Al Ridenour

Al Ridenour

Gunther von Häagen-Dazs

It’s ice cream season and high time the great Body Worlds Plastinator, Gunther von Hagens got into the act with “Gunther von Häagen-Dazs”. The video was…

Anatomy Minute: The Stomach

The Art of Bleeding continues its  “miseductional” film series , Anatomy Minutes, with “The Stomach”, a subtly tweaked but stylistically accurate impression of a 1970s classroom…

Bad Art of The Rapture

Eager for May 21? Can’t wait for Jesus to dustbust up all the Christians so you can get on with your on post-rapture orgies and looting? Well,…

The Oramics Machine Returns

In late June, London’s Science Museum is sure to become a hotbed of art-tech geekery with the unveiling of the newly refurbished and more analog-than-thou…

I Ain’t Gonna Pee Pee My Bed Tonight!

First there is horror of the incomprehensible. Why is this18th-century Joe Cocker boy is singing about pissing his bed? And the elderly figure in the…

The Swallowing Plates by Lisa Wood

Does the name Chevalier Jackson ring a bell?  No?  Then you’re probably not a laryngologist or obsessive fan of Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum and its collection…

To Boldly Rock Where None Have Rocked Before

So the new Star Trek film made good at drawing kids into their parent’s (or grandparent’s) sci-fi franchise, but it’s not like Roddenberry wasn’t trying…

Glamour Bear Azis, The New Face of Bulgaria

Time to rethink Bulgaria. Forget feta cheese, women’s choirs, and communist thuggery. Someone is rebooting  Bulgaria, and his name is Azis. At one level, you…