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Body Modifications

Life Imitates Art

Here are two commercials to watch. I believe that you will see a startling similarity emerge that will shake you to the core (or maybe just halfway to the core).



So far, so good. It's your basic ad for cosmetics, showing a heavily airbrushed woman who looks somewhat like an android (gynoid?), poncing around in an empty, black, out-of-focus room, interspersed with product shots against a stark white background. (I'm always a little saddened when the real product doesn't create lines of light in contour around my wife's face.) I don't know to much about the product's specific properties.

What I know for sure is that it bares a startling similarity to a fictional product I have seen before.


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Posted By: kingmonkey - Tue May 05, 2009 - Comments (4)
Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Body Modifications, Cannibalism, Cosmetics, Movies, Advertising

The Scale of Loss

Apparently New York workers enjoy a fixed compensation scale for the loss of body parts. Each body part is judged to be worth a certain number of weeks of wages. Here's the scale:
  • One eye: 160 weeks
  • One ear: 60 weeks
  • Both ears: 150 weeks
  • One arm: 312 weeks
  • One leg: 288 weeks
  • One foot: 205 weeks
  • Big toe: 38 weeks
  • One hand: 244 weeks
  • pinky: 15 weeks
  • little toe: 16 weeks
So why is the little toe worth more than the pinky? The New York Times has the full illustrated list.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 08, 2009 - Comments (4)
Category: Body Modifications

Elaine Davidson

After Chuck posted yesterday about Elaine Davidson, the world's most-pierced woman, I wanted to know what she looked like. So here, for your viewing pleasure, is Elaine. Wait for the part when she sticks a sword through her tongue.

Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 26, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Body Modifications

The Dionne Quintuplets

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Everyone knows we're in the midst of a new Great Depression. But isn't it a little spooky that so many things from the 1930's are repeating themselves? Such as: a nation, mired in bad economic times, is distracted by a case of multiple births.

Today, we have the "Octo-mom."




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But some seventy years ago, it was the Dionne Quintuplets.




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Somehow I doubt we as a nation will be still following these 2009 kids six years from their birth.




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Nor will there be a mass rush to merchandise the unnatural octuplets.




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And of course, the ever-prophetic The Simpsons nailed it all ten years ago, with the episode entitled EIGHT MISBEHAVIN'.


Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 07, 2009 - Comments (4)
Category: Babies, Body Modifications, Celebrities, Drugs, Fads, Family, Human Marvels, Obsessions, Pop Culture, Technology, 1930s

Reusable Double Eyelid Makers

Blepharoplasty (double eyelid surgery) is the most popular form of cosmetic surgery in Asia. Unlike westerners, many Asian people don't have a crease above their eye, and this surgery artificially creates one.

But if you're too cheap for the surgery, this gadget promises the same results for only $3.32. It appears to be a set of clips that pinch your eyelids to create a crease.

Not painful at all if wore less than 5mins, it could start to pinch if worn too long.
Worn on and off for about a week and double lid is still there
Good construction, once again not really painful
Comes with a clear rest to hold clips when not in use

Sounds like a bargain! (via pharyngula)

Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 15, 2009 - Comments (4)
Category: Body Modifications

Foot in Brain

A colorado surgeon found a tiny foot, hand, thigh, and parts of an intestine growing inside the brain of a 3-day-old baby. DenverChannel.com has a picture of the brain-foot.

It's not clear whether this was a case of "fetus in fetu" (a fetus growing inside its twin) or fetiform teratoma (a kind of tumor).

Wikipedia has a good article on Teratomas, noting that teratomas have been reported to contain "hair, teeth, bone and very rarely more complex organs such as eyeball, torso, and hand." There was even one case of a mature teratoma being "reported to contain a rudimentary beating heart."

For your entertainment, here's a photo (from Wikipedia) of a cystic teratoma containing hair.

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Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 18, 2008 - Comments (5)
Category: Babies, Body Modifications, Medicine

New Smokey the Bear PSA

Remember our earlier post, VISION IN THE FOREST, where Smokey the Bear appeared to a young girl during the 1950's?

Well, the new Smokey PSA is disturbing in its own fashion, as it promotes the notion that any of us could turn into a bear at any time.

Maybe they were inspired by an earlier version that follows second here.



Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 16, 2008 - Comments (5)
Category: Animals, Body Modifications, PSA’s, Surrealism

Candy Canary

Evangelical female body-builders. I don't believe my brain has ever had cause to assemble that phrase before. But then I learned of Candy Canary.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 18, 2008 - Comments (3)
Category: Body Modifications, Human Marvels, Religion, Women

Very Long Toes

This item was contributed by a certain Regina O., a loyal reader of WU intent on "dipping a toe" into the sea of weirdness.

We've had a thread going about cosmetic surgery for feet. But the mutant simian-hybrid woman in this video needs no such treatment!

Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 11, 2008 - Comments (12)
Category: Body Modifications, Human Marvels, Sexuality, Women

Kitty Klaws

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Alert and loyal WU-vie Figgy Floradell found this item in the Drs. Foster and Smith Catalog.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 23, 2008 - Comments (8)
Category: Body Modifications, Business, Products, Cats

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