February162012

The Technique Zone: Acrylic Paint Transfer

December312011
teachingliteracy: book tornado.  by Irilunart Haa

teachingliteracy:

book tornado.

 by Irilunart

Haa

(via bookron)
6PM

hi-inspiremeplease:

Casey Curran

art which moves

Great!

(via bookron)
December262011

archaeology:

Seeing Beneath Stonehenge uses Google Earth to transport you around the virtual landscape of this magnificent monument. You can interact with the exciting discoveries of the Stonehenge Riverside Projectand learn more about the archaeology of this internationally important site.

Awesome video of Stonehedge
November282011

tumblrbot asked: WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?

Reading a good book and my personal Continental to drink.

August222011
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.” Edward P. Morgan (via beaubooks)««<so True!!»

(via bookron)

quote book place thought fragile fear provocation privacy 

9AM

The Tangential: Am I a Mainstreamer, an Alt, or a Nerd?

thetangential:

Musical taste
MAINSTREAMER: I own the entire Bruce Springsteen discography.
ALT: The meat and potatoes of my listening are bands who might be found tagged on Hipster Runoff. Based on my listening tastes, Last.fm is currently recommending I try Beach Fossils, the Antlers, Cults, and Young…

July102011
biomedicalephemera: agath0kakological: htmlwings: dieyoungstayyprettty: This is a grave from the Victorian age when a fear of zombies and vampires was prevalent. The cage was intended to trap the undead just in case the corpse reanimated. ARE YOU GUYS SERIOUS?! This was to protect against body snatching! Here: educate yourself. haha Seriously? Trust me, fear of premature burial was there (it’s been stipulated in more than one will that the head is to be cut off before burial “just in case”, so that the person doesn’t wake up underground), but if there were any legitimate fear of zombies, no one would have ever even thought of a “Waking Mortuary”, where rich British people stayed after death, until they started to decompose. No one actually woke up in any of those Waking Mortuaries, by the way. Even that fear was far more transient a cultural standpoint than the totally legitimate fear of body-snatchers, especially in England. France allowed dissection of executed criminals and unclaimed cadavers from the Revolution onward, but England didn’t allow any sort of dissection (aside from on executed felons - and they had nowhere near as many as in France) until nearly 50 years later. The only way anatomists could get bodies for quite a while was by buying them from “ressurectionists” who would rob fresh graves. Or, if given the opportunity, would just kill transients and sell those bodies. It was the case of Burke and Hare, who started as resurrectionists but later started killing family-less boarders at Burke’s boarding house, that finally brought the need for cadavers by the medical community to the forefront of the judicial system. There was finally a law passed in 1832, after the Burke/Hare case, allowing unclaimed corpses to be used in dissection research. This drastically cut down on the number of graves that had bodies stolen from them, but until cement vaults and other structural/security components became standard on graves (not until the 1930s in some places), rich people DID still have their graves robbed for any valuables they may have had on them. So yeah. Resurrectionists. Body snatchers. Literal grave robbers. All problems. Zombies? Not so much.

biomedicalephemera:

agath0kakological:

htmlwings:

dieyoungstayyprettty:

This is a grave from the Victorian age when a fear of zombies and vampires was prevalent. The cage was intended to trap the undead just in case the corpse reanimated.

ARE YOU GUYS SERIOUS?!

This was to protect against body snatching!

Here: educate yourself.

haha

Seriously? Trust me, fear of premature burial was there (it’s been stipulated in more than one will that the head is to be cut off before burial “just in case”, so that the person doesn’t wake up underground), but if there were any legitimate fear of zombies, no one would have ever even thought of a “Waking Mortuary”, where rich British people stayed after death, until they started to decompose. No one actually woke up in any of those Waking Mortuaries, by the way.

Even that fear was far more transient a cultural standpoint than the totally legitimate fear of body-snatchers, especially in England. France allowed dissection of executed criminals and unclaimed cadavers from the Revolution onward, but England didn’t allow any sort of dissection (aside from on executed felons - and they had nowhere near as many as in France) until nearly 50 years later.

The only way anatomists could get bodies for quite a while was by buying them from “ressurectionists” who would rob fresh graves. Or, if given the opportunity, would just kill transients and sell those bodies. It was the case of Burke and Hare, who started as resurrectionists but later started killing family-less boarders at Burke’s boarding house, that finally brought the need for cadavers by the medical community to the forefront of the judicial system.

There was finally a law passed in 1832, after the Burke/Hare case, allowing unclaimed corpses to be used in dissection research. This drastically cut down on the number of graves that had bodies stolen from them, but until cement vaults and other structural/security components became standard on graves (not until the 1930s in some places), rich people DID still have their graves robbed for any valuables they may have had on them.

So yeah. Resurrectionists. Body snatchers. Literal grave robbers. All problems. Zombies? Not so much.

(Source: thenotebooktoremember)
July92011

The Tangential: Life's Hard Questions - Answered by Teen Magazines

thetangential:

<I totally remember this garbage!!  Haaaa.-Trish>

Here are all the hard questions that were answered for me at age 12 by YM, Seventeen and their peer magazines:

Do I really need to wash, rinse and repeat? Nope! You just need a dime-sized amount. Not enough lather? You probably need more water. Why not try this ultra voluminizing shampoo…

July72011

My new website...justchickenscratch.com

My tech support Kimi created a new website for me.  Still need to finish a few parts, like the gallery, but it will be a shopping website soon!!  

Please let me know what you think as you browse.  Isn’t she brilliant?

Thanks,

-Trish

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