.
Maybe they were inspired by an earlier version that follows second here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 16, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Body Modifications, PSA’s, Surrealism
Candy Canary
Evangelical female body-builders. I don't believe my brain has ever had cause to assemble that phrase before. But then I learned of Candy Canary.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 18, 2008 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Human Marvels, Religion, Women
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