Street Anatomy

Knitted Heart

Cross stitching has never been so fun!  Kevin Hsiu claims this work of art made his grandma quite proud!  Yay Kevin.

[via Behance]

International Women’s Day: Torso Casting

I am a volunteer at the Women’s Resource Center at the University of Calgary and every year the center celebrates the diversity of women by torso casting 15 different women and allowing them to paint their own set on International Women’s Day (March 8th). The reviews of the torso casting are mixed, but I think it’s amazing to see the diversity of the female form, and to share that diversity.

Jake Gross

Jake Gross brings life to inanimate objects in his new photo collection ‘Self-portrait’. I would actually love that lamp…

Cyclocross Anatomy

I believe that I have finally found the perfect marriage of two things I love in life, biking and anatomy.

This is the brand new cyclocross bike, handcrafted in Italy by ALAN and imported and painted by Stellina Sport.  The wonderfully talented Noah Scalin of the Skull-a-Day blog was asked to design the graphics applied to the bike, along with an anatomically correct femur on the top bar to, according to Noah, “further represent the idea of this exposed structure and the powerful legs that are used to move the bike forward.”

They also ended up putting the femur on the ALAN North America Cyclocross team uniforms in the anatomically correct position “so that it has an x-ray effect.”

Noah let me know that there’s also a new bike in the works actually called “the Noah” that will feature a skull graphic specially designed by him.  Can’t wait to see that one!

In the meantime, I’ll dream about owning that orange Roland-5 ALAN bike pictured above…

Skeletal Oscar!

Well check this out! Skeletal Oscar mysteriously appears in LA’s Runyon Canyon with a caption reading “‘Beauty is one snip away’ -D*Face.” It only lasted a day, sadly, but this wasn’t the only skeletal Oscar to appear around LA, you can read all about it HERE!

p.s. Who’s watching the Oscars tonight? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[via Huffingtonpost, photos by Jonathan Lloyd]