On March 13, students of the Foundation programmes of UJOP visited the Body Worlds exhibition.
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Mark my words, by the way, this is why Bodyworlds was in the movie. This, and they probably paid for the privilege, though, I bet in this particular instance, they didn't pay money, but access, in terms of a shooting location; this is a distinctive set that the Casino Royale production likely didn't have to pay a dime to shoot in, because Bodyworlds was a touring attraction, and needed to sell tickets in whatever city it was headed to next. I saw it in Houston. But this poker table scene that also toured in the actual Bodyworlds and predates this Bond Movie, is almost certainly the tenuous tie that brings it into the scenery and iconography of this film. And when I say tenuous, boy, is it! But what a little time capsule this Bodyworlds moment makes this movie.
BLECH! I hate this so much, and always did. That's why I told you that whole, long story about how the that prof flunked me until I appealed and she relented, etc. And then later, all that shit about prisoners or conscience came out, and Valier would not meet my eyes in the Honors College hallways, lol.
... bc one feature of the #Bodyworlds exhibit is that you hear successively more-aggressive pitches for 'contributing your body to #science,' or in other words, TO the exhibit, until you turn one of the last corners, and the wall you turn into is just a projection of the contract 10ft tall π€£
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Like, it was insistent. Right up front, there's someone with a clipboard, trying to get you to give your body, and then just exhortation after exhortation, and we were all six or seven tripping SO hard on SO much acid, and just perceived it as this grasping, hungry need for bodies... ... which it was! It turns out that most of the bodies we were looking at were Chinese prisoners of conscience that were executed by the state and were going to be dumped into mass graves. So this 'art exhibit' or 'science exhibit' that I instinctively hated and got initially graded an F for hating in my very-well-written essay (that admitted to tripping on acid as part of it) turned out to be put together by basically a fled Nazi serial killer built on the literal corpses of murdered political prisoners. It's exactly what it felt like. No one should be doing this. This is bad and evil, obviously. NOBODY donate your body, Christ. Unless you want everyone looking at your vulva.
Yeah, this was more or less what did it. Van Haagen's early work was cruder, less polished, less refined. The process is called plastination, and it is, itself, fascinating, but his application is macabre and obviously would make any sensible person concerned about his state of mind. Much less a bunch of people tripping way too hard on too much acid. So we were already terrified that they were wanting our bodies, bc of the repeated hints and suggestions about 'donating' one's body in the exhibit, and then we turned a blind corner, and in a tiny, dark room we were suddenly alone in was the contract to give over your body blown up to 10 feet tall on the wall right in front us. My buddy Axel (who appears in my stories sometimes; he got arrested for hitting a bunch of people including a Houston cop thinking he was in the movie Troy when he was tripping on acid one time) fell to his knees and cried out in terror, and then we all noticed that immediately to the right, but WAY too close, was the ugliest, most awful, dreadful thing we had seen done to the human body yet (these are all real bodies btw, and none of the people exhibited HERE asked for it; hence the exhortations to donate, so they can replace bad bodies with okay bodies), the Drawer Man, which is just a man that pulls out like a chest of drawers, and again, keep in mind, this Nazi-minded freak did this to someone who just died for totally other (bad) reasons, and he just happened into jurisdiction over their corpse according to a government or two that were complicit. Wild. Wild wild wild. It's horrible. Anyway, it turns out, they're SUPER evangelistic about the bodies, naturally, but we were all a bit over-scared of the snatching part of it. We are all still fine, to this day. I mean, not fine at all. We all still suffer from that experience, and when we speak, it comes up like the clown in IT, lol. Just this dark, awful thing we share that we'll never get over. But, you know, we're brave. We deal.
[int. #Bodyworlds]
i.e. My Chamber of Nightmares
I tripped with #LSD at Bodyworlds with some friends on a lark, and it was WAY too strong, and we found it to be the most existentially-terrifying, macabre, horrifying experience imaginable.
"The Drawer Man."
We thought they wanted our bodies...
