Morbid events
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fluffymarkI now have a lampshade with fishies on it! Yay! Hooray for fishies. I know I shouldn't be this excited about a lampshade, but it's so fab - it has fishies!!!! And it looks pretty and makes my room all sorts of funny colours. Wooooooooooo. I found it in Greenwich market which is fab, and I must go again. I also found the latest Chaos Engine album 'Escape Ferocity' in the Greenwich MVE for the grand sum of 1 pound. *boggle* Needless to say, i bought that one very quickly.
The rest of the day then had a very morbid atmosphere. At asylum, Vinnie and myself read some lovely quotations about death, with some of the more nihilistic Cure songs playing in the background, with candles and incense. It set quite a mood i think. And in that frame of mind, a group of us went to see the 'Bodyworlds' exhibition in the evening.
Bodywords was fantastic. Some german doctor has found a wonderful new way of preserving bodies, called 'Plastination' which as far as I can tell, involves first replacing the water in the body by acetone, to stop it decaying, and then slowly the acetone is removed by a a vacuum and this sucks in plastic to replace it, the end result being a preserved body that doesn't have to be contained in tank of liquid. And it works a treat - this must be the ultimate anatomy lesson, save from actually chopping up a fresh corpse. There were many bodies, all with different bits if their insides showing to reveal different aspects of the anatomy. Some were just skeletons, some showed muscles, others showed organs, some showed the nevrous system, some showed the cardiovascular system. And there were also many diseased organs on display - we saw many tumours and other growths, some of them looked really nasty, and presumably were fatal. I managed to take this all in good humour in fact, until we got to the preserved foetuses and embryos and they just made me squirm. Eeep. The highlight of the exhibition was a preserved horse, complete with a preserved human rider, which was awesome. I'd recommend everyone who hasn't been go see it now, even if you're normally freaked by that sort of thing, it's very educational, and totally fantastic and unique. Be quick, because it closes at the weekend.
The rest of the day then had a very morbid atmosphere. At asylum, Vinnie and myself read some lovely quotations about death, with some of the more nihilistic Cure songs playing in the background, with candles and incense. It set quite a mood i think. And in that frame of mind, a group of us went to see the 'Bodyworlds' exhibition in the evening.
Bodywords was fantastic. Some german doctor has found a wonderful new way of preserving bodies, called 'Plastination' which as far as I can tell, involves first replacing the water in the body by acetone, to stop it decaying, and then slowly the acetone is removed by a a vacuum and this sucks in plastic to replace it, the end result being a preserved body that doesn't have to be contained in tank of liquid. And it works a treat - this must be the ultimate anatomy lesson, save from actually chopping up a fresh corpse. There were many bodies, all with different bits if their insides showing to reveal different aspects of the anatomy. Some were just skeletons, some showed muscles, others showed organs, some showed the nevrous system, some showed the cardiovascular system. And there were also many diseased organs on display - we saw many tumours and other growths, some of them looked really nasty, and presumably were fatal. I managed to take this all in good humour in fact, until we got to the preserved foetuses and embryos and they just made me squirm. Eeep. The highlight of the exhibition was a preserved horse, complete with a preserved human rider, which was awesome. I'd recommend everyone who hasn't been go see it now, even if you're normally freaked by that sort of thing, it's very educational, and totally fantastic and unique. Be quick, because it closes at the weekend.
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Date: 2002-09-23 03:39 am (UTC)Re: rah
Date: 2002-09-23 03:51 am (UTC)I'm so pathetic i didn't get any souvenirs from there. They didn't look cheap though - they had paintings of the exhibits they were flogging for 100 pounds. And they were advertising for body donors all over the place, but you had to pay 2 pounds just to get the application form. That doesn't seem right to me.
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Date: 2002-09-23 04:19 am (UTC)I guess if I come round a street corner in Nodnol and find a huge crowd of people with lampshades on their heads I'll know why....
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Date: 2002-09-23 04:45 am (UTC)*steals your lampshade and runs away*
MWAHAHA! :D
xo *~poZest~* xo
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Date: 2002-09-23 04:54 am (UTC)Now i've all thse images in my head of people attempting to wear lampshades. Most of them are rude. Eeeep.
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Date: 2002-09-23 04:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-23 05:56 am (UTC)It's ok mister lampshade..i won't let the mean man take you away from me.
*rocks back 'n' forth in corner cradling lampshade*