culture hole

As some of you know, I’m on Lavalife, a huge online dating community.

Normally I wouldn’t admit that I even know what the site is, but I realize no one cares. In this day and age I think we could all use something to make dating a little easier.

Even if it means having to pretend I am a 6’2″ helicopter pilot with a scar.

Lavalife has been pretty decent. I’ve had a few dates because of it, found out that no one wants someone who claims to be a 6’2″ helicopter pilot with a scar and has a PhD in socisexyology, when in fact they are a 5’ 8″ web-geek, with only a BA in socisexyology. I always wind up paying for somebody’s dinner.

Maybe I’m looking for the wrong women. Maybe it’s time to refine the search. Narrow down the field some. Let’s take a look at some of the more unique searches on lavalife, shall we?
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I like old weird things. I especially love the look of copper plate prints, when they are used in scientific textbooks (Bonus points if they use the word “Plate”).

Today I’m going to put together some of my favorite sites on the net that show old medical illustrations. These are a great inspiration to me, and I hope you might appreciate them too.

Digatal Clendening Shows us a small selection of high quality images of skeletons, operating theatres and other assorted weirdness. One of the most comprehensive sections is this one. An assortment of categories with chronologically sorted images. For the ephemera i love I can’t seem to get away from this bit: Chinese Public Health Posters. Piles of weird images in there.

Dream Anatomy Has a giant collection of the more surreal side of the art of medical illustration. Made by the National Library of medicine, the collection is professional and unique. The images are broken down in to categories. One of my favorite is Body Part as Art showing cadavers playing instruments and dancing. You can see the entire gallery here.

There is more to see from them here as well. They have catalogued dozens of books and scanned in the images. This book is one of my favorites. It shows skeletons in a band as well as this hauntingly strange etching.

If I made a movie based solely on the 4 most frequently used words of the 10 top grossing films from the 2005 domestic box office.

• “The of and War”

If I made a movie based solely on the most frequently used words of the 10 top grossing films  from the 1915 domestic box office.

• “The of Golden West Chimmie Fadden”

If I made a movie based solely on the to 10 most frequently used words of the 401 top grossing films of all time.

• “The Star Man Wars With Men II”

If I made a movie based solely on the to 6 most frequently used words of the  top rated horror films of all time

• “The Dead of Dr. Man”

If I made a movie based solely on the to 6 most frequently used words of the  top rated sci-fi films of all time

• “The Stars of Frankenstein Wars”