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So, one time when I was still selling LSD for a living (I've written about it; check my Medium for the Holocaust Museum Story), my friends and I all thought it would be cute and fun to trip on acid and go to Bodyworlds in Houston. Same exhibit; it just travels. I had a class requirement for an Honors College class and minor I was taking called Medicine & Society, with Dr. Helen Valier, who I believe now may be the Dean. She didn't care for me, lol. That minor and the class I was taking sought to pair med students and nurses with humanities students and, like, poets and shit, lol, on the theory that we'd humanize those unfeeling monsters and that they'd help us get our shit together re: the real world and business, etc. I think the thinking is that we'd both benefit from our proximity to this weird, other class of student, and they were mostly right. Anyway, to fulfill a requirement for that class, I went to Bodyworlds, but I doubled it up as a fun, acid field trip with my tripping buddies, and we were HORRIFIED. It's NOT medical. It's a macabre serial-killer exhibit, where all the women corpses still have their, like, nipples and vulva attached and displayed, and women's back muscles are flayed out into Angel wings and they have blonde wigs on and shit. It's MONSTROUS. Anyway, I was so horrified (the Drawer Man!) that I wrote an incensed essay about what non-medical quackery and nonsense it all was (the 'artist' has an unpronounceable Dutch-German name, only honorary anatomy degrees, and his dad was 'a cook' in the SS) (for real), and Dr. Valier failed me first, and then I went and pleaded my case, and she gave me an A- and I was able to, like, graduate when I wanted to, I think. I can't remember the stakes. It was a big victory, though! Anyway, I know and hate Bodyworlds a lot, and these movies are such weird time capsules, bc they're trend-chasing and trying to be relevant so hard that 10-15 years (or more) later, they really capture a moment in time.
Oh, shit, this takes me back...
I have a LOT of strong feelings about #Bodyworlds, which I will explore at length in the #alttext.
I hope you guys are reading that, always. It's like an iceberg; 85% of what I #write is 'below the surface' or in alt-text of these images, which I never don't have π€
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Promotional graphic for a January 10 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Gunther von Hagens. The poster includes the podcast logo and a background image of a plastinated human body posed in an anatomical display within a museum setting. Text identifies von Hagens as a hemophiliac, anatomist, and inventor of the plastination process.
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we discuss #German #anatomist & #hemophiliac Dr. Gunther von Hagens, #plastination, & his Body Worlds exhibits.
Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily
#anatomy #body #BodyWorlds #accessibility #a11y #hemophilia #ParkinsonsDisease #Parkinsons
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Its 30 years since Gunther Von Hagens stunned the world with his revolutionary Body Worlds experience and the use of his plastination technique in Tokyo. These are from his London debut several years later.
6Photo of the Day:
Body Worlds, 30 Years Anniversary. LONDON
#Canoncameras #photography #photojournalism #reportage #fotoreporter #bodyworlds #plastination #gunthervonhagens #picoftheday #pixoftheday #photooftheday #london #anniversary #thirtyyears
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Its 30 years since Gunther Von Hagens stunned the world with his revolutionary Body Worlds experience and the use of his plastination technique in Tokyo. These are from his London debut several years later.
Photo of the Day:
Body Worlds, 30 Years Anniversary. LONDON
#Canoncameras #photography #photojournalism #reportage #fotoreporter #bodyworlds #plastination #gunthervonhagens #picoftheday #pixoftheday #photooftheday #london #anniversary #thirtyyears
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Its 30 years since Gunther Von Hagens stunned the world with his revolutionary Body Worlds experience and the use of his plastination technique in Tokyo. These are from his London debut several years later.
Photo of the Day:
Body Worlds, 30 Years Anniversary. LONDON
#Canoncameras #photography #photojournalism #reportage #fotoreporter #bodyworlds #plastination #gunthervonhagens #picoftheday #pixoftheday #photooftheday #london #anniversary #thirtyyears
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Its 30 years since Gunther Von Hagens stunned the world with his revolutionary Body Worlds experience and the use of his plastination technique in Tokyo. These are from his London debut several years later.
