This is back in town. Starting today at Earls Court.

It was controvertial last time but little or no coverage this time.

http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/bodies.html

Theres a really good video on the site (warning..11.5mb so dial-ups save target as and save to hard drive)

I went to the Bodyworks show in Brick Lane some time back and may be going to this if the exhibits are new.


As one person said.

"You really don't appreciate how remarkable you are untill you've seen this exhibition"

I'd love to go and see something like that.
I do find it fascinating how our insides do work and how they look as well.
I remember being in theatre and saw the femoral artery and couldn't believe how big it was.

"You really don't appreciate how remarkable you are untill you've seen this exhibition"

No, really, I think I do! :wink2:

No, really, I think I do! :wink2:

Sorry Grouch I'd forgotten about you.

Say you should donate your over-inflated ego to be plastinated for all to see and wonder at!

On second thoughts save that. Perhaps when they cut you open to recover it they will find what you are truely full of.

:pooh:

I would like to see this as well. Do you know if it's coming up to Scotland?

Sort of related, but I was at a museum in London a couple of years ago, and there was a plastic body of a woman, left side showing the outside skin part, right side internal organs. There was a panel with lots of questions, the idea being that you pressed the button next to question, and the part of the body responsible lit up. One question was "what makes the beard grow?" So I'm looking at the plastic woman wondering what could possibly make a beard grow on a woman. So I press the button, and nothing happens. So I press it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, studying the plastic model for any indication of what might make the beard grow on a woman. Finally, a couple of kids start sniggering behind me, then I see a plastic man just out of sight behind a screen from my positioning, with his balls flickering on and off as I was repeatedly pressing the button.

Aghh, embarassment.

Sort of related, but I was at a museum in London a couple of years ago, and there was a plastic body of a woman, left side showing the outside skin part, right side internal organs. There was a panel with lots of questions, the idea being that you pressed the button next to question, and the part of the body responsible lit up. One question was "what makes the beard grow?" So I'm looking at the plastic woman wondering what could possibly make a beard grow on a woman. So I press the button, and nothing happens. So I press it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, studying the plastic model for any indication of what might make the beard grow on a woman. Finally, a couple of kids start sniggering behind me, then I see a plastic man just out of sight behind a screen from my positioning, with his balls flickering on and off as I was repeatedly pressing the button.

Aghh, embarassment.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/liberated60s/36_12_6.gif

Love it :D

Sort of related, but I was at a museum in London a couple of years ago, and there was a plastic body of a woman, left side showing the outside skin part, right side internal organs. There was a panel with lots of questions, the idea being that you pressed the button next to question, and the part of the body responsible lit up. One question was "what makes the beard grow?" So I'm looking at the plastic woman wondering what could possibly make a beard grow on a woman. So I press the button, and nothing happens. So I press it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, studying the plastic model for any indication of what might make the beard grow on a woman. Finally, a couple of kids start sniggering behind me, then I see a plastic man just out of sight behind a screen from my positioning, with his balls flickering on and off as I was repeatedly pressing the button.

Aghh, embarassment.
Brilliant! I've given you some good rep for giving me a right good laugh :laugh:

In an attempt to keep somewhat on topic....

So Gatubela, have you seen the Bodyworks/Bodies exhibition on your travels?

Eeek, no, never seen it Slip.

Sort of related, but I was at a museum in London a couple of years ago, and there was a plastic body of a woman, left side showing the outside skin part, right side internal organs. There was a panel with lots of questions, the idea being that you pressed the button next to question, and the part of the body responsible lit up. One question was "what makes the beard grow?" So I'm looking at the plastic woman wondering what could possibly make a beard grow on a woman. So I press the button, and nothing happens. So I press it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, studying the plastic model for any indication of what might make the beard grow on a woman. Finally, a couple of kids start sniggering behind me, then I see a plastic man just out of sight behind a screen from my positioning, with his balls flickering on and off as I was repeatedly pressing the button.

Aghh, embarassment.

Hello Gatubela,

This is funny. So I'm afraid I've joined PJ and Critique rolling around the floor. Laughter is good for you. I like it.

Sorry Slipper as yet I haven't seen the body works show at least I don't think I have. I have recently watched all of the televised studio based anatomy and dissection programmes particularly the one done by a Dutch or German Museum owner specialising in human bodies.

This chap whose name evades me has a rather scary way of dissecting bodies and then explaining how various parts function. Scissorhands doing a floor show.

There is a great deal of interest in this sort of thing and people have left there bodies to him, to further increase the knowledge of the human body for the purposes of medical science.

Other than what I've written here, all I can say is that I think they are a good thing enabling the use of knowledge which can only go towards people helping themselves that little bit more. Also proving we have moved a great deal further forward historically from the world of the amateur anatomists who were originally all thought to be mad. Leonardo Da Vinci for one.

Maureen
Northern angel.

I saw BodyWorks a few years ago too. I loved it...Warped use of the human body for artistic expression or fascinating medical study into our hidden depths?

Whatever you take away from it (and it is open to individual interpretation), I definitely came away with a sense of my own mortality. There was a spiritual essence to it too. Morbidly fascinating.

I was skeptical. I didn't expect to like it and was surprised when I did.

Brilliant. Like Slipper, I saw it when it was in Brick Lane. Which made it very handy for nipping out and having a bum-burning curry after looking at all those lungs and livers.