Nothing but the dreams

thebrainscoop:

Comparative illustrations of hands for National Geographic Magazine by Bryan Christie Design

Human, Aye-aye, bat, frog, dolphin. Absolutely fantastic.

EDIT: I thought I should talk about this a bit more:

One of the things that fascinates me the most when learning about comparative anatomy is how we are all made of the same organs and bones, and it’s the special adaptations and morphologies these parts take on which make the most drastic differences between us as animals.  The bones in a bat’s wing are the same bones that are in our hands, they just happen to be elongated and connected with a much thinner tissue membrane. Because dolphins don’t need individual fingers, theirs have grown together underneath a cohesive layer of fat, muscle and skin, adapting into paddles. Once you start to look underneath the surface of these creatures and study how their bones have changed shape, grown, or shrunk, it can really shed light onto how we all fit together in the bigger sphere. We can physically begin to see how we have changed over time.

Fascinating.

biomedicalephemera:

Views of the Adult Human Skull

Top: Front and side views
Bottom left: Lower surface (underside) of base of skull, displaying the bony hard palate (upper palate), zygomatic arches, and foramen magnum.
Bottom right: Upper surface (interior) of base of skull, displaying foramen magnum, sphenozygomatic beam, and temporal beam. The beams are critical supporting structures contributing to the strength of the skull.
A Series of Engravings, representing the Bones of the Human Skeleton. Edward Mitchell and John Barclay, 1819.

Somehow skulls always look vaguely disappointed to me.

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fer1972:

Anatomy by Natalia Drepina

I should really get back into drawing as I’m itching to do yet more anatomy based stuff. First I need to get back to drawing lichen though before I get completely distracted.

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I recognise these from a great book on anatomical drawings I found in my uni’s library. Now I need to look it up so I can ask for it for my birthday and confuse my family even more than I normally do.

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the-science-llama:

The blood vessels of a Bull’s heart, covered in fake gold.
— Dr. van Hagen’s Plastinarium

Oh Gunter Von Hagens, never change sir.

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Hogan McLaughlin Fall 2013 Collection

Hoping that clothing with spines becomes a thing in the future. Chances are it’ll just stick to the higher level labels and down in the high streets we’ll just get loads of lace and sequins as usual *sighs*.

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lipstickmata:

witchesandslippersandhoods:

McQueen created his own ‘museum of woman-monsters’ in his second couture collection fro Givenchy, Eclect Dissect, shown in July 1997. In the period leading up to to the show, his art director SImon Costin combined the late Victorian costumes McQueen was then looking at with with a series of animated skeletons and muscle men from the sixteenth-century anatomical plates of Andreas Vesalius in a series of collages.

Caroline Evans, Fashion at the Edge (2007)

as much as i love girls and monsters

i love equally girls as monsters

This definitely appeals to my interests.

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itbitesshesaid:

itscolossal:

Candace Couse

CALLING ALL ANATOMY BROS

I’m sure I’ve reblogged these before but here they are again because HOW??

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almondseed:

Illustrations of dissections, George Viner Ellis 

Illustrations by George Henry Ford

Sorry I keep posting his work lately.  I’m just really digging his style right now.

Itching to do some anatomy based stuff at the moment again. I just don’t know what exactly.

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fuckyeahmedicaldiagrams:

Lynn Skordal

Lovely. Don’t know why I haven’t thought about doing something like this before.