Beheaded - Images of the guillotine

Some of you asked for it... Here it is!

Photography, dissection and medical students

The most common dissection image is the group portrait showing students gathered around the dissection table in gross anatomy class. Typically, these images feature the three or four students that worked together on the same cadaver, but some images include up to a dozen or more students. Students are dressed for dissecting class, adorned with protective aprons, smocks, or long coats and, as time progresses, surgical caps and gloves. Tables are often inscribed with the school name and students' class year. Some photos were essentially class pictures, which conveyed the pride associated with becoming a member of the medical profession. In such large group images students are often arrayed on school steps or in the anatomical amphitheatre, and have as a companion a skeleton or cadaver. In such settings students usually have on their best attire.

Mütter Museum - Philadelphia

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia is the strongest for the coveted role of the most bizarre museum on the planet. The museum is housed in a two-tiered gallery, encased in the dark hardwood cabinets and wavy glass panes of a venerable learning institution. It is the public display area of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a school founded in 1787 to promote such noble goals as bioethics, the relevance of medical history to public policy, and the recognition that medicine is both an art and a science. The Mütter Museum is also a medical freak show of deformed bones, diseased organ specimens, instructional wax models of various pathologies, and things in jars that will give sensitive people nightmares.

Damien Hirst - Diamonds are Forever

Ok, you do love skulls ? So, you gonna kill for that one. Here, we're talking about a human skull of the XVIIIth century to which they added a set of teeth and which they decorated with 8600 diamonds of small size and with a more important diamond, inlaid in the forehead. That means about 1106,18 carats. This work, which would have been able to appear from the imagination of a scriptwriter for the fellow man James Bond, has cost about 20 million dollars to the English artist Damien Hirst, who financed it by himself. George Michael already made an offer for 100 million dollars. Don't wait any longer to make yours.

Mr Deadguy - The un-dead entertainer

Mr Deadguy is the original master of freak puppets. He has performed at the Coney Island Museum and has worked with the Hellcat Girls Burlesque, the Peek-a-Boo Review. Mr Deadguy and his freaky caravan of strange and sometimes sinister cohorts (Icky, Stumpo and Baby Cheese-Wits to name a few) have become a cult-live performance with effects and unique atmosphere. Soon at a cabaret near you. I hope !