Photo of the Day:
Body Worlds, 30 Years Anniversary. LONDON
#Canoncameras #photography #photojournalism #reportage #fotoreporter #bodyworlds #plastination #gunthervonhagens #picoftheday #pixoftheday #photooftheday #london #anniversary #thirtyyears
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Its 30 years since Gunther Von Hagens stunned the world with his revolutionary body preserving technology of plastination in Tokyo, Japan in 1995. These images were from his debut show in London several years later.
Photo of the Day:
Body Worlds, 30 Years Anniversary. LONDON
#Canoncameras #photography #photojournalism #reportage #fotoreporter #bodyworlds #plastination #gunthervonhagens #picoftheday #pixoftheday #photooftheday #london #anniversary #thirtyyears
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you?! Taxidermy you?! Maybe #bodyworlds ;)
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ββWe literally fell in love standing at the dissection table,β recalls Dr. Angelina Whalley, the Managing Director of The Institute for Plastination and the Creative Director of the internationally acclaimed Body Worlds exhibitions.β
#interview #BodyWorlds #death #art #science #anatomy #biology
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#dog #bodyworlds #franklininstitute #music #science #bestfriend #train #philadelphia ##fieldtrip #walking #calm #friends #selfcare #mentalhealthishealth #passionwithpurpose #strongtribessavelives #passionwithpurpose
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#philadelphiaeagles #car #benfranklin #Parkway #philadelphia #community #connectedness #football #joy #nerves #bodyworlds #franklininstitute #music #science ##nurselife #fieldtrip #friends #knowledgeispower #silenceisacceptance #teams pirates #fun #mentalhealthishealth #strongtribessavelives
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#nerves #bodyworlds #franklininstitute #music #science #nurselife #fieldtrip #walking #train #friends #selfcare #mentalhealthishealth #passionwithpurpose #strongtribessavelives
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Sideways #EastCoastKin #photography #cellphonephotography #cellphoneedits #philadelphia #bodyworlds #bodyworldsvital #bodyworldsexhibit #bodyworldsphiladelphia #franklininstitute
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Man throwing spear: a fascinating look at the human body seen at the #bodyworldsexhibit, hosted by the #franklininstitute
#photography #cellphonephotography #cellphoneedits #philadelphia #bodyworldsvital #bodyworlds #bodyworldsphiladelphia
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Another cool #bodyworldsexhibit at #bodyworldsvital, hosted by the #franklininstitute
#photography #cellphonephotography #cellphoneedits #reflections #reflectionshot #philadelphia #bodyworlds #bodyworldsphiladelphia
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A central nervous system, as seen at the #bodyworldsvital #bodyworldsexhibit, hosted by the
#franklininstitute
#bodyworlds #bodyworldsphiladelphia #photography #cellphonephotography #cellphoneedits #reflections #reflectionshot #reflectionshots
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A visit to the #franklininstitute to see the #bodyworldsexhibit
#photography #cellphonephotography #cellphoneedits #reflections #bodyworldsvital #bodyworlds
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Starting a short #Heart campaign this weekend with an unhealthy level of focus placed on knife crime. Planning to use the book to Gunther von Hagens #BodyWorlds exhibition at the table as source of visual, visceral inspiration. Looking forward to running a game after lots of recent play.π«π²β€οΈ
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Naked tour in the exhibition Body Worlds in Bruges together with @naked-adventures.bsky.social organised by @nakedfreedom.bsky.social
#bodyworlds #nakedinthemusem #naked #Freedom #exhibition
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Naked tour in the exhibition Body Worlds in Bruges together with @nakeddutchman.bsky.social organised by @nakedfreedom.bsky.social
#bodyworlds #nakedinthemuseum
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BODY WORLDS VITAL BRUGGE #bodyworlds
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Also went to see Body Worlds so I could take these pics and say 'us'
#nsfwbsky #nsfwbluesky #bodyworlds
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Is this a rare deciduous plant? No! It's an inverted image of a plastinated human nervous system. #bodyworlds
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